Graham and Candice lined up last weekend at the inaugural Challenge Cairns. Situated in tropical Queensland it ended up being a beautiful course and scorcher of a day. Graham had his trademark excellent swim to come out of the water with super swimmer Clayton Fettell and a gap of over 3mins back to Chris McCormack the current and two times Ironman World Champion. It was over 5mins back to the main chase groups of Berkel, White, Whyte and...

I recently lined up with over 1800 athletes at the recent IM Brasil. I had good swim coming out in the lead group with all the contenders over the M shaped bike course. Onto to the bike and the legs were not firing like they have been and I struggled to stay in contact with the South American hitters. Out on to the run in about 8-9th place and I picked up a few guys including Oscar Galendiz, the past champion and was in 6th at the 21k mark....