| Why triathlon? |
Because it was there! I got overweight from about 6 years of total inactivity. When I was a young teenager I raced road and track cycling in New Zealand. After this I played rugby competitively until 21 when injury forced me to quit. Work took over, I moved around and started some businesses over the years until I woke up about one day and realised I was fat and unfit. I got back in to cycling to lose weight then finally in 2007 someone talked me in to a triathlon. My first one was the December 2007 Balmoral triathlon. That was it. I was hooked. I did not train at all for this first race. This first one took me 62 mins. The last Balmoral one took 50 mins. I have had to learn to swim and run from scratch. Until 2008 I had never had any technique training or done track or squads.
I find it frustrating now as I am getting closer to the front end of my age group but I am not able to find that 20 years of running and swimming my competitors have on me.
In saying this for my experience I have achieved a lot in a short time from a very low base
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| Upcoming goals |
This summer I am going to have a lot of fun doing sprint triathlons. No long stuff!! I want to try to crack 1:02 at Kurnell and 27min for the Balmoral Tri Club 20km time trial this summer. I did 27:38 in Oct 2009. 10km run in under 40mins. |
| Stengths |
Cycling, running the Balmoral Tri Club website, |
| Proudest moment in sport |
Representing New Zealand. Something that I never thought I would ever do. Doing the Haka at the opening ceremony at the 2009 ITU World Champs on the Gold Coast. |
| Personal bests |
Every race is a PB for me at this stage of my career. |
| What is the key to successful training? |
Having Bruce to tell me what to do. I am committed and can train on my own without any problem. |
| What motivates you the most? |
Doing triathlons with friends and good competitors. I am not going to win money doing triathlons so that is obviosuly not a motivating factor. |
| Your words of wisdom |
I am about to launch an amazing new website for the triathlon industry in Australia. It is called TriZone and will be a place for every triathlete in Australia to go to for news, results, photos, events, research, nutrition, health, training, new products, product reviews and a lot more information related to triathlons. Go to www.trizone.com.au in December 2009. |
