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 [...]

Since Painathlon (and likely after competing in it with a sinus infection) I have been quite unwell this week. No running training. I’ve been commuting in on ‘Sparkles’ and ‘Ernie’ but just taking it easy. As you know, I tend to race people in without too much prompting. As Raf Baugh has told me, this [...]

Settle in, grab a cuppa as I attempt to explain to you the event I did yesterday. The ‘Painathlon’ in Perth, Western Australia.
I woke up pretty early (about 4am) and just did some last minute checking of equipment. I had a backpack with 3 litres of Powerade in a camelbak. I had my Deuter Cross [...]

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 [...]