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 [...]
Just been so unwell this last week. I recall cancelling my Spin coaching class last Friday mainly because I had a bad flu. I persisted with it on the Saturday AM ride. Guy Pritchard took this and we got in around 75kms of pretty hard riding, a lot of it TT style. Interestingly enough, we [...]
This weeks training has been low key at best. On Wednesday, joined what seemed like hundreds of people filing up and down Jacob’s Ladder. There from 5.30pm to around 6.45pm. It’s funny but if you haven’t done this for a while, you underestimate the impact of this exercise. I know I do - I was comfortable [...]
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 [...]
Last Tuesday, had a great run with Rodrigo on our usual 7.30pm effort for 19kms. We took over 3.5mins off our best time on the first 9.5kms. Cycle commuting to work all week. On Thursday, went with a couple of mates on a training ride for around 70kms, Friday I went on a 130km ride [...]
Busselton Half Ironman is getting real close now. I spent yesterday swimming at Port Beach and just relaxing (for about 5 hrs in all). On Thursday, I had a hard cycling session with 2 guys who are a bit better than me (one an A grade crit rider and the other did an Ironman 180km [...]
Its been a while between drinks. I had a 20km time trial today on the bike. Considering my last effort at Neerabup was 37.2kph average, today’s effort at 38.1kph average was a minor improvement. Its difficult to assess over a much shorter distance. I have a 16km TT at Bibra Lake on Good Friday which [...]
The last gasp of Perth’s summer (even though its Autumn) today with 37C. Today was the State 40km Individual Time Trial Championship and there was a veritable truckload of very fast cyclists out there. I was very happy to not only get over the magic 36kph but to up the ante a little for 37.2kph [...]
Its been two weeks since the last blog. I’ve had a great time reading the ‘Friggin Loon’, I posted a 35.7kph result at the Wandi 80km time trial. I’ve had a solid workout with an 80min run with Rod Mejias from Brooklands tavern to just shy of Willeri Drive via Ranford Rd and Roe Hwy [...]