Woohoo! I won! It was 2 years and 3 attempts coming, but I secured a victory in East London on Sunday finally - and it felt good for sure. It’s not easy to win a race these days, so I am more than happy with how I coped on race day to do just that.

Breaking [...]

Swim: 23:15
Bike: 2:23:48
Run: 1:17:41
Total: 4:07:54

 
Congratulations to Fraser!
Great run on a tough course!
Wonderful way to start the 2010 season!
More results at Ironman.com, and a race report at Ironman 70.3 South Africa website.

Participating in the Press Conference on Friday avo - evidently deep in listening mode!!

Phew .. after a whirlwind last few days in the Shire I have arrived in Stellenbosch; my winter home from home.

It was hard leaving home this time, much harder than it has been on previous trips away and sitting in Heathrow Terminal 5 on Xmas Eve alone is not something I would stick on a [...]

There is a Q and A type interview online at tri247.com talking about my race last w/e and a few other bits and pieces.
Have a read if you want at tri247.com.

So the racing has begun - 2009 is well under way and I’m delighted to have kicked it off with a 2nd place on Sunday in Buffalo City, East London. I started to get a little ahead of myself around 30k on the bike - got a tad excited shall I say, as I reckoned [...]

Fraser Cartmell just finished Ironman 70.3 South Africa in second position, only 2 minutes 3 seconds behind last year’s winner Raynard Tissink (raynardtissink.com).
Fraser’s splits:
SWIM: 22:36
BIKE: 2:21:48
RUN: 1:16:28
TOTAL: 4:04:07
Results are available at ironman.com.
PS This is Nikola, Frasers web support

I’m in East London now after flying up the coast from Cape Town yesterday morning. I travelled up with Blair, who as I said has been out here with me for a couple weeks plus my training buddy in Stellenbosch, Tim Don. Our bikes and gear all rolled off the bagage belt in one piece and [...]

The last week, which spanned last year and this new one, has been solid. It had to be, given the week off I had whilst spending Christmas away plus the extra enforced lay off due to mangled big toes…..