Ironman New Zealand

What are you talking about?

He only came sixth at Ironman New Zealand.

No, but that's the thing.

And what got sick...

correct.

So I've entered Ironman New Zealand, which is in March.

That'll be the 15th time I have done that event.

So I'm back for the 15th time.

So we thank you as well for having such a good time and doing such a great job of the race, and we do hope that you'll keep abreast of the other entries that we have because you never know what other race you can be sheltered to by Fitter Radio in the future.

I know we've got Ironman New Zealand on the radar coming up.

I

may have entered that one.

So very keen to go back there, just saying.

Well, at this point in time, I don't know whether it's the Pro Series or, I don't know, maybe Kate and Guy will probably say that now they're on the podcast, we've just got way more listeners.

But honestly, Chris was saying to me the other day, we've never had so many people enter for an event since we put the Ironman New Zealand entry up.

So I don't want that to disappoint you, but you just never know.

Nowhere near a Kona qualification, like I said, had heaps more in the tank.

I ended up on a phone call with Matt and told him that I'd now do Ironman New Zealand in 12 weeks time and pull a rabbit out of a hat.

And Matt being Matt said, you're absolutely dreaming, which I was.

And then we agreed on Busso 2026.

one.

I can relate.

Literally, I joined TPP in As I was training for Ironman New Zealand, kind of when it was just Matt as the coach, I came in as the second one and I, like, all of a sudden, I'm like, holy shit, like, where is my time type thing? And, like, it's just seasons of life.

And I think I spoke to you when you first joined Zoe in terms of kind of, like, my experience of managing, obviously, before I got made redundant, my full-time job as well as my own training and then athletes as well.

And then he's sixth in the world.

And I'm like, well, if you had had an Ironman New Zealand that was the world championship course, I think he would have won a world title.

I would have won an Ironman world title.

I mean, he already had heaps of world titles.

As a professional.

So, yeah, we're really hoping that gets approved and then I can race.

First one we're targeting would be Ironman New Zealand next year.

Nice.

Well, I'm going to be passing this one over.

We just off air, we started in saying, look, last race I did was Ironman New Zealand in 2015.

So I'm a little bit out of practice here.

I have done over a hundred of these things.

There are contextual factors, but...

Yeah.

Last one I did Ironman New Zealand, it was like, it was almost a kilometer run up from the lake up to the top.

Right.

So March is typically a pretty busy month of racing with T100, Gold Coast.

You've got Ironman New Zealand.

There's so much going on.

So sort of trying to pick your battles there.

My partner Sam was also racing there, and a lot of the people I was training with were there as well, and it was just pretty cool.

And then I spoke to some people there, and they're like, oh, we're doing Ironman New Zealand next year.

We're going to do a camp before and do it.

And I was like, you know what? I'm

And it was in that 60 days, I dreamt up the Seven Continents Project and spent the last, you know, or the next two, three years doing it.

I did Ironman New Zealand.

I'm remembering...

I'm remembering the road being a bit bumpy.