Feels good! I am halfway through the 2012 season now! :-)- IM 70.3 South Africa (1/2 IM) - CHECK- Biking down 80 miles from Langley to Brighton and then running Brighton Marathon immediately afterwards (good IM training...) - CHECK- IM Lanzarote (full IM) - CHECK- Wiggle Dragon Ride bike sportive (136 miles, 11,000 vertical feet) - CHECK- Challenge Aarhus (1/2 IM) - CHECK- IM Frankfurt... (full IM) - CHECKFor the rest of the season I am looking to do:- Spartan Race UK 10K - 22 July - Norseman... Read full post

Great article in the main section of the NY Times today about how years ago the Dutch farmers crossed canals dividing their fields by vaulting over them with a pole, since bridges were few and far between.  Recently, in Linschoten, Holland, Jaco de Groot won the competition by vaulting 67 feet!  As the article points out, it is more about distance than height, so the vaulters plant their pole in the muddy bed of the canal near the bank and take a running start before leaping on to the... Read full post

28 Days and counting until the Sea Paddle NYC event starts.. 26.5 miles paddling a stand up board around NYC!!! Proceeds going to various autistic groups.

I wonder if its too late for me to learn to hit a baseball properly?  Look at this:
             ATHLETE      CONTRACT ($)     CONTRACT (YRS)         SPORT               TEAM1.     Alex Rodriguez     $275,000,000     10 years (2008–2017)   ... Read full post

Ironman Frankfurt / Ironman European Championship 2012 - 8 July 2012
After a spell of hot days, the water temperature was getting very close to 24.5C (the upper limit allowed for wetsuit swims), and it looked like it might end up being a non-wetsuit swim. Luckily, it cooled down a little before the race, and it started raining, so the temperature stayed below the limit. Many of us could now relax, especially less talented swimmers such as myself. With almost 3,000 swimmers in a fairly small... Read full post

OK as ready as I can be I think! Ironman Frankfurt / Ironman European Championship tomorrow 8 July! Swim start at 07.00 am CET. Start number 2492. Aiming for 10'ish hour finish time... Wish me luck!
www.ironmanfrankfurt.com

I saw him playing on television and was struck by his technique, so I asked my wife to come look at him. Now I never saw myself play, but I feel that this player is playing much the same as I used to play, and she looked at him on Television and said yes, there is a similarity between the two... his compactness, technique, stroke production... it all seemed to gel.Sir Donald BradmanIn terms of technique and compactness, Tendulkar is the best.Desmond HaynesI have watched a lot of Tendulkar and... Read full post

Ombra just added a new photo album about our week-long trek through the Dolomite mountains in Italy, in late May 2004.  The photos are really awesome and show just how inhospitable these extraordinary mountains are - really rugged countryside! 
Check it out!

** 18:18 after having waited on Avis coming back with a solution for a couple of hours:OK I know this sounds crazy, but I managed to get myself and my colleague/fellow IM Frankfurt competitor locked out of our rental car in Germany (a French Renault Scenic), with the car key in the car, and absolutely all of our belongings in the car as well. Money, phones, bikes, luggage. One of those nice keyless entry systems which are great when they work, but getting back into the car is virtually... Read full post

I didn't believe that there is really such a sport, but my friend Keith confirmed it with this link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife_carrying   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estonian_Carry_style.jpg