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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


Oooh look, a blog... Mon May 11, 2009 7:13 am T-rex of Tri

Well, it has been a quiet time of late... doing some half marathon training, long runs, intervals and hills through the week. Still trying to figure out the dark arts of swimming. It's been getting cold here with lots of southerlies rolling in. One highlight of late was the Crazyman rae, http://www.crazyman.co.nz a 12k kayak, 18k mountain run, 36k mountain bike. Most undertook it as teams or just the duathlon option but there were around 20 who did the whole thing. I'd like to say it was a stepping stone on the way to doing the Coast to Coast race the biggest multisport race in NZ, I think it showed that my kayaking has a long way till we get near there as I gave up 18 minutes on my nearest male individual competitor in that leg. I spent 3 hours of the race in dead last (including 4 Individual females and all teams) but came through to the back of the middle of the pack by the end. But the main thing was that it was fun and that's what I wanted... the less said about my hesitancy on the mountain bike the better. Hopefully the tri player will embed in here, if not I'll need to have another shot. It's a cool video! Coming up for me, well still no structured training, the spreadsheet isn't a big lure at the moment, having some fun is, so in 2 weeks time I intend doing a hill climb bike race which is a mtb vs runners vs cyclists thing in a part of Wellington that Maria used to live, so that should be a heap of fun, in 3 weeks there is the Christchurch half marathon, in about 6 is the Wellington Tri Club Duathlon champs and then in about 7 the Wgtn half marathon which is free to enter with work so might as well have a pop at it! Then I might consider a spreadsheet. Anyway, that's about it for me... play safe dudes! _________________ 'Mon the Biff
Mon May 11, 2009 7:47 am Poet

How you liking Marmaduke Duke, though? Any thoughts on the half? Oh, the video didn't embed for me
Mon May 11, 2009 7:58 am sailbird

Vid looks cool. What a fun thing to do! _________________ 2008: PZ Tri, N.Cornwall Tor, Plymouth 1/2, Falmouth Aquthln, Durty Tri, Hayle Sprint, Exmoor Beast 2009, Stinger du, Ex&Sidmouth aquthlns. Hayle Std, Lake Hayes Sprint 2010 Wanaka Half, Xterra NZ
Mon May 11, 2009 9:03 am savaloy

Like the vid - especially the limbo bit ducking under the bridge after T1 - interesting format too _________________ Swim smart, Bike strong, Run tough Blog
Mon May 11, 2009 9:36 am tabtri

Glad to see you're alive Can't view video but I think that's because I'm on a laptop from the Middle Ages.... The race sounds cool - I'd love to something like that. Maybe one day when the kids are a bit older. I think unstructured training can be great fun so I wouldn't worry too much about the spreadsheet at the moment - carry on enjoying yourself. _________________ My excessive healthy enthusiasm will hopefully return soon...
Mon May 11, 2009 10:23 am Cobbie

Video stops half way, just rubbish Phil Collins after that Surely you have enough money to update that old buff as well Looks like a good event, always important to have fun _________________ 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
Mon May 11, 2009 4:04 pm Sue

great to hear you are enjoying doing and doing for enjoyment _________________
Mon May 11, 2009 4:48 pm JamieMcP

Kayaking is for people who can't find a sail for their boat!! I hate it, though i did see a guy today on Little Loch Broom and it allmost looked like fun. The coast to coast sounds an awersome race, definitly one for the bucket list. _________________ Blogtastic My Athlinks Page Twitter So many races so little time.
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