Pics from IM South Africa Trip-2011

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.

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!

Last weekend kicked off the first race in the Subaru West Coast Triathlon Series at Shawnigan Lake. Normally this is the first half ironman of the year for me but i had to pull the plug due to a rather large pain in the butt. I had a bit of a significant crash 2 weeks…

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…

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…

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,…