A ladder in my legs!

December 21, 2008 | By Christo In Busselton Half Ironman, Training update, cycling, jacobs ladder | Comments(0)

Ok, it was around 4 days ago that I went with Dee to Jacob’s ladder. As I’ve recounted to you, she went up and down with her backpack no less than 20 times in just under 2hrs. I think I did around 25 ascents but I had no backpack on. I am just waddling around [...]

Trialling times

December 18, 2008 | By Christo In Busselton Half Ironman, Training update, cycling, jacobs ladder, running | Comments(0)

Well, surely the two most exciting events have occurred in the last few days. The first is that we have a Dome Coffee shop in Canning Vale now that has just open 100m away from home. That’s just manna from heaven. The second is my Gravity Zero wheelset. Thanks to Mike Aviet for the opportunity [...]

IMWA…and the sly old fox!

December 10, 2008 | By Christo In Busselton Half Ironman, Ironman Western Australia, Painathlon, Training update, cycling, running | Comments(0)

PRE RACE
It’s pretty hard to know where to start with this little missive. Very hard to summarise Ironman WA but I’ll give it a go. Dee and travelled down on Friday 9am and arrived at Peppermint Park Eco Village around 11.40am. Set up our tent and then hit the Esplanade Hotel for a big feed [...]

See you later , capitulator!

December 1, 2008 | By Christo In Busselton Half Ironman, Ironman Western Australia, Training update, cycling, running | Comments(0)

 
 
How the heck are we all? It was a weekend where the priority was staying about 100kms away from anyone with a flu or cold. That achieved, the weekend started with a solid BFSR ride of 60kms. It was our usual ride but I can feel myself getting stronger as a cyclist. I sprinted a [...]