Spectating, specialists, surgeons and swimming struggles

With my training requiring several adjustments over the past six weeks one would think I would've had plenty of time up my sleeve but that couldn't be further from the truth. After tearing my hip flexor at Noosa I have been restricted to physio visits, riding and swimming; all be it with a pull buoy firmly fixed between my legs.  And while Revive have been doing all they can to speed up the recovery process, once I got my head around the injury and what sort of recovery time I was looking at I took the opportunity to really up my swimming and in particular, my strength in the water being limited to pull buoy.  After about four weeks...

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Re-evaluating race plans...again

Four weeks post Noosa and I was still yet to successfully run any significant distance or any distance at all!  The impact of my fall and then proceeding to run the 10km off the bike resulted in what the physios at Revive have now diagnosed and are treating as a hip flexor tear.  I must say these guys have been phenomenal in their approach to treating not only my injury but every patient that enters their clinic.  It's not always easy for me to get in and see the same physio each time I go but their communication and knowledge of everyone that walks through the door makes it easy to stay on top of my injury.  And to have the physios ringing me to see if there is anything they can do to help me get back to running any sooner gives me so much confidence in what they are...

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Noosa Triathlon

The Shepparton Ironman 70.3 will have been run and won by this time tomorrow and while this race was high on the priority list, it was unfortunately removed from this list just over a week ago.  The timing of the race seemed perfect; two weeks post Noosa which would have given me plenty of time to not only get some solid TT time under my belt leading into Noosa but also freshen up, recover and taper to be all guns blazing for Shepparton.  As it turns out my body has taken close to two weeks to completely recover from my crash at Noosa and I am still yet to pull the running shoes back on, in fact they are still sitting out on the deck...

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Moreton Bay Grand Prix Duathlon

I don't think there is a triathlete anywhere who isn't getting caught up in all of the racing going on this weekend, myself included.  While I have spent much of my weekend glued to my computer keeping track of all the updates coming through from all the events at the ITU World Championships in Auckland and the Australian 70.3 Championships in Mandurah I also got the chance to have a bit of a hit out as well.      Before I go into my racing adventures for the weekend I have to give special mention to a few of my training partners over in Auckland.  Ryan Fisher had an amazing performance to finish in 5th position...

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Raby Bay Triathlon

What a day of sport it's been, we saw Pete Jacobs and Leanda Cave take out the Kona Ironman World Championship Titles in impressive fashion, the grueling Cooloongatta Gold and of course; race 1 of the Gatorade Queensland Triathlon Series was held at Raby Bay.      After last years mishap en route to Raby Bay I'm pleased to be able to start this blog on a much more positive note and say that I made it to the event in one piece! The lead up wasn't without issues and I had a minor wheel incident on Saturday night when both of my race wheels refused to pump up so I was frantically driving around sourcing a spare set. Special...

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Moreton Bay Triathlon

With Olympic Distance State Championships on the line, less than five weeks until the Auckland ITU Triathlon World Championships, the first official DAT Racing club race of the year, a couple of Olympians in the mix (namely Emma Jackson and Courtney Atkinson), Luke Farrell lining up on his brand new Specialized Venge, Courtney Dutton's last race as a 20yr old and Brittany Dutton's first big draft legal event, the Moreton Bay Triathlon had all the makings of an epic day of racing and it certainly didn't disappoint!  But before I even begin to go through my run down of what is going to have to be a blog of epic...

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Rainbow Beach Triathlon

This is a bit of a delayed blog after last weekend's Rainbow Beach Double Triathlon but never the less well worth a read if I don't say so myself!  I was hoping a few photos might have popped up by now that I could have included but unfortunately that hasn't happened. Rather than dwelling on what could have been after the disappointment of Yeppoon I decided to jump straight back into racing as soon as I could.  And while Dan's suggestion of packing up the car and continuing the trip north up to Airlie Beach might have seemed like a good idea and certainly would have got some decent kilometers on the car for dad, I'm not sure mum would have appreciated not having her car for the week.  Instead I made the journey to Rainbow Beach and I can safely say I have spent more...

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Ironman 70.3 Yeppoon: Take the good with the bad

This is far from the race report I thought I’d be writing but as unfortunate as it is that’s racing for you and you have to take the good with the bad! I made my way up to Yeppoon for my first serious crack at professional long distance racing, Ironman 70.3 style.  All my training has been geared around this longer style of racing and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t take a massive amount of confidence into this race but at the same time knew I was stepping into the unknown over the 1.9km of swimming, 90km of cycling and 21.1km of running with some very seasoned professionals lining up alongside me. After close to nine hours of travelling I arrived at the resort and was very happy to put the car in the car-park and get out of it!  And always being able to count on dad to look...

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Revive

I am very pleased to announce that I have renewed my partnership with Revive Ashgrove and will be continuing to work with them over the coming 6 months.  Reading back over the blog I wrote 6 months ago when I first started working with Revive (Time to  get revived!) I can safely say that they have done an amazing job in going above and beyond their mission statement: To provide first class Physiotherapy, Pilates and complimentary services to our clients in a professional, holistic and nurturing environment.  To empower our clients with the skills and knowledge to make significant changes to their health and wellbeing. And I am...

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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 Ocean Swim & Half-Marathon.  It is safe to say that my competitive spirit has been pushing hard to escape from the day to day training routine, especially when I've had to sit back and watch some truly outstanding results from my training partners in recent weeks!  Without going into too much detail Ryan Fisher has been producing some outstanding results over in Europe and I can't wait to get into a solid block of training with him when he...

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