Congratulations to all BYL competitors who raced the City of Perth Triathlon. Congratulations to Steve and Adele on winning their respective State Title as well. All that hard work is starting to pay dividends.
Four weeks down and a mere 12 weeks to go…
My ongoing need for some cooler weather has now set in. As Paul said in his post, it’s getting ‘hot’ and has been ‘hot’. Future temperature is ‘hot’ and there is no relief in sight from the ‘hot’ weather. I am considering a possible move [...]
The average April temperature for a Boston marathon is 50 degrees. Fahrenheit. That’s 10˚C. Seems like a world away from the 40˚C we’re about to start getting here. It’s getting hot and staying hot. As of Tuesday it won’t drop below 24˚C for the remainder of the week.
The last two weeks had been good. My [...]
Continue Reading →Week 3 in the Bouncing to Boston calendar saw quite the reverse of cool weather to which I posted last week. It would seem it’s best not to mention anything to do with the weather as inevitably you will experience the polar opposite a week later.
The legs are now getting used to what they [...]
Continue Reading →Ray asked if I’d like to write a few words about my journey to Boston, so starting today, I’m giving it a crack. I’m no ironman, so perhaps many of you out there will scoff at my ridiculously easy training schedule, but 60 miles (~100km) a week is this amateur’s limit!
A quick recap to [...]
Continue Reading →Week 2 in the Bouncing to Boston calendar saw the cooler weather come to stay, these are the weeks you are very thankful for later in the program. Week 2 had a few changes, slowly slowly the body is starting to get used to the running again. Times in the Tempo run were still off, [...]
Continue Reading →What better way to keep a goal in sight than by writing about it to keep it fresh in your mind. The program for Boston started on 26th December – Boxing Day. With a belly full of food and a short trip Christmas trip to Adelaide, this was never going to be an easy week [...]
Continue Reading →An interesting post from the rather funny cycling man, Jens Voigt about life choices. Would you travel your road again?
Courtesy of bicycling.com…
Now that Ironman is over, you may be thinking what could be next on the agenda…?
How about reliving parts of the moment (the running and swimming) in Busselton by competing in the local Bussselton Half Marathon and Busselton Jetty Swim?
Both events are over the first weekend in February, namely the 4th and 5th [...]
Continue Reading →A huge congratulations to all who competed in the Epic Event! As we took quite a few photos on the day we have placed the photos on Facebook… You can view them by clicking on the Facebook link on the right hand side of screen.
Enjoy!
The Countdown
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