<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>0:24 well triathlons are something which <.>j <.>gra graduated on from running i was into um i was encouraged by my brothers really that's that'd be the main point my brothers were into marathons and so i sort of got pulled along after a while to small races ten k races duathlons which is a bit of biking bit of running bit easier to begin with and then um triathlons which is <.>the the swimming bit as well with the biking and running <{><[>but <.>th <.>th the main thing i go for now is called what you call multisport where you put in kayaking in with running and biking now that's what i actually prefer at the moment <&>1:00 <[>mhm you prefer that at the moment <{><[>word <[>er yeah yeah yeah cos i'm not a very good swimmer laughs like me what are the challenges <.>o <.>o of this sport piripi what you know you must get some sort of a buzz some sort of a challenge at the end of an event what is it what is that high er yeah i wish i could remember most of my highs i think come from the actual the training programme i i put myself through and <.>i it's a goal you give yourself to complete these different events but you're actually against yourself it's a fitness thing but it's to complete events um comfortably within er sort of <.>m a time you may give yourself or indeed i've lately taken to doing them with my son who is just eighteen he turns eighteen very soon and um it's a competition with someone as young as him oh it's a big competition i tell you awesome at times i must say he <&>2:00 sneaks away a bit on the bike but um i've got the legs on him in the running <,> tut ne are these events held er around the country quite often um voc most of the ones the the running events um every every harrier or running club has marathons or half marathons run in their areas recently or in more recent years there have been other groups who have like the police who have actually got a triathlon club and other groups like there's a multisport club in wellington that runs these events right throughout the year so you'll get them in winter as well as summer and so er you can have swims um in the winter though more people participate in these things in during the summer but they're right year round <.>s the bigger events the multisport events um the key ones are like the mountains to the sea from mount ruapehu down the wanganui river er that one comes on er labour weekend um each year and then you have coast to coast which is from kumara on tut the west coast of the south <&>3:00 island over to sumner past christchurch and that's in february of each year but there are certain big events which are always held and you actually do your training calendar based on er the bigger events so you can er peak i'd say your peak to me is like you're not actually absolutely stuffed by the time you get there they <{><[>say good training is when you're actually um you know pretty tired most of the time but it's a good tiredness it's not a er you know sort of <[>mm mm bad tiredness we'll get into this training training er area piripi <,> what is the amount of time you can put in per week per month in training for a particular event exhales well voc initially they say for marathons that you should be getting up er in your training of marathons and doing something like er over a over a week you need to be doing at least say sixty ks er a week now a marathon is only something like forty two ks but you'd <&>4:00 actually should be piling on the ks during the week now <.>ac to go out like that and the average time you'd get for an average person would be something like five minute ks is about er what my average is most times i'm a bit er faster than that so if you put that together you're spending out each day at least an hour or so out in training and that's just for running if you want to put in cycling with that you got to add in at least an hour a day cycling most people can't fit it all in so what i tend to do is i've got a trainer a wind trainer at home put it up on wheels you know and you give that an hour each night i've taken now to running to work or cycling to work so i can put it in i've always done running each day so you put in cycling about an hour each day and then you got to do paddling and you got to find time to get paddling in during the week and the only time you've got during winter months really is mornings or evenings after work tut um both times it's dark er you really need to go out with someone else i <&>5:00 wouldn't advise anyone doing any paddling on their own and er so i'd go out in porirua harbour's where i go out in titahi bay um six o clock say er i try to get out three times a week at the moment my son and i aren't doing very well on that but on the weekends you would try and get out and give yourself at least a two hour paddle at least once a week <{><[>so and you build this up as you come nearer the event where you would be doing something er of the order of at least three three hours a day in one of those disciplines <[>mm disciplines right you're meant to have a day off too that's the other thing i forgot meant to have a day for your body to to <{><[>recover i find that hard to actually have a day off er like i had a day off on sunday so i didn't run or cycle i just paddled for two hours <[>word right that's a <{><[>day off <[>what about food intake piripi the <{><[>type of food <[>very important um er well pasta is the big deal um you got to have sort of a high carbo loading they call it carbo stacking sort of er food regime so you get into a lot of pasta my <&>6:00 particular one is to stock up on pasta about two three weeks before a major event and i will just have pasta no meat cut out all the meat i always have a lot of vegetables er for my meal i have a big breakfast a cereal breakfast and i've <.>la taken lately to um porridge to a thing called fruit porridge love it my son and i go through heaps of the stuff um that as well as say muesli weetbix <.>f <.>f <.>f for a fill just during the day um fruit i'll have a just have a fruit lunch it's the only thing i have after my runs plenty of liquids i'll probably go through about two litres of er fluid mainly water each day big meal at night pasta lots of vegetables rice fish not so much of the meats or chicken to me celebrating after an event is to actually have some meat but i've gone off meat in recent years anyway <{1><[1>so that's <{2><[2>the sort of <&>7:00 <.>f er regime some people go in for more um complex sort of um diets but swallows yeah they get too fancy and mostly when you want to go out and be er sociable with people you can always get pasta somewhere or something like that you <{3><[3>know <[1>mm <[2>mm <[3>oh right okay piripi it's the day before an important event oh i'm stuffed how does one prepare the mind you know er <.>w what's going through your mind <{><[>before you actually start an event <[>well well actually <.>i i've psyched myself up for my event so i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm psyching now for the coast to coast in february next year i'm doing it right now um i i work months beforehand for these things the day beforehand you can't even get through to me i'm tut i'm away with the fairies um everything has got to be prepared so your support team is just as important as you are and you've got to make sure that your support team knows exactly er where bikes where running shoes are going to be in the transitions if you're doing a multisport event you're gonna have to change your gear so the gear you have <&>8:00 has got to make sure that it's the stuff you've trained in so you don't introduce any new gear on <.>a on a race day er you have your tired old sort of shorts and whatever's worked <.>f with you heaps of vaseline um <.>for for irritations and rubs and things and that um your supporters are ready and you're ready MAINtenance of your gear is is the key thing that everything's just right so you spend a lot of time on that last day just making sure the bike's tuned up well and that the bike shop did the right job if you're getting them to do it um all your gear works well you've got the changes for your lens i mean you get into all sorts of things for your for your glasses and things like that cos cos i wear glasses most of the time i'm terrified of running with actually out anything <.>p protecting my eyes so i wear contact lenses now so i discovered that you could actually go and er you know run in the rain but those sorts of things you make sure everything is there and you're right now you can tell from that you're <.>getting you're fairly psyched up so <,> <.>you you're a bit unbearable laughs <&>9:00 to tell the truth and during the event um you <.>you you will miss certain things you will actually sometimes not know where the people are in the transition people have been known to take wrong turnings um you know people er will run back out the way they came you can get quite disorientated <.>wi after with a long event if you've been going one of the later ones was a triathlon in palmerston north and that was a tut eight and a half hours i'm proud to say i was the last one in until someone pipped the post he actually went past <.>th the finish post in the paddle and he went out past palmerston north and <.>fe er finished out at opiki and he didn't realise that he'd passed the end so i actually came second last but that was eight and a half hours and er you know <.>in after that sort of time you know when you <.>tran in the transition period you're pretty tired and you can sometimes um er go the wrong way you give your bike to your support person to <.>a to grab while you you throw your gear off and if they don't you know grab it the bike just falls over you know and <&>10:00 you can get pretty brassed off at that so voc your your language is a bit colourful at times but the support people are meant to support you man <.>an and er at the end of it they'll let you know sort of you know what a person you were to live with and all the training what do people mean what <.>do what do the <.>th the experts mean by hitting the wall <&>drawled groan oh yeah the wall i've climbed all over the <{1><[1>wall i didn't know what it meant until i found it in a marathon er it was my first marathon and we were doing fine up to about thirty ks i was running with my brother and it was good and he was really good and as we went through the first mark this is out er mangaroa which has got some sort of hills in it there and went through the first mark the first um half marathon <.>g that was great went out twenty ks how are you going says oh and i'm all right you know steady into it thirty ks that's the bit where it sort of starts to hit you well it just hit me with a big rush suddenly i was just um i didn't know it was like <.>you if you hit something and i had my whole body slow down my metabolism went <&>11:00 crazy and actually my eyes i had trouble seeing word describe it now you <{2><[2>wonder why these people <{3><[3>do it all through it i wanted to carry on but he was aware that you know i was getting fairly um dazed so we'd had a fair amount of liquid then so we slowed right down and he talked me through it and i just wanted to give up lie down whatever and he talked me through it and sort of said well just go slowly then just go slowly you know he didn't want me to start walking you see and so i just swallows got down to a sort of barely crawling pace and he talked me really through that i didn't quite know um where i was i knew i was on this road but you know i knew why i was doing it and i wanted to finish but everything else just wasn't sort of functioning <.>my my breathing <.>we <.>w went all all all light was terrible actually he talked me through it and um i came through i finished that one that was my first marathon <&>12:00 that was three hours forty and um <.>th that appears to be pretty good well i went out for my next one on that one determined to crack it the next year did three hours fifty you know got a whole lot of cramp so the wall is something which is just there and um you got to experience it i think you know to to do it voc once you've done that i think you can sort of say to yourself well okay what could be worse than that and that's the way i look at it what can be worse than that tell you what can be worse is cramp that i got the next year but it was nothing like that wall i mean cramp was just something which i needed to take more fluids on prepare better for it and it appears i'm just a wee bit sort of vulnerable to cramp and actually stop and do stretches and i didn't i sort of tried to carry on like a hero and sort of paid for it i was screaming out to people you got any lollies any sugar i was just craving some um some glucose and i got it in the end and and i recovered but i was down to a sort of a hobble and then i got going to a walk and then a then a run again but that was three fifty and that was that was probably more painful than the wall <&>13:00 <[1>laughs <[2>mm <[3>mm