Tagged: New Zealand

Kuala Lumpur 0

Kuala Lumpur Stopover – New Zealand Day 2

We arrived at Kuala Lumpur Airport at 17:32 Malaysian time after a 12 hour and 22 minute flight from Heathrow. We now had a 4 hour and 18 minute stopover in the transit terminal. I’d planned a quick session in the gym at the transit terminal hotel so headed off there. Whilst there I met...

Packed and ready to go 0

The Journey Begins – New Zealand Day 1

It had been a while coming but on Tuesday October 16th, after weeks of planning and preparation, our family trip to New Zealand finally began. In case you didn’t already know, it had been a dream location of ours for years but time and money constraints had always meant that it remained just that, a...

Apologies, Precautions and Previews 0

Apologies, Precautions and Previews

First and apology for the lack of posts here recently, but I’ve been on the holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand and was without Internet access. Second a precautionary tale that I shall be making up for this over the next days and weeks with a day by day account of our trip. I turn...

2012 ITU Age-Group World Triathlon Championships, Auckland – Race Report 12

2012 ITU Age-Group World Triathlon Championships, Auckland – Race Report

After a fitfull sleep my day started at 4:30am with a caffeinated coffee, porridge and Beet-it beetroot juice for breakfast. This was followed by a shower and getting my stuff ready to go. I then walked down through Auckland CBD to transition area with Graham and Sharon at 5:30am, had my helmet checked and started setting...

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation 0

Auckland ITU World Champs Preparation

~ Monday Oct. 15th – Ready to Go ~ We are all packed and ready to go on the biggest trip of our lives. Packing seems to have taken a while but we are now pretty much done and just want to go today, but we have one more day of work / school before...

Flight MH1 4

Beating Jetlag

One week to go until the biggest race of my life – The ITU World Triathlon Championships in Auckland, and I’m still here in wet, grey, dreary West Wales. I won’t actually get to Auckland until Thursday afternoon and the race is early on Monday morning so I only have a few days to adjust...