CAMERON BROWN – RACING UPDATE AND BESTOWED HIGH HONORS

“Well I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years and have fully recovered from your celebrations. It was the usual quiet night for me but a very special day on the 1st of January with being awarded a New Years honours for services to Triathlon with a New Zealand Order of Merit, a very prestigious award. I will be receiving the award in February at a special presentation so I’ll have to dust off the best suit for this. December started off racing the Taupo 70.3 Ironman event, I was in good form leading into the race, but I had blocked sinuses before the race and 100m into the swim I could not breath and had to stop to regather myself and regroup. It was not a nice experience and I was one second away from pulling out. I lost too much time in the swim and ended up finishing in 8th place and tried to turn it into a solid training day. ”

If you would like to read more about Cameron Brown’s achievement, use the links below:

TVNZ – TV Coverage from January 1st
SPORTSTUFF NZ
NZHerald

“Last week I raced at the Mount Maunganui sprint Triathlon which is an old favourite of mine having competed in this race since 1990: I think I have won the event some 10 times. It’s a tough-ask stepping down to this distance when you are competing against the best under 23 athletes in the country who specialize in this short distance. I had the lead off the bike, but with a slow transition and the speed these guys ran over 5km, made it to hard to win. I was pretty happy to finish 3rd only 40secs down, especially when you know you’re old enough to be their father and have 25yrs on them! It showed I have some good form for the weekend which was the main reason to race and gain some confidence.”