Articles By: Karl Hayes
Fluid intake and sodium supplementation during training and racing
By Alex Price There has been much talk of late surrounding hyponatremia, fluid intake and sodium supplementation during training and racing. Hyponatremia is low blood sodium concentration, caused by water intake that exceeds requirements to the point where electrolyte (sodium) concentration is diluted. Endurance athletes have long been given the information about not trusting our [...]
Ironman Cairns and 70.3 Cairns Pro Start Lists
The official start lists from Ironman Cairns and Ironman 70.3 Cairns have been released.We will update this over the next few days. Some good fields on paper. Any one of four or five guys could take out the Ironman with four obvious women in the running. We will see Michelle Wu and Liz Blatchford make [...]
MetaMan iron distance triathlon lays down $40,000 for both male and female winners
With Kiwi powerhouse triathletes Cameron Brown, Gina Crawford, Joanne Lawn up against Belinda Granger, Brett Carter (winner 2012) and Fredrik Croneborg (runner up 2012) amongst others the 2013 MetaMan will see significant growth over the successful launch in 2012. To compliment the full distance there will also be a half distance triathlon which will see [...]
Suunto Ambit 2 GPS Sport Watch – quick look
We received the new Suunto Ambit 2 and Suunto Ambit 2S a couple of days before Ironman Australia. It is only now that we are starting to get our heads around the watches and getting a feel for them. We have used most watches on the market but not the Timex. Our first thoughts are [...]
Joey Lampe and Ainslie Bakker win 2013 Byron Bay Triathlon – Results
We haven’t heard too much about today’s Byron Bay Triathlon. We look forward to hearing how the race unfolded. Congratulations to Joey Lampe (not the first time he has taken this title) and Ainslie Bakker for the overall wins. There were around 900 finishers. Lampe and Shane Barrie exited the swim with a solid lead [...]
Ironman 70.3 Bussleton Preview
Busselton, Australia – A string of world class names are set to line up at SunSmart Ironman 70.3 Busselton on Saturday 11th May 2013. “The men’s field is the strongest we have ever had at SunSmart Ironman 70.3 Busselton and one of the largest in the Australia for the 2012/2013 season” said Ashleigh Davis, Event [...]
Challenge Family returns to Australia with three new events
Possibly one of the worst kept triathlon secrets in Australia in a long time, Challenge announces its return to Australia with Challenge Forster, Challenge Batemans Bay and Challenge Melbourne. There have been rumours circulating for a while in the triathlon industry of other Challenge races in Australia. We will follow them up. SuperSprint will oversee [...]
Rebecca Hoschke wins Ironman Australia 2013
PORT MACQUARIE, NSW (May 5, 2013) – For Rebecca Hoschke this win has come after a stellar 2012 saw her finish third at IRONMAN Western Australia. In the women’s event 40-44 category age grouper Leanne Southwell lead the pro women out of the water, and held onto the race lead until she was caught by [...]
Luke Bell wins Ironman Australia 2013
Luke Bell made it a wire to wire win today when he took out the 2013 Ironman Australia title. Whilst Bell had a relaxed approached to this race and looked like he was enjoying himself during the entire race he never took it for granted that he was going to win. “This was my race [...]
Ironman Australia 2013 90km in to the bike
Luke Bell has a solid lead with Patrick Evoe now in second place overall. Monty Frankish is holding strongly in his first ever Ironman with 40-44 year old David Meade now in 4th overall. Matty Harris was still working the crowd. Rebecca Hoschke came through 90kms to claim the $1000 bike prime with a huge [...]
Breakfast with Pete Jacobs at Cairns
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