THE STELLAR TRUST APRIL 2009
HI everyone,Please read this email and browse the attachments, if you are unable to help please pass the information onto some of your contacts that may be able.This email probably relates more to those based here in New Zealand but is not to be taken lightly by anyone else. It is in relation to a charity that I am part of and who's aim is to fix issues that most are effected by in one way or another, Drug use, in particular the drug Methamphetamine know on the street as "P". The Stellar Trust (http://www.thestellartrust.org.nz%3chttp/www.thestellartrust.org.nz>) is going to make a huge impact on our society and the issues it is trying to solve is not only a National problem here in New Zealand but escalating on an international level.Methamphetamine is the world's worst drug problem and sweeping the globe at pandemic levels.Below is an extract from the fact sheet attached that highlights the issues here in New Zealand:
New Zealand now has the highest recorded per capita use of P in the world
In 10 years New Zealand came where it took America almost 30 years to get
Over 60 percent of all frequent meth users are in full time employment
P knows no boundaries and is just as commonly used by well educated business people and school students as it is by unemployed criminals
A frequent user of meth may need as much as $2000 a day to support a 3 gram a day habit
On average a P user will commit $24000 worth of crime every 6 months just to support their habit
A P user is thought to cost their employer about $47 500 per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and theft
Almost 60 percent of High Court cases involve meth manufacture or dealing
In 2006 P was thought to cause $554m in social costs, more than any other illegal drug
The purity of methamphetamine has been directly linked to addiction rates and increasing violent crime. New Zealand has some of the most pure methamphetamine in the world
Customs now make up to 4 seizures of crystal meth or chemicals to make the drug a day, but 70 percent of what's found in New Zealand is made from locally madeBasically what we are trying to do now is to raise funds so that we can create awareness about P and its addictive and harmful characteristics. There is a Charity Roast at Sky City on May 16th where Paul Holmes is going to be Roasted! Along with other national and international entertainment. Please see the attached information.This is a problem that we are going to need as much help as we can to fix.On a much smaller and light hearted note I raced Xterra (off road triathlon - 1000m swim, 30km mountain bike and 11km trail run) this weekend down in beautiful Rotorua, it felt like one of the hardest races in a while, I couldn't stop puffing going up the hills and was screaming like a little girl on the inside going down the hills, unfortunately I crashed my new Specialized and broke the frame but managed to finished 5th. Was great fun and I will be back next year to try and get my title back.Thanks to everyone for their support, I hope you all take this email seriously as "P" is a serious issue that needs something to be done about it. If you need any more information please read the attached files or go to > to find out more.ThanksTerenzo Bozzone
PROGRAM FOR 2009April2009
HI,
I have had a good few weeks relaxing after Ironman New Zealand and am now in the second week of getting back into training. The summer in New Zealand is really doing its best to hold on, hopefully it hangs in there and stays warm until I leave for the States on the 21st April. I can’t think of anything worse than riding in the cold and wet, I think I have gotten soft with old age.
My coach and I have decided to slot in another Ironman race before the World Championships in October as I need to try and move forward as fast as I can and we believe the best way to get experience over this distance is to do more racing… within reason. I have chosen the Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN Germany which is on the 5th July in Frankfurt, it also doubles as the Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN European Championships. It is going to be a great race with some of the best Ironman athletes in the world. I have heard great things about Ironman Germany, it is a world class event and the support from the spectators is like the hill stages in the Tour de France. All the top athletes have gone to race there before Kona with the likes of Chris McCormack, Cameron Brown and Peter Reid performing well in their build up for Kona and hopefully I will follow in their footsteps in the near future. I am really looking forward to event, and hope that I can put what I learnt at IM New Zealand into practice.
This is what the next 3 months will look like for Kelly and I – I can guarantee we will be sick of being on the road and living out of a suitcase by the end of it:
18th April – Xterra New Zealand down in Rotorua, I won this event last year and hope to defend my title.
26th April – St. Anthony’s Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon)
2nd May – Wildflower Half Ironman in California (well really in the middle of nowhere, but an awesome place to race… and camp)
17th May – Columbia Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon)
7th June – Buffalo Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon) in Minnesota, a good friend and competitor Chris Leigh has said great things about this race, so thought I had better check it out.
14th June – Eagleman 70.3 (Half Ironman) Maryland, after getting a dodgy drafting penalty here last year and finishing 2nd I have some unfinished business.
5th July – Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN Germany
After Wildflower we are planning on spending a month in Santa Barbara with some training buddies from Portland. Then looking at either Portland or San Diego for the 2 weeks of training between Eagleman and Germany.
For those in New Zealand you can watch the footage from IM New Zealand on Sky this week, below are the dates and time:
7-Apr-09 21:00 SKY Sport 2 8-Apr-09 23:30 SKY Sport 1 10-Apr-09 06:00 SKY Sport 1 11-Apr-09 02:25 SKY Sport 2
I will keep you all posted with results and how you can follow events online.
Kind regards
Terenzo Bozzone
TAUPO IRONMAN NEW ZEALAND 7th March 2009
So on Saturday the 7th March 2009 in my home country New Zealand in front of a spectacular crowd down in Taupo I competed and completed my first full distance Ironman. I now know how it got its name!!! It was one of the toughest days of my life not only cause of the physicality of the event but also because of how the event plays with your mind and tries to destroy you in any way it can.
The day started at 4am for me when I got up, my beautiful girlfriend cooked me breakfast in bed (I can’t get her to do that for me at 6:30am most of the time). I then did a small bike and run warm up from our motel before heading down to transition to get body numbered and put air in my tires. The gun went off at 6:45, 15 minutes in front of the age groupers. I tried my hardest to stay next to Brent Foster who is an awesome swimmer but that didn’t last long. A small bunch of 7 formed and we chugged around the 3.8km swim. Unfortunately Cameron Brown had been working on his swimming and we were unable to brake him, from then I knew it was going to be an interesting day.
Once I put on my arm warmers and socks (it was a little bit cold) we started the journey on our 180km bike. Here is the thing with ironman, the pace actually feels reasonably easy for the first half but the second half feels like death. I was honestly ready to get off my bike after lap 1 and call it a half ironman! Eventually the second lap did start, I managed to get my special needs bag which had a couple drink bottles and a snickers bar in it without too much trouble. There were 4 of us rotating the lead, although we were not getting an advantage from sitting 10-15m behind the person in front it was a great mental break to be able to ride and look at others than riding at the front with only bare road in front of you.
45km to go and Dirk Bockel made a break for it, then at 40km to go Cameron Brown started to pull away and I couldn’t do anything about it, this was my first bad patch of the day. All I could do was concentrate on pedaling and count down the km’s. After eating my snickers bar and drinking 2 bottles of Pepsi I started to climb out of my slump and was able to ride properly again breaking away from the remaining 2 guys in our group. Now the bike was over how the hell am I meant to run a marathon is what was going through my mind. Truthfully it was the crowd that started me off, the cheers were so loud that I couldn’t hear my body moaning at me so all I could do was run. Brownie was 45seconds up the road and Dirk had managed to stretch out to a 5minute 30second lead. For the first 10km Brownie was in my sights, we were both running quicker than we should have been but he wasn’t pulling away, at about 12km that all changed, heading back into town on the first lap I was hurting but I couldn’t give up because my support crew were turning up everywhere and there was no way I was going to walk in front of them!!!
At the end of the first lap, Dirk was still up 4min and Brown had stretched out to just over 2minutes. All I could do was run my pace and keep my rhythm, I guess this is what they call the Ironman shuffle! 10km’s to go and Dirk was only 2 minutes up the road, Brown has taken the lead and was showing his class by not slowing down as all of the grueling 42km. Dirk, also a first time Ironman athlete who was running time into Cam and myself for the first 10km was now starting to struggle, he was walking through aid stations and I could see him coming closer and closer. With about 6km to go I passed him and all I could think about was making it to the last 2.5km where I knew the crowd would carry me home, and that is what they did, the pavement was lined with massive amounts of people, out the corner of one eye I saw Harold, the mascot for Life Education what an awesome surprise. I wasn’t sure how much time I had put into Dirk so I couldn’t slow and start high 5ing people cause I felt like I would trip up or do something stupid in my almost comatose state.
Finally I was in the finish chute and all the pain and suffering from the day was a distant memory, I had done it, I had worked through all the mental barriers and made it to the finish. What a day and 2nd behind Cameron Brown, well that’s ok, for now.
Congratulations to everyone who finished the race, inside or out of the cut off time, you are my inspiration. Seeing you guys out there still giving your all when most people have tucked into bed to call it a day, that is what Ironman is all about.
Thanks to everyone who have been part of my preparation for this event, there is no way I would be where I am now without your help and support.
Here are a couple links with some news coverage and photos for your information.
TV1
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/brown-storms-eighth-ironman-win-2523604/video
TV3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/19321.html
here is a link to some photos
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lPgfWBWAUH_/2009+Ironman+New+Zealand/32I0VpWEKiD/Terenzo+Bozzone
and attached are a couple other photos.
Thanks again
Terenzo
NEW ZEALAND 16 FEBRUARY 2009
HI guys,
I hope 2009 has been off to a great start for all of you and you are keeping well and healthy. I am 3 weeks out from my first full distance Ironman event, it will take place in Taupo, New Zealand on the 7th March. Training has been going great, probably thanks to all the good company I have had on all those long and hard days. I can definitely say my buddies have put me in the hurt box more than once!!! On top of that the summer has been really good… touch wood. But for some reason the weather has turned around today and it is bucketing down outside as we speak. Oh well, lucky I have an easy day.
Below are two links from a couple of pre Ironman interviews I did with our National TV stations, the first link is from TV1 and the second from TV2. Hopefully they still connect. In the background of the Photo below is the yellow pages Treehouse Restaurant where I took Kelly for an early Valentines dinner. It was an amazing experience dining 10meters up a tree.
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/bozzones-hope-1-37-2458707/video
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/17913.html
I will let everyone know closer to the time how you can follow the event live.
Thanks for everything and I wish you all the best for 2009, I hope you have a great year and you reach all your goals.
Kind regards
Terenzo
HI everyone,Please read this email and browse the attachments, if you are unable to help please pass the information onto some of your contacts that may be able.This email probably relates more to those based here in New Zealand but is not to be taken lightly by anyone else. It is in relation to a charity that I am part of and who's aim is to fix issues that most are effected by in one way or another, Drug use, in particular the drug Methamphetamine know on the street as "P". The Stellar Trust (http://www.thestellartrust.org.nz%3chttp/www.thestellartrust.org.nz>) is going to make a huge impact on our society and the issues it is trying to solve is not only a National problem here in New Zealand but escalating on an international level.Methamphetamine is the world's worst drug problem and sweeping the globe at pandemic levels.Below is an extract from the fact sheet attached that highlights the issues here in New Zealand:
New Zealand now has the highest recorded per capita use of P in the world
In 10 years New Zealand came where it took America almost 30 years to get
Over 60 percent of all frequent meth users are in full time employment
P knows no boundaries and is just as commonly used by well educated business people and school students as it is by unemployed criminals
A frequent user of meth may need as much as $2000 a day to support a 3 gram a day habit
On average a P user will commit $24000 worth of crime every 6 months just to support their habit
A P user is thought to cost their employer about $47 500 per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and theft
Almost 60 percent of High Court cases involve meth manufacture or dealing
In 2006 P was thought to cause $554m in social costs, more than any other illegal drug
The purity of methamphetamine has been directly linked to addiction rates and increasing violent crime. New Zealand has some of the most pure methamphetamine in the world
Customs now make up to 4 seizures of crystal meth or chemicals to make the drug a day, but 70 percent of what's found in New Zealand is made from locally madeBasically what we are trying to do now is to raise funds so that we can create awareness about P and its addictive and harmful characteristics. There is a Charity Roast at Sky City on May 16th where Paul Holmes is going to be Roasted! Along with other national and international entertainment. Please see the attached information.This is a problem that we are going to need as much help as we can to fix.On a much smaller and light hearted note I raced Xterra (off road triathlon - 1000m swim, 30km mountain bike and 11km trail run) this weekend down in beautiful Rotorua, it felt like one of the hardest races in a while, I couldn't stop puffing going up the hills and was screaming like a little girl on the inside going down the hills, unfortunately I crashed my new Specialized and broke the frame but managed to finished 5th. Was great fun and I will be back next year to try and get my title back.Thanks to everyone for their support, I hope you all take this email seriously as "P" is a serious issue that needs something to be done about it. If you need any more information please read the attached files or go to > to find out more.ThanksTerenzo Bozzone
PROGRAM FOR 2009April2009
HI,
I have had a good few weeks relaxing after Ironman New Zealand and am now in the second week of getting back into training. The summer in New Zealand is really doing its best to hold on, hopefully it hangs in there and stays warm until I leave for the States on the 21st April. I can’t think of anything worse than riding in the cold and wet, I think I have gotten soft with old age.
My coach and I have decided to slot in another Ironman race before the World Championships in October as I need to try and move forward as fast as I can and we believe the best way to get experience over this distance is to do more racing… within reason. I have chosen the Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN Germany which is on the 5th July in Frankfurt, it also doubles as the Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN European Championships. It is going to be a great race with some of the best Ironman athletes in the world. I have heard great things about Ironman Germany, it is a world class event and the support from the spectators is like the hill stages in the Tour de France. All the top athletes have gone to race there before Kona with the likes of Chris McCormack, Cameron Brown and Peter Reid performing well in their build up for Kona and hopefully I will follow in their footsteps in the near future. I am really looking forward to event, and hope that I can put what I learnt at IM New Zealand into practice.
This is what the next 3 months will look like for Kelly and I – I can guarantee we will be sick of being on the road and living out of a suitcase by the end of it:
18th April – Xterra New Zealand down in Rotorua, I won this event last year and hope to defend my title.
26th April – St. Anthony’s Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon)
2nd May – Wildflower Half Ironman in California (well really in the middle of nowhere, but an awesome place to race… and camp)
17th May – Columbia Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon)
7th June – Buffalo Olympic Distance (non Drafting Triathlon) in Minnesota, a good friend and competitor Chris Leigh has said great things about this race, so thought I had better check it out.
14th June – Eagleman 70.3 (Half Ironman) Maryland, after getting a dodgy drafting penalty here last year and finishing 2nd I have some unfinished business.
5th July – Frankfurter Sparkasse IRONMAN Germany
After Wildflower we are planning on spending a month in Santa Barbara with some training buddies from Portland. Then looking at either Portland or San Diego for the 2 weeks of training between Eagleman and Germany.
For those in New Zealand you can watch the footage from IM New Zealand on Sky this week, below are the dates and time:
7-Apr-09 21:00 SKY Sport 2 8-Apr-09 23:30 SKY Sport 1 10-Apr-09 06:00 SKY Sport 1 11-Apr-09 02:25 SKY Sport 2
I will keep you all posted with results and how you can follow events online.
Kind regards
Terenzo Bozzone
TAUPO IRONMAN NEW ZEALAND 7th March 2009
So on Saturday the 7th March 2009 in my home country New Zealand in front of a spectacular crowd down in Taupo I competed and completed my first full distance Ironman. I now know how it got its name!!! It was one of the toughest days of my life not only cause of the physicality of the event but also because of how the event plays with your mind and tries to destroy you in any way it can.
The day started at 4am for me when I got up, my beautiful girlfriend cooked me breakfast in bed (I can’t get her to do that for me at 6:30am most of the time). I then did a small bike and run warm up from our motel before heading down to transition to get body numbered and put air in my tires. The gun went off at 6:45, 15 minutes in front of the age groupers. I tried my hardest to stay next to Brent Foster who is an awesome swimmer but that didn’t last long. A small bunch of 7 formed and we chugged around the 3.8km swim. Unfortunately Cameron Brown had been working on his swimming and we were unable to brake him, from then I knew it was going to be an interesting day.
Once I put on my arm warmers and socks (it was a little bit cold) we started the journey on our 180km bike. Here is the thing with ironman, the pace actually feels reasonably easy for the first half but the second half feels like death. I was honestly ready to get off my bike after lap 1 and call it a half ironman! Eventually the second lap did start, I managed to get my special needs bag which had a couple drink bottles and a snickers bar in it without too much trouble. There were 4 of us rotating the lead, although we were not getting an advantage from sitting 10-15m behind the person in front it was a great mental break to be able to ride and look at others than riding at the front with only bare road in front of you.
45km to go and Dirk Bockel made a break for it, then at 40km to go Cameron Brown started to pull away and I couldn’t do anything about it, this was my first bad patch of the day. All I could do was concentrate on pedaling and count down the km’s. After eating my snickers bar and drinking 2 bottles of Pepsi I started to climb out of my slump and was able to ride properly again breaking away from the remaining 2 guys in our group. Now the bike was over how the hell am I meant to run a marathon is what was going through my mind. Truthfully it was the crowd that started me off, the cheers were so loud that I couldn’t hear my body moaning at me so all I could do was run. Brownie was 45seconds up the road and Dirk had managed to stretch out to a 5minute 30second lead. For the first 10km Brownie was in my sights, we were both running quicker than we should have been but he wasn’t pulling away, at about 12km that all changed, heading back into town on the first lap I was hurting but I couldn’t give up because my support crew were turning up everywhere and there was no way I was going to walk in front of them!!!
At the end of the first lap, Dirk was still up 4min and Brown had stretched out to just over 2minutes. All I could do was run my pace and keep my rhythm, I guess this is what they call the Ironman shuffle! 10km’s to go and Dirk was only 2 minutes up the road, Brown has taken the lead and was showing his class by not slowing down as all of the grueling 42km. Dirk, also a first time Ironman athlete who was running time into Cam and myself for the first 10km was now starting to struggle, he was walking through aid stations and I could see him coming closer and closer. With about 6km to go I passed him and all I could think about was making it to the last 2.5km where I knew the crowd would carry me home, and that is what they did, the pavement was lined with massive amounts of people, out the corner of one eye I saw Harold, the mascot for Life Education what an awesome surprise. I wasn’t sure how much time I had put into Dirk so I couldn’t slow and start high 5ing people cause I felt like I would trip up or do something stupid in my almost comatose state.
Finally I was in the finish chute and all the pain and suffering from the day was a distant memory, I had done it, I had worked through all the mental barriers and made it to the finish. What a day and 2nd behind Cameron Brown, well that’s ok, for now.
Congratulations to everyone who finished the race, inside or out of the cut off time, you are my inspiration. Seeing you guys out there still giving your all when most people have tucked into bed to call it a day, that is what Ironman is all about.
Thanks to everyone who have been part of my preparation for this event, there is no way I would be where I am now without your help and support.
Here are a couple links with some news coverage and photos for your information.
TV1
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/brown-storms-eighth-ironman-win-2523604/video
TV3
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/19321.html
here is a link to some photos
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/lPgfWBWAUH_/2009+Ironman+New+Zealand/32I0VpWEKiD/Terenzo+Bozzone
and attached are a couple other photos.
Thanks again
Terenzo
NEW ZEALAND 16 FEBRUARY 2009
HI guys,
I hope 2009 has been off to a great start for all of you and you are keeping well and healthy. I am 3 weeks out from my first full distance Ironman event, it will take place in Taupo, New Zealand on the 7th March. Training has been going great, probably thanks to all the good company I have had on all those long and hard days. I can definitely say my buddies have put me in the hurt box more than once!!! On top of that the summer has been really good… touch wood. But for some reason the weather has turned around today and it is bucketing down outside as we speak. Oh well, lucky I have an easy day.
Below are two links from a couple of pre Ironman interviews I did with our National TV stations, the first link is from TV1 and the second from TV2. Hopefully they still connect. In the background of the Photo below is the yellow pages Treehouse Restaurant where I took Kelly for an early Valentines dinner. It was an amazing experience dining 10meters up a tree.
http://tvnz.co.nz/othersports-news/bozzones-hope-1-37-2458707/video
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/sports/17913.html
I will let everyone know closer to the time how you can follow the event live.
Thanks for everything and I wish you all the best for 2009, I hope you have a great year and you reach all your goals.
Kind regards
Terenzo
