Congratulations to the squad members who raced ironman Malaysia, they dominated and put team tbb well and truley on the map in their first major race of the season. Whilst the guys where away I gave my shoulder a proper post crash test and took my first win of the season at local clu tri-ballistics mountain bike triathlon
A number of athletes from the squad are racing Ironman Malaysia this weekend, you can keep up to date with their progress during the race at http://www.ironmanlive.com/ Keep an eye out for AJ, Reinaldo, Stephen Baylis and Sam Renouf in the mens race along with Rebecca Preston and Bella Comerford in the girls.
In the run up to the race I interviewed AJ for http://www.tri247.com/ check out the site for a full copy of the interview, also on tri247 is an interview with my coaching partner Julie Dibens.
Whilst the Ironmen are away I will be testing my post crash legs with a mountain bike triathlon on Laguna beach the distances are 750m 10km 5km, check back on Sunday to find out how I get on.
The last 10 days has been really hectic, I’ve been in phuket for the launch of a new team www.thebikeboutique.com It’s already Asias number one online bike store, but Alex Bok the owner has got huge plans both in terms of setting up bike shops across Asia and using sport to do something socially responsible that can improve the quality of life for under privalaged children across Asia. The teams website will be launching soon and that will explain the concept, but I’m really excited to be involved in this venture, Alex was a highly succesfull investment banker in Singapore, his plans are ambitious but incredibly well thought through and comprehensive. Read the rest of this entry »
There are two kinds of bikers, those who are going to fall off and those who have fallen off. I definatly fall into the second catagory. I took another little tumble at the end of my first weeks training in phuket, I was doing a time trial around a loop which had some speed humps on it. someone had put a hosepipe across the road so I signalled the hosepipe to the rider behind me and totally missed the speed hump. I went down like a sack of spuds.
Luckily I don’t seem to have done much damage, I went to the hostpital and paid the equivilant of seventy Read the rest of this entry »
