tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4206969777387217902012-02-10T18:44:06.107-08:00its all about the swimmingit is not an easy road from earth to the starsjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-45289850550666909982012-02-06T00:51:00.000-08:002012-02-06T00:51:29.390-08:00imwa week 44 - getting my iron backtomorrow is the big day and it cannot come soon enough. i am on the edge of really freaking out if something does not change. being low in iron is not just about being able to ride up big hills or run and swim at threshold. it is about not being able to sleep even though you are exhausted. and when you do sleep you keep waking up because you have restless legs. it is about your hair jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-79718916157091458312012-01-30T22:10:00.000-08:002012-01-30T22:10:15.429-08:00city of perth race report 2012i have to admit that i am quietly content with my result at this event. it has made every tough and hard hour, day or training session over the last six weeks worth it. while i didnt really have a plan that was any different from the champion lakes race i knew that i would just have to take each part as it came, keep the pace around training level and just hope that i could hang on and cross jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-64234516638508653592012-01-23T18:40:00.000-08:002012-01-23T18:40:40.963-08:00IMWA week 47 - i am hanging in therei had a great week of training. i am still stuck doing base training but at least i am building on something. i think back to this time last year and my legs were always tired but now i am doing more and they feel great. my running is coming along and i have really worked on my technique in the pool. i want some positives out of all this. when it gets tough i keep reminding myself that it isjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-15132694056726165642012-01-15T20:18:00.000-08:002012-01-15T20:18:49.148-08:00Champion Lakes Sprint Triathlon Race Report 2012amongst all the doubt and worry this event turned out to be alot of fun. i really enjoyed myself. but i also got lucky. the conditions were the best i have ever experienced at this course. in comparison there was hardly any wind and while it was warm it wasnt super hot. i also had a decent nights sleep and woke up feeling like i had some energy. but i think the fuzzy warm feeling was mainly jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-48222344320149625212012-01-12T18:25:00.000-08:002012-01-12T18:25:14.889-08:00IMWA week 48 - and then comes acceptanceokay so we all know that i am due to get my iron back on february 7. i have the ampoule's here with me. i am counting down the days which are 25 and a wakey. it is going to be a long 3 weeks or so but today i feel like i am getting better at dealing with it. i do get really mad sometimes and i know it is the frustration and lack of energy. i think if something did not go my way i could get jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-50735113013650060662012-01-08T21:12:00.000-08:002012-01-10T00:11:04.998-08:00IMWA Week 49 - action requirednot much to report. i am trying very hard to maintain my training but i am so fucking tired. tired of everything. tired of having the problem and tired of trying to fix the problem. my iron dropt from 78 to 18 (over six months). the normal range is 20-200. so i have depleted iron stores. and because my haemoglobin is also low i have iron deficiency anemia. do not trust doctors and make jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-38407530258769295962011-12-31T01:57:00.000-08:002011-12-31T01:57:48.136-08:00IMWA Week 50 - Alis Volat Propriisshe flies with her own wings. that is going to be my motto for 2012. tomorrow i am heading out early on a long ride to the beach. i am planning on enjoying it as much as i did last week and this will bring my weekly training hours past 11 for the week. i had a bad day on wednesday and just slept. i am trying to figure why some days are so much worse than others.
anyway i have had plenty jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-19482245960137946852011-12-23T16:15:00.000-08:002011-12-23T16:15:33.067-08:00IMWA week 51 - no one said it was going to be easyon the health front it is not the best news. i do have low iron which has caused problems with my haemoglobin. it is too low and trying madly to recover. lots of immature blood cells apparently. both are not low enough to warrant an iron infusion or blood transfusion. while i should be happy about that i am not because i will have to let my body do its thing and that will take time. so i amjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-71031499127046019472011-12-19T04:26:00.000-08:002011-12-19T05:38:28.945-08:00i swim like a crabnow you all know that i love swimming. loving something is not going to guarantee that you are going to be good at it. swimming gets a bad wrap from triathletes and i cannot understand the endless whingeing because one of the reasons i love swimming is that it is not easy. isnt this what triathletes are attracted to ? it is hard and so you really have to work at it. especially if you are notjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-8974043334600612792011-12-15T22:11:00.000-08:002011-12-15T22:23:01.074-08:00IMWA Week 52 - bite me non-believersso the countdown begins. i have gotten over the enormity of this decision. which is easy to do when the actual event is a year away.
in recent weeks i have tossed around the idea of getting some level of coaching. as usual if i am going to do this i want to do it right and give it my best shot. but as i suspected the ones who are interested just want your money and the ones you want dont wantjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-52240666909888999662011-12-14T19:15:00.000-08:002011-12-14T19:15:31.068-08:00the girl has no ironthings are not good in jenez world. the week following my long ride on the new crisis bike i became extremely tired. i took a few days off hoping that this would solve the problem. last thursday i went for a run but i couldnt make it around the block. i was short of breath and just felt like crap. the next few days i would plan to do something but then i would just bail on it. saturday i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-86009151780102636822011-12-08T22:49:00.000-08:002011-12-08T22:49:28.235-08:00i have gone and done it nowi know in the past i have talked about the various things i would like to do or the events i would like to enter. and i am well aware that i dont always stick to the plan. next year i was hoping to finish another 70.3 at busselton and then visit my sister in the states followed by another 70.3 at port macquarie in november. this would then be followed by the 140.6 challenge cairns in july 2013jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-49286971522173479722011-12-05T00:31:00.000-08:002011-12-05T00:31:27.869-08:00a crisis bike and a rotto swimi feel like crap today and have done for the last week or so. train one day feel like shit the next. i am over it. i did not think i would make it to work today but here i am. went and had my echo cardiogram last week and will find out the results tomorrow. they did say at the time that everything looked normal.
i have my new bike. now you would think that this would be a time of much jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-36913704029717929992011-11-20T00:08:00.000-08:002011-11-23T00:14:27.235-08:00bunberri classic od race report 2011this was a great day out and i had an awesome time. i was a little worried with my training and recovery / repair time and i did not feel like i was fresh and full of beans. i felt under done and under prepared. this was going to be my second race at the olympic distance. i was very concerned about the swim and everyone was having a great fun telling me shark stories. my plan was to swim jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-75143828306572153492011-11-16T19:53:00.000-08:002011-11-16T22:20:15.322-08:00being happy when you dont have it allwhile i try to keep this blog about triathlon and any associated/related events i believe that triathlon is a lifestyle and not a hobby so life will overlap. i promise that this particular post is triathlon related but there are some steps to be taken to get to the point.
a few things lately have combined to make me start thinking over some serious topics. to name a few - my parents are jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-81961857086714249322011-11-10T23:38:00.000-08:002011-11-13T04:08:35.573-08:00which is the best photo ?i usually do not like photos of myself. most of the time i just dont look the same in photos as i do in person. triathlon and event photos can be pot luck. mountain bike photos are difficult and most of the time they set themselves up at a difficult spot and i really dont want a picture of myself pushing the bike. however i think these photos are excellent and not just because i happen to jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-28318106439814380592011-11-02T20:19:00.000-07:002011-11-02T20:19:46.770-07:00cape to cape mtb western australia 2011i survived, i conquered and i loved every painful minute. and this report is a bit overdue ! it was four days of amazing trails, beautiful scenery and great people. the margaret river region is in lonely planets top ten regions and i was reminded why. my parents had a house on molloy island and we spent most of our holidays down there. i had forgotten how lucky we were - didnt realise it at jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-13515392497582314182011-10-18T19:40:00.000-07:002011-10-18T19:40:17.460-07:00i am in !
yah !!!! i am going back to busselton for 2012 ironman 70.3 !!!!! i worked myself into a nervous wreck waiting to sign up for this but i am IN !!! this is going to be interesting - my race schedule for the year (2011/2012) is now final. i am only going to do the triseries events and the longer course events at bunbury and karri valley - two courses i am yet to do so that will be fun. i am jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-63138014565610391432011-10-17T03:15:00.000-07:002011-10-17T03:15:11.819-07:00cape to cape western australia is just days awayonly three two days until the adventure begins. i dont know how i feel - excited for sure and looking forward to getting away from the city and work. my legs are not great and i have really backed off the workouts. i am hoping they come back to me real soon. i am not worried about any stage of the event - but i am worried about having four stages back to back. for the elites this will total jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-82950889610495739722011-10-12T17:35:00.000-07:002011-10-12T17:35:21.587-07:00the realities of open water swimminghttp://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/man-64-missing-off-cottesloe-beach-20111010-1lgxp.html
i swim at this beach for training as well as open water swim races and triathlon. my saturday swim group from swim smooth was down there the last two saturdays. i didnt go because i believe it is still too early in the migration of the whales and the sharks that follow them along the coast. wearing jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-74092008741824637462011-10-11T04:53:00.000-07:002011-10-11T04:56:13.298-07:00growing a pair ...i have always wanted this blog to have a positive vibe and to never be a place to bitch and moan. but for the last few months and maybe more my life has not been going to plan and while i have alluded to issues i have never come right out and talked about it. well this is my blog and i am going to start telling it like it is. time to get something outta my head and off my chest.
first up i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-67753428025247933422011-10-09T19:14:00.000-07:002011-10-09T19:14:42.606-07:00champion lakes duathlon race report 2011this race was kinda disappointing. the folks just didnt turn up. i dont know if there was alot of other events on or what but the numbers were small. it is well run and the course - while flat is still challenging with the wind and heat. my age group 45-49 is usually one of the most competitive and this is the state championships for long course duathlon. so why did only four girls sign up injenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-26922521714168915052011-09-26T01:41:00.000-07:002011-09-26T01:41:40.178-07:00i am a weeddriving to work the other day and while waiting at a set of traffic lights i found myself gazing at a bunch of weeds. i dont know why but it occurred to me that i am a weed. not just any weed but a weed like this one. it had the most amazing flowers. which is great but it is still a weed.
it is magpie season. this brings back memories of trying to swat them away with my hockey stick walkingjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-5290454098318591862011-09-19T22:47:00.000-07:002011-09-20T22:25:01.002-07:00Dwellingup 40k MTB Race Report 2011last year this was my first ever official mountain bike event. i was over the moon to complete the course and at that point in time the most challenging event i had taken on. this year they did make changes to the course - due to rain damage and to make improvements (although i thought the course was terrific anyway). they put in more single track which is not my strength and not good for me.jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-59976481209634336702011-09-12T01:01:00.000-07:002011-09-12T01:01:19.890-07:00the glades cyclosportif byford 80k ridethis ride is organised by http://www.bwa.org.au/ and is part of a five series of events. i did the first event at waroona and really enjoyed it. as mentioned before it is not a race but a team event that encourages people to participate at whatever level and have a great day out. no pressure right !
i was again with the individual team (for the people who have no friends) and two of the guysjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-73559306086130403872011-09-10T05:35:00.000-07:002011-09-10T05:40:12.840-07:00city to surf 12k race report 2011this is the biggest running event for perth and the third time for me. 42,000 people converge on the city to either do the full marathon, half marathon or the traditional 12k. i was meant to do the half this year but my running was all over the place and i couldnt consistently follow the training programme. so i switched to the 12k and thought i would just go out and enjoy it. and take my jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-9625754233370108612011-08-23T00:00:00.000-07:002011-08-26T17:06:46.713-07:00jeni from the blog update1. a triathletes best food buddy is the banana. two medium sized bananas cost me $8.41 or $13.98 per kg. that is close to $9 USD. we are still waiting for the crops to recover after the queensland floods and cyclones. even our local crop in carnarvon got flooded out. i am on rations of 3 per week.
2. thanks evans for cadel. how GOOD was this. i stayed up and watched the last three days andjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-41274234763947475722011-08-04T05:34:00.000-07:002011-08-08T01:40:28.345-07:00my running nemesisthanks to a comment and a great link which then became a helpful suggestion from mike at http://www.ironmike08.blogspot.com/ i went and had my running technique evaluated. if you have read the problem with feet you will have some of the background. the good news is that while my calves still tighten up when i run past 10k the issue at the back of my left knee has disappeared. my feet have jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-81261926720458556542011-07-25T01:26:00.000-07:002011-07-25T01:26:57.583-07:00kalamunda 50km/50% single track race reportdamn this was friggin hard. at certain stages i was debating whether it was harder than a half ironman and i am still not sure. if you train for it then i guess it will always seem 'easier'. this event really highlighted my inexperience at single track. it was 25k of single track and the other 25k offered no respite either. my three mtb rides this year were nowhere near enough training for jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-71423074544868871782011-07-21T01:11:00.000-07:002011-07-21T01:11:22.119-07:00amongst other things i am changing my name to emmaif you follow the itu world championship triathlon series you will know that the aussie girls had an oi oi oi moment in hamburg and came in 1 , 2 and 3. and they are all called emma. how bizarre. i wonder what the chances are. i have to also mention that brad kahlefeldt came in first for the guys so the aussies are blitzing it.
at the moment one of the guys from the channel dare group that jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-64152557790542032962011-07-11T05:17:00.000-07:002011-07-11T05:17:25.062-07:00a single track daythe weather fucking sucks. yes we are back to me complaining about winter. my phone tells me it is 11.5 degrees but that it feels like 8.9. who does that for weatherzone ? do they have someone who they send outside to see what they think it feels like ? anyway it is fucking cold and wet. i have to mention that this is not early in the morning or late in the evening but in the middle of thejenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-11873682126483544752011-07-03T22:17:00.000-07:002011-07-03T22:17:16.149-07:00cape to cape madnessi have really done it now and i am SO excited. i have signed up for cape to cape western australia. it is a four day mountain bike race through the south west from cape leeuwin to cape naturaliste. this is the website - http://www.capetocapemtb.com/. it is going to be fucking AWESOME. it is in late october so i have time to train and plan. i also have the kalamunda 50/50 and dwellingup jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-42655688185177190642011-06-28T22:17:00.000-07:002011-06-28T22:17:19.724-07:00and life goes oni have been a quiet blogger. things have settled down since busselton and i seem to have found my winter routine.
i have my swimming mojo back and i am loving it. in the past i swam tuesday, thursday and saturday. now i have changed it to monday, wednesday and saturday. the two week day swims are at belmont pool which i have started to like. even though it is a heated indoor 50m pool it is notjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-17329269237570855732011-06-13T22:29:00.000-07:002011-06-14T04:28:28.221-07:00the problem with feetas you know during my half ironman training i had quite a few problems with my feet. i can say the effort and stress to make sure i could keep training was just as hard as the actual training. constant ice, tennis ball massage, physio visits and pain was an experience. i wasted money when i was referred to a really bad podiatrist. tip - find out if the podiatrist has experience or knowledge jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2Perth WA, Australia-31.9522222 115.85888890000001-32.5864622 115.3763114 -31.317982200000003 116.34146640000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-44289147026200319112011-06-06T01:32:00.000-07:002011-06-07T14:32:34.254-07:00hbf run for a reason 14k race report 2011this is well overdue but i am suffering from post half ironman blues and a lack of enthusiasm. blah. anyway i signed up for this because i did it last year (that is not a good enough reason by the way) and i thought that even though i had no idea how i would pull up after the half i could either not show - the event is all about raising money for charity so no loss there or i could just turn upjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-83039243227030689922011-05-28T21:41:00.000-07:002011-05-28T21:41:35.786-07:00the race is done - now what ?it has been close to three weeks since busselton and much has happened. busselton was the last event of the triathlon season and i have been out of sorts since. getting back into training has been up and down. last week i ran the hbf run for a reason 14k funrun (report to come) and that was just hard work. then i have struggled with the flu this week and felt guilty about everything i am not jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-13464150036281677382011-05-19T06:32:00.000-07:002011-05-19T20:46:59.786-07:00busselton ironman 70.3 race report part two V2
the race
i cannot believe i slept so well. i woke around 4 but managed to have another little nap before getting up at 4.45 a.m. and working through my stretching moves. i could still feel the ache in my butt but everything else felt good. i did try to eat but could only force down two bananas and one pancake. this was not enough. my gear was all organised so with ac/dc blasting from the jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-65143988661854452862011-05-15T03:36:00.000-07:002011-05-15T03:36:54.442-07:00bad bloggerblogger has been bad. i spent hours putting together part two of my race report - with pics and all. and blogger has gone and lost it. they had issues and the post has reverted back to a two paragraph draft. not happy jan. i am hoping they will restore it and they are working on it. so we shall see. stay tuned.jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-55716623145889868312011-05-10T04:32:00.000-07:002011-06-13T22:53:56.241-07:00busselton ironman 70.3 race report - part oneso you know i finished and you know the time and i am pretty friggin happy. when i headed off for this event i was satisifed that i had put everything i had into the training and now i can also say the same for the race. hindsight is a wonderful thing but i have no regrets at all and that feels awesome. it all came together.
race week
had my final massage monday night and mel got a little jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-69723431679839257952011-05-08T02:22:00.000-07:002011-05-08T02:22:03.553-07:005.59.46 - thats right. i did it under six hours.race report to follow. gotta rest.jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-90067106053656678532011-04-28T00:57:00.000-07:002011-04-29T00:40:41.793-07:00well hello legs - where have you been ?it is taper time and something strange has happened. it seems that i have legs and they are back. i can swim. easter was a great time as i nailed all my workouts but also slept and rested - alot. i could feel my legs recovering just like they do after you have done something new or completed a big race. i was happy. and relieved. my swimming had me stressed with dreams of me clinging to jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-18169793802228132011-04-25T04:06:00.000-07:002011-04-25T04:07:13.871-07:00lest we forget - anzac dayDulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behindjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-17182165157370834742011-04-20T22:03:00.000-07:002011-04-20T22:03:24.353-07:00for the love of triathlonfor the last few weeks i have been quite conflicted about triathlon and what i want from it or what my expectations are. this was because something did happen that i wasnt happy about and for awhile i felt kinda betrayed and let down. but how can i be betrayed if the situation wasnt clearly defined or each person had different goals or expectations from the beginning anyway ? and so while i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-10358271137710968002011-04-17T19:23:00.000-07:002011-04-17T19:26:26.138-07:00camp jeni training lockdown - the final weeksthis post is a record of the last few weeks of training leading up to taper time - it is the final three weeks until busselton and if you havent done the training then you havent done the training and nothing is going to change that. i have no idea how i am going to go. all i know is that i have given myself a really good shot at being able to have fun with it and maybe get a result that will jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-74998960309688526392011-04-10T21:01:00.000-07:002011-04-10T21:01:42.998-07:00Hillarys 2# TriSeries Sprint Triahtlon Race Reportthis was the last event in the five race series and somehow i have managed to finish them all. this wasnt the hardest but i wouldnt say it was easy either. my result sucked and i was really disappointed. could i have tried any harder - probably not. in the few days prior i had put in some hard work and friday was a 18.5k run in the morning and 3k swim after work. saturday i rode 90k in the jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-8527144323666784352011-04-07T19:54:00.000-07:002011-04-07T19:54:54.133-07:00terror in the nightlast night was a twilight night of terror. i was in bed early and fast asleep at midnight. i know i was dreaming about running and it was on my mind as i had to get up at 4.45 am to get in my long run. it was nothing specific but i remember i started coming awake as i heard people outside and the sound of running feet. in my sleep haze i thought it was people trying to get me out of bed and jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-14024076481787184502011-04-03T21:13:00.000-07:002011-04-04T01:36:13.058-07:00waroona cyclosportif 80k ridein a bid to keep training fresh i decided to sign myself up for this ride thinking that not only would it be a good training exercise (it has hills) but i would have fun, get out of my comfort zone and enjoy the day. bicycling western australia put on these events which are team rides and although they are timed they are not races. you can sign up as an individual and they assign you to a team jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-68146717078872124092011-03-27T21:19:00.000-07:002011-03-31T01:14:13.486-07:00the long run - a book reportcamp jeni is now in training lock down and there will be no further updates on busselton 70.3 until THE day. but i did promise a report on the books i purchased from http://www.betterworldbooks.com/. firstly they arrived within 10 days and i cannot tell which are the used books. excellent service, price and products.
i first heard of matt long when i was slothing on the sofa one saturday jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-43318860201285379152011-03-22T22:24:00.000-07:002011-03-23T18:59:03.860-07:00to be my fathers daughteri was talking to my dad the other day about race tactics and race goals. i said that if i was near the finish and a close friend or training partner were only 10 to 20 metres behind me that i would wait so we could cross the finish line together. i wouldn’t do this in a sprint or olympic distance but a HIM or IM i would. dad said no way – he would be across the finish (alone) as fast as his legs jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-46755705809235260512011-03-17T19:22:00.000-07:002011-03-17T21:12:59.099-07:00i am not willing to ....this is my new way of motivating myself. instead of thinking 'i dont want to' i have changed it to 'i am not willing to'. it is much harder to stay in bed when you say i am not willing to ride my bike rather than i dont want to ride my bike. when it comes down to it you do want to ride your bike - just not right then.
i am currently feeling less stress as far as the evil job goes and i thinkjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-54230693106156134822011-03-13T18:53:00.000-07:002011-03-13T18:56:59.302-07:00HIM Training Week 9i did not compete in the 2xu womens event on sunday and it was a great decision. my first DNS. instead i had a comfortable 70k ride in perfect conditions followed by an easy 5k brick. on monday i was meant to do absolutley nothing - being a public holiday and all. instead i got carried away with cleaning the house and yard (hate being responsible) and really messed up a great opportunity to jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-43397172381035838162011-03-02T18:50:00.000-08:002011-03-02T18:59:27.808-08:00mother nature has (another) hissy fitit has been hot all month. we have had 26 consecutive days above 30 degrees with the average for february at 34 degrees. we have had 16 nights in a row above 20 degrees with an average of 22.7. running has been the hardest – whether it is 6am or 8pm. on monday i decided the girls could stay inside as it was going to get to 38 and the house would be at least 10 degrees cooler inside. i set the airjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-91907885145503540592011-02-21T23:19:00.000-08:002011-02-22T00:47:20.673-08:00when real life interruptsi am a positive person. sometimes being on your own it can be hard to remain positive as the only voice telling you that it will be okay is your own. in this situation it can also be difficult to keep things in perspective - some things are just not that fucking important. sometimes we forget we only get one shot at this life and there is no do over.
my mum has a disease. we only found out jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-53951240937998862582011-02-20T21:47:00.000-08:002011-02-20T21:47:38.467-08:00Hillarys #1 TriSeries Sprint Triathlon Race Report and Other Stuffhillarys, hillarys and hillarys. that is how many times i will complete this course this year and they will all be one after another. hillarys was the first triathlon i ever did. i have now completed the same distance four times at this course. i also did an enticer distance that first year. it is the only course that has not changed so aside from wind conditions i can compare results.
so jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-51838190734566121872011-02-13T22:06:00.000-08:002011-02-13T23:50:46.795-08:00eat, sleep, trainthis is my life. everyday sleep, eat, train, work, train, eat, sleep. repeat. i feel like i never stop. i am constantly washing lycra. the week is okay as long as i dont plan to do anything else. i want to be in bed by 9 but 9.30 is a struggle. organising meals is a challenge. i am so sick of eating the same things. i have stopped drinking wine.
i met with a guy who looked at my bike jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-18726742779643564202011-02-12T18:05:00.000-08:002011-02-13T22:05:41.578-08:00Cottesloe Ocean Triathlon Race Report 2011this was one of my favourite events last year but this year i did not have fun. the only positive i got out of it was a pretty good 6k run on tired legs and we were all done by 8.30am. there were alot more people and the organised chaos was annoying. no security which surprised me after the bike theft at the power station. the volunteers are always great but just not enough of them and i am jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-19043239954300067622011-02-05T23:46:00.000-08:002011-02-05T23:46:53.568-08:00Cottesloe to Swanbourne Ocean Classic 2.2ki love these events and i love swimming at cottesloe. i like that they are just about having fun, getting out there and participating. i never want to go to any of these open water swims and feel like i have to race. because then i will stop going. i like that i am supporting the local surf clubs. what i dont like is the bloody stingers and they were out in force yesterday. i could see jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-57185969614358597942011-01-30T22:26:00.000-08:002011-01-31T22:09:59.716-08:00losing the cherry - a race reportlast year i was meant to complete my first olympic distance triathlon at point walter. however this became a run-bike-run when hail and rain did not allow any swimming in the river. sadly i have also learnt (thanks to garmin) that the final run was only about 9k and explains why my time was better than expected. i had raced at the city of perth (langley park) venue before but for me a great jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-30724798531528838282011-01-24T00:48:00.000-08:002011-01-24T03:18:16.444-08:00something other than a race reporti have changed pools again. i am such a creature of habit. you would think that keeping your training locations fresh would help with the motivation but not me. i want my pool back. i swam at my old pool saturday and it was the best swim i have had in a month.
my new job sucks. i dont even want to talk about it.
i installed an inverter/split airconditioner at home. i could have bought a newjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-3085199377663569042011-01-16T02:15:00.000-08:002011-01-16T15:04:23.763-08:00Champion Lakes Triseries Sprint Triathlon Race Reporti wasnt going to do this event as we all know how much i dislike swimming in the brown murky waters but i thought it would be a good brick session and maybe i would have some fun. i also think i need to get over my little phobia. i stuck with my normal training and expected to be a little tired.
the swim was okay and better than i expected. i do think i used my dislike of the water as an jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-68026079485332946572011-01-10T04:44:00.000-08:002011-01-10T04:44:39.840-08:00half iron training progressi started 'my' half iron program three weeks ago. it is tough to start the week of christmas and i missed one session of each discipline. the next week i was spreading all that mulch and in hot weather and missed one bike and a run. then last week i started a new job and my ear was still playing up so i missed two swims. it feels like forever since i swam in a pool but it has only been 13 jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-40264135407217314392011-01-09T05:11:00.000-08:002011-01-09T05:11:22.767-08:00Cottelsoe Classic Mile OWS Race Reportnow this is what i am talking about. i swam this event in 31.17 which is a 100m pace of 1.56. last sunday i swam the leighton swim at 2.14 pace. i dont think i even swim a cool down that slow. so i am feeling pretty good about things. not only was it a good swim but i now understand more about what i am doing wrong.
i didnt want to get out of bed and my ear is still playing up. but i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-9689073651099107022011-01-05T05:05:00.000-08:002011-01-05T05:05:09.988-08:00Open Water Swim Series Leightons 2.5k Race Reporti have my swimming mojo back. it is not a fast mojo but it is a mojo. i woke sunday morning with a terrible ear ache. i had felt it saturday making it difficult to chew on the left side. straight away i thought bummer i cant swim. but was it really that bad or just a cop out ? i also really hated the thought of paying $35 and not starting. weird intense fear of open water versus the loss jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-59591270274909284252010-12-31T22:07:00.000-08:002010-12-31T22:07:47.764-08:00the small section of my braini dont know exactly why but life seems really strange at the moment. they granted me my most hopeful wish and let me go a week early from my job. so i got an extra weeks paid holiday. as you can imagine i immediately had visions of all the training i could get completed as well as catching up on a years worth of neglected chores around the house. what i have learnt is that it is hard to jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-17223695430068096922010-12-27T00:47:00.000-08:002010-12-27T00:47:48.889-08:00a sizzling hot christmas
merry christmas to all ! it has been a christmas of extremes. snowed in airports, flooded towns and just plain hot. i cannot complain because we got the best of the bunch - just hot. today it is 40. i am now truly living in my speedos. so christmas day went like this. got up super early and went for a 75k bike ride. it was beautiful and quiet. took the girls to the beach. this was jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-10092132377828763682010-12-19T22:15:00.000-08:002011-01-29T22:24:47.572-08:00Rockingham Triseries Sprint Triathlon Race Reportpart of what i love about triathlon is that you learn something new everytime you pull on the lycra and no two races are ever the same - even if it is the same course. in a nutshell i had a shocking swim, a decent bike in windy conditions and i think i ran as hard as i could. compared to last year i set a new pb by just over 5 minutes. 1.22.26. i am officially a MOP triathlete.
i warmed upjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-80246308667740239392010-12-15T19:38:00.000-08:002010-12-17T02:29:35.145-08:00shut up and swimas you all know i have recently taken to swimming in a different pool - a 50m outdoor pool where i have to share a lane with the general public. as far as pools go it is a nice pool. i have a thing about trying out different pools. this christmas break i am going to do a double swim. in the morning i will go to one pool and swim 4k and in the afternoon i will go to another pool and swim 4k. jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-82588827634869468212010-12-12T00:06:00.000-08:002010-12-12T19:33:19.351-08:00third time luckyi got the new job. how lucky have i been. some people cannot get one job and this is my third job change in one year. in some ways i have not been lucky and this is my last shot. i cannot afford to change jobs again as it will truly fuck up my resume. one job i do not even mention as it was such a short stay. i dont feel excited - just relieved. i am here until christmas eve. i was jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-78147808761381089882010-12-06T18:33:00.000-08:002010-12-06T18:33:49.067-08:00the banana table at ironman western australiawhat a great year for aussie ironman. first we claim the double header at kona and today the two winners at ironman western australia - courtney ogden and kate bevilaqua - are both from western australia. home grown winners.
i drove down to my folks place late saturday afternoon. they live in bunbury which is 30 minutes from busselton. last year i was in transition so this year i decided jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-50776974087025606822010-11-28T18:46:00.000-08:002010-11-28T18:46:02.906-08:00a week in the lifeit is monday and i am back to work polishing a turd. before strange images flash through your mind i am not talking about an actual turd. in my loser job where i spend more time trying to look busy than actually being busy (i know some people would like this type of job however i am bored shitless (more excreta references)) the enthusiastic consultants like to tick off boxes however they are jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-76320220780480131102010-11-23T16:44:00.000-08:002010-11-23T18:05:45.736-08:00the great (bloody) bike ridelemon myrtle is what i will remember from this ride. it was all you could smell. i love this event - it was fun, it hurt a bit and while not a race you do compete against yourself and i improved on last year. it is a brilliant ride around the river with great views, decent hills, a wonderful atmosphere and closed or controlled traffic. last year i only had my new bike for a few months priorjenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-64489660741616766082010-11-22T18:41:00.000-08:002010-11-22T21:55:29.033-08:00i have done it !
it is official. i am registered/entered for the busselton half-ironman - may 7 2011. i am extremely excited. this is a massive step for me and the reality of the committment and task ahead probably has not yet sunk in. this will change once the real training begins ! i cant think about anything else. whoo hoo. jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-70172452044459931692010-11-16T17:26:00.000-08:002010-11-16T19:00:04.629-08:00i wonderi wonder what it would be like to score the dream job. to get the role that everyone wants. i worked for a company for five years and thought it was important. it is complicated but i know my self belief is out there somewhere.
i wonder what it would be like to compete in triathlon and be 20 years younger. i also wonder what it would be like if i had never smoked. you cant go back and i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-10783268166440831082010-11-13T18:47:00.000-08:002010-11-15T16:36:55.802-08:00Power Station Super Sprint Race Report
Abandoned Power Station
my first triathlon for the year and fourth time i have completed this course. the super sprint is a 1000m swim, 30k bike and 6k run (however my good friend garmin clearly shows the run as 6.42k). my last run was intervals on monday, swims on tuesday and thursday and no bike. so a much lighter five days training, no alcohol and a couple of good nights rest. i am jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-47177175517237641472010-11-08T20:45:00.000-08:002010-11-08T20:45:00.454-08:00chunky monkeyyou may have noticed that i have changed the template for my little blog. i also uploaded pics from past races and included them in the race results page. this was a brave move for me. if you have a look you will notice that at the start i am very chunky. i am currently almost 8kg lighter than when i started this journey.
weight has only been an issue for me twice in my life. when i first jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-82080413989733763812010-11-02T18:42:00.000-07:002010-11-03T00:55:04.707-07:00grab the budgie smugglers - summer is here !i friggin love summer. the cold is so de-motivating. i think i have mentioned my dislike for winter before and it will probably not be the last time. today it is going to be a glorious 36 !! i wanted to find a hot pic of some dude who should be wearing budgie smugglers but i am at work and cannot be seen to be searching for speedo porn.
my training has been going okay. i am tired and i havejenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-60822438420586286532010-10-31T04:42:00.000-07:002010-10-31T04:42:37.808-07:00a dead snake, farewell to the mtb, cairns 2014 and butt biting sharks.okay so it is wildlife season here. aside from the dive bombing magpies other creatures are about. i hate snakes. really hate them. i know that they are not trying to hunt me down and they are just trying to defend themselves but i cannot go past thinking that the only good snake is a dead one. and i rode over one on friday. lucky i was clipped into my bike because otherwise i would not jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-62666793558806400952010-10-24T21:06:00.000-07:002010-10-24T21:59:04.112-07:00jedi report 24/10/10back to the jedi report and the week in review.
i have noticed that when i have a super busy training week then the following week i crash and burn. the previous week i broke the 10 hour barrier. on the weekend alone i managed to swim (3.8k), bike (30k) and run intervals (5.5k) on saturday and sunday i did my 45k loop TWICE. so i kept this in mind all last week and i was tired. i rested jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-31503424958840949322010-10-18T22:03:00.000-07:002010-10-18T22:10:19.054-07:0050 facts about me1. I have never drunk coffee. I don’t like anything that is coffee flavoured.
2. I was born in Perth – Scotland. My parents were on a very long working holiday.
3. I love diet coke.
4. The last time I got really drunk was at the John Mellencamp concert November 2008. He only played about five hits and the rest was from his very depressing album life, love, death and freedom. What else was therejenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-70153262134140235792010-10-17T18:29:00.000-07:002010-10-18T04:04:34.579-07:00aussie aussie aussie oi oi oi !We Aussies are slightly sports mad. We love to win. We always think we are the underdog. We have such a big country but so few people in comparison to other countries. So per head of population we are the underdog and that makes winning even more special. I haven’t looked at the stats but I think we have fewer people involved and competing in the sport of triathlon than many other countries. But jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-66593101317339824922010-10-13T05:01:00.000-07:002010-10-13T05:15:24.657-07:00Race Schedule for 2010/2011i have posted my race schedule for this season. the advantage i have in planning this years races is that i did pretty much all of them last year. the biggest disappointment is that - in some cases - two events are on the same day. and quite a few open water swims are on at the same time as triathlon events. then i was really looking forward to doing the three olympic distance events and 'jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-45646881683228489432010-10-10T03:18:00.000-07:002010-10-10T03:24:08.360-07:00Champion Lakes Duathlon Race (and Medal) Reportthis was not a race i planned on doing. as we all know running is not my strong leg. rather than having the slight advantage with swimming - and this is only slight but gets me on the bike sooner and then it is catch me if you can on the run. and as my running improves this is going to get harder for the slow swimmers but good runners. i am only talking m.o.p. but i digress. so starting jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-91877764225541465192010-10-05T23:31:00.000-07:002010-10-05T23:33:06.258-07:00back on the road
training has been pretty good this week. it did help being a public holiday on monday. thursday was a short swim due to the super swim they had on for the squads and i forgot about. i had to swim in lane 6 and i will not even bother next time. wednesday was meant to be a long run but i was tired. saturday was a good day. i was hoping for an interval run session but settled for a pretty jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-41708474067804082562010-09-30T05:29:00.000-07:002010-10-05T17:39:27.427-07:00the good thingsi always look at the positive. the glass is always half full. i believe that all the curve balls are there to make you stronger and a better person.
this week i started my new role within the company that i work for. i was transferred to head office and this is a good thing. the drive has turned out to be okay although it will make training a bit more of a challenge. i have learnt many jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-30842821258671991172010-09-19T06:03:00.000-07:002011-09-18T17:36:25.334-07:00Dwellingup MTB La Grande 40k 2010 Race Reporti survived. the mtb survived. and i have my finishers medal. it was a HUGE amount of fun but not just slightly painful. it was very painful. but in that good way. it is the hardest thing i have done to date. and i truly loved every moment. am i converting to mtb racing ? no - but i will be back next year.
i read quite a few race reports and alot of people go into the what i ate and when i jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-37645945906552291092010-09-14T00:16:00.000-07:002010-09-14T00:16:30.391-07:00the pity party is oversometimes life is just crap and even though i was starting to feel like a victim i refuse to let that happen. basically they can all go and get fucked. i am a good person and i will not let people feel better about themselves by making me feel like crapola. end of fucking story. that is unless i end up jobless and therefore homeless followed by having to sell my stock of lycra, goggles and jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-70013367417782896832010-09-09T01:04:00.000-07:002010-09-09T01:04:16.395-07:00don't do sicklast week was just bad and to be honest it has only gone downhill from there. some bastard gave me some crappy bug and i just dont handle being sick. i dont have time for it. since the city to surf there has been no running and there has been no swimming. i did not go to work on friday but slept and watched some daytime tv. i think i could get a job as a writer for the bold and the jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-77319418158235986192010-09-01T06:16:00.000-07:002010-09-01T06:16:46.759-07:00a weird weeki dont know why but this week has been weird and in a fucked up kinda way. and it should not have been. i had a great run on sunday. i had a PB by 12 minutes. and i do feel a great deal of satisfaction and a bit more belief in myself.
i have felt like crap since i woke monday. i slept quite a bit before the city to surf. more than i have for quite awhile. and it was the nana naps wherejenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-78733022106552517162010-08-29T03:16:00.000-07:002010-09-06T01:02:02.597-07:00City to Surf 2010 Reportlast year when i completed this event i had never run 12k. i had run a bit around perry lakes due to the triathlon training course at challenge stadium so i knew some of the hills. i remember being very worried about running the distance. i did get some great advice about the course from friends. i walked only through the aid stations and heartbreak hill got me and i walked the last top jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-58836357505574524122010-08-24T01:02:00.000-07:002010-08-29T20:01:02.138-07:00a nervous ninny with a gammy legi have become fixated on my garmin calendar. it is telling me things. some i knew and others i suspected.
1. i am not doing as many hours as i think i am. but i never seem to have any free time so i am going to start tracking all my time and see where i am going wrong. 2. lack of pink squares means not enough time on the bike. winter doesnt help but training for the city to surf and jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-86273470372840918892010-08-18T19:10:00.000-07:002010-08-18T19:10:07.451-07:00chances we takea surfer was taken by a shark this week in gracetown (few hours south of here). pretty much the same spot as the attack and death in 2004. the shark took serious chunks out of his legs and he died from loss of blood. these guys know the risks. it was early in the morning and an overcast grey day. it is the time of year that the whales are travelling past and the sharks follow them. seals jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-52789199420108784462010-08-15T23:28:00.000-07:002010-08-15T23:34:02.767-07:00roo-tedtoday i set off for a new mountain bike adventure. the running has been going very well and i have been putting in some excellent hard endurance swims. i am very much aware that i swim more that i should and my bike sessions are way too low. but i love swimming so who really cares. i had sent away for some mountain bike trail maps and for $3o i got these brilliant rip and water proof maps of jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-31422491306494725462010-08-09T20:08:00.000-07:002010-08-10T00:38:47.049-07:0026.12this is the quickest 5k i have ever run. 26.12 minutes. well i may have run faster when i was in high school but i dont recall ever doing that. i was a sprinter and distance running was just not cool. i am gaining on my goal of 25 minutes for a 5k but this is after a swim and bike so still some way to go. but this did get me excited because i wasnt fresh and i had just ran the most in one jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-32854916158099462092010-08-02T21:34:00.000-07:002010-08-02T21:34:00.014-07:00htfui need to get over it and just get the fuck out of bed. i know it is winter that makes me do it - or not do it.
tuesday am - no bike.
tuesday pm - a good mix of drills and intervals. 2.3k swim.
wednesday - 7k run avg pace 5.40
thursday am - no bike
thursday pm - intervals. 2.5k swim.
friday - no run due to rain. so i rode the trainer for 60 mins. yaahhh.
saturday am - 3.6k swim. 400 IM jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-37119689926855774932010-07-26T04:27:00.000-07:002010-07-26T18:36:00.684-07:00and so it beginsi have had my little rest. it was strangely difficult to not do something. no swimming for nine days, no bike or running for six days. i did my last upper weight session on monday and then nudder for four days. i was lost.
prior to me and garmin meeting i used another high tech tool to track my training. it did get neglected and hasnt been updated for well over 18 months. also handy for jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-49114273533665341212010-07-20T07:41:00.000-07:002010-07-20T23:03:24.513-07:00adventure girl maybesunday was my first kinda mountain-ish bike ride. and it was slightly more challenging than i had imagined. i guess the word mountain in the name of the bike should have been a clue. i did take garmin along for the ride but due to technical difficulties i cannot upload the wonderful google map. so i will be re-doing the ride and bringing this to you at a later date.
this was a huge amount of jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-64311967126760537292010-07-13T22:23:00.000-07:002010-07-27T06:55:10.363-07:00have i mentioned ...i have been a bad blogger.
have i mentioned that i really hate friggin winter. although in the grand scheme of things i really have nothing to complain about. perth has shitty weather for maybe three months max and even then i can probably get a ride in every weekend and run most days. but it has been extremely cold - it was 1 degree the other morning forf#*&sake !!!! and now it is really jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-60337495169963631392010-07-03T18:46:00.000-07:002010-07-03T19:38:52.446-07:00my swimming worldi love swimming. i think you either love it or you dont. i love the peace, the time to think, the feel of it and most of all the challenge. swimming is not easy. i am not a naturally talented swimmer. i have a decent stroke. i am an intermediate swimmer.
i learnt to swim early in life. i think when i was about three. i remember my sister and i would go across the road to the swimming jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-74938350819498890162010-06-15T06:39:00.000-07:002010-06-15T06:50:22.373-07:00me and garmini have been fucking bad again. i got myself a garmin and i totally love it. i just want to ride and run so i can use my new toy. part of my plan was to join a running group but that also means travel time. me and garmin are going to do some interval training instead. amongst other things. stay tuned.
in a moment of madness i signed up for the dwellingup 100 mountain bike classic in jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-420696977738721790.post-89762779945350335492010-06-08T04:58:00.000-07:002010-06-09T00:40:29.903-07:00smoke free zonehow times have changed. you can still buy these lolly (candy) smokes. they are now called fads. and yes we called ciggies fags. very pc.
it is about two years ago that i stopped smoking. i remember it was a friday and around the end of may. people who have never smoked do not understand. the process to stop smoking is different for everyone. you have to find the missing link as to what jenez_worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07590643800488678672noreply@blogger.com0