Pics from IM South Africa Trip-2011

Yesterday we had the press conference for the Vancouver Half Ironman in July.  It was an incredible day and the venue for this race is unreal!  It is located in the Endowment lands in Vancouver on the most spectacular beach.  The best part of the day was meeting some Olympic dudes from rowing and speed…

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.

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…

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…

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!

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…