One of the highlights of my 2013 season in N.Z was competing in the 2013 World Heli Challenge. Apart from being an awesome event , a unique contest style and bring amazing people from all over the world together too compete, I ended up winning the contest an defending my title from last year.
Candice has just launched a website candicehamond.com providing an insight into the life of this amazing young New Zealand Ironman Athlete. The website includes reports on her races, profiles her coach Keegan Williams and swim coach Russell Smith and promotes her sponsors - small NZ businesses who support athletes: Shoe Clinic Hamilton Amcal Pharmacy Hamilton and a good many more including Aloe Up.
In September I was lucky to be selected as a finalist in Miss Universe New Zealand. Not only was this exciting in itself, but all of the top twenty finalists were taken on a world-class retreat in Thailand. This fortunately fell in university holidays and I got to experience elephant polo (yes, teams riding on elephants!), horse riding and of course lots of photo shoots.
"2013 saw me step up to the final frontier of triathlon racing, the Iron-Distance Triathlon, consisting of a 3.8km swim, 180km bike and a 42.2km run. This super long race distance meant even more time out training in our brutal New Zealand sun and around the world."
-Dylan Mcneice
More than 200 studies provide evidence of the toxicity of nanoparticles in aquatic organisms. (Sanchez-Quiles 2015)
The most common UVA filter is Oxybenzone and is in over 70% of sunscreens, Oxybenzone is a very fine substance that penetrates the skin, gets into the bloodstream and acts like estragon in the body. It can trigger allergic reactions has been rated as a moderately high health hazard by the Environmental Working Group.
In 2012, the ISF launched their first Ultra Series kicking off with the Transvulcania Ultra Marathon on a tiny speck in the Atlantic Ocean called La Palma. The race saw probably the deepest field of international running legends to date, and this year will be no exception.
