Well, this year’s Tour de France put on an epic display in all areas of the race. From the carnage and crashes very early on in the race eliminationg many Malliot Jaune contenders, to the unsportsman-like sprint clashes, the humour, colour and passion of the crowds, the controversial attack by Contador, the impressive battle on Le Tourmalet and to the final ITT decider and all the action in between, the 2010 TDF was an epic show. And for a couple of you, the race proved to be a rewarding event as well…
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Elaine Brent is a newcomer to the sport of Triathlon. Like many before her, Elaine took up the sport after sustaining an injury while running. Her competitive track running background meant that Elaine definitely shouldn’t be under-estimated in the later stages of any Triathlons. With lots of quality coaching, hard work and commitment, she’s made huge gains in her swimming ability and cycling skills and now poses a considerable threat across the board.
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I finally got around to purchasing an adapter for my camera so I can upload photo’s again! There are too many to update this post with, so for now you can check them out through my Facebook albums. These albums are public, so you don’t have to be a Facebook user to be able to see them. Just click on the links below;
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Here’s a link to an article that was published in The Wellingtonian newspaper a few weeks back.
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Southern France; it’s actually living up to everything I expected, and much much more. I was having to pinch myself on a daily basis to double check that I’m actually alive and that I’m actually here to live and train for the next 4 months. What a dream! The bruising has become too much though, so I’ve accepted the reality that I AM in fact in Southern France, I AM actually training better than I have ever trained before and I’m feeling much more alive than I’ve felt in so long. It’s so great to be here. Living the dream!
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To celebrate Le Tour, I’m holding a Twitter competition for people to win some great products from my sponsors. Up for grabs is a cycling kit from Penny Farthing Cycles, some Outdoor Defence system and Body Wash from Workout Zone and some fresh espresso beans and cycling bidons from The Immigrant’s Son Espresso. A huge thank you to my sponsors for providing these prizes and backing me to get to France and chase my dreams.
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Salut!
So after a pretty solid 1100km drive from Charleville-Mezieres, I’m finally in Toulon, my home away from home for the next 5 months! The drive down was heaps of fun. Serge drove the whole way, which was impressive after having raced in the morning too, and Florian entertained us with bad jokes and falling asleep mid-sentence.
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17 June 2010
Hi everyone, apologies for the delay in writing, but I’ve finally got a chance to sit down and write a quick update on what I have been up to in the last few days.
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In 2 weeks time, I’ll be on my way to Europe to spend 5 months training and racing my guts out, which I’m very excited about! Not being a big fan of winter, I’m thrilled to have been accepted into a French triathlon club based in Toulon, on the Mediterranean coast. I’m incredibly lucky to have been accepted into their team as there are very very few spots for international athletes to race in the French Grand Prix circuit, and as you can imagine, these are highly sought after and virtually impossible to get.
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Once I got the post race media stuff out of the way and snuck in some chill-out time back in the hotel, I went back to the race course to watch the reminder of the elite women’s race with Dan, the Hong Kong coach. He said he was keen to go out for pizza for dinner and had spotted an American chain brand in a mall somewhere and invited me to join them which I was stoked about as, in all due respect, I was totally bored of the food I’d been eating for the last 5 days. So after committing gastrointestinal suicide with all the super cheesy pizza, (I’m intolerant to dairy) we went to Dairy Queen (what was I thinking??) and had some fruit smoothies.
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