Category: Ultra Humps

Follow John ‘Humps’ Humphries as he prepares for the UltraMan Australia. Each Monday he will be posting an article about how his preparation is going for his build up for the event.

UltraHumps: 3rd Consecutive Challenge – Body For Life Challenge

Hello Blog Followers and welcome to my weekly blog where I have found another challenge to test myself. You will be aware from previous blogs,…

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UltraHumps – Jacobs Ladder 7 Peaks Challenge

With being overseas for a number of months, one often finds themselves wondering what training can be done when events are generally off the cards.…

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UltraHumps: Cycle Event With Corruption Or Confusion…You Decide

Hi blog followers By now many of you would of picked up that I am overseas with work for a number of months, so Coach…

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UltraHumps: Overcoming The Bad Habits Of Demons And Winning!

My last three articles were about ‘Can Ya Do An Ironman….My Story’; ‘Finding Qwik Kiwi Through Coach Ray’; and ‘Finding Ultraman With Qwik Kiwi’s Coach…

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UltraHumps: Finding Ultraman with Qwik Kiwi’s Coach Ray

My previous two articles are a preparation for this one, with the first article indicating my journey to my first Ironman, showing ‘you’ can do…

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UltraHumps: Finding Qwik Kiwi Through Coach Ray

Hello team and welcome to my Blog. Before I get into future plans for myself with Coach Ray I have chosen to write a few blogs with a difference. Last week I wrote about “Can Ya Do An Ironman”, this week I will refer to a period where I lost focus completely and without even being a Client, Coach Ray got me to a finish line when stumbling across me at an Ironman event…

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UltraHumps – Can Ya Do An Ironman…My Story!

I discovered Ironman simply by chance which I will describe in this blog, I was intrigued, in my mid-forties, but also over weight, high blood pressure, unfit, couldn’t swim, didn’t know how to use clip in shoes on a bike let alone know where the gears were in the brakes, ate crap food, drank to much alcohol and when I look back I was on a path of self destruction. So when I turned a leaf and signed up for my first Ironman ‘then’ decided to change my ways described above, people even told me or laughed in my face that I was kidding myself and couldn’t do an Ironman… This is my story to hopefully encourage others, Ironman motto after all is “Anything Is Possible”!

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