Whoever said triathlon was an individual sport never trained with DAT Racing

The weekend just gone was the first race of the junior elite national series down at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast.  This is a unique racing experience because it is a total of 7 races held over 3 days combining individual swimming, cycling and running races as well as multiple short distance triathlons with all of the athletes collecting points in each event and an overall champion being crowned by Sunday lunchtime.  DAT Racing was well represented with Tom Ryan, Angus Gibson, Luke Farrell, Jake Freeman, Holly Grice and Emily Bevan all taking to the startline on Friday afternoon.  The black and magenta was well represented...

Read More

Raby Bay Triathlon

I had my last race for the 2011 calandar year on the weekend and I am pleased to say that although my last few races haven't produced disasterous results, I was hoping for more out of them but this race was a significant improvement and one that I am a lot more satisfied with.  Raby Bay played host to the third race of the Queensland Triathlon Series and after a week of nothing less than horrible weather for a Brisbane summer I was more or less expecting the same come Sunday.  Raby Bay exceeded expectations in this department and we had almost perfect conditions and got to race in the blistering heat. The preparation wasn't perfect...

Read More

Nutrend V2.0

Since I have been using all of the Nutrend products for the last couple of weeks now I thought I'd share with everyone a few more details about their products and when I use them and when they are best used. I have been using a combination of the Isodrink, Profidrink, Powerbar, Voltagebar, Carbosnack and Endurosnack for all of my training and as well as all tasting great, I have found them to be really beneficial and training of late has been going great. Both the Isodrink and Profidrink are electrolyte drinks that come in powder form.  The Profidrink comes in either a lemon or orange flavour and is designed more for endurance activities...

Read More

Nutrend Supplements

Three blogs in a week is a clear indicator that I have way too much free time on my hands and that limited training is being undertaken.  While this may be the case as I am recovering not only from a fall earlier in the week but also a nasty flu that I have just not been able to shake, I do come bearing more interesting news than just my progress in terms of recovery.Anyone paying close attention to the details of this blog may have noticed a few alterations in the layout of late and while I have further plans to enhance the viewing pleasure, there have also been a few changes to the sponsors, suppliers and supporters section, as well...

Read More

Monday misfortunes

This isn't exactly the kind of post I'd like to be posting at this stage but never the less, this is how my week started off...  Following the race at Robina on the weekend I headed out for an easy hour run through the forests of Brookfield.  I regularly run through these trails and greatly enjoy the change of scenary it brings from running around the roads that can become somewhat dull and mundane and for the first 40min of this run I was thinking how great it is to start a morning off like this and how good it is to be able to do what I do.  Unfortunately things came unstuck after that and I took a pretty bad tumble after tripping...

Read More

Robina Tri

Yesterday was race 2 of the Queensland Triathlon Series down at Robina on the Gold Coast and after my mishap on the way to race 1, my first goal was to just make it to the venue in one piece!  Obviously this wasn't all I wanted to achieve out of the day and I went into the race determined to post a top result and had made my intentions very clear to anyone that asked that I was focused on winning the race and honestly believed I had a real shot at achieving this.  The race was held over the supersprint distance of a 400m swim, 15kim cycle and 4km run so the pace was bound to be on from start to finish and the open category had attracted...

Read More

All that is the Noosa Triathlon

The Noosa Triathlon and Multisport Festival has been and gone for another year and in a similar fashion to every year not only was a great event put on by USM Events but a thouroughly enjoyable time was had by all.  We arrived at Noosa on the Friday to what wasn't exactly the best weather and as much as I wanted to get down to the beach to soak up the atmosphere and cheer on the swimmers in the Eyeline 1000, staying dry and inside was the preferred option.  There is always plenty to do at Noosa so the smarter option involved checking out all the new gear on offer at the expo.  I had a great catch-up with Neville from Ryders Eyewear...

Read More

Mixed Fortunes

This blog was supposed to be a rundown of my first triathlon for the season but things didn’t quite run as smoothly as expected.  On the upside training has been going great and things are well and truly on track for a great performance at Noosa in 2 weeks time but any opportunity to fine tune my preparations in a race situation were lost due to a bit of misfortune on my way to the race. On route to Raby Bay (which is only about a 45min drive from home) I had a slight car malfunction that resulted in my beloved car needing to be towed and being a Sunday is currently sitting outside the tyre shop until I can get down there when they open...

Read More

Race Preparation

It has again been way too long since I last posted something and I'm not going to go into the boring and uneventful details of why I haven't been very active, instead I'll just jump straight back in to it and with the domestic racing already getting underway for another season, now is as good a time as any. While several DAT athletes started their season with the first race of the Bribie Island Triathlon Series on Sunday I'll be waiting until this weekend for my first hit-out at the first race of the Queensland Triathlon Series at Raby Bay.  With so many athletes racing at Bribie Island I took the opportunity to be a spectator for...

Read More