Darren Blackhurst
Date of Birth: 23/12/1966
Nickname:Spaz
Coach:Self
Married / Partner / Boyfriend / Girlfriend: Married to Kate
Height: 1.78cm
Sponsors: New Balance, Kone Elevators, Cycle surgery Queenstown
Best Performances:
17th M40-44 age group world champs Gyor, Hungary 2007
1st M40-44 age group NZ champs Chch 2007
3rd M40-44 age group NZ champs Fielding 2006
Worst Performance: Any DNF (none in duathlon so far)
Achievements:
1st Manx Mountain Marathon 1996
1st Fox's Challenge 2000
Favourite Food: Indian
Favourite Movie: Lock stock & two smoking barrels, Brassed Off
Role Model: The people who started me running in Leeds in the eighties & Arthur Lydiard
Favourite saying / motto:
Look what you could've won (Bullseye: UK game show)
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?:Hopefully still running, cycling and drinking too much