{"id":40,"date":"2006-10-01T23:37:45","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T13:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-12-23T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T04:49:43","slug":"2006-gold-coast-half-ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/2006-gold-coast-half-ironman\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming to the Front of the Pack at the Gold Coast Half Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week leading up to\u00a0the 2006 Cannibal Gold Coast Half Ironman<\/a> I spent with my coach Gilesy and his family at Lennox Heads. It was a relaxing week with plenty of surfing, training, and a few brews along the way.<\/p>\n

Tim Prowse and I headed up to the Gold Coast on Friday and the weather was perfect.\u00a0I woke up race day feeling very nervous with such a strong field of pros to compete against. We headed down to Coomera Waters to get ready for the race.<\/p>\n

In the swim, I tucked myself into a group and I swam a personal best of 24:06. After that, I mounted the bike feeling pretty strong, and I mixed it up with some strong riders. I came off the bike with a time of 2:20:30, feeling pretty smashed but pumped and ready for the 21-km run.<\/p>\n

It took me a bit to find my legs in the run, but running with Craig McKenzie for a few kilometres kept me motivated. Craig pulled away from me, and I dug deep to get a good result. I ran myself into 3rd place with Prowsie 12 seconds behind me in\u00a04th position.<\/p>\n

Running down the finishing line, I was lapping it up. It was awesome to have competed in such a good race with such a strong field and especially finishing with Prowsie after all the hard work we have been doing over the past couple of months.<\/p>\n

Gold Coast Half Ironman\u00a0Results: Top 10\u00a0Finish Times<\/h2>\n
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  1. Chris Mccormack 3:53:05<\/li>\n
  2. Craig Mckenzie 4:00:27<\/li>\n
  3. Tim Berkel 4:03:25<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Tim Prowse 4:03:37<\/li>\n
  5. Gareth Halverson 4:07:07<\/li>\n
  6. Peter Schokman 4:07:49<\/li>\n
  7. Clayton Fettell 4:07:52<\/li>\n
  8. Charlie Low 4:09:52<\/li>\n
  9. Klayten Smith 4:10:03<\/li>\n
  10. Stephen Hemy 4:11:03<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Athlink has\u00a0a full list of results<\/a>\u00a0and other stats for the 2006 Cannibal Gold Coast Half Ironman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[332,333,334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timberkel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}