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I was thinking yesterday, doing a World Series Iron man race isn’t too bad:

The swim is 4km and the cutoff is 2 hrs. and 20 min., the bike is 180km and the cutoff time is 10 hrs and 30 min from the beginning of the race, and the run is a full marathon which is 42km and cutoff time is 17 hours from the beginning of the race.

Not that I can swim, but that’s only 38 laps of an olympic size swimmin pool, and it sounds pretty easy! The cycling - I’ve never ridden that far before, mostly because I’ve never had time, and I can’t carry around enough food to feed me for such a long time. And the run, well that’s just easy anyway. And sure it might be rough to do these all in the same day, but they feed you all the energy bars, drinks, fluids, gels, etc that you desire and stuff, and each different activity uses mostly different muscle groups, so it’d be refreshing jumping on the bike, or donning the shoes!

This is definitely on my to do list - although plane tickets to Hawaii aren’t cheap, and the entry fee alone is US$450

Well this is a delayed post, probably because I was too nackered to write this on Sunday. Basically, I went for a 34.1km run. I merged two of my usual 12km routes that I use to train for the annual “Black Hill Challenge” cross country run, and the City to Bay fun run, to create a 20.1km monstrous loop that starts off teasing my legs by going into the foothills a little, then coming back down into the ‘burbs. I go around and back into the foothills where it’s much steeper and do some big hills. I finished the run off by doing Waterfall Gully road, a tedious place to run after the hill climbs that I did. I was very VERY tempted to keep running after that just so I could say I ran a marathon on the weekend!

I’ve entered the Melbourne 2005 Asics Marathon for October the 9th, which will be doubly cool as I can stay with my cousins whilst I’m there.

some dude took this cool picture that pp found. click on the picture to go to his website.

‘Nuff said.

Just in. My new creative zen xtra has arrived. can’t wait to open it up!

Below is a joke I was trying to send to Ben’s email, but his filter kept blocking hit. So here it is!

A bloke is in a queue at the supermarket when he notices that the
rather dishy blonde behind him has just raised her hand and smiled
hello to him.

He is rather taken aback that such a looker would be waving to him,
and although familiar he can’t place where he might know her from, so
he says “Sorry do you know me?” She replies “I may be mistaken, but
I thought you might be the father of one of my kids!”

His mind shoots back to the one and only time he has been
unfaithful: “Christ!” he says “are you that strippogram on my stag
night that I sha**ed on the snooker table in front of all my mates
whilst your mate whipped me with some wet celery and stuck a
cucumber up my ar*e?

“No” she replies, “I’m your son’s English Teacher.”

Shindig Nation #3 happened last night! Photos here! It was awesome! Check out the video of Jordan doing a Windmill!

Today I ran 27km (accurate to 500m, although yet to be confirmed). Time was unmeasured, as it was purely an endurance stress test to get a comparative assessment of my body, as I’ve fully recovered from all injuries. Full training will commence on Thursday, to give myself three days rest to (hopefully) recover from today. Recovery time is quite long at the moment, due to lack of training. If I’m not okay to run on Thursday, I’ll leave it until Saturday as it will have meant that I pushed myself into the short term damage zone

My latest and greatest news, is that I’m going to the UK in November, to Birningham to represent the IEE SA&NT Younger Members Section!! Woohoo! I’m going to go for at least a couple weeks, go to some drum n bass clubs in Bristol hopefully, maybe visit Devon and Manchester, and then maybe go do a little mini tour of europe, OR just go STRAIGHT to checz rep. for cheap and awesome skiing Seeing as it’s all going to be cold in nov. there, probably best just to do the skiing - what do you reckon?

Last week I bought this new toy online, a 60gig mp3 player, with a 98dB(A) SNR! Kicks arse over any other portable mp3 player there is - soooo can’t wait for it to get delivered! Click on the pic for more info about it.