I tend to agree with Turd; there are degrees of doping but cutting the course is absolute.

Congratulations! Great result well earned, not only on race day but the effort to get the training done so effectively.

Don't mean this to be as crass at it might sound, but try running faster. It's harder, yes, but if you try a little faster once a week you will get faster. For me, the clearest evidence of this is in my swimming; I can swim well, but when I try and swim faster - make myself uncomfortable with the ef...

Jwolf wrote:

Mark.AU wrote:Everyone seems to be assuming that his T level was actually low in the first place.

We aren't assuming- In the articles reporting his retirement, he and his wife talked about this.

Just because he talked about it doesn't make it true.

Everyone seems to be assuming that his T level was actually low in the first place.

He might well be taking some medications or supplements that would not have been allowable as a competitive runner. If so, that's hardly a moral failing or a health hazard. Having done something similar a long time ago, I can attest that it is possible to gain 30-40 pounds of muscle/fat over the co...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/sports/julie-miller-ironman-video-offers-proof-that-disqualified-triathlete-cut-course.html?mwrsm=Reddit I've forgotten whether I hate cheaters with the fire of 1000 suns or whether I don't care because it doesn't affect me. I apologize in advance if I'm inconsiste...

I'll make three for the price of one by adding in my Friday morning run of a bit over 8k.

Did She or Didn't She Run Boston 2016??

Who cares? This kind of thing (well, different but related) used to bother me a little but in the great scheme of things it really doesn't matter - she didn't take anything from anyone.

Saturday is yesterday for me. Sunday will be a rest day, or maybe a ride. Or maybe not

Put a photographer at each (or most) timing mat. No chip time time at the mat? check the time-stamped photo. No chip time AND no photo, DQ. Sell the photos, system pays for itself.

It looks like the post-race shower might have been a little painful...

Australian Autumn starts today for 3 calendar months, but the equinox is the 20th. Not sure the reasoning behind it. "Equinox" is an astronomical concept and some people prefer to define their seasons to correlate better with weather. We live in the D'harawal Nation and the traditional ow...

Well, here it is.

5.5km in 22C, warm, muggy, soupy air along the south shore of the Parramatta River with the sun rising over my left shoulder bathing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and CBD in golden dawn light.

MrBond wrote:Ran outside in shorts....

Me too.

Either you need a new/different saddle or it's simply a matter of getting the time on it harden up. Even on my most comfortable saddle, one I've gots 1000's of km on, if I've been off it for a while it still takes a couple of weeks to get used to it.

Speechless doesn't begin to describe my reaction to the determination and commitment something like this requires.

I've always run 23's at 110 front and 120 back. I've raced at 95-97kg so bigger fella here, too.

As in, "The goal was unrealistic and needed to be modified," or, "The time was not right and the goal needs to be postponed," or whatever. But that's different than saying "Anything is possible -- you just have to work for it." No matter how hard I try, I will never ru...

I don't buy into the "if you want something badly enough, and work hard enough at it, anything is possible" mindset. And the reason I don't like it, is because it implies that if for some reason you don't attain the goal that somehow you are a failure who just didn't try hard enough. agre...

chunkymonkeymelonhed wrote:At about 3K I made the decision to slow up and let the four hour group go.

Right there is the moment you BQ'd.

What a great result for you after all your work. I'm going to take this on-board for Sydney. Congrats.

purdy65 wrote:I'm amazed you did as well as you did! It would be an awfully expensive experiment for me personally, however. What is an ironman now? $700-$800 bucks?

Thanks!

AU$750.00 At the time I signed up I planned to train and race it; unavoidable life circumstances changed that.

Jo-Jo wrote:Curious...has this left you with any desire to train for another IM?

Not even a little bit.

Never say never...

But, it's also fair to say that I was in some perverse way also enjoying the suck. I was taking a lot of satisfaction from getting it done, and proving to myself that the training I did do had had the result in my legs that I thought it would. I mean, really, who rides a 180km after a 4k swim after...

So, over in my journal I've explained (at length!) the back story to doing this race on only a month's worth of training. I'm not going to rehash it here - this is just the story of the race. There's a weather phenomenon called an east cost low at this time of year in NSW that creates stormy, rainy ...