Trinova - IM Oz handicap...

Ok, well a little different from my normal blogs I've decided to play this one for the guys heading out tomorrow to slug it out at the IM Australia in Port Macquarie. essentially this is my take on the boys taking into account the training battles and the sandbagging i've put together the list from scratch for the day. So here we go.

Before jumping into the times a bit of commentary, its been hard to pick this one having left the lads on the beaches of the Hunter and relocating to the capital, as always i've got Peter "the turtle" Clark off scratch, as much as he'd like to play down the probability, you know that regardless of where he is if there's a battle he will be digging deeper and deeper into that box of hurt with the head leaning further and further towards the shoulder and letting lose more slobber than a starving rottweiler.  So with that the turtle is on top.....

From here it gets difficult, If we go back to the last few results its hard to kind of pick who comes next from here. Nath "Narcher/The POM" Archers performance in Busso tailing the turtle by just a minute cant go un recognised, nor can the running performances of Lindsey "lindsdawg" Collision and Nat "The Native" Heath in Wanaka and Batemans Bay, not also

to mention the history with 30 sec time differences separating previous battles. So within a 5 minute period ive got the native the POM and lindsdawg vying it out... Line honors here could go either way in such a long day.... with the mind games more than well underway, there could well be some ding dong battle royals through the 42.2km marathon.

 So with the line honors duel set, the real battle against the clock gets in full swing. Its hard to go through and write a bio for all the lads from here on but a few special mentions on who i think may surprise.. Justin "Juggers" Saunders and of course coach Rod "rocket" Cook are well within striking distance at the handicap.... an i suppose Troy "Cattledog" Catalovski, depending on how much training he's done... With  all that said my thoughts are the real dark horse for the handicap honors goes to Anthony "the Foz" Foster.... taking a bit of a more relaxed approach, it may have just provided a bit more of that something to pull a big one out on the day...

So as it goes line honors, ill have to take the turtle, and handicap.... i think will be the Foz, or Juggers Saunders.

To the handicaps. here they are.... Best of luck to all the boys and Mishy.. and most off all enjoy the day!!!

Turtle SCR Nat heath 0:01 Narcher 0:03 Lindsdawg 0:05 Catalovski 1:01 Juggers 1:04 Ned Landers 1:06 Rocket 1:26 Mick Jones 1:26 Mishy 1:31 Paul Franks 1:46 The Foz 2:26 Lowrey 3:08