I have to say the last couple of days have been the hardest riding I’ve done in a while (if not in distance, certainly in intensity). The SAT AM 60km ride was reeled off in 1hr 45m which, with around 21 sets of traffic lights to negotiate, is probably one of the quicker ones we’ve [...]

Try this one at home. If there is a word like climb that you can pronounce like Kath and Kim would ( eg ‘cloimb’) , then do it. It will become addictive. Fairly long time between drinks - I did want to confirm that Dee actually scaled Mt Kilimanjaro ( and Mt Lemangrut and Mt [...]

Well, I just got off the phone briefly to Dee but the connection was very scratchy. She and the other 6 climbers are descending Mt Kilimanjaro as I type this. I couldn’t even extract from her whether she had summited. So that information is pending.
She sounds good though. Now its time for her to chill [...]

Well, I’m back in Perth now after spending 10 days in Melbourne and I had a rather unusual bit of cross-training opportunity. A 60km mountain bike ride from a place called Jells Park along the Scotchmans Creek Trail into the city of Melbourne. A fantastic and highly recommende ride that takes you along Gardiners creek and [...]

Last week has been mainly cycling to work and back. I did the Front Runner training on Thursday which was a 3km warmup, a 3 km warm down and 3x 2km efforts with some interval work. These guys (and girls) all run well. It’s a great running group.
Sat AM was a solid 60km effort with [...]

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 [...]

Life is certainly that - fleeting! We were struck with some sad news this week. A group of Corpus Christi students were killed in a car accident. The driver was a young man we’d come to know very well, James Klessens (or Big Jim as I called him). He was one of Matt’s best mates through Yidarra [...]

First and foremost I want to sincererly congratulate Frank Stapleton on being inducted as a life member of Triathlon Western Australia. A fantastic selfless achievement. I admire people who find time to volunteer for the greater good of the sport. In this case, triathlon.
I now think this bronchitis has had a hold of me for [...]

Its going to be a little cold and wet for the next couple of days. Still the Tour de France kicks off on Sat in Brittany. I’ll set up the rollers in front of the TV and settle in for the next 3 weeks.
A local rider (well-known in Perth, nationally and internationally) was recently caught [...]

I was amazed at how many people rocked up for the Perth Half Marathon. Very well organised and pretty wet conditions. I have to learn not to start at the back of the line as I lose a couple of minutes dawdling at the start. Anyway I got up to the halfway at UWA at [...]