Raby Bay Triathlon

While the juniors enjoyed a well earned rest day following their individual races at States on the Friday and backing that up with the teams race on the Saturday, the rest of us made our way out to Raby Bay to compete in race 6 of the Queensland Triathlon Series.  And while the race wasn't of particular significance, with the much talked about and anticipated Devonport Triathlon only 2 weeks into the distance this was the race to fine tune our performances.  Both open fields drew a number of the big players, in particular Olympic hopeful Emma Jackson lining up in the womens field along side Sarah Deuble and Anna Coldham representing...

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School State Championships

It isn't very often that I am attending a race without the stress and nerves of competing and even less often that I have a complete day off training.  That being said, we were made to earn our complete day off with some fierce but friendly competition around the grounds of the Stafford pool during our swim/windtrainer/run session and there was more than one athlete commenting about some DOM action upon wakening this morning!  Onto the reason for the complete day off, it was the junior's day to shine (and on a side note the athletes were the only ones shining because the weather out at Redcliffe was providing nothing of the sort!)...

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Time to get revived!

I spent some time trying to find a good definition for revive that would fit in with what I am about to share, some of which were completely useless but I did stumble across this fitting definition: "to impart new health, vigor or spirit." Although it may seem somewhat abstract, there is some method to my madness and the reason for my recent Google searching is so I can share the exciting news that I will be working with the team at Revive Physiotherapy in Ashgrove to RESHAPE, REBALANCE & REFORM my body over the next 6 months. Revive is more than just a physiotherapy studio and they offer every service under the sun including physiotherapy,...

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Geelong Triathlon

It has taken my a lot longer than anticipated to get this blog posted as I had originally planned on having it done soon after the completion of the race and had even made time in the days leading into the race to pre-write some of it but that never eventuated.  The reason for this is mainly due to the fact that for myself personally Geelong was one of those races where nothing went to plan and I am very disappointed with my result and it wasn't until I read the above quote that I have stopped thinking about what I did wrong and started thinking about what I can  and will be doing in the coming weeks leading up to the next series...

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Caloundra Enduro

It was a bit of a last minute decision to race in the Caloundra Enduro Tri this morning but one that I am very pleased to have done.  The result itself might not necessarily reflect that but there were plenty of positivies to take away from the morning and with a firm eye on the bigger picture and the more important races coming up very shortly that is definitely what I am focusing on. The race was a very unconventional format, being held over a 400m swim, 7km cycle, 1.8km run, 200m swim, 7km cycle and a final 1.8km run.  There arn't many events around similar to this but it reminds me very much of the older F1 style of racing...

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