The weekend before last I raced in the Wanaka Challenge here in the land of milk and honey. I will not bore you with a long-winded tale, so in brief I had a great swim (1hr), great bike (5.40), and then the wheels on this finely tuned machine fell off big time in the run and after 13km I was pulled from the course by the medics.I had been suffering from a cold all week leading up to the race and drugged myself up to a state where I felt fine. However, in reality the body was not in good shape at all. At the first two aid stations on the run I had to stop with diarrhoea and from then on I was massively dehydrated and exhausted, and could hardly walk let alone run. As my boss said to me afterwards some days you are the dog, other days you are the fire hydrant.
I will be back to race Wanaka next year and have already entered. I now expect you gentlemen to do the same (he means Mike and Dan - jog on)! There is a half ironman option too if you want to be soft J
Anyhow I wore the Bath Amphibians colours with pride though as you will see from the attached pictures the mesh panels in the back of my tri suit have left me with some rather unfortunate sunburn marks on my back! I guess sunburn is not an issue in Bath!!!!!!
go hard or go home dude, thats the way to do it big man