timtufuga's Journal in October 2007
| The rats come out of the sewers. Current mood: awake Category: Life I am currently tapering now and have one week to go before the triathlon. I have just done my last transition two (t2) session on Saturday and will only ride and swim till the Noosa triathlon. In ther homefront, however, I have had the rats come out of the sewers and revealing themselves at long last. I heard a couple of voices in front of my home and walked outside to investigate and a couple of white men, whom I did recognise as local Crestmead white men, they were walking along Wallace Street, and were making Gorilla impressions in front of my house as they were looking at me whilst doing their apelike impressions. There was a white man probably around 5 ft 9 inches in height black hair cut neat and short, clean shaven. He often rides on a trail motorbike. He is solid and athletically built. He had a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance. His partner is a around 5 ft 10 inches in height, blond hair, with a small pot belly, solid but average physique. He is quiet and does not say anything to me. It was the drunked loud mouth dark haired Mediteranean/Arab looking man that was doing the apelike impressions and said that if I responded to his taunts he would call the police on me. Instead, I called the police myself and reported the incident. The response was strange. Instead of the police arriving, a white utility car arrived with some four white men drinking beers who disemabrked from the ute and walked up and down the street drinking their beers nonchalantly. This looked like something out of "Mississippi Burning". I have now considered that the police is, in fact, responsible for the racial abuse I have been receiving, and, the fact that I called the police to inform them of the incident, and then having a car load of rednecks arriving instead seemed to confirm this fact more. My crying wolf has not been a lie and this has confirmed this truism. Atonu ua fa'amoutinoa le tulaga o lea ua fa'aaliali mai, ua le toe fefefe le tama papalagi i le fa'ali mai lo latou fa'ailoga lanu. Ua o mai i luma o lo'u fale ma ua faifai ma ua pei o maguki ma kolila lo latou fa'alili mai o a'u. Ma ua fai mai le tamoa papalagi ma ulu se'ea aluli, "ia outou ai tou fa'i", ae fai mai le fa'ita'iiga fa'a kolila. e pei o le kilikiki i le faifaiga a Initia, ia Andrew Symonds, ua fai mai ia papalagi ia te a'u i luma o lo'u fale. I have considered this situation as serious enough to confirm that racism is not a lame excuse for my imperfect triathlon performance, it is a certainty! Ia soifua tatou. Tim Brian Tufuga |
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AMS has rejected my membership for 2007-08 with no reason.
Well, I find it incredulous but Aggression Multi-Sport has declined my membership with no reason at all. I still ride around with my AMS shirt though. I am not an AMS member though becuase of Jimmy Pitman the club secretary's decision. It is a single man's decision which makes no sense whatsoever. I can only conclude that the AMS administration are racist. Therefore, as the only Samoan on the club who has been declined membership I will compete as an individual competitor unaffiliated with any club. Therefore, I will compete only as a Samoan New Zealander. I will support any other Pacific Islander competing in the Noosa triathlon and we should all network together here in Brisbane to form a club of our own! Ray Pogi, ia a tonu e taua le tatou fa'a lotonu'u, aua le fa'ailoga lanu a tagata papalagi. Meet you in Noosa Ia manuia Samoa mo Samoa Tim Brian Tufuga |
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It is getting back to the groove. serious training for Noosa now. I have had a number of distractions from my triathlon training schedule but, I'm not a machine. So I have been trying to focus on the task at hand and the Noosa triathlon has been my primary concern now as it is for thousands of Australian, New Zealand, and other Pacific Islander triathletes, contemplating doing the Noosa triathlon in a couple of weeks time. Over 2,350 triathletes have been accepted to partake in the Noosa triathlon, the acceptance list was unusually full two months out from the triathlon, which means that many triathletes were turned away from competing in the 2007 Noosa triathlon. The Noosa triathlon is Australia's premiere triathlon event and is easily the biggest event on the triathlon calender in Queensland. This triathlon event would only be rivalled by the Geelong triathlon, deep south of the border, in Victoria, but this is cold and miserable Victoria. However, even the Victorians would be wanting to come over to picturesque Noosa for a go at the course. I have mentioned serious training for the Noosa and yet I have lacked all the swim time, the running distances, and time on my bikeride, due to other disruptions. My brick sessions, that is cycling then running off my bike, have been haphazard and very annoyingly disrupted with robberies. This week I had my lawnmower breaking down, had my garden tools pinched, and other weird events around my house, such as my kettle blown up, forsing me to buy another one, the ghosts in the neighbourhood have made my prep. very much a psywarfare engagement. My bike has a mind of its own and seems to go out of wack whilst I'm riding out on the open road. My $195 bikeservice on my Specialized roadbike, has improved the performance on my bike ever so slightly, giving me an additional 3kph on average on the open road. It is a alot when compared to what I was doing before. My Vittoria Open Corsa EVO tyres are very slick and fast but I need to work on the right tyre pressure still for optimal speed and efficiency on the road. I have to select the right tyre tube as well. Flyweight tyre tubes do blow out easily and other tyre tubes, although heavier, are less likely to burst on the open road. I have to think of everything since I am, in truth, my own coach. Nutrition side of things, well, it is Endura and other yummy lollies form the chemist, for rehydration, energy and sustaining my long distance cycling/running and swimming, without blowing a gasket. I have been close on a number of occassions I can assure you of that, in the pool, I have been having problems with cadence setting as per usual. Alex Popov youtube swimming lessons have been helpful but doing the same stroke for 1,500 metres is a real heartbreaker, I would have blown all my cyclinders by the five hundred metre mark with his swim action, probably record a world record as well for my 39 year age group. Needless to say, with so many people swimming it will be difficult to set a PB because of the slow swimmers obstructing the more pacy swimmers in the initial madness of triathlon swimming starts. Body slamming, fists flayling, and kicking, in every which way, it is a real close quarter contact situation in the swim leg until the five hundred metre mark is reached. Then when you still have the energy after the madness, and after the rough up in the start, you are able to reach your swimming cadence at long last and then you realise how worn down you are when pacy swimmers from the next wave creep up on you and swim casually past you, insulting you with their arrogant kick that slaps turbulent whitewater waves in your face. Ahh... the 30-34 age groupers are in the water already???? Did it take me that long??? Damn!!! Mind you the leaders of this pack would do a sub 21 minute swim times for the 1500 and just to prove it they show you how? It becomes very disheartening for the average swimmer doing a mere 26mintue for a 1500 but then again you have come ahead of about half of your age group and in truth you are in the middle of the pack but not the last man out of the water, you know the one doing "breaststroke". The bike leg is where technology rules supreme. The zipp wheelsets and mavic wheelsets will dominate proceedings. The less fortunate amongst us will have inferior, weightier wheelsets, entry level really, and you would have to contend with a an average bikeride even if you are a very good cyclist. It is incumbent upon the more serious triathlete to have Zipp wheelsets and or mavics otherwise you really are out of the contest here. As for me, well, I have the next best thing from the entry level wheelsets, which is a Velocity Spartacus wheelset which is competitive enough to render a respectable time without investing a couple of thousands more on Zipp wheelsets. The road run will bring the leveller back to triathlon truism, when all the tests of swimming, and cycling, has been and gone the road run is the true endurance facet that will reveal the triathlete in his/her true self. It is painful, monotonous and grinding and you feel every sinew ache on your body and you have to cancel the pain threshold out of your mind. You look up at markers ahead on the roadside, and say to yourself I have to reach that, and around a corner you see another landmark marker, and you say to yourself I have to reach that. Before you know it you are glancing up at the cheering, or jeering crowds, and you see the finish chute and you feel the new lease of energy and you want to quicken your pace in the last five hundred metres and your legs feel like collapsing beneath you but the finish is what motivates you more. Then you look up at the clock and you feel so deflated with your finish time. DAMN! that slow???!!! Well, It is not the preview to the Noosa triathlon, but it is my Mooloolaba triathlon 2007 in review. I had edited the gory details. See you at the start line in the Noosa triathlon SUCKERS!!! Tim Brian Tufuga |
| Nasty people have attacked me again. Now my lawnmower has been saboutaged and no longer works. Current mood: cranky Category: Life I have had my bag, wallet, running shoes and mobile phone stolen, then it was returned. I had my money taken though. so Troy is still a thief. Neeless tosay, I have been watching the Hawaiian Ironman and saw Chris McCormack win the event finally, then somehow, today, when I was mowing my lawns someone has saboutaged my lawnmower by adding something in the fuel mix. Very nasty indeed people, very nasty. The lawnmower is stuffed big time which means that this is another $550 down the tube because someone and some people really have it for me. Once again who are my rivals in the Noosa triathlon again? Hmmm, Karaka, a Maori, is from Wellington, New Zealand, Ray Pogi, a Samoan, is from Samoa, then that means I'm the local competitor here. So who is the nasty, nasty person responsible for the dirty deeds? I'm the only Samoan in this area, and the only Crestmead competitor doing the Noosa triathlon, there is no one else in the Noosa Triathlon from my area? So, who is the eggplant? O ai ea le tagata ai valea o lea fai ma lama fua o a'u? O lenei fo'i ua fa'a leaga fo'i la'u moa vao ele tagata amio leaga. Ua uma ona gaoia la'u ato ma se'evae tamo'e ele tagata ula vale. O ai ea le tagata amio leaga iinei? Ua ou fa'apea o se tagata o lo'o tautava ma a'u i le Noosa Triathlon. O lea ua ou masalosalo o se tagata Maoli aua o lea e iai le tama Maoli o lana igoa o Karaka Tuhakarina, o lana lalafaga e sau mai Ueligitone, i Niu Sila, o lea e tautava ma a'u. Ona o le e iai fo'i se tasi tama Samoa o Ray Pogi, o lea e tautava ma a'u i le triathlon a Noosa iinei. Ua ou masalosalo lava po'o sesi o ia tama ma lo latou au o lea fai fai mai o a'u i la'u fale iinei i 2 Wallace Street, Crestmead. O la'u igoa o Tim Tufuga, e iai lau BA mai le univesite o Kuinisilani sa ou ulu i le tausaga 1994. Ua uma ona ou ta'alo lakapi liki mo Samoa i le World Cup i le tausaga 1992. O le Tama Maoli o Karaka sa ta'alo mo Niu Sila i lenei fo'i World Cup. Sa ma fetaui i le ta'aloga i kle va o Samoa ma Niu Sila i Sini, i le Aukuso, 1992. O lea o le a ma toe fetaui fo'i i le Noosa Triathon. O le tama o Ray Pogi, o lea sa ta'alo mo Samoa, i le South Pacific Games, 2007, o lea o le a toe fai e ia le triathlon o lea e faia i Noosa i le aso 4 o le masina Novema, 2007. O tusa e to'alua lea o tama Samoa o lo'o a faia le Noosa triathlon. O lea e to'atele ole au Solomona e tautava fo'i i le triathlon lenei o le Noosa triathlon. Sa au ai fo'i lenei tama uli i le Samoa triathlon i le aso muamua o setema 2007, i Mulifanua, Samoa. Ole fo'i o le a tautava lenei tama ma teine mai Solomona i lenei Noosa triathlon. O a'u ole a ou faia le Noosa triathlon ae e na'o o a'u lava le tagata e leai se sponsa. E tusa e totogi e a'u lava la'u triathlon. E u'i i lea o lea faifai mai e tagata leaga la'u fale, ma o lo'o gaoia ma fa'aleaga o'u mea koleni, la'u uila, a'u se'evae, o ia tagata o lea e gaoia, ma fa'aleaga o'u mea fale ma ofu ma se'evae ma uila, mo tagata amio leaga ma faufau leaga. A'o olea ou te taumafai ina ou koleni mo le Noosa triathlon. O ia tagata o tagata loto leaga ma amio leaga. Oute le talitonu o ia tagata o ni tagata kerisiano. Mo tagata amio leaga ma o le loto leaga lava. O a'u, Tim Tufuga, o se tagata e le lotu, e i'u lava oute le lotu, le o a'u o se tagata amio leaga e pei o ia tagata amio leaga. O te le talape fale ma gaoi ma fa'aleaga mea fale a tagata, vagana o ni tagata leaga. E tusa e tautau lava ona toe fau le leaga i le leaga. Ae sina poga la, o lo'o lalafi o tagata amio leaga ma ulafale i le fale a le o iai o tagata i lo latou fale. O oe ea o se tagata amio leaga? E pei ose mogamoga, po'o ose loi, e te fetolofi i fale a tagata ola, ae le iloa e tagata ola, po'o o ai e'a oe? Ia manuia le aso Samoa. Tim Brian Tufuga (I have been living in Brisbane way before you Ray Pogi) |
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Aussies conquer the world in Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon 2007.
Chris McCormack has beaten the very best in the world in the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon. Second was another Sydneysider Craig Alexander in his first ever Ironman effort. The Australians have done it in 2007. The Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon 2007, Australia rules supreme. Patrick Vernay from New Caledonia has made it in the top group of elite finishers as the current Australian IM champion 2007, however, it is Australia's day! |
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