Amazing downhill biking experience, first hand video clip - I can't imagine what was going though the riders head around 0:26 second mark in the video.. lookout for the dog! [...]Readmore

San Jacinto Peak, 2011 While I’m thinking about the Grand Canyon, can’t help but add San Jacinto Peak to the challenge list. It’s 10,834 feet or 3,302 meters but as bad as that sounds it’s not.. you can take the cable car (or in official Americanise, the ‘Palm Springs Aerial Tramway’) up to 8,516 feet [...] [...]Readmore

Ok, it’s time to start planning for my next big endurance adventure. A double crossing of the Grand Canyon next year, commonly known as the grand canyon rim to rim to rim.  After glandular fever and a couple of injuries I don’t have the fitness level for it yet but by the middle of next [...] [...]Readmore

Brendon Downey, Olympic Triathlon Coach and former National Triathlon Champion has been kind enough to provide with some advice on training and triathlon tapering from his recent live interview on Radio Sport, and for Radio Sport listeners he has asked us to attach some example ironman tapering and triathlon tapering programs including Sam Warriners actual taper week leading into the 2004 Athens Olympics. [...]Readmore

Ok, this time I did one ON PURPOSE rather than being left in the middle of nowhere by my wife.. Troy from event promotions was kind enough to offer me an entry to their first ever Rotorua Half Marathon and well frankly I don’t turn down free stuff I’ve done the marathon version a couple [...] [...]Readmore

Accidentally completed my first half marathon in a long time this weekend, due to the support crew not showing up as expected on what was supposed to be a 12km run.. [...]Readmore

You’ve asked for it, and we’re hard at work creating a forum system for OneSportEvent where you can better swap stories, post questions and chat with your friends in the community. We’ve been testing a beta version of them for a couple of weeks and they are looking great! If you’d like to be part [...] [...]Readmore

Our hosting companies server failed in a spectacular way on August 4th right as we were about to perform a massive upgrade to our website.   As a day topper they also told us their backups of our database, website etc were corrupted.. ..fortunately we have our own fairly recent backups of the system, so not [...] [...]Readmore

Brendon Downey, Olympic Triathlon Coach and former National Triathlon Champion has been kind enough to provide with some advice on training and triathlon tapering from his recent live interview on Radio Sport, and for Radio Sport listeners he has asked us to attach some example ironman tapering and triathlon tapering programs including Sam Warriners actual taper week leading into the 2004 Athens Olympics. [...]Readmore