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 [...]
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 [...]
The weekend involved a fair bit of training with a fair bit of Spring cleaning. On Saturday, our BFSR group detoured from the Narrows to Fremantle for a coffee stop then down Marmion St and back to Canning Vale. I think we’d done around 80kms instead of our usual 60kms and it was a sensible [...]
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 [...]