Ironman Races: My quest for Kona
I did my first Ironman race in Nice France in 2010. This is one of the most challenging races on the ironman circuit with over 2000 metres climbing over the mountains. It took me almost 13 hours to complete but I finished around 25th place. I loved it so much I went on to collect more ironman races all over the world including Barcelona, Regensberg, South Africa, Australia, Florida, Brazil, Argentina, and Cozumel to name a few. I have now completed 21 full ironman races (and 12 half IM races) including two in Hawaii which is the Ironman World Championships (2017, 2019). My fastest time is 10 hours and 7 mins which was Ironman Florianopolis in Brazil and I got my first age group win at IM Cozumel (2020).
Blog Catch Up & IM Cozumel 2020
After a couple of years of not keeping my blog up to date, I’m back. In the missing period I’ve done IM Australia (5th – missed 4th place by going wrong on the bike leg and eded up in a car park, lost a valuable 5 or 6 minutes and lost 4th place by about one minute) I also did Kona again in 2019 (23rd I think) and I qualified for Kona agin in 2020
My Kona Dream Come True. 14/10/2017
My race report 85,000 athletes from 40 races around the world. Whittled down to 2300. And finally I was one of them ? Competing in the most iconic single day endurance event in the world. With the weeks counting down before Kona I found myself feeling very flat and really quite depressed. My bike watts were showing I was struggling to push 100 watts (!!??!!) and having had grade one leg bone stress I had
Ironman 70.3 World Championships – Chatanooga, Tennessee, USA.
This would be the first time diving off the edge of the pontoon in a race for me. When I got to the edge I decided I didn’t want to lose my goggles so I just jumped in and started swimming. The course was the usual rectangle. We had to swim further upstream against the current than the return journey with a different exit to entrance. The hydro electric power plant was supposed to be
Long Distance Triathlon World Champs – Penticton
So, back to Ironman. I came off the mountain and rested for a month. I started training again beginning of August and as soon as I started to get the running going, the same old pain was back. I had an MRI scan which showed up grade 1 stress in each leg abut 8cm long. No fracture line yet which was good news. So thats pretty much no running for a month. I arrived at
Blog Catch Up & IM Cozumel 2020
After a couple of years of not keeping my blog up to date, I’m back. In the missing period I’ve done IM Australia (5th – missed 4th place by going wrong on the bike leg and eded up in a car park, lost a valuable 5 or 6 minutes and lost 4th place by about one minute) I also did Kona again in 2019 (23rd I think) and I qualified for Kona agin in 2020
My Kona Dream Come True. 14/10/2017
My race report 85,000 athletes from 40 races around the world. Whittled down to 2300. And finally I was one of them ? Competing in the most iconic single day endurance event in the world. With the weeks counting down before Kona I found myself feeling very flat and really quite depressed. My bike watts were showing I was struggling to push 100 watts (!!??!!) and having had grade one leg bone stress I had
Ironman 70.3 World Championships – Chatanooga, Tennessee, USA.
This would be the first time diving off the edge of the pontoon in a race for me. When I got to the edge I decided I didn’t want to lose my goggles so I just jumped in and started swimming. The course was the usual rectangle. We had to swim further upstream against the current than the return journey with a different exit to entrance. The hydro electric power plant was supposed to be
Long Distance Triathlon World Champs – Penticton
So, back to Ironman. I came off the mountain and rested for a month. I started training again beginning of August and as soon as I started to get the running going, the same old pain was back. I had an MRI scan which showed up grade 1 stress in each leg abut 8cm long. No fracture line yet which was good news. So thats pretty much no running for a month. I arrived at