This was my second year in competing in this event. Having done it before, and also having some reasonable training – I was relatively relaxed in the lead up to this.† Once there, again the atmo...
2013 provided some diversity in organised and self guided events. Didn’t manage any flagship endurance events, but lots of smaller ones that provided lots of highlights. As a quick snapshot of m...
Team ride with guys from SAP (Tom Martin and Tony Thorpe) – and a couple of others who I didn’t stay with. Started off the ride right at the back of our group, managed to get some good spe...
Pete organised this initiative, of running the QLD Great Walks. This is the first of hopefully many: Garmin Details: Full Story (Words from Pete – Virtual Nomad): Overall: 58 km – Elevatio...
As part of our UK holidays, I managed to find this event which looked like a fantastic event. Even though the details were a little sketchy and the "orienteering" bit would be interesting, I...
Something completely different and something that sounded like good a good challenge was the Climb for Cancer at Waterfront Place in Brisbane. Not that I normally post these shorter events, but this i...
It's been along time between ARs and coming back to Imbil it relives some of the old races that we have done near here in the past. Also seeing some familiar friendly faces – it's a good...
I have never been a fan of Triathlons, namely due to 2 reasons – the 1st is I can’t swim and the 2nd is that the standard course and lack of surprise in the day. I can see where it suits s...
Something that I've wanted to do for a while since it was marketed in Australia, is ToughMudder. The timing of this was good, as I had been competing in a few events which required reasonable...
Another Bridge to Brisbane run. Coming out of the Kiwi Conditioning running clinic with a better formed technique, I felt this would be a good event to give it a shot. Keeping my efforts going in the ...