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About Me

I am opinionated, arrogant, confident, self absorbed, intelligent, intellectual, introverted, extroverted, shy, loud, quiet, a dreamer, distant, complex, well read, a realist, liberal, educated, logical, analytical, and easy going.

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My Blog

Who the hell reads my blog?

Own up. C'mon. You know you want to. My 'blog manager' is telling me people are reading it. Anyway, I have been sleeping terribly lately. Well not in the last 4 days but prior to that I was. My diabet...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:10:00 GMT

Atomisation

So I've moved to Thames. For work. I'm living in Tairua, which is a 45 minute drive from work. I live at my parent's beach house, which is really nice. But I am alone. I know noone. My human contact c...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:04:00 GMT

France for 3 weeks

So tomorrow I head to France for 3 weeks. On 15 July I compete in the World Long Distance Triathlon Champs, in Lorient, France. After that it is off on a trek around parts of France. I'll be in the Py...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 02:20:00 GMT

The best steak in nz

The Tairua Butcher. So much better than any other steak I have tried recently. Why is it so damned good? Was over at Tairua this weekend at the beach house. Got there on Friday and did a hill rep run ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 May 2007 21:55:00 GMT

Running, legs, the french, tv, Mulholland Drive and miscellany

So I did a half marathon yesterday. It's kind of weird that an event like that seems 'short' to me. Started off conservatively and sought to build each km. As it turned out this meant steady for the f...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 22:34:00 GMT

Boredom, being lazy, the internet and unemployment

So I'm currently unemployed and have taken a 3 week break from training. Fuck I'm bored. I've applied for 5 jobs in the last 3-4 days. Well a recruitment agent is helping me with two of those, but you...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:55:00 GMT

Ironman New Zealand race report

Well my race is over and I finished. Not everything went to plan however.   I had diabetic issues, cramp and bad blisters. From extremely high blood sugar levels after bike (I was 24.8 and f...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:21:00 GMT

Ironman training

Well I figured I might actually record what I have done over the last 2 months or so since I moved from Wellington back to my parents in Cambridge as I prepare for Ironman New Zealand. This training c...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:55:00 GMT

Training

Today I did 3.7kms in the pool, 140kms on the bike and did a 30 minute run. That is around 7 hours of exercise. I've now done 21 or so hours over the course of 4 days and only did 1.5 hours yesterday....
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:38:00 GMT

Solitude

Over the last few years, since I've gotten into the world of long distance triathlon, I've come to really enjoy long bike rides. That is, rides longer than 3.5-4 hours, and over 100km. Part of the rea...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:45:00 GMT