Melbourne Musings

I was lucky enough to be in Melbourne on the weekend, and was part of the 100,000 crowd at ST Kilda rto watch Emma and Brad and Robbo’s battle with Docherty. Declan, Steph and I were sitting on the finish line and transition. Absolutely spectacular, Emily was some where as well.

How fast was Carter’s bike to run transition, he did a Welchy, using the platforms on the bike. Not sure if everybody knows but Welchy did the exact same thing to win the world duathlon champs, no bike shoes, just runners and platform pedals. Got the 20m lead and held it. Thankfully Brad and Robbo smashed him.

Biggest disappointment was that Norfok Island failed to show up at the triathlon. Our two Norfok representatives could’ve had the glory of battling with Jersy and Guernsy (who actually went sub 2 hrs!!!).

Greatest thrill was the triathlete from a small island starting with M. Not sure if it was caught on tv (IT WAS - WE HAVE THE TAPE), but his wetsuit ripped right next to his zipper and he couldn’t get it off. He was about to throw it in and the crowd spurt him on and after about a minute he finally got it off to a bigger cheer than Brad winning.

Yesterday Gina got us tickets to the MCG and witnessed that amazing finish. I have seen some pretty inspirational things and that was up there just behind the Socceroos winning a spot in the world cup. As Declan said it was like the Forster finish x 1000. Personally I thought the Kenyan woman was scared, if she won she would’ve have been killed by the crowd.

All up Declan, Steph, Gina and I went to 5 finals and saw 4 Aussie Gold including Womens Gymnastics.

GO AUSTRALIA!!!!

Back at training Tuesday if I decide to get up. See ya then

Dingo