Monday night: ~2k swim (1.00)

Once again felt sluggish. I was late home from work, and feeling a bit dehydrated, so got to squad and they were into the main set, so I went to the next lane and just did my own thing, then followed the main set for a little while. I also drank close to one full bidon of Gatorade within the first 20 mintes of squad - I was more dehydrated then I realised! So, especially after hearing of Horrie's dehydration collapse on the weekend, today is going to be DRINK DRINK DRINK!!

Was pleased to swim though. It made the day's efforts were 30k ride, 5k run, 2k swim. Slowly getting back into it!

Training over last couple of days

Saturday: Tough 50k cycle (2.00)- windy, and felt sluggish

Sunday: Missed long run due to having to time at local Corporate triathlon. Was exhausted in the arvo. Will get blood test done again tomorrow to see if virus is still hanging around.

Today: Cycle 30k (1.30) (commuting with backpack) - still felt slow

Run ~5k (.42) - only planned to do the short side of Kings to Commonwealth Ave and back, but got to C'wealth and felt like I'd done nothing, so did the 5k loop. Jogged from Kings to Commonwealth (short side) - 13 mins, walked over Commonwealth Ave bridge - 7 mins, jogged Commonwealth to Kings (long side) 16 mins, walked most of Kings Ave - 5 mins. Took a while to warm up, and started getting the chest pains whenever I was breathing heavy, so took it fairly easy, and walked the bridges.

Swimming injury!

I got a minor swimming injury last night... I don't know what happened, but the slow lane (of our squad) had a pile up in the middle of the pool, and so were all hanging onto the lane rope and pulling it down.

We were doing breaststroke recoveries, and so I came past doing breaststroke and caught my left foot on the lane rope. Result - a chunk taken out of my big toe that bled like a stuffed pig, and a bruised second toe at the middle joint. Bloody hurts walking around today as well!!!!

First swimming related injury I've had I think! :-)

First swim squad ~2.8k 1:35

Tagged onto the back of the fast lane rather than joining the slower lane where I probably belong. I'd prefer to work hard to try and keep up and get my swim fitness that way rather than bludging in the slow lane and constantly get stuck behind slower swimmers. Was tough, and got out early as I was knackered (and had things to do at home) but can't wait until Wednesday squad.

Getting back into the swing of things!

Ok, enough of this "other" crap I've been blogging about.

As of tonight I am back into training! I got completely inspired over the last few days.

It started with doing a short aquathlon last Thursday night. I'm not sure if I'm over my virus yet (bloodtests later this week), so I decided to give the aquathlon a go, take it easy, and just see how it went.
I felt embarrassed to be doing such a short distance (300m swim/3k run), and was even more embarrassed to be doing so bad. So I struggled through it, but felt fine health wise. I felt fine the next day as well which was good.

Friday after work I went out to the bike leg of the Sri Chinmoy Ultra triathlon (400k bike leg!), and cheered on the guys out there competing, and assisted in supporting one of the guys. It was really inspiring, and you could almost FEEL the determination of everyone out there!

Sunday I did the 40k bike leg of the Canberra Capital tri as part of a team. I haven't done anywhere near enough training to do the race on my own, and really enjoyed being part of the event! I was going to be happy if I did anywhere near 1:30, and ended up doing it in 1:19, which meant I averaged a bit over 30kph, which I was very happy with!

So these 2 "races" I did have shown me that I really need to get back into training, and the ultra tri as well as the races have given me the motivation to get back into training!

I've now got 3 goals.

1. March 5 - Sri Chinmoy Classic distance triathlon
2. May 15 - 12 hour endurance cycle at Eastern Creek raceway (2 person female team)
3. A half marathon. I was under the impression that there was a half as part of the Canberra Marathon, but apparently not! So if anyone knows of any half marathons around April, please let me know!

Now to devise a training program to accommodate these goals.... Any help appreciated :-)

Australia Day

So nice to have a day off!! Planned to get heaps of unpacking done, but haven't quite managed it...

We did manage to clean the old house this morning which was surprisingly easy. Got the final inspection tomorrow, so fingers crossed! :-)

After that we did some shopping on the way home, had lunch, a friend popped around, then we got engrossed in the Alicia Molik/Lindsay Davenport tennis match. Bloody exciting!!! Molik was unlucky to lose in the end I think...

I then planned to do something constructive like unpacking, but as much of the stuff in boxes is Andrew's, it's really hard to do it without him (he's been busy getting a web page sorted out for the Linux Conference), so I watched Shrek 2 instead....

We have to go back to the old house soon to do one final look over of the place and get my bikes and anything else we've left there, then I might come back to our new home and have a nice relaxing bath.

Tough day. :-)

Theo's take-away Ainslie, ACT

Never go here!!!!

We've been moving all day so worked up quite an appetite. We went down to Theo's take away in Ainslie as we decided hamburgers would be good. Andrew had been there once before and had a ham and cheese toasted sandwich which was pretty dodgy (no idea how you stuff a toasted sandwich).

So we got there and they had a Portuguese chicken burger which I thought sounded yummy. It had optional hot sauce on the small menu outside, but didn't mention hot sauce on the main board inside, so figured you had to ask for it. So my burger comes and the first bite has a bit of an spicy aftertaste. I wonder at this stage if they've added the hot sauce. Andrew took a bite and agreed that the burger did have a bit of a "bite" to it. I then took another bite and oh my god. It was SOOOOO hot! My mouth was burning, my eyes were watering, my nose started running, and it actually hurt to breathe as the back of my throat was so on fire. I drank heaps which did nothing, and Andrew was marvelling at the fact that he'd never seen such a reaction to hot stuff! I'm generally not too bad with spicy things, but this was ridiculous.

When I could finally talk again and didn't have to keep rubbing my nose to stop it dripping everywhere I went in to ask if that was how it was supposed to be! I told them that on the small menu it said that the sauce was optional, and it didn't mention it at all on the large menu, so I assumed it wouldn't have it on it unless you asked. She then proceeded to tell me that it wasn't that bad, and that it isn't optional, it's what it comes with. I told her that if they're going to have such a spicy burger, that they should mention it on the board, and I had just wasted nearly $6 on something I couldn't eat. She said they wouldn't put it on the board as that's just how it came. As far as I'm concerned, that's ridiculous. If they're going to make something that hot, they should warn people!!

They have a sign that says "If you're happy with us, tell people, if you're not happy, tell us". Well I told them, and they didn't care! If she had of just said "oh, I apologise, it does come standard, and yes, it probably is a good idea to mention it on the board" I would have been happy. I didn't want my money back, and I didn't want them to remake it without hot sauce (although it would have been nice, since I was really hungry!), i just wanted to make them aware of it, and let them know they should tell other people about it. The fact that this woman was so rude to me, is what makes me want to now tell everyone how crap they are!!