Aw bad news, this morning we lose another two of the group. The only other girl left got sick yesterday. For a while she didn’t know why she was here. Very confused and sick. So hubby has to go too. They were at the clinic last night and getting air helicopter out this morning. She …
This morning was the bad news my lovely Roomie had to go down now. She got sick again and had pressure at the front of the head, the start of cerebral edema. I’m gutted. Not just for me cos I’ll really miss the laughs we had but for her. She had bags of enthusiasm and …
First glimpse of Everest Clancy, probably a nice guy but he hunts animals so I didn’t like that. I was looking forward to challenging this with him later on in the trip but I never got the chance because he got sick (the altitude caused pressure in his head and his eyeballs changed shape and …
Yesterday we left Namche Bazaar and it was a tough ascent to Panboche. On the way we received an orange string for round our necks from a tea house with a knot it it. The knot has been tied and blessed by the Dalai Lama and the knot means continuous journey, the blessing ‘safe journey’. …
The Irish Bar with our team leader and (L-R) Peak Freaks Owner and Founder Tim, Mark (who has been to high camp on Everest and woke up on summit day with dead toes, had to come down and lost them all but I must say he’s one of the nicest guys), me, then my roomie …
14th October 2016- From Kathmandu – Lukla We departed the lodge at 5am to Kathmandu airport and took our 6.15 flight to Lukla. This was the most amazing flight ever, in a twin prop Dornier. There’s 10 in our group for the first mountain and then only five of us are aiming for all three. …
The lead in to this race had been fine until a couple of weeks before the race. I had a suspected stress fracture in my leg and so based on professional advice my race was ‘off’. I took advantage of this time to catch up with friends and ‘socialise’. Ie: go out, have fun and …
Race Report – Ironman Barcelona 2nd October 2016 Read More »
Race Report IM 70.3 World Championships – Mooloolaba, Australia I qualified for the half ironman world championships in Bahrain in December 2015. This would be my second outing at the 70.3 Worlds but my fist time to Australia so I was very excited. The Worlds are always a great race because there’s no pressure, I …
Ironman 70.3 World Championships, Mooloolaba, Western Australia ; 4th Sept 2017. Read More »
I woke up just before my alarm went off at 3.50am. Down to breakfast 4.15am. Then the shuttle buses took us to the swim start. I was booked on this race at the last minute with the lovely Ken Glah from Endurance Sports Travel. Ken has this race really sewn up, everything is exceptionally well …
Race report Ironman Brazil 29th May 2016 – Florianopolis Read More »
It appears to be somewhat cooler than you think Brazil is going to be. Race day at the moment shows rain and temperature starting on the bike about 17 celsius rising to about 19 celsius before starting to cool again around 3pm. Sun sets early around 5pm. The swim is one lap but with two …
Arrival in Florianopolis, Brazil and course recce Read More »
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