Specialized Venge - Time Lapse Video

It's about time I did another video so below is my latest effort. I'm planning on shooting a lot more videos of training/racing/life so please subscribe to my youtube channel if you wish to be kept updated.

Mansfield Primary School visit

This week I headed to Mansfield Primary School along with Queensland Firebirds netball player Amy Steel to do a q&a session with the year 6 and 7 students. The afternoon was all about raising awareness for MP Phil Reeves initiative to get more kids to enrol in local sporting programs. All in all it was a great afternoon and really enjoyable. Some of the kids questions were quite interesting and my top 3 would have to be the following.

1) Do you like pingpong?
2) What sport do you hate?
3) Would you ever play netball?

Scody 2012 Race Suit

If you've been following me on twitter then you might have noticed I've been posting on my trips to one of my sponsors SCODY I've had the chance to work with the team on the Australian elite race suit as well as having a custom designed suit made for myself (stay tuned for this). Its great to have a sponsor who is committed to getting a race suit to fit perfectly and willing to explore state of the art materials to get the fit and function to an industry leading level.

It's a great setup they have going with everything done 'in house' so the time from design to completion is very quick.

A blast from the past - 2010 ITU World Championship Series, Sydney

I've been going though some old videos lately and found this clip of my first ever ITU Dextro Energy World Championship Series event in Sydney from 2010.

Specialized bikes actually used some of the clip for one of their promo videos as well (I cant seem to find that clip online anymore). Some good tv coverage but not the smartest race from yours truly.

QAS Training Camp Video

3 weeks of training and hours of footage cut down into about 16 minutes for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy

Christmas eve swim session

Christmas eve swim sets in our squad are usually notoriously long (typically 100X100's) however this year we had a more relaxed session of 500 metre efforts after a long 3 weeks at the training camp i previously blogged about.

 Coach Mossy's son Charlie giving assistant QAS coach Josh his present

 Charlie getting his from Josh.

 Sam Speechly being Sam Speechly

 Group shot.

QAS camp 2011 - a pictorical

The QAS December camp has been somewhat of a pilgrimage for me over the last 6 years. Usually 2-3 weeks of long steady km's. This year however I was sidelined for the majority of the training still trying to over come my 2nd stress fracture for the year. I managed to do a few swims here and there and made use of my downtime by putting together a video of the camp and also snapping the odd photo.

Below are a few happy snaps from the camp. Stay tuned for the video which I will post up soon.

On the last day we headed to skirmish/paintball. Dan Wilson copped a good one to the face and head. 

 Sam Speechly

Photo's from the BBQ on the final night.