on a cold sunday morning i raced the seville marathon, finishining in 1.35.54 in 3rd place, i am happy with this as i was against roger and jordi from spain who are some of the best marathon athletes in the world, and we stayed as 3 till 34km when roger broke away and i was then left with jordi, but im happy with how it went, roger was constantly attacking from 20 to 30km, but i was able to cover all of them but when he broke away i hit the wall which is expected but to still finish in such a good time is very pleasing, now i move onto barcelona marathon next week. till then cya 

hi everyone,

well my trip has started well, i have managed to win the 100 and 800m and was second in both the 200 and 400 in the track meet, the track was a very slow thick track and we had windy conditions so there was no fast times recorded.

 i managed to finish 8th in the 10km road race, in 20.10 we had 12 guys cross the finish line in a very tight pack and i narrowly avoided crashing just before the finish and lost some places but im glad i didnt crash,

now onto seville marathon next weekend

Hi everyone

sorry i have taken so long to put another post, but like has been very very busy last few months, my final results from Beijing was 2nd in 200, 3rd in 400, 4th in 800 and 9th in 1500, after the games i spent 2 weeks touring central china which was a real experience and very very enjoyable time, i took a nice long break from sport and just enjoyed life, finally getting back into serious trainin early december.

I have finished 4th in OZ day 10km in Sydney, so the year has start ok and hopefully there is good things to come.

I am flying out to Europe tonight for 5 months of racing and traveling, having fun and going to races i dont normally race at and just seeing as much of Europe as i can.

I am going to try and keep everyone upto date with my travels so till next time,cya

well, last night didn’t go the way we wanted, not sure what i can say but we didn’t have the race we wanted in the relay, our first athlete lost control and crashed and we had 2 other bad changes as well, to finish well outside the medals in 4th place with China breaking world record.

The night did however finish ok, in very heavy rain i managed to have a good win in my heat of the 400mt, so im happy today with a rest day, i get to get out of the village for a few hours to relax and then rest up for the final on thursday night a 8.45

well till next time keep an eye out for me.

Well we made it to the final of the relay, we won our heat, with china breaking the world record in the other and beating the paralympic champions Thailand in the process. We are all happy that we got through, there is lots of improvement need to do well tonight we had the worse changes ever so if all goes well tonight we should do ok. We race at 5.45 Beijing time and later on tonight i have the 400 heat, i am heat 1 in lane 4.

Well tonight is the night, all the hard work over the last few years comes down to this, the start of a long week of racing. Tonight we have a good heat of the relay so hopefully everything goes well and we make the final and then we are in for a shot for a medal.

Well last night was the opening for the games, all i can say is wow, china really do now how to do an event, everything was very very well done and was a great night. There was very little sitting around before we went in and we were home 15mins after it finished, we thought it was fantastic that the march was at the start of the opening so we able to watch the whole thing from on the ground. Now i have a rest day and then the comp start with the relay heat on monday night.

well i have spent my first few days in beijing, with constant team meeting and media events, and then trying to relax  for the rest of the time doesn’t allow for much else. As the days have gone on more and more athletes have arrived so we have all been catching up with each other and seeing where everyone was in camp. Everyone is well and looks fit. I have managed to get out of the village twice, once to the temple of heaven and then to go shopping. the village is the best ever and everything is running very well, there is nothing wrong at all which is fantastic. Now for the opening tonight.

for you all again, my email address is richard@colman.com.au

If you would like to contact me during the games, Telstra are running the hero messages again which i will have constant access to. i will also be checking my email as well,