Island time

In just a little over 4 weeks I will be departing the chilly NZ spring for the warm summery climate of Kona, Hawaii....and I can’t wait. Despite my training going very well, I am over it. I am ready to race. I always find this the hardest part of training for any event – 3-4 weeks to go. I always end up using the countdown as a method of keeping me focused ie. I only have 12 more swims before leave.

A couple weeks ago a friend of mine told me he’d been speaking to a fellow Kona entrant, and this fella bravely stated something to the effect ‘oh Kirky will struggle on the bike in Kona because of the wind’. Now this kind of thing really winds me up. Granted I have only been in the sport about 10 months now and didn’t own a bike or a pair of speedos up until about 15 months ago....hell my idea of going for a swim was to doing bombs in the deep end, and I have only ever raced in 3 triathlons, but I have raced this particular guy (who shall remain nameless) twice, and beaten him twice....I smell sour grapes. Maybe he should stand in front of his tri-career drawing board and focus more on finding a way to beat me rather than making ill-informed comments about my abilities (or lack of them). FYI it has been pretty damned windy in the BOP this winter.

Update:

Craig Kirkwood = 6 Moros & 3 Snickers/Mars bars

Michael Kelly = 0 - but he did see a sea bird whoaaaaa.....