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The Sun is out!

Gavin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:01:48 +0000

Its been a long, cold winter here in Detroit. My training is behind, I””m over my goal weight for racing.

But the Sun is out and my focus is back, watch out people.

ITU Long Distance World Championship 2009

Gavin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:01:11 +0000

One day to go before I race with Team USA in the long course world championships!

Preparation has been going well and I have enjoyed a relaxing time both in San Diego and then Perth Australia. If you are interested in tracking my progress you should be able to do so at the following Web Site - Click Here I have been assigned the number 723.

Here are some pictures both from training back in San Diego and Perth. Enjoy.

San Diego 101 coastal highway, it was great to be back.

Lesley and myself returned to LaJolla Shores where we got married and watch the sun set over the ocean.

My “Standard” Sized car rental

Just one of many fantastic views along the swan river leading out to the coast.

View of swan river from my hotel.

Transition area is ready for 700+ elite level athletes to move in tomorrow morning starting at 5am.

A little hard to make out, but this was the opening ceremony with Crowie the recent repeat Ironman World Champion.

Anyway, back to relaxing in preparation for tomorrows race.

Multisport Bill

Gavin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:00:23 +0000

Hi all, I”ve been busy training in prep for ITU Long course world champs in Perth and this has taken up most of my free time. I was able to work in a few Olympic races after racine, placing 5th, 2nd and 1st respectively so I must be doing something right

Another change I made this year was a new bike, Jamis Xenith T1, I won”t bore you with picture of this carbon rockey machine, but here is pic of Multisport Bill, his wife Val and Dave Zabriski at interbike 09, vegas.

Cav rocks a 5th stage in Le Tour!

Gavin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:12:03 +0000

History is made as Cavendish stays strong on the climb up to the finish then takes the stage win in long sprint effort to the line and has the most stage wins of any Brit!

Must see fixie video

Gavin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:37:00 +0000

http://www.kottke.org/09/04/parkour-on-a-bicycle

Spirit of Racine

Gavin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:37:03 +0000

Perfect PR conditions made for a great race!

I had a solid race at racine in good conditions, still plenty of room for improvement though.

Total - 4:21:07 - 41st O””””all (1207)
Swim - 25:25 (152)- I had a good swim but not 25min good, it was short and had a current.
Bike - 2:18:10, 24.3 (13) - Solid ride, could have gone faster with better pacing as I got a little carried away on some of the rolling hills racing people.
Run - 1:34:28 (7:13) - Apart from a early stop at a porta john I was feeling really good on the run, paced out the 1st lap and then picked it up a lot of the second lap. Got to the finish with a sprint and feeling way to good, should have gone harder on the first lap. I want to be able to run 1:25 or faster of a bike like this.

41 M 661 Gavin Nunns 31 152 25:25 2:02 13 2:18:10 24.3 1:05 87 1:34:28 7:13 4:21:07

All in all a great race, really enjoyed my self and felt great the whole time, always nice to get a positive PR. Plus I know I have at least pound to drop to be at proper race wait and that will make a difference across the board.

Le Tour de France!

Gavin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:46:58 +0000

The excitment builds http://www.letour.fr/indexus.html

New Bike….Jamis Xenith T1

Gavin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:31:58 +0000

Thanks to Gary (Red Army) for putting me in touch with Bill Linnerman founder of Missionbay multisport and a rich part of Triathlons childhood. Bill had some stock that he was selling off which included a 2008 Jamis Xenith T1 that just happened to be in my size…..well I was looking to retire the 10+ year old softride so I jumped at the chance, it was also a supper deal!

Golly Gosh its been busy….

Gavin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:18:44 +0000

Since my last post I have done lots of racing, training and working. My brother-in-law got married and my parents came to visit at the same time, lots of fun it was great to see them looking fit and healthy.

On the blog side I have added a new page that displays live video from my phone when I record it and also lets you see where I am in the world…….I get about.

I also have a ton of photos some pushed up to flickr some soon to be posted there. Due to spam I have had to stop comments being posted.

Weather is getting warmer, training is going well..

Gavin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:25:54 +0000

Its finally started to warm up here in Michigan, the sun is poking its head out from behind the clouds now and then.

Last weekend was my first multisport race of the season, the Steelcase Duathlon hosted in Grand Rapids by 3D.

It was a solid field that turned up which made for a fun and challenging race. I got to race test the team uniform getting a team shout out from the race director. The suit is like a second skin, I love it! My race went well, couple of solid runs with a steady bike, hopefully the next couple of weeks of bike focus and speed/tempo efforts will help beat some solid bike fitness back into my legs.

Team member Greg Howard, tore the course up and ran away with the overall race victory. I was happy to run down a bike TT specialist in the last ½ mile to pick up 4th O’all and my age group win.

Numbers…..

595 Gavin Nunns - 31 M
Run 1: 17:10 (5:32)
T1-0:31
Bike : 3 48:30 23.0
T2-0:23
Run 2: 17:49 (5:45)
Overall Time: 1:24:22