The Rotorua Half Ironman is fast approaching. Looking back at my training for last year I think that I am in a much better position this year. I've definitely trained more consistently even if I have been a bit slack on the swimming. It was the same...

Yesterday's run was the first race I've done where I didn't worry about being able to finish or at least I didn't worry about keeping something in the tank to make sure I finished. It made for a harder finish because there wasn't much left for the last...

Our Team Buckeye Karapiro Half Ironman in pictures Kate the swimmer Paul, our cylists waits patiently A 38 minute swim gives Team Buckeye the ideal start Quick change over of the transponder a smile for the camera then Kate ran the 10K back...

Not really sure how this post is going to go. I've had a good week's training but it's all been overshadowed by sad news from the UK. My uncle Bill died on Friday. He was very special to me and I make no apologies for reliving and recalling some of the...

I had a much better training week this week. After the mistakes of last week it was good to almost follow the plan this week. I didn't swim as much as I wanted as I only got two sessions in but I'm sort of happy with my stroke now. The energy I'm...