Awards Ceremony & Kona Slots post IM Brazil
What a roller coaster of emotions. I went to the awards ceremony only to look at the official results up on the wall and I was now down as fifth place. A girl from nowhere appeared as the winner with no swim time, no bike time and no run time. Just an overall finish time. …
Race Report Ironman Florianopolis, Brazil : 8th May 2017
Well it was deja vue, standing on the beach at 7am in the pissing rain. Exactly the same as last year. My age group was absolutely stacked. It read like a Who’s Who of AWA athletes. Over 20 of us. Many of these girls I know to be really fast and specialise a bit more …
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Race Report Ironman 70.3 Vietnam: 8th May 2017
Its a very civilised start here, rolling swim start at 8.20am. So I had a good sleep and a good breakfast. I positioned myself in the sub 30 min swim pen towards the back of the group as I’m well used to putting myself in the correct place only to find I’m surrounded and held …
Disaster in South Africa – Ironman South Africa 2nd April
So the race I so dearly love just shot me straight through the heart. I had a good swim for me out here in this big sea swell. Was very happy with 1:07. Had good transition and was off on the bike feeling strong. Then just under an hour into the bike we had to …
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Winter training and injury
So I went out to Spain for January and February to escape the cold winter here in the UK and wanted a good start to the year with a nice ten week training block away from the pressures of work/ home life. It was to be great preparation for my first race in 2017, Ironman …
Bungee jumping from Bloukran’s Bridge, South Africa.
After the cold of the Himalayas, I decided to have a little holiday in South Africa where I did a bungee jump here. Bloukran’s Bridge is the highest commercial bungee jump off a bridge in the world.
From base camp Lobouche
Dining al fresco Practising rope skills Climbing the vertical slab Stopping for quick bite to eat a couple hours into summit day I’m in the red The day dawns on top of the world
Monday 31st October
We left high camp at 2.30am and the first two and half hours were climbing over big boulders and rocks in the dark with head torches. A few times we had to rope up for some dodgy bits. I was quite glad it was dark and I couldn’t see the steep drops. But it was …
Sunday 30th October
Today we practised the last of our rope skills. I must admit it’s brain overload for me. I have selected which bits to retain as some of it is unnecessary and is more for lead climbing. I’ve retained the parts I need to know. We’ve sorted all our gear out now and are moving up …