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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another year rolls by and I’ve managed to elude the Great Perth Bike ride yet again. Lots of great efforts from friends in the 106km effort. Brendan McSweeney put in a sensational effort for a 39.6kph average. Shannon Arnott just shy of a 36kph effort putting her among the top female efforts. If you check [...]
As we draw closer to Ironman WA it’s incredible to think there are 1200 individual competitors at Busselton Western Australia on 7 December for this epic event. There are also 72 teams of which our team, Three’s Company, is but one.
Tonight, I worked hard on my running with Front Runner. There are so many good [...]
It’s now only 4 weeks to Busselton Ironman WA. Friday night was Casa Del Amici, a little Italian restaurant just up the road from us, with some friends. Sat AM I met up with around a dozen ‘Cool Runners’ at the south end of Mt Henry Bridge for a 5km time trial anticlockwise to the [...]
Last night was a tough grind on the bike into a south westerly. A guy from work, Mark, shared the work with me and took the edge of what would have been a very tough ride. Today, I met up with some ‘Cool Runners’ at Deepwater Point and did a 5km run in 22mins. This [...]
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 [...]