In 2015 it was decided that the Full Ironman was going to be on the cards for me again in 2017 with my first and last race being in 2014. To enter and compete, or rather complete the 2014 Ironman was done purely because a friend had taken part the year before and I figured ‘If he can do it I can do it’! Training for the event was pretty poor and we didn’t really have a plan going into it, I think my mountain biking and Trail running back ground was the only thing that saved me on the day, but I managed to complete the race and said the following year I would train and have a better race. It has taken a little longer than expected to get back to the big race. Between myself, Brett and Claudia we decided to join a tri group to help and motivate the training procedure that we would need to follow, at the same time I wanted to meet like minded individuals that I could connect with. Unfortunately the first group did not suit us at all and we decided to move on from them. Brett send me a message a little while later and asked me to have a look at Trifactri as a new option, after some deliberation it was decided to send a message and see what it was all about. It was not long and I received a message from Des asking to meet up and discuss the plans forward. The rest is history and we haven’t looked back, being part of the Trifactri family has been amazing and our little Eastenders group has formed an awesome bond. So fast-forward to the end of last year when the news went out about a Training Camp in Nelspruit. For myself and Brett it was a no brainer we had to go to this camp, it would be an opportunity to see how far we had come in our training and if we were going to make it to that finish line in April. Lucies strategy was clever, first send out the concept, get the yes from the people, take the payments and then BOOM January comes and she forwarded the program for the weekend…. Let’s just say the conversation between myself and Brett had a few ‘F’ bombs and with some major concerns on how we would survive this program. The conversations had changed from how the training is going for Ironman to how the training is going for the Training Camp.
Luc and Johan (Nelspruits own Trifactri coach) managed to find every single hill (Mountain) in Nelspruit and the surrounding areas to cycle over and each run was just as challenging as our accommodation was at the top of its own little hill.
At the end of the weekend the body was exhausted, the muscles in pain and the whole weekend had turned into a blur. Yet the finish line at the big event seemsso much easier and the mind seems so much stronger. Looking forward race day alongside many of these amazing people.
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