You know that feeling you have on boxing day? That feeling that hits you the day after you get back from your holiday? That feeling when you started back to school after the best summer holidays or after the season has reached its climax.... Well, the post-Olympic blues are...

It's now official - London 2012 has seen the most successful Olympic Games in the modern era for Team GB with regards gold medals & total medals attained! That really does reflect a great deal of investment, hard work & application but the results haven't been uniformly...

& then there was one! On arrival in Monte Gordo for the pre-Olympic Games holding camp, over 60 athletes from Team GB were working through the last days of their preparatory training under the Portuguese sun. However, since July 31st, each day has seen a group of athletes...

After the years, months, days & hours of waiting, last night finally heralded the start of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Whilst London partied, the athletes & athletics support staff of Team GB had our own “opening night” in our holding camp in Monte Gordo, Portugal...

Monaco is the last stop for 6 GB athletes on their journey to the Olympic games & as well as a good opportunity to evaluate where they are in relation to their competition two weeks out, this is also proving to be a great escape from both the rainy British weather, as well as...

Over the last few weeks, the media frenzy that has been swarming around Lee Valley has been something akin to a swarm of locusts bearing down on a crop field. Athletes & staff alike have been interviewed, filmed, photographed & observed as the press seek to capitalise on the...

Several weeks ago I posted an interview that UKA Consultant Exercise Physiologist, Dr Andy Jones & I had filmed whilst we were out on an endurance camp in Font Romeu. Andy discussed the physiological mechanisms behind the ergogenic effects of dietary nitrate supplementation...

Back in May, I was approached by a couple of students from Sheffield Hallam University who were working to put a new magazine together. The magazine was sporting in theme, to be written by students, for students & promote the sport that is played in the university system. I...

This is an emotional day - incredible elation versus gut wrenching despair; intense satisfaction countered by burning frustration; nerve searing agony meets its old foe, celebrated ecstasy. The Team GB Athletics team was announced after several delays & the debates were given...

So there you have it...the 2012 European Championships are over & I am currently sat in a rather spaced out state, in the team hotel overlooking the port of Helsinki. It has been a whirlwind of a week, that started with a mixed bag of athletes, hopping on a plane over to...