It’s a wrap….another year gone

January 1, 2009 | By Christo In Anaconda, Busselton Half Ironman, Hiking, Ironman Western Australia, Painathlon, Training update, cycling, cyclosportif, running | Comments(0)

The year has flown and I reflect on what 2008 dished out to me in terms of my physical activities. There were many watershed moments including Painathlon, the Rotto Marathon, the Busso Ironman run, the Cyclosportif season, some ATTA time trials, a few WA Marathon Club runs, Busso Half Ironman and a few more events [...]

Epiphany of adventure spirit

November 5, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Ironman Western Australia, Training update, cycling, jacobs ladder, running | Comments(2)

On Friday 31 October I went along after work to do the John Gilmour 10K track run. My aim was to do this in 45min (my ultimate aim is to run distance in 4min/km pace but I’m a way off that at present)
I got to Coker Park near Carousel and registered. I met up with [...]

The Big Snake!!

October 29, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Hiking, Ironman Western Australia, Training update, cycling, jacobs ladder, running | Comments(0)

The weekend involved a fair bit of training with a fair bit of Spring cleaning. On Saturday, our BFSR group detoured from the Narrows to Fremantle for a coffee stop then down Marmion St and back to Canning Vale. I think we’d done around 80kms instead of our usual 60kms and it was a sensible [...]

Bring on Summer

October 25, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Ironman Western Australia, Training update, cycling, cyclosportif, jacobs ladder, running | Comments(0)

Ok, not a big fan of losing 1hr of daylight after tonight. I’m sure a lot of athletes feel the same. Today’s cycle was around 80kms and we had a few ‘Golden Spokes’ entrants for tomorrows event at Champion Lakes in Armadale. Some of the guys were going on for yet another 70kms of cycling. Phew!! I’ll [...]

Dugites, Marathons, Ferries, Two Ups and Cyclosportif

October 21, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Ironman Western Australia, Uncategorized, cyclosportif | Comments(0)

Well, it was a big weekend for this little black duck. I travelled over to Rottnest on the 3pm Ferry from Northport and, after a fairly rough trip, got there and checked out Stephen Dunn’s ‘digs’ with the WA Marathon Club. They were hosting a young Japanese girl who’d flown over just for the marathon [...]

Big weekend

October 17, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Hiking, Ironman Western Australia, cycling, cyclosportif | Comments(0)

At around 80kgs, I’m around 5kgs heavier than this time last year. But I had Ironman WA to prepare for last year. On Sunday, I will attempt the Rottnest Marathon at around 5min30s pace. Slow and steady for this little black duck!
Good luck to the BFSR Force team in cyclosportif at the 75km Pickering Brook [...]

Anaconda Adventure - The Sugarloaf run

October 5, 2008 | By Christo In Anaconda, Ironman Western Australia, Training update, running | Comments(0)

Last year I was involved in Anaconda at Dunsborough in Western Australia. It was a great event and our team had its share of drama. Our swimmer had a tough chop to work with and our paddler had a carbon blade from his paddle become dislodged and did the last half of the paddle Canadian [...]