Races for 2009

MY races for 2009 are as follows with the goal being on qualification to hawaii the ironman world champs.

1)watford half marathon-jan
2)xc national champs-feb
3)milton keynes half marathon-march
4)london marathon-april
5)grendon sprint tri-may
6)weymouth half ironman-june
7)cowman half ironman-june
8)ironman switzerland-july
9)bedford oly-august
10)hawaii ironman world champs-october

ely 10km road race

This was a great race to finish the year off on new years eve,it was not planned one of my friends called me up the night before saying there was a free slot if i wanted it,so i took him up on the offer and i am glad i did ,This race is a no frills race you dont get t shirts and medals at the end you get a bottle of beer brewed locally and a very warm atmosphere great race i will be back this year for sure.Onto the race itself i didnt have any aspirations i was just going to enjoy it which i did from start to finish,the gun went off and straight from the off i new there wwas some fast guys around me and went through the first km in 3 mins and this pace just continued throuhout i felt brilliant all race really strong and finished in 4th overall and a new pb of 33 mins 43 sec.

Bison Duathlon win

First off a big thank you to boxfit for putting on such a top event,the race consisted of 6 mile run-18 mile bike-6 mile run, centered around the famous bison hill in bedfordshire, the course was very hilly and hard so it was going to be a tough day,The first run went very well for me a got into a good pace early on and managed to keep it going and came into t1 in 36 mins 27 secs for 10km, then i got on the bike and by this time the sun was coming up and it was starting to get a little warmer , i managed to settle into a bit of a groove as much as you can with bison hill its a 16% hill that goes on for about 800mts its pretty tough ,i went round the 18 mile bike course in 1 hour dead and i was quite happy with that,coming out of t2 i was being chased down, i think i had a minute lead, all i had to do was keep the second run together and i would take the victory ,which is what i done,but going up bison hill for the 5th time my legs were starting to cramp big time but i had to keep going cause i knew the athlete behind would still be pushing,i finished with 1 minute to spare and i took the win, i was very happy with the way the race went as i have not done any serious mileage on the bike since ironman france in july,it certainly blew the cobwebbs away.