October 1st 2008

A cool thing about triathlon is the fact that there’s not a great difference between the stars of the sport and the last finisher. Everyone seems to be very down-to-earth. Today I went running on Alii Drive with my buddy Niels-Otto (who won IM Lanzerote M35-39) for an hour. While we were chatting away Cam Brown came towards us and neither of us had noticed him before he said: “Hi there!” We responded: “Hi!” as we both realized who he was. That’s how it is! Everyone greets everyone. We are here for the same thing, the same challenge, and the same goal and while Cam hopes to bring back a pay check to New Zealand, I’m sure he’s here for much more than that!

September 30th 2008

Number 34! There's nothing spectacular about the number 34 (That goes for any number for that matter) however this year in Kona bib number 34 is special to me. Firstly it reflexes my overall place last year in Hawaii, my highest ever. On top of this it's the highest seed among this year's age groupers. Not bad going for a guy who basically started out triathlon as Joe Average.

It's funny to be defending champion and enter the competition without being a 100% sure if I can even complete the event. I'm well aware that I'll be accused of sandbagging so before you say it out loud let my clarify! 99 % get's you nowhere. I mean have you ever heard of someone who only went 99 % of the way to the toilet? No obviously not. I'm not toeing the line in Kailua Bay for snorkelling nor am I riding 112 miles of lava fields in hot surroundings to get a nice tan. I'm here to compete. If I cross the finish line I will have nothing left. You only live once and I want to feel every second of it! That's why I have travelled half way around the world for this. I'm here to compete and not participate. Let the Kona Blog begin! Aloha.

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November 26th 2006

Welcome to my new website.
One of the new features on the website, are this blog. I will be writing my blog, 'Tblog' in english.