I met a lady , Martina Murphy, at a 21st last night at Harry’s Bar who I was told was a marathon runner. Very humble. Could have knocked me over with a feather when she said her best marathon time was a touch over 3hrs. Some people don’t feel the need to sing their aspirations and [...]

I think I’ve trained harder for this team run in Ironman WA than in any of my previous sporting endeavours. I’ve been disciplined with my morning 12km runs and I can feel a good taper just around the corner. My 12kms are around the 52 to 53min mark so not that close to 4min/km pace [...]

Last Sunday was a massive 36km run. This Sunday will be a 31km run with a guy I’ve done a bit of running training with, Terry Cameron. He’s entered IMWA again as an individual. His weekend will be 200kms of cycling on Sat and the 31km run with me on Sunday (both early morning starts)
Tonight, [...]

A big decision was made today. I phoned my prospective cycling team mate for Ironman WA…..and we both agreed that we’d support our spouses in their female IMWA team. So our team entry can wait till next year!!! Ain’t no thing, and there’s loads of events to still be involved in ( Anaconda 09 at [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]