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T-rex of Tri
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: Wellington, NZ

Profiles
Below a couple of profiles on different sites: Hill Running Athlinks Twitter

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!

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 Doh

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
Time
Position
Happiness / 10

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)

Calendar 09 - 2010


Swimming is cheating... Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:48 am T-rex of Tri

Well, I'd always thought it, my suspicions were confirmed, swimming is most definitely cheating. Last night I went to a swimming lesson with a local coach who was very quick out the water at IMNZ and had my "technique" rubbished. Which was what I was looking for. To be fair it wasn't that it was rubbished it was just pointed out that it was massively inefficient, I was taking way too many strokes per length and just wasting energy, it was amazing that I could swim even mediocre with my technique. So I have a few months of working on technique to go, do some actually rolling of my hips, high elbows and making an actual catch and pull through the stroke. I couldn't tell you if this is Total Immersion or any other form of swimming, what it is is something that makes sense to me and something that I can work on. I'll report on all this stuff in this blog as time goes on. With going to the world long distance champs as double olympic distance in 6 months time it's rather important that I'm not dead last out the water and fighting not to be last for the rest of the race. Makes we wonder if there are similar secrets to running that I've been missing... it's a lot to take in but I guess drills are going to do it for me for a while. Of course if this doesn't work then I'll just become a time triallist, who needs swimming and running? Previous replies Paul - if I'm asked to do butterfly I might as well give it a try, but much of my swimming looks like drowning with little style. Sue - yeah, she's great! Savaloy - fully recover? It all depends on how hard your ran, probably 8 weeks if you've gone to the hurtbox, I don't think I got there. Cenzo - your summer is much like our winter though! _________________ 'Mon the Biff
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:18 am Sue

.... and why do you think Im doing TT's this season Hope it works, like swimming ut never any good I'll be clinging onto your every word _________________
Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:12 am Cobbie

Good to see the 'swim efficiently' message has got through at last I have dabbled with trying to run more efficiently but gone back to my natural style as I had some achilles issues (as have a few others including ttowel) with going for a more forefoot striking approach. IIRC an old photo showed your hips rolling when running - did you ever do anything to sort that out? Might be a good starting point? PS - butterfly is the devil's work - avoid it _________________ At what point did Mr T learn about ultra-running? "Make friends with pain and you'll never be alone" - Ken Chlouber, creator of the Leadville Trail 100 "‘You do that again, you'’ll meet my friend Pain" - BA Baracus
Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:47 am savaloy

wow, 8 weeks to recover, I guess why it's called ironman - good to see you enjoying swimming so much _________________ Swim smart, Bike strong, Run tough Blog
Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:31 pm Poet

...folk who don't wearing sleeves, that's who need swimming and running
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