On 10 May 2009, as a 45yo bloke, I achieved a milestone that encourages and enthuses me both as an athlete and as a cyclist. For a 20km time trial at Champion Lakes in Western Australia, I achieved a 40kph average speed. Dead on! Now for just over a third of the field who achieved [...]

The Busselton Half Ironman 2009 was huge. There was a total of 1100 individuals and 300 teams. We set off from Perth on the Friday. I was going to leave at 6am to get to Busselton in time for the practice swim at 10am but ended up leaving Perth at 10.30am instead. We saw the [...]