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Kona – Pre Race Tuesday Afternoon

Kona – Pre Race Tuesday Afternoon

The afternoon at Kona saw some cloud cover come over and the temp dropped slightly. We caught up with age grouper and cool surf board shaper dude Eden Saul. Eden is looking and sounding very relaxed. We had a coffee at Lava Java and chatted about everything. The guys at BSc sound like they have [...]

Joe Gambles and Liz Blatchford win Ironman 70.3 Boulder – Results

Joe Gambles and Liz Blatchford win Ironman 70.3 Boulder – Results

Joe Gambles has retained his Boulder 70.3 title after he led from the front early on in the bike and was never headed as he took out his second 70.3 title for the year. Gambles was dominant in the swim and bike and whilst he didn’t post the fastest run it was fast enough to [...]

Joe Gambles and Angela Naeth win Ironman 70.3 Syracuse ahead of class fields

Joe Gambles and Angela Naeth win Ironman 70.3 Syracuse ahead of class fields

Joe Gambles posted a 1:14:27 half marathon to eventually overtake fellow Australian and Ironman Australia 2012 champion Paul Ambrose to claim the 2012 Ironman 70.3 Syracuse title. New Zealand’s Callum Millward took 3rd place with pre race favourite Pete Jacobs 4th. Gambles had a one minute deficit in the swim to make up with Pete [...]

Pete Jacobs building towards his 2012 Ironman World Championship Dream

Pete Jacobs building towards his 2012 Ironman World Championship Dream

With the 2012 Ironman World Championship only 112 days away the leading contenders this year are starting to fine tune their preparations and making sure they have all the boxes ticked to be on the start line on October 13 this year. Amongst those is last year’s runner up at the Ironman world championships, Australia’s [...]

Pete Jacobs wins Urban Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns 2012

Pete Jacobs wins Urban Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns 2012

Pete Jacobs led from start to finish in the Urban Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns today. He was a step above everyone else today and it was more about proving something to himself with a super fast bike being his main goal. “I am really happy with my win today, in the end, I wanted to [...]

Favourites hard to pick in the URBAN Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns

Favourites hard to pick in the URBAN Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns

CAIRNS, Australia (May 29, 2012) – Ironman champion Pete Jacobs and multiple Ironman 70.3 winner Michelle Wu will enter the inaugural URBAN Hotel Group Ironman 70.3 Cairns race as slight favourites following their performances in the Coral Coast 5150 Triathlon last weekend and there general capabilities when at race fitness. Jacobs used the event as [...]

Breakfast in Cairns with Jacobs, Rix, Granger (s), Rollison, Wu and You

Breakfast in Cairns with Jacobs, Rix, Granger (s), Rollison, Wu and You

Healthwise Active Travel and Trizone are bringing you the opportunity to enjoy a ‘Cairns Ironman and 70.3’ post race breakfast with the pros. You will have the opportunity to breakfast with Pete Jacobs, Josh Rix, Belinda Granger and Justin Granger who will be joining you at the Shangri-La Hotel, The Marina, Cairns for a full [...]

Cairns Ironman and 70.3 Post Race Breakfast with the Pros

Cairns Ironman and 70.3 Post Race Breakfast with the Pros

Healthwise Active Travel and Trizone are bringing you the opportunity to enjoy a ‘Cairns Ironman and 70.3’ post race breakfast with the pros. You will have a chance to discuss the previous day’s racing with your fellow triathletes and some of the worlds leading pros. This relaxed breakfast will be an enjoyable way to recount [...]

Ironman Sri Lanka 70.3 First Test for USM

Ironman Sri Lanka 70.3 First Test for USM

For a country that has undergone over 20 years of civil war until recently, it was time to introduce the people of Sri Lanka to triathlon. To expect it would be all smooth sailing is a far reach but as close to 500 triathletes descend upon Colombo, Sri Lanka for the first ever Sri Lanka [...]

Nikki Butterfield wins, and Paul Ambrose and Josh Rix on the Podium at Ironman 70.3 Syracuse

Australian Nikki Butterfield has announced her return to triathlon racing in emphatic style taking out the Ironman 70.3 Syracuse race. In the men’s race, won by 2010 world duathlon champion Bart Aernouts, Paul Ambrose and Josh Rix also got on the podium in the with Stephen Hackett taking out 4th in the men’s race and Madeleine Oldfield finishing 9th in the women’s race.