The last month has been incredibly busy. After having sworn off all endurance events for a period of 4 years, I find myself inextricably drawn to such things. In cycling terms, there is always the cyclosportif and the Saturday morning group rides.
 
My running training is definitely in hiatus but I’m going to have a crack [...]

 
 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 [...]

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, [...]

By any standards its been a tough weekend of training. I’ve had a whole week of morning 12km runs and 300kms of commuting to work and back on the bike in total for the Monday to Friday. Yesterday , Saturday, I put in a tough effort on the bike with the group ride and had [...]