What’s been going on. No updates in almost six months. Oops. So, a quick run down of what I’ve been up to is warranted. September saw us attending Steve & Nikki’s wedding over in Manly followed in November by Ange & Marksy’s wedding down in Gerroa. Two very enjoyable events, with the long weekend away in Gerroa an added bonus.
On the exercise front, I withdrew from the Canberra Half Ironman with a few weeks to go as I just wasn’t enjoying running. I figured this exercise lark was supposed to be fun, so why waste my time doing something that wasn’t? Instead, I took my refunded entry fee and used it to join Randwick-Botany Cycling Club, one of Australia’s oldest cycling clubs. They hold weekly races at 3pm on Saturdays, though I’ve only been down once and smashed myself for 50 minutes in C grade.
New Year’s Eve was a blast as Anna & Nathan put on a fancy dress boat party on the Harbour, so we were front and centre for the world famous Sydney NYE fireworks.
The beginning of the year has been busy as well, with me heading down to Bright in Victoria to ride the Alpine Classic, a 200km jaunt through the mountains with 3900m altitude gain. Pretty tough day on the bike, especially as the final climb was done in almost 40C. I spent most of that deliberately going as slow as possible so I didn’t overheat!
The weekend after that it was Nathan’s 40th, so we all decamped to Craig’s place in the Hunter Valley to celebrate with a barbie, drinks and a few dips in the pool. After that it was off to Japan for two weeks snowboarding! We’d been talking about going for years, ever since we got back from Canada, so when Nath decided he wanted to go for his 40th it was pretty easy to persuade the rest of us to join in.
There were 7 of us in the end, after Floody and Darrell got their respective other halves pregnant, forcing them to miss out, plus three guys who came over from the UK. Over the course of the two weeks we ended up with 1.5 metres of fresh, light powder, so to say we had a great time would be a bit of an understatement. After a few hours wandering around Tokyo it was back to the real world, so here I am at the beginning of March and it’s time to get back out on the bike and enjoy the remains of summer.