Today was the big day at Busselton. What a blast! We arrived at Peppermint Park and I got the use of my son’s XR6. I had a go at gluing on some tubular tyres on my Gravity Zero wheels. There was quite a big group of us doing the event this time around. Brendan, Liz, [...]

 
 I had a 25 lap swim effort Thursday evening. I met a bloke called Rob who is a mate of Rick Twine’s. Rob is doing Busso HIM and knew me via my ‘war and peace’ diary on TriWA some time ago. I have had bike commutes most days of the week with a total of [...]

Its been a strange old preparation this year for the Busselton Half Ironman 2010. For those of you uninitiated, this is a 1.9km swim, a 90km bike and 21.1km run. Last year I managed around 36mins for the swim, around 2hrs 33min for the bike and just over 2hrs for the run. I spent a [...]

Greetings all,
I haven’t sat down and worked out the weekly program just yet but I’m here to say I’ve entered Busso HIM and , at this stage, it is my plan to continue on to do IMWA. It needs to fit in with several activities including Jacob’s ladder, swimming, evening runs, time trials, long [...]

A good time of the year to make some fitness, nutrition and other resolutions for the new year. In terms of absolving, just cut some slack to people who’ve done you wrong. Life’s too short after all. Involve - well, I reckon I’m lucky to pursue so many enjoyable fitness activities so it will always [...]

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 [...]

The running efforts have been trailing off recently. A marathon certainly is a watershed moment in a runner’s life. As with most of my endurance efforts, I like to ‘chunk’ the effort into bitesize pieces. I am thinking that anything between 35 to 40mins for each 7km stretch will have me on track at the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I’ve just been for a training ride on the old Colnago for 2hrs down a bikepath along a freeway and there were so many dragonflys. I’ll never forget I found a couple of these critters wedged in my aero bike helmet. Gross!
I’ve done a few swims now at a rate of around 1min per 50metres [...]