Clive Choate

Clive, 63, is a retired outdoor pursuits and physical education teacher who enjoys endurance sports. His feats have included 25 years of consecutive Blackwood ironman contests and a 60 km solo race held in Western Australia, which includes run, canoe, swim, horse and cycle disciplines. Other solo and team adventure races include cycling unassisted across the Australian Nullarbor (3200km), hiking the Kokoda Trackin New Guinea, age group triathlon World Championships, triathlon Ironman and team mountain bike events in the rugged Kimberley of Western Australia and across the Australian central desert. Clive has played representative rugby for Western Australia and Sydney and toured New Zealand with the Australian Southern States team. He has also played polo and polocrosse, competed in endurance horse riding, paddled kayak marathons and enjoyed athletics, tennis, orienteering and rogaining championships. Clive has run the Australian Outback and Paris marathons, but snow and ice is foreign to him. An author of two sports history books, he is married to Lynne, a Masters’ 100m world champion in athletics track and field. Clive is sharing the Antarctic Ice Marathon and travel with his son Steven.