| 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
Time
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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Drafting stuff up... hello bloggers...
Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:52 am T-rex of Tri
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Hey folks... I apologise for the delay and the rambling stuff in here... I need to put some thoughts down somewhere so maybe I could share them with all of you.
I need to write something up for a sponsor for the long course worlds in October. They've agreed to be Maria and my strip sponsors (we're not talking huge sums here but it lightens the load) and I figure that I've got 3 months worth of articles to submit for the monthly newsletter.
July's will be the first, then Aug / Sept and October... so the plan would be for:
July: Will talk about the race and qualification
August: A week in the life and training
September: Maybe some diet / preparation / mental stuff / tales of injury woe?
October: Race report and looking forward
So I figure that I could draft it up in my blog here... then submit...
Marathon
Oh, and what have I been up to of late? Mostly sitting in a physio room trying to fix various ailments. I "ran" a marathon in late June, I had spent most of June looking after a left calf injury it was really a bit of a tense mess, calf guards and some false confidence got me to the start of the marathon. My hip screwed up at about 16k's and by 33k's the cold had got into it and I had to walk in. Nutrition was good, hydration possibly a bit low to be honest, I was sore apart from my hip but just long distance running issues.
So 1:40 out and with slowly walking the last 9k's it was 2:40 back. That really wasn't good for me. Fixing the hip is an ongoing process as we had to do a lot of work on my ITB's as well and that was tear jerkingly sore, not that I cried... I'm a man and all! But that was the marathon that has lead to some physio time... which has culminated in my other calf going do-lally and is currently getting worked on. Hoping to be jogging by next week and if so then we'll have a look at some orthotics to balance me out. I've also upped core strengthening from none to some in order to try and alleviate that weakness.
Training
Since I last blogged I have found myself a new coach to reinvigorate enthusiasm levels. My former coach admitted that it was probably a good time to change in order to keep up levels of enthusiasm and to avoid plateauing... which was happening.
So I've taken on a lot of cycling under my new coach which is good as I can't run and I've been enjoying doing some swimming too. Mostly with my old squad but also on my own on the weekends. Need to up my distances, but that'll come and I feel certain that I'll have a fairly comfortable 3k at the world long course champs (3.8k given my training this year and a cold was bad news at Ironman back in March)
This is the first of my rest / easier weeks in my 4 week blocks, I like the way that new coach gives optional extra sessions for hard weeks and optional easier sessions for the easier week. That way I hope to 1. Recover better than previously in easy week. and 2. Get lots out of it.
Thus far things have gone good and steady, 16 hours, 17 hours and 22 hours and this rest week should be somewhere around 10 to 12 hours.
World Long Distance Tri Championships (tone as in going into newsletter tone)
As some of you may have read in an e-mail I sent round recently I, Andrew Kerr, am going along to compete in the World Long Distance Triathlon Championships... as a kiwi. Now I know I've done a lot of work on my kiwi accent over the last couple of years so it will shock you to hear that my origins are not entirely kiwi... but if John Leslie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leslie_(rugby_union)) can perform with distinction for his adopted country from Lower Hutt then there is no reason that a man from Troon can't do the same for this one.
This event is being held around the CBD of Perth, Western Australia and FNZ have kindly agreed to be strip sponsors for me and my better half Maria Kemp who has also qualified to represent New Zealand. She hails from Methven.
Any suggestions for suitable placements of company logo will be ignored.  As I want to reflect the company well for any potential suitors to our platform who may be out on that Western stronghold of Australia.
Over the next few months in this newsletter I'll bring you some highlights of training and preparation and a race report of how things go.
Event
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The world long distance triathlon championships {link} takes a bit of explaining of a complex history of triathlon. Many of you will be familiar with Ironman Distance events and of the Olympic triathlon. Well this event sits in between the distances of the two. It combines the slight swimming bias that the Olympic distance has with the endurance aspects of Ironman racing. For those of you with a bureaucratic interest, this race is being run by the ITU who got Triathlon into the Olympics and not the Ironman company (WTC) who run Ironman events and the World Ironman Championships in Hawaii. I'm sure Wikipedia is full of information on the distinction.
So... with that done the specifics. The event is a 3km swim, an 80km bike and a 20km run, double the Olympic distance competed in by the likes of Bevan Docherty {link} and Kriss Gemmell {link}(yes, I know he's from Palmy but I'm quite inclusive) and it takes place on the 26th of October.
Qualification
Triathlon New Zealand {link?} have strict qualification criteria for making their teams. For elite level you must show a capability to finish within 10% of the winner of your gender. For age group level (my level, just below elite) you must finish within 20% of the winner of your age group in the national championship or a representative qualifying event. Often for Age group racing the 30-34 age group is the fastest in terms of time to qualify for and this is the one that both Maria and I qualified in.
Maria qualified at the National championships in Tauranga {insert link}, clocking 5 hours and 25 minutes for the 2k / 90k / 21k course. I on the other hand managed to qualify through a special circumstance form. I didn't compete in the national championships and so my times from previous Ironmen and half Ironmen (most notably finishing 19th overall at the 2008 Scottish Half Ironman Championships) {insert link?} meant that they were happy to have me in the team.
The qualifying over half ironman distance actually slightly favours those of us with weaker swims. In next month's segment I'll talk a bit more about training for this event, and most notably how Maria and I have been trying to sharpen up our weakest discipline of swimming.
More next month...
Welcome back to blog
So those are thoughts... will need to tidy it up a bit... I'm sure some work folk will read this early as it'll be RSS'd to my facebook profile... so they get to see a draft... certainly it's not in its final form yet.
Oh yeah, and Sunday was a year since I met Maria... thanks for making my life better baby!
Previous replies
Savaloy - I wish I hadn't "just dropped in" a marathon... didn't really go to plan.
Slacko - I haven't been back up Hawkins since... I think it must have left scars!
Sue - cheers
Poet - ChCh was kinda cold for the poor kiwis who don't have a lot of resistance.
Cobbie - injury will always make marathons hard... not my finest hour.
Paul - reason for lack of regular blogging confirmed. 
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Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:38 am Poet
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 ain't that cute
Still cheating are we? tut tut tut! Nice training volumes too - I've got a 2*1km in 16mins (2:00RI) in two days 
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Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:12 pm savaloy
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Nice work on the sponsorship - like the article. I've just "dropped" a marathon into my schedule (Dublin) 6 weeks after the ITU oly distance worlds - it'll be my first - hoping that i don't encounter the same issues as you  hope you're mended soon 
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Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:35 pm Cobbie
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Wow - big training volumes there, esp if you're not running much
Good to hear that you are OK and that the marathon didn't kill you
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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
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Wed Jul 29, 2009 8:23 am Paul L
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A year with Maria? (What a poet I am  ) Love Strong, Paul. 
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Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:51 pm iainm
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this looks great to me. i'm in perth now (before going over to the gold coast for the short course world champs) and you'll love it here. this is a beautiful city, perfect climate for tri. after aus, we are off to nz, so if it's okay will be asking your advice on finding a tri or more probably some run races. all the best.
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