OK, so we're back from New York. I could have written last week but jet lag and all that....
It was very fun, bloody awesome if you count the fact that we were kids with no kids. While Bodhi stayed home with Mum, The Lovely Samantha and I spent 10 brilliant days in Williamsburg (a suburb of the Brooklyn borough) which had more of a suburban low rise feel than Manhattan and is said to be where the hipster culture originated. We still did almost daily trips to Manhattan, but it meant there was a whole other culture right on our doorstep to explore which was Da Bomb! I'd recommend it over Manhattan any day of the week.
To keep up my training I managed a few morning jogs (over the W'burg bridge) and also joined other cyclists for group rides out along New Jersey & upper New York state (I hired a road bike from a nearby bike shop). It was actually really fun cycling and running in another city - not like exercise at all, more like vigorous sight seeing. And aside from The Knicks, Daniel Craig in "The Betrayal", The food, The people, The town, The music (it has it all) the rides were by far my highlight. No better way to see a place if you ask me.
So we got back from NYC and I had to endure 4 days of jet lag and work before the weekend which (typically) couldn't come quickly enough.
This weekend we headed down to Vincentia for the first triathlon of the summer season - Little Huski (named after the town Huskisson). We were joined by 4 other families and had a great time. The weather on Saturday couldn't have been better and the nearby Greenfields beach was truly one of the prettiest white sand beaches i'd seen in a while. I now know why everyone raves about Jervis bay.
Unfortunately triathlon Sunday was greeted with shitty rain and wind which meant that it was tough going on the bike and run. Somehow though, despite the teeming rain and squalls (and admittedly too much pastrami sandwiches still in the system), I managed to finish the 1.5k/40k/10k course in 2hrs 24mins which i was absolutely stoked with! To top it off, Sam competed in the team sprint triathlon and acquitted herself admirably in the 20k bike leg (with no training mind you) to make us a very proud family on the slow, wet and tired drive home.
Big congrats to Shalome, Brendan, Scarlet, Charlie, India & Brianne on the arrival of Frankie!
Big good luck to Mere for her Cambodia half marathon - May the force be with you!
Big Simon - I'll be heading to Singers for workshops before year end. Will ping you when confirmed.
In the words of Jeff Fenech:
"And em eh...i loves yous all",
Minas
It was very fun, bloody awesome if you count the fact that we were kids with no kids. While Bodhi stayed home with Mum, The Lovely Samantha and I spent 10 brilliant days in Williamsburg (a suburb of the Brooklyn borough) which had more of a suburban low rise feel than Manhattan and is said to be where the hipster culture originated. We still did almost daily trips to Manhattan, but it meant there was a whole other culture right on our doorstep to explore which was Da Bomb! I'd recommend it over Manhattan any day of the week.
To keep up my training I managed a few morning jogs (over the W'burg bridge) and also joined other cyclists for group rides out along New Jersey & upper New York state (I hired a road bike from a nearby bike shop). It was actually really fun cycling and running in another city - not like exercise at all, more like vigorous sight seeing. And aside from The Knicks, Daniel Craig in "The Betrayal", The food, The people, The town, The music (it has it all) the rides were by far my highlight. No better way to see a place if you ask me.
So we got back from NYC and I had to endure 4 days of jet lag and work before the weekend which (typically) couldn't come quickly enough.
This weekend we headed down to Vincentia for the first triathlon of the summer season - Little Huski (named after the town Huskisson). We were joined by 4 other families and had a great time. The weather on Saturday couldn't have been better and the nearby Greenfields beach was truly one of the prettiest white sand beaches i'd seen in a while. I now know why everyone raves about Jervis bay.
Unfortunately triathlon Sunday was greeted with shitty rain and wind which meant that it was tough going on the bike and run. Somehow though, despite the teeming rain and squalls (and admittedly too much pastrami sandwiches still in the system), I managed to finish the 1.5k/40k/10k course in 2hrs 24mins which i was absolutely stoked with! To top it off, Sam competed in the team sprint triathlon and acquitted herself admirably in the 20k bike leg (with no training mind you) to make us a very proud family on the slow, wet and tired drive home.
Big congrats to Shalome, Brendan, Scarlet, Charlie, India & Brianne on the arrival of Frankie!
Big good luck to Mere for her Cambodia half marathon - May the force be with you!
Big Simon - I'll be heading to Singers for workshops before year end. Will ping you when confirmed.
In the words of Jeff Fenech:
"And em eh...i loves yous all",
Minas
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