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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I write not of my own but of others who deserve recognition for their efforts against considerable obstacles. Today, I went for a 7.5km jog around Deepwater Pt circuit then on to drop Dee at Jacob’s Ladder and on to do 2 x 10km laps of the Bridges. On my second of these laps I [...]

Tackling around 20kms of the Bibbulmun track this weekend - no overnight stay though. Calf muscle pulled last Saturday running twice around the Deepwater Pt circuit. Funny because I can cycle fine but running/walking hurts. I had a good run last Thu night with a 12km run involving a 2min neg split. Soccer final on [...]

Time for a training update. As most of you know, I’ve had Bronchitis the last 3 weeks and really only felt fully fit again on Saturday in the shop bike ride (60kms). We have some fast guys on board now (eg Rod Mejias, Luke Hardy, Robbie (Sth African dude), Richard Kelly, Guy Pritchard, Brendan McSweeney,Grant [...]

Its been a week and last night I entered the Painathlon. Check out the www.painathlon.com website. Its very well done and easy to follow (unless you’re competing in it, then its very painful to follow!) But I guess, if it was fun, it would be a funathlon!
 Anyway, this weekend, the Pinjarra cyclosportif 75km ride is [...]