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  A champion team will always beat a team of champions – John McGrath   It’s been over two weeks now since we stood on the finish line of GODZone after 7days 3hrs 2min of racing in the wilderness of Fiordland. Most of the time it didn’t feel like a race, it was more an […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Training for a st Clair half, chch half and the spring challenge What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? I just want to get faster and stronger- am currently a bit of a turtle! I also want my son to see how fun it is and to […]

  Great to be sitting on the ferry in the Awatere plus lounge (free food, including lamingtons, and drink) on the way home. All good for recovery I am lead to believe. I have had a great time at IMNZ, spent with Leah, friends, supporters and all other competitors.  The atmosphere at the race and […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? Iron Man 1/2 Taupo 2018 & Challenge Wanaka 1/2 2019 (sub 5 1/2 hours) – AND eventually a full Iron Man! Under 12 hours (at least) – because that’s the battery life of my Garmin. What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve […]

Day one Everything was ready to go, I was ready to take on the Coast to Coast. It would be about giving it everything and trying to do it as fast as possible. I often feel, at the start of a race, that I should have done more training but for once I felt like […]

The training is pretty much over. With less that a week to go until Coast to Coast, the excitement is starting to build up. It has been a long time coming and I am now well into tapering. I’m just doing a few shorter sessions and focusing on getting the body ready to race and […]

The other weekend I completed the Red Bull Defiance that is set in the hills surrounding Wanaka – what a brutal course with so much climbing and in hot conditions. This is a two person team event where you need to do the entire course together supporting each other through the ups and downs. The last […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? My ultimate goal is the 1/2 Challenge Wanaka and then onto the age group worlds Sprint and Olympic Distance Triathlon worlds in September. What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? Initially it was just to complete Challenge Wanaka but this has […]

With only two months to go I am well underway with training for Coast to Coast and GODZone (in early December). In fact it they seem way closer than I would like. I want to train more but really just need to remind myself to trust my training programme. It is challenging training for both […]

What event are your training for and what is your goal? I’m training for the Mountain Run, C2C, Feb 2018. What it is your motivation for wanting to achieve this? 1. Love that feeling when you cross the finish line 2. I want to be a bit less slow than 2016 3. I feel good […]