| All about T-rex of Tri |
T-rex of Tri
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: Wellington, NZ
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| Year on year totals |
2003
Swim - 650m
Bike - 1880km
Run - 531km
2004
Swim - 25125m
Bike - 4111km
Run - 1473km
2005
Swim - 139930m
Bike - 6244km
Run - 1510km
2006
Swim - 201462m
Bike - 7665km (A few k on rollers sadly an indoor cyclist now)
Run - 1683km
2007
Swim - 139339m
Bike - 8594km (All outside)
Run - 1494km
2008 - 25/8/08
Swim - 145349m
Bike - 7586km
Run - 1252km
Goals for '08 in distance terms.
None at all, do less mountain biking, stay healthy, have a great winter with lots of swimming and running and smack it hard next year. (Oh yeah, once I've got these pesky 2 Ironmen out the way first). I've seen enough evidence that if I manage to do what my coach tells me then I may be able to make it to the back of the front of the pack instead of the middle of the pack! |
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| Races |
2008 Races
Ironman New Zealand- Taupo, NI
01/03/08
S3.8k B180k R42.2k
Time - S:1:13:08 B:5.20:14 R:4:04:02
Position - 257/1080
Happiness - 9.5/ 10
Great race, very solid result.
Challenge Wanaka Ironman - Wanaka, SI
28/10/08
S3.8k B180k R42.2k
Time - S:1:11 B:5.30 R:5:06
Position - 57/119
Happiness / 10 - 8
Great race, not great result.
2007 Races
K2 Road Race - Thames, Coromandel
28/10/07
B192k - 2300m vertical
Time - 6:54:13
Position - not 1st
Happiness / 10 - 6
Blew up at 100 miles!
Scorching Duathlon
2/9/07
distance 5/20/2.5
Time - 1:18
Position - 8 / 25(ish)
Happiness / 10 - 6
Levin Half Marathon, Taupo
5/8/07
R21.1k
Time - 1:38:00
Position - 83rd Open Male from 300+
Happiness / 10 - 7/10
Not fast but great to finish in one piece.
Wellington Half Marathon
24/6/07
R21.1k
Time - DNF
Position - Last
Happiness / 10 - 0/10
Through 5k in 7 min miles then hit curb and ripped hand up again 
Xterra NZ
15/4/07
B40k
Time - DNS
Position - Last
Happiness / 10 - 0/10
No chance of starting with hand.
Odyssey MTB ride - 300k
8/4/07
B320k
Time - DNS
Position - Last
Happiness / 10 - 0/10
No chance of starting with hand.
R&R series MTB race
1/4/07
B40k
Time - DNF
Position - Last
Happiness / 10 - 0/10
2.5k in and cut hand to smitherenes, 4 days in hospital
Wellington Standard Distance Champs
Very Windy Day - 18/3/07
S1.5k B40k R10k
Time - 2:28
Position - 15 / 60
Happiness / 10 - 8/10
Ironman New Zealand 3/1/07
S3.8k B180k R42.2k
Time - 11:47:42
Position - 395
Happiness / 10 - 7/10
McMillan Memorial Du - 28/1/07
R2.3Mi / B4.6Mi
<30 Mins
2 / 12
9 / 10 - Hello Mr Hurtbox!
Greenmantle Dash Hill Race - 2/1/07
R2Mi
22:47
51 / 119
6 / 10 - downhill poor
Edinburgh NYD - 1/1/07
S400m B11mi R3.5mi
S7:40 B36.59 R27.07 - 1:13:51
23rd of 317 finishers (less some teams) S41, B25, R43
7 / 10
Key:
Distances
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Position
Happiness / 10 |
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| Personal Bests |
Run
5k - 19.46 - 25/9/05 (Scottish Aquathon Champs)
5Mile - 32.35 - 26/8/05 (Kilmarnock Trail Race)
10k - 41.12 - 10/5/05 (Troon 10k)
10Mile - 72.21 - 8/5/05 (Deeside duathlon)
1/2 Mara - 91.32 - 19/3/06 (Girvan Half)
Mara - 3:41:21 - 2/10/05 (Loch Ness mara)
Bike
10 Mile - 24.12 - 13/10/06 (Old Loans Course)
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| Calendar 09 - 2010 |
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:46 pm T-rex of Tri
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Then yesterday went out for 64 slow(ish) miles on the bike, average speed of 16.8mph. The group dictated the pace and I didn't get much say, but that was fine.
Today bought a new pair of shoes (North Face) for walking about in. And a new pair of 1100's to stick some elastic laces in and get rid of the dream of using DS Racers (OK, so they're light but I'm not).
Must get back to running, might even go for a jog before tonights swim time trial. Ahh the joys of the university mid-semester break.
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'Mon the Biff
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May - October - But is it Charity?
Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:41 pm T-rex of Tri
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OK, so go straight from May to Today with the blog, the stuff in the middle was good with a fantastic half ironman debut at the Scottish HIM and other major hightlights as well as overtraining low-lites.
Today I was out on the Braveheart Fund Charity Cycle Ride. The Braveheart Fund is a fund that has been established to support young and upcoming Scottish Cyclists to get funding to attempt to break into the pro-scene. Is it a charity? Well, I can't really see it as, we're paying these folk to get potentially rich... ah well it's a long argument. I don't mind paying entries to take part in their events or actively supporting the fund but I'm not asking other people for money, I feel bad enough when asking for sick kids charities.
Anyway, was more info on this charity on:
http://www.braveheartfund.com
What happened in the ride, well, it was a 50 mile ride, few hills around the old mining villages of Ayrshire. Fantastic marshalling and a well grouped ride. I was off in the 3rd group with about 30 of us getting let out. I had no idea who was in this group until someone mentioned that <namedrop>Graeme Obree</namedrop> was up front riding something typically unconventional. Yep, riding in our 20mph group was this chap with a bike that the SS would have been proud of, reversed cow handlebars. So we dropped him (well sort of).
Then on one downhill I jumped a few places up the group and there were these folks with jerseys of the fund on. Quite cool I thought, good to see that they're giving their own money to the fund. Then we got further down the road and they're wearing VIP numbers. So that will be <namedrop>Chris Hoy and Sean Kelly</namedrop>. Quite amazing!!! Chris was a joy to draft off, those thighs keep all the wind off! Sadly he didn't do a 1km spell up the front but I think I could have stayed on him!
Chris and Sean left our group as we came to a fairly silly hill wishing us luck and boy was it needed, the no racing policy was dropped when the VIP's left our group to see other groups behind us. So smack bang and a hill. After being initially dropped 3 of us worked together to get back on the group. And we rode round the rest of the way in a group of about 20.
There was another chap out there with the VIP tag on who apparently rides for the Recycling.co.uk team but I have no idea who he was. The Zipp 404's said to me that he was having an easier time than I was on my Steel Raleigh winter bike (the amount of carbon on show was obscene for October, I hope it wasn't their winter bikes!).
Thankfully not the usual road race mentality but a fairly sharpish run out for October, and a bit of star-spotting. A fun day!
So that was the day that was, the fund helps all sorts of cyclists in Scotland and Aileen McGlynn (Paralympic gold medallist on a tandem) was out there as well, so it does have distinctly worthy elements over getting our boys into the pro-peleton (although it would be great to follow some of our boys into that sort of thing).
Sorry for the ramble, but this is my blog and I can have a good ramble.
TRoT
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'Mon the Biff
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Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:09 pm T-rex of Tri
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Here is an old report from the Orkney Standard held in May this year, I'm sure I meant to put it up earlier.
Well, as part of the plan for the year, which is to get to the Scottish Half Ironman and perform the pool standard was seen as the first step up to the next level. The only pool stnadard anywhere that I could find was Orkney so bags were packed and off we went to Kirkwall.
60 lengths of the pool was never an appealing prospect, my swimming is distinctly my worst discipline but by the time we arrived at the tri it was so cold that the heated pool seemed like the only good part of this tri.
This went off fine, almost too fine as I ripped through a 750 metre pb and then went on to record a 29:43 1500 which is really good for me. Further once I get a wet-suit on I'll be able to fly as my legs won't be dragging along the bottom of the pool.
The cycle was appealing for the first half then not for the second. The first 20k was straight downwind and I flew through this bit reaching a top speed of 42 mph only to turn straight into the wind.  
On the way back I was recording speeds of 15mph on the flat and 10 if lucky on uphills. As part of this my breathing went wrong and I could barely take half breaths throughout the way back. This was going to be an issue for the run.
The run was not only blighted by the breathing issue, by my thigh had decided to have a touch of cramp, so no bouncing at all and a real struggle to 55 minutes and last place in the 10k run.
But a good building block towards the half IM which is this year's target.
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'Mon the Biff
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Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:06 pm T-rex of Tri
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Well, now I've decided I want one of these blog thingmys, let's see if we can get it set up and then we can whack some stuff in it.
I've tried before to no avail, maybe I can now fix it.
Here's hoping: 
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'Mon the Biff
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