| 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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Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:32 pm T-rex of Tri
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I seem to write less and less on my blog... maybe it's a sign that all is good in life.
Job
Doing my last week of work in current job and moving on to another place in Wellington soon. The last three years at FNZ have been interesting and much has been learned, much has happened, time to move on.
House
Maria and I now appear to be homeowners... how exciting. Our move in date was Friday into the house that we were renting anyway. Very exciting, a 4 bedroom house, double garage for bikes, the kind of thing that would have cost us 3 life times of mortgage in the UK was in fact moderately reasonable here in NZ.
Triathlon
The main reason for updating this blog is to log a couple of little race reports, two shorter, one an ironman finish so it can be longer.
Taupo Half Ironman - relay team (bike)
A short one here, did this as part of a relay team, a 2:21 on the Ironman course including T2 leaving me the 5th fastest bike split of the day within seconds of mens winner Duncan Milne, 10 minutes behind top kiwi pro Patrick Bevin, but so was anyone else in the top 5. This showed I had some excellent biking form.
Rotorua Half Ironman
I have a deal with myself to not do a perceived faster half ironman until I've done a sub 5 on a really hard course, I've got very close at Aberfeldy in the Scottish Champs and at the Rotorua Half last year. I felt I had the form to do it here at Rotorua this year. Sadly it wasn't to be.
I had roadblocks on the way, choppy swim which was admitted at 2066 to be the same as it was the previous years, a puncture 15 minutes into the bike as I was starting to cut open the field (well riding through it). Changed it quickly but probably tried to hard to chase down my losses on the puncture and messed up nutrition and pacing on the bike and had blown by 70km's.
Onto the run and as I wasn't going to beat 5 hours I mentally gave up, walked most of it and even when I could have run just walked. So that was that, a slow half.
Challenge Wanaka - full iron distance triathlon
This was an incredible event, I went back as two years ago it was hard but just incredibly organised and incredibly good to do. Refreshing not to hear all the "You will be.......... Ironman..... whoop whoop..." americanised nonsense that doesn't work for me. It was simply about having a good race on a hard course.
Build up
The build up was tainted by breaking a carbon brake lever on the way down to the race, but Racers Edge bike shop in Wanaka were straight onto it for me and did an excellent job. Another problem diagnosed was that there was water coming out from around my BB but that was just water, it'll be fine... little was I to know.
The rest of the build up was excellent, hung around town, rested, watched the contact series elites on the Friday, Martin Van Barnevald from Wellington won the sprint race, so nice to see a home town boy do well.
We also had some fun with the Compressport people who gave Maria a free pair of calf guards for wearing hers pre race... it was funny hanging out with her as she was treated like 1) a model and 2) a pro triathlete, she looks the part for both, I'm a lucky boy! And she was my top spectator for the day.
Race day - swim
There was lots of moaning about the swim, it's too cold... how can we swim in that... I think the official temperature was 13.5 and all sorts of non-webbed gloves and booties were being worn. As a note, blue seventy booties are rough to touch on the bottom as I found when drafting people.
I loved the swim, really clear, really flat calm and a lovely temperature for me to swim in. The first swim I've done in a while with 50m buoys and so navigation was a cinch.
I was out in 1:11 although word on the street is that the swim was 200m long, the pro's times did look slow, and I certainly felt that I swam fine... but anyway, all good.
Bike
Out onto the bike, no dramas in T1, 19th fastest overall there... the first 40k's of the bike go out towards the most scenic part of the course with a fantastic view of Mount Aspiring.
The bike photos are mostly from this part:
http://bit.ly/83VBoy
It was really incredible. I wasn't pushing the bike so people going past me just made me smile, I had 3 or 4 go past, and knew that I'd go back to them later on.
We turned at 17k's and then there was 70k's into the wind... which was tough, but sit in aero position and eat and drink and all will be fine. I was going fine, eating and drinking and then the noise started... I had passed quite a number of cyclists and got passed my first pro female of which I would have expected more to come.
At about 85k's my bottom bracket gave up the ghost and started making noises, more and more noises and you could actually hear a ball bearing rolling around. I was clearly losing power as people were going back passed me. We turned from the mostly into the wind leg in 2:47... I expected my return leg to be faster but it was a real struggle with a horrible grinding noise all the way and I came back in about 3 hours... very disappointing and I'm guessing the extra power output was really telling on me. (I reckon that water coming out of the BB might be a cause of this as I left some water in there from a month before at the Taupo half ironman).
Run
The run started well actually, my plan was nice and slow and get it done. And 7k's into the run I was wobbling along nicely, losing the odd place but not too many. Then my nutrition decided that it wanted to come back on me and I was sick for the first time... and then sick again about another 4k's later. It was about the time of my second spew (and it was getting hot) that I saw someone collapsed in a ditch with marshalls around and I reckoned that there was no real point in pushing myself to extinction as my time will be really average at best, let's just get through this and avoid mishap.
So it became a resolute and determined (and slow) walk... 5 hours 45 or so of walking, 12 hours 45 to finish... but I did finish in testing circumstance and learned a lot of stuff.
And so 7 weeks to Ironman New Zealand... I'm confident it will go well if I can avoid a couple of things that I've struggled with this year, we'll see, I'm real close to a great result... I know it!
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'Mon the Biff
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:00 am sailbird
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Really well done on finishing that run and not ending up in a ditch or tripping over a tree root. I totally and utterly boiled on the run and thought my brain would fry at one point running down the long Aubrey Road without any shade so have SO much respect for you running the loop twice.
I will DEFINITELY be back 
Good luck in the run up to Taupo. Allez!
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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
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:24 am Poet
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Oh, commented on this on facebook!
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:34 am Carlito
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Well done for "literally" grinding it out. Good luck for IMNZ
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2010:
27/6 - ADITL
3/7 - Corrieyarick Challenge - CC Just Giving
7-8/8 - DIUK
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:43 am mdh
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4 bedrooms! you'll need to have some kids to fill those empty rooms (he he)
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all is forgiven:
Dr Dre, Bel, Wiganer, BB, FBiL, flyingelephant
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:06 am Paul L
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| Quote: | | … maybe it's a sign that all is good in life… |
| Quote: | | … Maria and I now appear to be homeowners... |
| Quote: | | … I'm real close to a great result... I know it!... |
It all sounds great to me.  Have a great 2010! Take care, Paul. 
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:08 am Slacko
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You're sounding so much more relaxed at at ease with yourself these days mate, life must be good!
I reckon you're in for a great IMNZ!
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Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:29 am savaloy
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Any ideas what the sickness was caused by? it's sounds like that if have an issue free bike and can resolve the sickness you're in for a good return for your efforts at IMNZ
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