Gang;
Today I’m hurting. With four short weeks until the single greatest feat of
athletic endurance in the history of my short lived life, apprehension
about being unprepared has started to set in. The run leg is by far the most
concerning for me as I’ve never done long distances. On a whim I decided to go
for a 19km jog last night and this morning my soles feel like they’ve trudged
over hot coals, broken glass and rusty nails in no repeating order. It’s
particularly difficult to get up from my desk.
On the swimming front, The Lovely Samantha and I are three
weeks into a total immersion program. You may remember, I’d lost my swimming mojo
so I did a bit of research and settled on a new technique. When I looked into
it, I realised it’d also be good for Sam so we’re both enrolled in swim school
and learning to swim together. I’m not sure who has it harder – Sam learning freestyle
basically from scratch, or me having to “unlearn” and re-learn. Needless to
say, my fellow student looks hot (lovely) in a one piece, and if I play my
cards right I might be in with a chance.
I dunno if I mentioned but new neighbours have moved in and
as luck would have it, the guy’s an Ironman! What are the chances? He just
completed the Melbourne Ironman in 13 hours which makes my “long” distance concerns
pretty minor in comparison. Thankfully, they’re also lovely people so that
helps. Ohhh…and he’s got a shweeet performance tuned BMW convertible that we drive
(top down) to Manly each Saturday for an ocean swim so that helps even more.
What else?...ummm…we went to the footy on Friday night.
Easts v Manly. Bodhi loved every minute of it. In fact I don’t think he watched
a single minute of the game, what with the face painting, ice-creams, chips,
admiring the dancing cheerleaders, high fiving the mascots and general running
around the empty seats of a poor turnout general admission stand.
Oh – we finally got our new garage door installed. It’s now
completely sealed off from the back laneway and the only thing left to do is to
get the stairs made. Fingers crossed it doesn’t take another three months for
that.
see ya,
Minas.
