In keeping with my early season logic of using stage racing as blocks of training, I signed up to do the Mediterranean Epic 4 day stage race in early February. This had been my first ever stage race last year and it had been one of the most challenging and overwhelming racing experiences I’d had to date and I felt …
Read about Kerry’s Lanzarote preperation here. Stage 1 was a 42km stage. I’d been warned by my friend Isla who’d raced this the previous year that riders go pretty hard on this stage and she was right… it was tough! The master’s men get set off a minute behind the women and as soon as the fastest of the masters …
Last year I had some success at early season stage racing so it made sense to incorporate it into my training for the early 2019 season too. The logic behind it has always been to get a good block of warm weather training in, with the added stimulus of race intensity and anything else like UCI points, with podiums …
As of last week Loch Duart has secured £1.2 million funding to modernise its processes. The money, from HSBC, will enable us, to continue developing sustainable farming methods and go towards additional new feed barges. The new barges will provide reliable, efficient and less labour-intensive means of delivering sustainably-sourced feed to the farm’s award-winning salmon. Simon Maguire, financial director of Loch …
Fish Farming Expert asked well-known figures in the Scottish salmon farming industry about their high and low points of 2018, and what they hope for in 2019. What was your best moment/occasion of 2018? Given both the growing recognition of the fantastic work of our brilliant team and the environmental challenges we have overcome, I’d like to suggest Loch …
The best way to kick start the off-season has surely got to be back to back podiums in Cyclocross- so I was absolutely delighted to take the top step in my first two Scottish series cyclocross races of the season. I say ‘cyclocross season’ like I’m about to dive headfirst into another furious few weeks of travel and training but …
On the 23rd of October, Loch Duart will welcome Cambridge Regional College for a visit to their mainland base of operations in Scourie, Sutherland. Cambridge Regional College was the hosting campus this year for the catering college chef competition “A Passion to Inspire” which Loch Duart proudly partners with. As two-time winners of « A Passion to Inspire » competition, Cambridge Regional …
Loch Duart, the independent salmon farming company based in Sutherland and the Hebrides, has been named runner up in the Best Food Business category at the Rural Business Awards North during a ceremony in The Last Drop Village Hotel, Bolton. The awards, which are supported by online retailer, Amazon, are a celebration of all that is great about rural business …
Plan Bee work with salmon farm to grow Uist & Sutherland bee populations In a first for Scottish salmon farms Loch Duart, the independent salmon farming company, has partnered with award winning environmental organisation Plan Bee Ltd. to protect Scotland’s unique pollinators, the honey and bumble bees. The partners have launched a long term strategic biodiversity initiative, with hives installed …
Loch Duart, the independent salmon farming company, has just been recognised at the 9th annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 awards ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Speakers at the event were Carol Kane, co-founder, and joint chief executive of boohoo.com and Steve Hewitt, chief executive of Gymshark. Alban Denton, Loch Duart’s Managing Director, who received the award said: …
