Well another event down and only the big one left to go now. Today it was the Across The Lake Swim (4.2km). Started at 7am and it took about 1:30 (waiting for official time). Next week it's Ironman time.
I missed one event in the last update. The Huka XStream River Swim (3.3km swim) on 8 Feb 2014 in 38:58.
Well I've been really slack at updating this page. Where am I up to. Well the number of events has grown. And I've Completed the following: 1. Taupo Half Marathon (21.1km run) on 4 Aug 2013 in 2:10:41 2. Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge (160km cycle) on 30 Nov 2013 in 7:03:46 3. The Big Kid (16km alpine run, 1000 vertical metres) on 7 Dec 2013 in 3:32:02 4. Taupo Half Ironman on (1.9km swim, 90km cycle, 21.1km run) on 14 Dec 2013 in 7:01:05 5. Epic Swim (5km swim) on 11 Jan 2014 in 1:57:00 6. Kinloch Triathlon (1.5km swim, 40km cycle, 10km run) on 1 Feb 2014 in 3:39:23 On top of all this has been a lot of swimming, cycling & running training. And only 2 events to go. The Lake Taupo Across Lake Swim (4.2km swim) on 21 Feb 2014 (tomorrow morning) and the big one Ironman NZ (3.8km swim, 180km cycle, 42.2km run) on 1 Mar 2014 (only a week away).
My Facebook for this journey to raise money for the Lake Taupo Hospice. https://www.facebook.com/sbr4hospice
The first of my events was completed on 4 Aug 2013. When I finished the Taupo Half Marathon. Of all the Half Marathons I've done, this years Taupo one was my best. It wasn't my fastest, but I felt comfortable the entire run. Sticking to my usual plan of running drink stop to drink stop.
