I met a lady , Martina Murphy, at a 21st last night at Harry’s Bar who I was told was a marathon runner. Very humble. Could have knocked me over with a feather when she said her best marathon time was a touch over 3hrs. Some people don’t feel the need to sing their aspirations and [...]

It was a fantastic weekend. Still feeling a little bogged down with flu but it’s nearly left my body. On the road to recovery now. The Blue Baggers knocked over Geelong at the MCG. My daughter was over there on Friday night at the MCG watching the match so I’m sure it was a magic [...]

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 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 [...]