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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]