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So as I sit here, sweat crustifying on my face, my butt muscles tightening, devouring the most delicious steak, slaw, ciabatta roll from Viva La Vaga, sipping my CPR coffee, post ride, I thought I’d better quickly jot something down for my blog. The Forrest Grape🍇Ride 2019, one of Marlborough’s biggest and longest running bike events – now having been I don’t doubt that!
View More Lisa’s Journey, Week 44: 2019 Forrest Graperide #15
Things are getting back on track with training. This week has gone pretty well. The only session I’ve missed is the swim. Looking at the…
View More Mikes Middle Distance Magic: Busy But Productive!
It has been challenging to get all the training in this week with kids in tow. The evenings and mornings are so dark and I…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Mud Glorious Mud
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…
View More UltraHumps: Finding Qwik Kiwi Through Coach Ray
I loved reading Ali’s blog (Ali’s Adventure – The Female Athlete). It was timely, as I actually sat here thinking about chocolate and how I…
View More Lisa’s Journey, Week 43: Don’t Forget To Mix It Up A Little!
First off I’ll start this blog with how the last one was. I was pretty fed up and grumpy last week. Lack of training, lack…
View More Mike’s Middle Distance Magic: Back At It!
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure and persistence. … Sometimes, you wonder whether the training is actually working. All the…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Persistence And Dedication Pays Off
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”!
View More UltraHumps – Can Ya Do An Ironman…My Story!
I’m using my first blog’s cover image, as it seemed fitting again. It’s bitter sweet. On one hand, huge congratulations to the Kaikoura Coastal Sports…
View More Lisa’s Journey, Week 42: The Big Picture/s = (Less Writing)
What can I say about this week! Well I suppose it is hard to write a weekly blog when I haven’t completed anything!
View More Mike’s Middle Distance Magic: Not A Good Week!