News Just In....!

Exciting news! (well, I think it is!) I have secured a place in the Shepparton Half Ironman on November 18th!!! This will incorporate a 1.9km swim (just over 1 mile), followed by a 90km ride (55miles) ending with a 21.1km run (half marathon, 14 miles).  This morning I rode 82.5 km so nearly there (but my legs were pooped afterwards!), last week I ran the half marathon and I'm up to 1.6km in the pool. Put them altogether though and it's a different matter. I would like to complete it in 6.5/7 hours... better get training...!

London Olympics 2012

Well, what a couple of weeks the Olympics provided us with! 4/5 of us got up at 5.15am to watch the Opening Ceremony (Jack didn't!) and we weren't disappointed! A lot of it was on in the middle of the night for us but we were able to avidly catch up the next day and eagerly checked the medal table every morning :) This is one time when we were sad not to be in the UK. Loved watching the Triathlons (which we watched live) and the cycling and athletics.

Both Sam and Jack went skiing last week. Sam did cross country skiing which he quite enjoyed while Jack ended up teaching his class mates downhill skiing, none of whom had done it before! Had to get up at 3.45am to take Jack and his friends to North Melbourne to catch the coach!

I did my third Half Marathon yesterday and was very pleased with my 1:54hr time and recovered very well too! Each one I am getting a little bit faster:)

Our friends from the UK, Joe and Fiona and their two daughters Charlotte and Lydia have been over in Australia for the past month and this week they arrived in Melbourne. We spent a really nice weekend with them; Chris, Sam and Will took Joe to an AFL game at the MCG while I went round Melbourne Museum with the girls. Then yesterday they came to ours for the day with Joe going to watch Sam at his football match :)