The time has come. Man it has come so fast. I am departing for MOZ tomorrow morning at 9.
I can wait to race so existed. I know I have trained hard and really couldn’t have done more training. I am going in to this race with a new motto and it is “Race Hard Honor GOD’’ Every stroke I pull ,every pedal I turn and every step I take I am going to Honor GOD!!!! Because He is the one that makes everything possible for me. This past months I realized Triathlon is not everything in the world. God has so much more for all of us in store. Such big plans I can’t describe it. Triathlon is just a tool for me to get to lost people but hey I love this tool God gave me. How cool is that. I am starting to see the big pitcher. Look how much God has done for me this past months. That’s so amazing how good He has been for me I praise Him for that. He can do the same for you ,you just need to let Him in to your hard and He will blow your mind away.
Oh yes back to the race on Sunday. We will start on 07:30 on Sunday morning. Follow me on twitter and on my blog so that you can get a lot of info what’s going on there. Thanks a lot for all your support. I believe I will make you proud!!!
Here is a photo of last year’s African Champs in Durban.
I got a really big blister for running on the track on Tuesday. First it was a small one then I just left it. But then it got rally big and very sore. In the end it got as big as an golf ball and was struggling to walk.
The next day I made my way to the doc at the HPC for some advice. African champs is next weekend and I really need to fix it before then. The doc said here is a needle and a syringe. Oh ja and some alcohol strips to clean my foot. So the doc told me what to do. He didn’t have all the stuff to do it for me. I when and got some Merthiolate. Had no idea what that was till I saw it is highly flammable! I was like oh my greatness!!! This is not going to be fun!
I call this the blister kit! the PVM bar is the for you to put it in your mouth when you injected the Merthiolate in to the blister.
Step 1: clean your foot NB!
Step 2: drain all the fluid from the blister. Clean again after!
Step 3: draw up the Merthiolate in to the syringe. Clean the needle.
Step 4: injected the Merthiolate in to the blister. Wait for it wait for it ok now you can scream!!!!!!!!!!
Step 5: Wait 2-3hrs and do that again. The next day you will be ready for training again.
in it goes!
Wait for it wait for it ok now scream!!!!!!!!! ;-(
It has been a really long time since I last did a duathlon. This race came at just the right time as a bit of race preparation 3 weeks before Africa Champs. A good opportunity to test my legs and to see where I am at.
Racing is so good for you; it is the best training that you will ever do. Race intensity is just on another level and can’t really be recreated in training.
The race venue was just outside of Pretoria close to Roodeplaat Dam at a school called Kameelfontein. This area is like my backyard as I do a lot of training here. The run route was long and hilly and the cycle was a very hilly out and back course.
The race distances were 5km run, 40km cycle and another 2.5km run on broken legs.
The gun went and I found myself running in the front with Brand du Plessis, Travis Johnston, Abrahm Louw, Chris Felgate and Johan Pretorius. I really didn’t think that I would be able to run with those front guys, but there I was, even controlling the pace. At the halfway turn it was just me, Travis, Brand and Johan. The so-called “2.5km” on the way out was very hard as it was trudging up a constant drag. On the way back Travis moved next to me and we ran side by side until he put in a couple of surges, but didn’t get away. We were all in transition together and out onto the nasty, hilly, windy 40km bike course. Here is the race profile from my race on power agent from CycleOps. Blu is Speed and Red is Elevation.
Up to the first turn around we were riding like a bunch of girls. At the first turn Abrahm caught up to us and from there we still rode together like a bunch of girls.
On the way back on the last lap I started to think about the final run and I saw that Johan was still with us. He is an ex-1500m SA Champ and not someone that I wanted to run the final 2.5km against. So on a long hill I went to the front and picked up the pace a bit. I saw that we was taking strain so I dropped a gear and picked up the pace again and that’s when he dropped. I then went to the back and rested a bit for the remainder of the ride. Then just before the end of the bike leg there was another little hill so I thought “let’s have some fun.” I attacked and Travis came with me. We only made about a 5-10 sec gap on the rest, but it allowed me to get into and out of T1 first.
Oh boy! When I hit that second run I felt my legs burn and all the hard training I had done that week came flying back to me. Travis came flying past me so I dug deep and bridged the gap and we ran to the turn-around together. I was thinking man we are running fast now until Travis dropped a gear and pulled away from me. That guys has some serious acceleration!. He made a 15sec gap and kept it to the finish. I was very happy with my 2nd place! Praise God!!!!
Well done to Travis- he is the new SA Duathlon champ.
The top 10.
Event #4 Final Results – Roodeplaat – Pretoria – (Road) – 12 June 2011
Mens Time
01. Travis Johnston 01:31:17
02. Theo Blignaut 01:31:33
03. Brand du Plessis 01:32:02
04. Abrahm Louw 01:32:31
05. Johan Pretorius 01:35:16
06. Chris Felgate 01:36:08
07. Jean-Pierre Ten Napel 01:37:07
08. David Labuschagne 01:37:40
09. Gavin Salt 01:38:31
10. Patrice Gautier 01:39:36
Friday after work I met up with Robyn at the LC sport grounds for a mountain biking lessen. She was just done with her exams.She wanted to go have some fun. After I showed her so basic skills and had a small fall on the mountain bike. I was looking for some fun and I did. Playing like the good old days. Robyn soon I want to see you doing this! Really good training for balance.
This morning at 6am I got on to my CycleOps fluid2 trainer knowing that it’s going to be a nightmare. Lindsey Parry gave me a killer set to do on my trainer it was 8x5min zone 4 that is 300watts. Oh boy it was so hard. Really happy that I did it and I stayed in my zone 4 for all of them. My legs are still broken from the weekends race but no rest if you are coached by mr Parry! I love my Power tap It’s so hard training with it but you can see the improvement. In the end it’s all worth it. Thanks to bicycle power trading for this amazing sponsor. Power training is the way to go! Get your CycleOps Power Tap today at: http://www.bicyclepower.co.za/ CycleOps the leader in POWER!!!!
Have a look at my profile from this mornings session.
The yellow is the power “watts”, Speed blue, Green cadence, Red hart rate, So every time you see the yellow line goes up in means I am dyeing!!!
Here is a short clip of me doing my set this morning. Thanks to my house hold Lettie for the amazing camera work!!! All she said was “hey boetie jy lyk moeg” and I was broken.
Keep on
It was a really good day for me today at the Momentum iFlex Duathlon. I went in to the race to test my legs and see how’s the training going. Man I am so happy. Praise the Lord our God for my 2nd place. All Glory to Him!
I will race this weekend after a really long training block. Its been going well with my training. The 4th race of the series will take place at Kameelfontein Primary school on Sunday the 12th of June. I am looking forward to race again my body has just been training and training no racing. It will be good to see where I am at. It’s not a triathlon but I am sure it’s going to be really hard on the legs. Like I always say there is not better training then racing. This will be a good prep race for African champs. The race is 5km run,40kmcycle and end off with a fast 2.5km run. Hope the cold will stay away.
Date of birth: 17 September 1988
Place of birth: Johannesburg
Height: 188cm
Weight: 74kg
VO2 max: 79
Body fat percentage: 6.5%
Shoes size: 11
Rest HR: 37-40
Max HR: 200
