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.

It was a mixed bag last weekend. Wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. It has been a great year of training, details taken care of and I was in the right head space heading into it. From purely a results perspective I will admit that it was disappointing to come 4th. From an…

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,…

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…