YAS Triathlon- Abu Dhabi

I’ve been saying for the past 3 years that I would love to have a go in the Xterra series.  This weekend I finally gave it a crack in the city that never sleeps, Las Vegas! When Ironman is your focus there seems to be limited opportunity to race and Xterra looks like it might…

Raced Oceanside 70.3 this weekend down in San Diego.  This was my first real test on North American soil since being out with mono last year.  It was also the most competitive race I’ve done in a long time so a good chance to see where I was at fitness wise.  Mentally I felt more…

Man I hate writing blog posts when it aint good news.  But, as a dedicated blogger of the last two weeks I feel obliged.  By the way, i did lather up with 50 SPF but I’m guessing it wasn’t waterproof.  I’m quite sore today. Hawaii Ironman take 4 for me.  Started out well, swimming has…

First real hit out at a race in some time this weekend in South Africa.  It was an amazing experience to be on the African continent- a first for me so I was excited to just go there. I desperately wanted to meet Nelson Mandela but I didn’t really look that hard and I figured…

Home at last, home at last!  I think we were ready to come home, 4 weeks on the road and two big races left us all a bit drained. Well Xterra was a bomb.  Can’t really say what happened on the day but I had nothin and that just ain’t right.  Perhaps a bit burned,…

Adam Campbell led out the Vancouver marathon last weekend for the first 16km, pretty impressive for a skinny wee man.  He managed to hang onto second overall in a race that features over 16,000 people….what a rush!  Way to go Adam!