Ironman New Zealand Where do I start with this one! First of all I would say the overwhelming feeling is relief, relief that nothing went wrong and that I was able to race to the best of my ability. A lot of you that read this on a regular basis will know that on the 30th December I had a bike crash where I ruptured my ACJ and broke my collarbone, the rupture was very bad and was a grade…

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Pre Taupo

Ironman NZ Not long now until race day on Saturday.   My training since being in Taupo has gone really well. I’ve been really pleased to actually be able to get in the water consistently since i’ve been here and to actually stat doing some intensity. I think that before Wanaka I had only started swimming about 1 week before I left to fly out to New Zealand and even then I had to keep the swims to 2k and…

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Wanaka

Wanaka! Where do I start with Wanaka, the race was a disaster, the build up was the most stressful pre race build up I’ve probably had, although saying that I felt I was in a good place on race day as I just tried to forget everything and focus on the goal of performing well. Going back to my journey out to New Zealand, it started ok with my first flight from Norwich to Manchester going to plan, I was…

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Challenge Wanaka Preview

With less than 36 hours before before his first big race of the 2016 season, I caught up with Joe to discuss his preparations for the big event, airline altercations, inappropriate press conference comments,  and peanut butter abstinence…

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