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Challenge Venice – PB, or not PB…
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Ironman 70.3 St. Pölten – 22 May 2016
I want to open this race race report in the theme that IMRoycer_81 from the Slowtwitch Forum did in his recent race report on IM TX. Thanks first and foremost. I have learned over the past 3 plus years that you cannot now and will never achieve any of your…
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Dubai International Triathlon – 14 November 2015
***many thanks to Lynette Warn for this race report *** After Thursdays storm and a lot of triathletes’ prayers, Fridays weather was great. All hopes were high for a great day of racing for Saturday. Unfortunately at 4am the curtains were opened and the palm trees revealed that the wind…
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Challenge Roth – 12 July 2015
*** many thanks to Neil Hayward for this race report *** Challenge Roth 2015 – The failure of common sense My first marathon was in New York, 7 November 2004, Sam’s, my soon to be wife’s birthday. It was awful, I hit the proverbial wall and staggered the last seven…
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Ironman Los Cabos – 25 October 2015
*** many thanks to Liz Verheyden for this race report *** Our honeymoon race It all started with our wedding day and the Ironman that followed – Ironman South Africa on March 29, 2015. My second Ironman and Simon’s 9th! Hawaii as honeymoon destination seemed perfect to me! So I…
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Ironman 70.3 Turkey – 25 October 2015
*** many thanks to Noel Rossouw for this race report *** The decision to enter the Turkey 70.3 was after being given the race entry deferment, we had originally entered the Zell Am See 70.3 at the beginning of September and having got slots for the IM 70.3 champs they…
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Ironman 70.3 Arizona – 18 October 2015
*** many thanks to Andre Abreu for this race report *** Background check: For those who don’t know me, my name’s Andre Abreu, I come from Portugal, my dad was a football player, my mom played basketball in high school and they got my sister and I in the pool…
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Challenge Roth – 12 July 2015
*** many thanks to Annabelle Rust for this race report *** Someone asked me after the race if I had any real ‘dark moments’ and to be honest, I didn’t really have any hugely horrible ones, I was very lucky. Overall I think that Roth went as well as I…
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Ironman Maastricht – 28 July 2015
*** many thanks to Chris Thorne for this race report*** Ironman Maastricht!! Even the name sounds painful. I chose this race for three reasons , it was in Europe so all the family could come and support, it fell in time when the kids were off school and it was…
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Ironman 70.3 World Championships – 30 August 2015
*** many thanks to Ben Corby for this race report *** It all began back in August 2014 on a hot day in the Philippines. I was there for the second time and just wanted to improve my time from 2013, my 1st half distance. The race went well for…
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