In two months ironman Cameron Brown will make his tenth attempt to conquer Kona.
Brown has now overcome a calf injury which had slowed down his training.
"That injury set me back early on in the season, but it's all good now," Brown says. "So I'm really focused on Hawaii and you know we wanted to go into this build-up very fresh."
To stay fresh, Brown decided to skip his usual mid-year race, the European Ironman Championship in Germany.
"By the time you rest and recover it's nearly August and you've got to start to rebuild," he says. "So now I'm already quite fit and the trainings really coming up, so I think it's going to be a real benefit."
Brown won the New Zealand Ironman for a record eighth time in March and set a new course record.
It's that performance which has given him renewed confidence as he heads to Kona.
Brown already knows how to make the podium in Hawaii - he's had two seconds and two thirds, the last back in 2005.
Now at 37, he just needs to figure out how to win it.
Brown will race the Philippines Half Ironman in just over a week's time, before heading to Noosa where he'll complete his build-up for his tenth tilt at that elusive world title.
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