I had a 25 lap swim effort Thursday evening. I met a bloke called Rob who is a mate of Rick Twine’s. Rob is doing Busso HIM and knew me via my ‘war and peace’ diary on TriWA some time ago. I have had bike commutes most days of the week with a total of [...]

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 [...]

I think I’ve trained harder for this team run in Ironman WA than in any of my previous sporting endeavours. I’ve been disciplined with my morning 12km runs and I can feel a good taper just around the corner. My 12kms are around the 52 to 53min mark so not that close to 4min/km pace [...]

Last Sunday was a massive 36km run. This Sunday will be a 31km run with a guy I’ve done a bit of running training with, Terry Cameron. He’s entered IMWA again as an individual. His weekend will be 200kms of cycling on Sat and the 31km run with me on Sunday (both early morning starts)
Tonight, [...]

By any standards its been a tough weekend of training. I’ve had a whole week of morning 12km runs and 300kms of commuting to work and back on the bike in total for the Monday to Friday. Yesterday , Saturday, I put in a tough effort on the bike with the group ride and had [...]

A big decision was made today. I phoned my prospective cycling team mate for Ironman WA…..and we both agreed that we’d support our spouses in their female IMWA team. So our team entry can wait till next year!!! Ain’t no thing, and there’s loads of events to still be involved in ( Anaconda 09 at [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]