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Is there any need to say more? 8 Kg of carbon sex!
Kinetic-One and its in blue, it matches my team… Everton Where is the delete key?
Want one? http://www.kinetic-one.co.uk/
Does my bum look big on this?
18 Friday Jan 2013
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Its about time to start
18 Friday Jan 2013
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Cancer, Colin Smith, headcase, ironman, Nice, Tony Russell, triathlon
After more than 22 triathlons and half Ironman races one would think it would be a natural progression perhaps to start stepping up the training for the double or quits. And there is a valid case for the observation that this may be the last viable year to do it. 55 years years old, knackard knees and now other, granted unnecessary at this stage, organs are giving up the ghost. So do or die.
But Christmas is a funny time of year in the City of London, a series of necessary business lunches and evening drinks gatherings, so a steady routine of swimming in the morning and where at ll possible an evening cycle. Then make up the shortfall at the weekend, that should be ok and in the New year we take matters seriously. Agreed?
But first let’s shop….
But why?
18 Friday Jan 2013
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Cancer, Colin Smith, Dan Russell, headcase, ironman, Nice, Tony Russell, triathlon
So what’s this all about…….well some of you will know, some wont, but a good buddy Colin ( a true blue – we have shared some great blue moments over the past few years with our group ) has been diagnosed with a brain tumour, type GBM 4, last August.
Prognosis is not good. Terminal 14-18 months from diagnosis.
With the exception of the brainstem gliomas, GBM has the worst prognosis of any central nervous system (CNS) tumour, despite multimodality treatment consisting of surgical resection of as much of the tumor as possible, followed by:
- This brain Tumour kills 5000 people a year
- concurrent or sequential chemoradiotherapy,
- antiangiogenic therapy,
- gamma knife radiosurgery, and
- symptomatic management with corticosteroids. Prognosis is poor, with a median survival time of approximately 14 months
Headcase Cancer Trust provides funding to The Cellular and Molecular Neuro-Oncology Research Group at Portsmouth University. The Group is led by Professor Geoff Pilkington.
It is the There is a ton more info and stats on this disease, which will be shared with you but for now Colin is keen to raise money for the only charity that is looking to find a cure, 100% of all money goes to the research programme, and therefore it’s a great cause. The charity is HEADCASE, anyhow in order to raise funds this father an son (Dan) team are going to have a go at completing an Ironman in Nice……There will be a just-giving site for your convenience but by whatever means the aim is 30k, its a big ask… but hey so is an Ironman!
24 weeks to the event so time to get going………
Is this as insane as it sounds
18 Friday Jan 2013
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bike, Cancer, Colin Smith, headcase, ironman, Nice, Tony Russell, triathlon
When you are sitting enjoying a well earned pint of cold beer at the end of November’s Lanzarote’s half ironman, after 6 hrs 48 minutes hours of nuttyness it would normally be the last thing on ones mind, but no, as muscles returned to sense of normality a light-bulb moment occurred about a week later… why not do twice as much.
Afterall the knees had only had a fifth clear out Arthroscopy, then a small matter of an appendix removal halted training for a few days but hey, why not? But when deciding in November to do something mad, “next year” it just seems to far away.
So competitors Tony and Dan from Harpenden and Dubai now have father and son competition and support and no possibility of chickening out!
Headcase Ironman 