Pics from IM South Africa Trip-2011

Woke up short swim with some pick ups- feeling good Short run with strides- felt like ass at first better after about 10 minutes It was a who’s who at the pro meeting today.  Mostly on account of it being mandatory so all the who’s had to be there.  I was sitting beside a few…

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…

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…

As much as I tried to have a video blog available I couldn’t seem to get the thing to upload from my computer….I need the twitter hacker to help me out with some of my computer navigation skills In a nutshell Rev3 Knoxville was really good.  Raced well and not too far back at the…

Yesterday I had a good race but will admit that I took a good thumping.  By the end of the first of 4 loops on the bike I knew that running down Jordan was going to be an extremely tall order.  He was sinking about 90 seconds per lap into us despite the fact that…

A good way to shake the cobwebs off for next weekend in South Africa.  Super fun to race on the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 track.  The flight attendants from Ethiad Airlines were very friendly.