Feeling swamped

Just sometimes:light the fire, training, deadlines looming, fitting in teaching, Cameron to kindergarten, Emily wetting the bed and it's raining, do the washing, chop firewood, feed the chickens, training, clean the house, cook, Cameron to dentist, Emily starting ballet, training, bed.

This is real Tri

Merry Christmas

Q:Where do rabbits learn to fly?
A: In the hare force!

Q: What kind of pen does Kojak use?
A: Abald point pen!

Q: What never asks questions but plenty of answers?
A: A doorbell!

What is very tall and stands in the middle of Paris wobbling like a jelly?
A: The trifle tower!

The jokes in xmas crackers just don't get any better or they just don't change.

Season's greetings

Christmas Eve

The sunny weather has returned.

Went to the beach at Ahuriri and played in the sand and sea with children and my dad (grandad visits from the UK most Christmas). Got home had dinner, finished cleaning while children in the bath. Cameron in bed early and then Emily, unfortunately she is extremely tired and over excited and has tantrum about going to bed.
Resort to threatening non-arrival of presents.

In spite of all this mind is on how I am feeling - missing training - planning training for Boxing day and fiddling with flipping blog. I think that my partner Teresa thinks I am addicted. She reminds me that I said I wasn't going to work on the computer today (I design websites working from home). I say that I am fiddling with this blog and that she will thank me when she starts using blogs with her class. (I was a school ICT specialist in my previous life as a teacher)

Yes blog is addictive for the time being.

Training plan for Tuesday

• 3mile run 5am
• 2 laps of pandora's pond 9am
• Turbo train 40min 7pm
• stretching (religously since arthritis

Frustrating week off training

Second attempt at creating a blog, I never saw the point until stumbled upon other triathlon related blogs.

Here in the southern hemisphere we are in the middle of race season. The week before christmas I am recovering from a cold/tiredness/stay at home dad of 2 young children/building a web design business and relieving primary school teacher - choose any or all excuses/reasons.

It is particularly frustrating as I raced badly last weekend and I know what I need to be doing to fix it (speed work on the bike and run). Swimming is a different ball game - I am a bad swimmer- and I am trying to find the holy grail of swimming Balance in the water. This balance in the water will mean I can use my arms for propulsion and not just survival. I am the butt of jokes at the pool because my swimmimg appears even slower.

Anyway christmas eve -clean toilet, clean bathroom, clean vacuum cleaner (and it's still not working despite removing tonnes of hair from the brush roller thing). Triathlon training my release especially the bike saturday and sunday not possible because the afore mentioned reasons. All the cleaning and playing with kids are points to be banked for later especially as I want to do open water swim training without the family tagging along.