Jetty 2 Jetty 2012

It has been a while between drinks and by drinks I mean races and by a while I mean 70 days since I have been in any sort of competition with my last event being the Noosa Winter Festival

BSHS Awards Night Speech

Over my years I've attended plenty of sports awards dinners and heard even more guest speakers at numerous different events. Being the guest speakers is always an honor but it isn't without nerves that you get up infront of an unknown audience to share what you feel are words of wisdom and inspiration in the hope that the audience take something positive away from it.

DAT Awards Night 2012: The Main Event

I feel ample time has passed since I posted DAT Awards Night 2012: The Prequel that it is now time to move on to the main event. But for anyone out there unaware of the enormity of this event check out what went down at the 2011 DAT Awards Night and try to get your heads around the fact that this years edition was hyped up so much that we had club members flying home from holidays just so they could make the event and even athletes from other clubs putting themselves through the torture of a weeks training with us just to attend this event!

Bryton Cardio 35 Review - Oceania Bicycles

Training with GPS is almost considered standard practice these days and it is becoming an ever more competitive market with the number of new products hitting stores on a regular basis. And for anyone who follows this blog, you will know that on the bike my preferred method of data collection is via the use of my Bryton Rider 50T.

DAT Awards Night 2012: The Prequel

The DAT Awards Night may have been and gone for 2012 but after the wrap I gave it last year I thought I had to do the same again for this year. But even before I get into that I will tempt your tastebuds with what could only be described as one of the most hyped up speeches for the evening!

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Mixed Fortunes

2:50 PM  Nicholas Hull  No comments

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 to assess the cost of any damage.  To say I was and still am upset and disappointed to have missed the race would be an understatement but as someone did tell me at least I didn’t crash or injure myself in the process. 


Full credit must go to all of my training partners who raced and did extremely well with Brayden Tucker finishing 3rd, Luke Farrell finishing 11th, Bonnie Atherton finishing 2nd and Holly Grice finishing 3rd, all in the open category and I only wish I could’ve been there to see how well they did, let alone be in the race myself. 


Personally, it means that Noosa will be my next race and carrying the confidence that I have in my training of late I am looking for a high finish and to improve on my 16th place in the elite category from last year.  The race again looks to have attracted a stellar field of professionals that seems to be getting bigger each and every year of late.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Race Preparation

8:27 PM  Nicholas Hull  No comments

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 the day but still needing to get my training done for the day, riding there and back and including a run up there was a great way to do it.  Plenty of data was collected from my Bryton Rider 50T for the rides from the outing that is all posted below.

It was a very early start to the morning with Dan and myself rolling out the door at 4:30am for the ride up there and having not done the ride before I wasn't sure what to expect but thankfully it was a really nice ride and with some solid time trial efforts that unbeknown to me were recorded at some points.  We covered the 56km trip in just over 90min averaging close to 36km/hr.



Once up there I enjoyed a solid 5km run building up to race pace for the last km before making the most of the somewhat chilly 20 degree water temperature to cool off. 

It's very rare that I get to spectate at any of the local races because I'm usually either competing or off training somewhere else so it was a nice change to be able to watch a lot of the people I train with and get to cheer for them for once.  There were plenty of great performances from all of the athletes from DAT and doing my part as the spectator I got plenty of photos of all of them.






The day didn't end there because I still had to ride home and dragged Tom, who had just raced, along for the ride with me.  We got stuck in to a bit of highway time trialling and covered the 51km trip home in just over 80min averaging 37km/hr.


All in all a very solid days training that should set me up nicely for the short 400/15/4 distances on the cards for this coming weekend but more importantly, Noosa which is sure to be a cracker of a race with some big names taking the start line on October 30th.
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