1 more day of Beers!!

Well, its the 24th of January today, which means I have after this evening (i more beer left in fridge tonight), I have one more night of beer. That will be Friday night, and then, just like I did when I stopped smoking.....call it a day! This time though, its temporary (thank god!). Its been over 3 weeks since I have eaten any chocolate, 3 weeks since I have eaten chips, junk food, cake, lollies, ice cream and other lovely stuff. The 29th is my birthday (shhhhh I hate it), but I will have a few beers on Friday night, probably some carrot cake which my mother in law insists she is baking (and my favourite) and then until the night of the Iron Man race, I will not indulge in any more beer. Its bringing a tear to my eye as I type this (sniff, sniff, oh shit, tear drops on the keyboard...*&*HNJUHj (that was me wiping them)). Giving up chocolate and the likes has been easy. Beer will be really hard. Its not so much the health, weight aspect as it is the discipline behind this challange. I want to make sure I am prepared for the 28th, and I have given myself and my body every opportunity to be really really well prepared. They say, the Iron Man is 90% mental, 10% physical battles, I think that stat is probably bollocks, but there is truth in it to an extent. If I cant survive giving up a non essesntial sustnenace like chocolate or beer, then how am i going to deal with the Iron Man when it gets tough going...which is WILL do?? So, I am training my body wiht the help of Rollo, this little sacrifice of mine is training my mind! If I was as mentally strong and determined as Vlad, Matt or Andrew M, then I would not be as worried, but I think I need to work on that mental strength, and this is some of the training i am doing for it. Still, 1 more night of a few beers left is sad.....


ONto the past weeks training, and its been pretty good. Highlights of the week are, certainly the Bobbin Head hill repeats on Wednesday , that brought back some serious memories of Vlad and I training there during winter...and it was freezing which was weird. The brick session on Thursday with Matt was sensational, that boy can ride. I am going to put it out there now...I stated a few weeks ago he was going to do around 9.30........nah, he is going faster I think. He is certainly getting faster every week, and they way he dropped me on the bike on Thursday was nuts...I fought hard to stay within distance of him, but in truth, those chicken legs were making him fly!! Strong!! Matt, sorry mate, dont sandbag, I reckon it must be a 9.15 now!! Anything less and you are not going hard enough!!

Jase, Matt and myself rode on Saturday morning, Jase turned home at 45kms, Matt at about 70km I think, and I continuned into work. I ended up with 125km, slightly above what I was supopsed to do, but it was good going. Very hot, it ended up getting to 40'c in Sydney, so whilst it was not that hot at 10am when I finished, the fluid in my bottles was pretty warm, not very thirst quenching I must say!

Today, and here is the big news, Eddie joined Jase and I for a run. How good is that! He ran 10km, first run since his injury. It was awesome to have him there with us, and show hi commitment to triathlon and training, good on you mate, and welcome back!!

In summery for this week :

Swim : 9km (2.40hrs)
Run : 45km (4hours)
Ride : 250km (8hours)
Total : 16.40hrs (ish)

A good week, and having seen the coming weeks program, its ramping up by what looks like 30% or so...so its going to be very tough! I love it!!!!!