Throughout the year I have entered a variety of events ranging from mountain biking, trail runs, road riding, a woman’s adventure race, and a women’s triathlon. These have all been a means to achieving my end-of-year goal to complete my first half ironman.
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UltraHumps: Strengths and Weaknesses
Hi Blog Followers – Well the festive season is behind us and training is full on, with Coach Ray putting me through my paces in…
View More UltraHumps: Strengths and WeaknessesUltraHumps: 3 Half Ironmans
Hi Blog Followers and a Happy New Year to you all. I hope you have had a great festive season and seen the New Year…
View More UltraHumps: 3 Half IronmansUltraHumps: IronMaori
Well I got underway with the 3+2+1=Charity at the IronMaori Half Ironman in Napier in the weekend. The enclosed photo isn’t the flashest of me, due to putting on a cheeky pose for the NZ Police, but I thought I’d put it out there for a laugh. It was taken at the start of the swim as we were waiting to be released in waves of 25. I was at the back supporting friends doing their first event. I had a swim wetsuit on, unlike the tough guy behind me.
View More UltraHumps: IronMaoriUltraHumps: Injuries Are Creeping In
Hi Blog followers Well it is less than four weeks to go and the dreaded injuries have crept in resulting in two visits to the…
View More UltraHumps: Injuries Are Creeping InUltraHumps – Attention To Detail
Hi Blog Followers – Well a big week of training this week with Coach Ray focusing on sprint training in the Pool and some long…
View More UltraHumps – Attention To DetailUltraHumps: Receiving Inspiration From Others
Hi Blog Followers and welcome, Training went relatively well this week for the majority, but not on Wednesday. I call it the Good, the Bad…
View More UltraHumps: Receiving Inspiration From OthersUltraHumps: Another month has disappeared
Hi Blog Followers Another week or rather month has ticked by as I get closer to the start of the events in December, with the three events towards…
View More UltraHumps: Another month has disappearedUltraHumps: Coach Ray’s Training Programme for Me Last Week
Hi Blog Followers Welcome to Blog # 11 as we get closer to the 6 x Challenges that make up the 1306 kms of 3…
View More UltraHumps: Coach Ray’s Training Programme for Me Last WeekUltraHumps: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Hi Blog followers and welcome to Blog # 10. For this week I have shifted my training from ‘Windy Wellington’ to ‘Quake City Christchurch’.
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