Well, it’s been a while since I last posted to this blog.

As you’ll see, I’ve migrated it from the Joomla site into a far cleaner (and more importantly, easier to use) WordPress Blog. And with any luck, this will mean I’ll post to it more often.

What a year 2008 has been to date & it’s far from over yet. But here are a few highlights…

January: Having launched the new website, visitors just kept coming, with the stats hitting the 1000′s very rapidly. The weather wasn’t anything special, but the volume of work I had to do meant that a cutback in training time for myself wasn’t that much of a hardship.

February: February continued in the same vein, but with the possibility of winning 220′s Coach of the Year always in view. As it turned out, I didn’t get invited to the dinner & took that to mean that I hadn’t featured – we went surfing instead! We also moved house, meaning that Will Newton Multisport Coaching now operates out of a bigger & more comfortable office.

March: The first TrainingTrips Warm Weather Training Camp at Club La Santa in Lanzarote was a welcome break from the atrocious weather we’d been having in the UK and was far better attended than we’d expected when we’d decided to fill the gap left by Joe Beer’s decision to work on the Club La Santa version a month earlier. A good time was had by all & for me, it was made all the better when Anita pointed out that I’d got second place in the aforementioned 220 Magazine Coach of the Year Award – clearly I wasn’t on 220′s party list, so no invitation to the ceremony.

April: Traditionally a month for rain, the weather was better & I even got some training in, but the knee injury that had bugged me all winter was still in evidence & I had to make the difficult decision not to race at Ironman Austria in July – there really is no point just making up the numbers anymore. My friend Ian impressed us all by completing his eight marathons in eight days in the very few days when it did rain – mud, mud, glorious mud! Well done mate!

May: The traditional early season events saw the sort of weather that was to characterise the summer – rainy & cold. Loads of triathlon events were turned into duathlons, aquathlons etc for the safety of the competitors. Little did we know this was what we were to have for the second summer in a row.

June/ July: The month started with our Worlds competitors heading out to Vancouver. And if we thought the weather here was poor, what was waiting in North America was even worse. Most of the female competitors got to do a triathlon, but for the boys it was yet another duathlon – very disappointing for those who’d been working on their swimming all winter. June also brings the first of the Ironman races, with all my clients performing brilliantly throughout the summer.

August: August saw the first UK Double Iron race & a special mention must go to Carl, who toughed it out to finish despite severely swollen legs to finish somewhere around 35 hours. Respect!