A photo and text tour of endurance sport in NZ and abroad, and snippets of my training and racing as a New Zealand representative triathlete and MeoGP rider. Follow my progress towards the 2013 Ford Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Proudly sponsored by Ricoh and Armstrong Sport. Heart, Legs and Lungs.

Heart, Legs and Lungs.

Porte gets in the zone. “There is something exquisite about the rigors of going contre le montre, thanks to the subtle nature of inflicting the-world-is-gonna-end pain on oneself via a personal mind-body tourniquet. It is masochism at its most graceful. Racing against the watch is where you employ every legal wind-cheating, time-saving trick you have up your skin-tight sleeve. Go for the big gains first, and then move on to the increasingly marginal, all in an attempt to leave no effort wasted, no blood vessel unharmed.”
Jul 1

Porte gets in the zone.

“There is something exquisite about the rigors of going contre le montre, thanks to the subtle nature of inflicting the-world-is-gonna-end pain on oneself via a personal mind-body tourniquet. It is masochism at its most graceful. Racing against the watch is where you employ every legal wind-cheating, time-saving trick you have up your skin-tight sleeve. Go for the big gains first, and then move on to the increasingly marginal, all in an attempt to leave no effort wasted, no blood vessel unharmed.”