How to become an age group champion – the long way! 6 easy-to-follow steps to becoming Ironman Australia Age Group Champion Step 1: •Sign up for the inaugural Shepparton Half Ironman to get a taste of longer distance racing •Suffer through mid 30s heat in Shepparton, walk half the run and finally finish, saying you’ll […]
Swimming, biking and running the length of NZ It’s now two days post-‘Epic Camp Length of NZ’, a 100 hour block of training over 2 weeks while traversing the entire Land of the Long White Cloud. I finally have the energy and motivation to start typing – the plan was to blog on a daily […]
“Get a Balanced Life” is the name of an initiative in the company I work for, designed to improve your health and well-being through lifestyle. After this triathlon season I was beginning to think that my life had got way out of balance and a lot less exercise and a lot more time being a […]
Another autumn rolls around and ‘daylight savings’ ends. All of a sudden the nights are longer and cooler and the triathlon season is pretty much over – hang on a minute, I’ve still got an Ironman to race. This was to be the big result, the year that I showed my domination of the ultimate […]
After the 2003 Alpine Classic was cancelled due to bushfires, the day had come to enjoy another pleasant spin in the Vic. Alps. Preparation had been non-existent as far as ‘killer 200k training rides with Mt Donna Buang thrown in’ goes but had been doing a few Dandenongs rides in the last few months and […]
I was asking myself the question – what is harder and more painful, doing an Ironman triathlon or having a hernia operation? The reason I was pondering this is the diagnosis one month before the Ironman that I had a hernia and it had to be fixed, sooner, rather than later. Photo: An awesome sight, […]
Two years of waiting, one aborted qualifying preparation last season, one successful ½ Ironman qualifier race this season and months of intensive preparation and here I was back in Forster – on the start line for the big come-back Ironman. Photo thanks to Xtri.com: Macca running to his first Ironman win at Forster 2002 – […]