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

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Australian Sprint Champs

The weekend just gone was the Australian Elite Sprint Championships down in Geelong and as almost every race has gone so far this season we were greated with some unusual weather.  The mens race was scheduled for Saturday afternoon and even before that got close there were rumors of the event being changed to a duathlon after the downpoor of rain on Friday night washing debris and contaminted floodwaters into the bay we were due to swim in.  Never the less we did the usual morning training session around the bay checking out both the bike and run courses and I was feeling really good.  Even though there were no significant hills...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Kinloch Tri

So it's been well over a week since my last blog and my promise to update this with a race report from Kinloch while I was over there clearly didn't eventuate.  And with a big week of travel, training and organising uni and race plans I am only now getting a chance to sit down and write all about it. Last Thursday I began my journey to Kinloch and it wasn't the smoothest start with an hour delay in Brisbane Airport followed by another hour sitting on the plane on the tarmac while they tried to sort out some issues with everyone's bags, all before we'd even taken off for Auckland!  The three hour drive from Auckland to Taupo was supposed...

Friday, February 4, 2011

Stroke and Stride

I'm currently sitting in my hotel room in Taupo, New Zealand in preparation for my next race this Sunday which is the Kinloch ITU Sprint Triathlon Oceania Cup.  This is the first chance I've had to sit down and update this blog all week and with no less than 7 rowdy bars and 3 backpacker hotels within 100m of my room this is how I'm planning on distracting myself from what is going on just outside my window! Last Sunday saw the second race of the new Stroke and Stride series held on the Sunshine Coast.  Not being known as a triathlon club to take the easy option we again decided to ride up to the event from Brisbane similar to what...

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