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Swim events (400IM, 200 kick, 50 free)Triathlon (Swim 1.5km / Bike 40km / Run 10km)The swim events are always fun to watch. Mike Walker takes the prime for entertainer of the day with his 10min for 200m kick. He was in the first heat and the 2nd heat finished before he was done. Some mid event coaching from Heath helped him along. Mike was first to say he was off for some swim coaching when he

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Bike – 16kmSwim – 30min lake swimRun – 50minsWe don’t get a whole bunch of injuries on epic camp which is strange given the nature of what we do. Yesterday after doing some big pulls on the front I felt me knee going on me as we approached the winery. I absolutely grovelled home on one leg and hoped a nights sleep might do the trick. It didn’t. After about 1min of riding this morning the pain

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Swim 50minsBike 140km (broken)Aquathon swim 1.5km / run 8kmWe opened up with a catch up 50min open water swim at 6:30am – this was to catch up the swim we missed on the big bike day. I spotted a buoy several hundred meters off short and was going to do a couple of loops of it. The water at Collingwood is very tidal and shallow. As we swam out it just didn’t get any deeper (.5-2m) and we could see

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Swim 3km open water raceRun 2hrs (Heefy Track)Bike 60kmChris McDonald says I am trying to get back at all the race organisers who set short swim courses by always setting long one’s. Today I threw a couple of buoys out and eyeballed it as about 2.8km but in reality it was about 3.2km. Unsurprisingly “the fish” took it out pretty easily. In the bunch behind was myself, Scott sitting on the toes of

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Run 50minsSwim 3kmBike 130km incl 16km race/KOM over Takaka hillBefore I start you can catch the McDonalds blogs on www.trimacca.comIt was always going to happen. Last night I was beaming after seeing the forecast for the next few days – clear, cloudless, warm days. What happened today - gentle rain pretty much all day, nice work met service!When Mullie and I were doing the podcast earlier this

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Bike 255km Kaikoura to NelsonRun 50minsSometimes we have to bend the rules on epic camp and today was one of those days. Normally we have to swim, bike and run each day but today we ran out of time to swim given the brutal bike – don’t worry though, campers still have to do the swim by catching it up later in the camp in order to achieve “camp completion”.255km is a long way, throw in a ton of

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Swim – 3kmBike – 190kmRun – 10kmEverybody seems to think I’m sand bagging when I say I’m in miserable bike shape (and have been for some time) but today was just a horrendous display.The swim was pretty straight forward swimming with Roly’s swim squad at QEII. Today’s bike was a toughie from Christchurch to Kaikoura (190km) with no shortage of climbing. The KOM at 85km was interesting. Macca was

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Day 1 – The Old West Coast Road has the last laugh.Run 10kmSwim 3.2km incl 2km TTBike 150kmAhh the tactics of epic camp are entertaining. Everyone says “I don’t care about the points”, that lasts about 5 seconds once we get going.We opened up with the traditional 2km TT in the pool. Before we even dived in it was apparent Heath “the fish” Thurston (I’m giving everyone nicknames on this camp) was

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If really doesn’t seem like long since the last epic, here we go again……We’re just in from the welcome dinner. The usual ribbing is taking place with sandbagging a plenty and building everyone else up, just like before a big race. There are plenty of epic vets back for this camp that know the points system intimately. So some sneaky training for bonus points is sure to be taking place over the

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Day 8 Run – 4.5km uphill race Swim 3km incl 10x200 on 2:35 (wetsuit/long course) Bike 170km The committee felt we were a little shy on run points this camp so we opened up with an uphill running race. I was feeling pretty good and took a good 2nd to Gordo. It was great to see everyone put in a big push on day 8 with plenty of heaving going on at the finish line. Performance of the day goes

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Day 7 Run 50mins Swim 3km Bike 115km incl Stevlio Pass (2772m) The pools over here are just brilliant but getting into them early morning is not possible. So we ran first with a city highlights tour then made our way to the pool. Scott said he did not want to be in the pool longer than 45mins so I said lets go with 30x100 on 1:30. The morning was a little cool and the water wasn’t quite

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Day 6 Swim 3km Run 10km race + guess your time Bike 100km incl Passo di Erbe (2004m) In an Epic first (since I’ve been involved) we were forced to pack the bikes into the van this morning and cut the first 55km off the ride. It was just pissing down with rain and with the majority of the trip to the pool downhill we would have been icicles on arrival. We do what some people consider stupid

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Day 5 Run 50mins Swim 3km Bike 60km (incl Passo Tre Coci 1989m) This morning I had to abort my attempted long run first thing as we’re still at Cortina and I just can’t run up here. I’m getting no training benefit from jogging so called it a day with my running. Today was regroup day so we just had to do the minimums. I went out with Russell and told him we’d just do a 45km loop then tack

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Day 4 – Cortina D’ampezzo Bike 110km Swim 3km Run 50mins After yesterdays brutal ride we didn’t include any major passes today. We biked from Cortina to Brunico (55km) as the pool in Cortina is shut for renovations. I was a little agitated this morning for a few reasons so after setting an easy pace up the climb out of town I settled into a good steady rhythm and pulled the group the

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Day 3 Run 10km Swim 3km (incl continuous IM set 12x100IM/150 free (no rest for 3km) Bike 160-165 (incl Passo di Feddia 2042m and Giau 2233m) If we look at epic camp Italy as a meal, day 1 was the aperitif, day 2 was the prima and day 3 was the secondi (main). We all ran to the pool this morning for our swim and Scott and I did the IM set for a bonus point. We were 50m apart (long course)

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Day 2 – Trento Swim 3km Bike 160km (with two passes) Run 50mins After yesterdays gentle introduction to the camp today’s profile on the bike was a little taster of what is to come when we hit the mountains. When I set today’s route I thought it was going to be a reasonable climb early on then some rolling terrain and some flat. I didn’t quite get it right. The thing with Trento is it’s

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Day 1 – we’re under way Run 10km easy Swim 2 x 3km #1 incl 2km TT #2 inc 200 Fly + 1000 bands only Bike 150km (incl 30km tack on and 11km uphill TT) By virtue of being the highest placed athlete from the last camp I was wearing the leaders pink jersey today. I didn’t feel I really deserved so thought I better go out and show the jersey some respect. We opened up with the

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Back in 2006 we had Epic France where I was largely acting in a support role, since then I’ve been looking forward to Epic Italy. We were supposed to come last year but my wife and I were expecting our first baby so that got canned. Scott and I have been devising the plan since and in a few days we are underway. The more I’ve researched the route we are taking the harder it looks. Last week I

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Who will take this jersey home in June?

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A beer with Mark P and Scott

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A couple of days ago someone on the camp said there’s no way they thought they could go hard because they were so tired. I jokingly said tiredness is just a figment of your imagination. Whilst I did say this in jest it’s amazing how athletes can find that little bit extra on epic camp to keep pushing hard all the way to the end of the camp. When we rolled out to Lake Hayes for the Coronet Peak

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So today’s plan was a mountain run over the Ben Lomond saddle and back to Queenstown. We expected this to take 2.5-3hrs however it turned into an epic adventure. The climb up and over the saddle was incredibly steep and long but the views were spectacular. I think it took around 1hr20 to get to the top - that was a mix of running and hiking. By the time we reached the top I had a splitting

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Run 50mins x 2 Swim 6km Bike approx 80km I got up this morning at 5:25am and headed out for a run shortly after . When I was zombie plodding along I realised I’d moved from getting significant training benefit to really benefiting my mental application. On epic you just have to get on with the job each day, the environment of the camp makes this possible. Where I think this really benefits

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Swim 3km Bike 180km (incl 12km uphill TT) Run 50mins This morning on the way to the pool there was a bit of sleeping in the van, then some more sleeping on poolside and then more sleeping on the van trip home. The epic fatigue is well and truly setting in. My body seems to be holding up well but I am getting pretty sleepy. I haven’t been sleeping too well but yesterday I cut the caffeinated

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http://epiccamp.com/newzealand08/points.htm

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