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    I’m back!
    sparklefitnz
    • Apr 26, 2016
    • 3 min

    I’m back!

    I haven’t had much to say or update you all with in the last month. Mainly I have just been eating chocolate. That would make a very short post! For those of you who like me to talk more about my actual training and less about chocolate you will also be disappointed. This time after the New Zealand Ironman I forced myself to have a decent rest. Now normally “rest” to me simply means that I don’t have a programme and I’m not training for a specific event. I instead start to do
    I’m going to Kona – pheww!
    sparklefitnz
    • Mar 9, 2016
    • 7 min

    I’m going to Kona – pheww!

    Red bikes are fast… As I past the woman in my age group who was previously in 1st place I thought to myself “I can’t believe it! I’m in 1st place! Can I maintain this for the rest of the marathon?” It was only 8km into the marathon part of the Ironman and I was feeling on top of the world. However, my supporters were telling me that I was in 2nd place…and then a woman in my age group past me. Sorry, she flew past me. I was left wondering what I was going to do? Had my Kona dr
    Let the Taper Begin!
    sparklefitnz
    • Feb 22, 2016
    • 3 min

    Let the Taper Begin!

    The (final) countdown is on – T minus 12 days until Ironman New Zealand in Taupo on 5 March. So how do I feel? 1. Exhausted 2. Ready to race! Last week was my last big training week and now I get to taper (relatively speaking). Last week was a total of 18 training hours. The sessions were starting to get a little shorter in duration but still with some up-tempo parts to them. I am definitely ready to taper and my body was sending me clear signs that it considered that it had

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