Macca on Port

Following his breakthrough sixth placing last October at the famed Hawaiian Ironman, McCormack started his early-season training a month later so he can be fresher mid-year.

But that means he has not done quite the amount of work he would normally accumulate ahead of the day-long Ironman Australia.

"If you do the heavy blocks of work this early in the season, come July-August you're toast, so I've been very, very cautious," he said.

"But I'm a little bit apprehensive this year, I don't like to start a race with any chinks in the armour and there is that element of doubt."


*From AAP news online