It was an epic battle. Over the weekend the race was a 12 hour mountain bike event which started at 6pm and ended at 6am. It was Woop Woop vrs ADAMANTIUM entered in the 2 man teams.
For 12 hours we were only 4 mins apart maximum. The lead changed basically every lap. Then Woop Woop pulled out a massive lap and pulled ahead. ADAMANTIUM worked hard to pull it back but in the end it was a Woop Woop victory. They ended up coming 3rd in the 2 man teams.
A more epic race will never be seen again. What an awesome night.
results
Friday, December 05, 2008
Friday, November 28, 2008
Web Presence
so following on from yesterdays post; I am trying to develop a web presence. Why? I am not sure. It may be that I have a mild but pervasive desire for fame. It is funny though because this desire battles with my respect for humility. Part of me wants to tell everyone about everything and build myself up. But the people that I respect the most are the people that you find out are just awesome but never tell you them self. I want to be like that and am striving for it.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Anonymity
So far I have kept this blog anonymous. But that is stupid because anyone who wants to find out who I am will find it really easy to do so. I guess the reason that I want to remain anonymous is that I do not want my patients to search my name and see some of my ponderings. So I am going to keep the name here anonymous but everything else is not.
I think I am also a bit scared of the internet. John O'Connor in Terminator kept himself off the grid and survived. In some way I would like to do the same. It is the desire to be a hero that sparks that one. But since I am so entrenched in the grid and have made no other attempt to remove myself from it, I say bugger it. Am who gives enough of a damn about me anyway? Identity theft, I guess, is a good reason to try and say a bit anonymous and I think maybe that is a valid concern but I refuse to live in fear and so bring it on!
I think I am also a bit scared of the internet. John O'Connor in Terminator kept himself off the grid and survived. In some way I would like to do the same. It is the desire to be a hero that sparks that one. But since I am so entrenched in the grid and have made no other attempt to remove myself from it, I say bugger it. Am who gives enough of a damn about me anyway? Identity theft, I guess, is a good reason to try and say a bit anonymous and I think maybe that is a valid concern but I refuse to live in fear and so bring it on!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Tour Down Under
Check this out for an awesomely tough cycle race. 140kms of hills with the worst one at 100kms. This is going to be the first race of Lance Armstrong's comeback.
I have to do this race.
I have to do this race.
racing to the finish
So the blackwood went really well. Ride conditions were not ideal and did not quite get the 30kms/hr time I wanted.
But that is old news.
Today I am thinking about self improvement. For the last couple of days my mind has been fighting through the sludge of boredom and depression. So I have been reading Lifehack.org and then found Breaking Free (which I am not so sure about yet.)
Something that I heard ages ago was that if you want to change something, do it slowly. Humans hate change. We hate to move away from what we know and it scares us. The best way to prevent change is to get inspired and change your whole life at once. That will last a week (or until the coffee runs out) and then collapse in a heap because it is unsustainable.
It is all about not getting inspired. It is all about changing anyway even if we don't feel like it. And it is all about one small change at a time. Get the change part of your lifestyle and then do the next one. Then in five years time we will not be in the same place doing the same thing. It will feel like we have not changed because it happened so slowly.
Everyone loves and exciting, life-changing, inspiring article or lecture. I have been wondering about all of this. If a person was to strive to better himself everyday and made little changes all the time, how long would it take him to be perfect? Is it possible? Is there enough time in a persons life? Is that what being enlightened means? Or holy? Or can only God do that? I am not getting religious (or maybe I am a bit - but I don't mean to). I was just wondering what is at the end of all this self improvement. You know what I want - happiness. That is all.
Such a small and then most incredibly massive goal.
But that is old news.
Today I am thinking about self improvement. For the last couple of days my mind has been fighting through the sludge of boredom and depression. So I have been reading Lifehack.org and then found Breaking Free (which I am not so sure about yet.)
Something that I heard ages ago was that if you want to change something, do it slowly. Humans hate change. We hate to move away from what we know and it scares us. The best way to prevent change is to get inspired and change your whole life at once. That will last a week (or until the coffee runs out) and then collapse in a heap because it is unsustainable.
It is all about not getting inspired. It is all about changing anyway even if we don't feel like it. And it is all about one small change at a time. Get the change part of your lifestyle and then do the next one. Then in five years time we will not be in the same place doing the same thing. It will feel like we have not changed because it happened so slowly.
Everyone loves and exciting, life-changing, inspiring article or lecture. I have been wondering about all of this. If a person was to strive to better himself everyday and made little changes all the time, how long would it take him to be perfect? Is it possible? Is there enough time in a persons life? Is that what being enlightened means? Or holy? Or can only God do that? I am not getting religious (or maybe I am a bit - but I don't mean to). I was just wondering what is at the end of all this self improvement. You know what I want - happiness. That is all.
Such a small and then most incredibly massive goal.
Friday, October 24, 2008
race
friday and coffee'ed up. i gave in to the coffee cravings today and it is balancing my mood nicely. it feels a little bipolar actually with mild swinging feeling of joy and despair.
so this weekend is the blackwood marathon. i am heading down with people that i do not know very well but am hoping to know better afterwards.
the goal this weekend is to chill and just cruise the race. the anaconda race is next weekend and i am hoping to do really well in that. more on that next time.
so the blackwood, hey. 12kms of running, 8.5kms of paddling, lunch, 1km swim and then 20km cycle. i am psyched! team adamantium is coming out again. i will actually write about adamantium sometime. there is lots to tell.
so the plan is to take everything easy and then smash the ride. the course is hilly so i hope to average just over 30km/hr. if everything goes well hopefully a little more.
and i will work on nutrition a bit and experiment for next weekend.
so it is 30mins to the end of work. the boats are on the roofracks and i am ready to head off.
go adamantium:
so this weekend is the blackwood marathon. i am heading down with people that i do not know very well but am hoping to know better afterwards.
the goal this weekend is to chill and just cruise the race. the anaconda race is next weekend and i am hoping to do really well in that. more on that next time.
so the blackwood, hey. 12kms of running, 8.5kms of paddling, lunch, 1km swim and then 20km cycle. i am psyched! team adamantium is coming out again. i will actually write about adamantium sometime. there is lots to tell.
so the plan is to take everything easy and then smash the ride. the course is hilly so i hope to average just over 30km/hr. if everything goes well hopefully a little more.
and i will work on nutrition a bit and experiment for next weekend.
so it is 30mins to the end of work. the boats are on the roofracks and i am ready to head off.
go adamantium:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Fighting the Mind
If I didn't have to fight my mood the whole time I think I would be far more successful than I am. I am reading a self help book at the moment called "How to be Brilliant". It is very inspirational and I have read it before but it makes things seem so easy.
He fails to take into account mood. He seems to think it is easy to not feel in a particular way. Well, I have news for you buster, it is not that easy.
What bothers me is that I seem to need caffeine to get myself out of my lethargy. Now I know that everyone drinks coffee and there is no reason not to. But it bothers me that I have become reliant on coffee to make me happy and productive.
So now I have a whole lot of paperwork and stuff to get done but I just don't feel like it. I will just have to return to the mantra that I am trying at the moment which is: "What would you do if you were not feeling flat."
I would write happier blogs and get productive.
He fails to take into account mood. He seems to think it is easy to not feel in a particular way. Well, I have news for you buster, it is not that easy.
What bothers me is that I seem to need caffeine to get myself out of my lethargy. Now I know that everyone drinks coffee and there is no reason not to. But it bothers me that I have become reliant on coffee to make me happy and productive.
So now I have a whole lot of paperwork and stuff to get done but I just don't feel like it. I will just have to return to the mantra that I am trying at the moment which is: "What would you do if you were not feeling flat."
I would write happier blogs and get productive.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
inspiration
today i have lost inspiration. i thought about writing about training for races but got one line in and got bored. then my new pups need some writing about but no one wants to hear about other peoples dogs. i will just post a photo:
i aspire to be excellent at this and make an entertaining blog but am not living up to my expectations and so freeze in my writing and dont post.
i need to stop that.
i aspire to be excellent at this and make an entertaining blog but am not living up to my expectations and so freeze in my writing and dont post.
i need to stop that.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
time
i suffer from time deprivation like every second person in the 21 century. from the moment i stop pressing snooze to the moment i turn out the light i feel like there are about 4 million things that i should be doing in every minute. they fight for attention like non identical quadruplets. and they are from different parts of life: work, play, study or exercise.
so i am left with a resounding sense of anxiety that i am getting nothing done. there always seems to be more.
and the problem arises when other things come up. say for example i want to start painting. i then say to myself that it would be better if i used that time to finish a video editing project i am half way through. so i don't start painting. and the editting project stays unfinished and i am nowhere. maybe i am just a starter not a finisher.
so what to do?
(you see i have that man's brain thing where i don't want to just discuss a problem, i want to solve it.)
maybe i should take the next five days to not start anything and finish everything off. try and wipe the slate clean and then i can move on.
btw - in this mess of no time and too many projects, i am starting a blog. what am i doing? maybe i should paint instead.
now i need to return to my paperwork and stop messing around.
or i could have another cup of coffee. or write some emails that i have neglected.
bugger.
so i am left with a resounding sense of anxiety that i am getting nothing done. there always seems to be more.
and the problem arises when other things come up. say for example i want to start painting. i then say to myself that it would be better if i used that time to finish a video editing project i am half way through. so i don't start painting. and the editting project stays unfinished and i am nowhere. maybe i am just a starter not a finisher.
so what to do?
(you see i have that man's brain thing where i don't want to just discuss a problem, i want to solve it.)
maybe i should take the next five days to not start anything and finish everything off. try and wipe the slate clean and then i can move on.
btw - in this mess of no time and too many projects, i am starting a blog. what am i doing? maybe i should paint instead.
now i need to return to my paperwork and stop messing around.
or i could have another cup of coffee. or write some emails that i have neglected.
bugger.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
entered ironman
i entered ironman new zealand today but i am not telling anyone. why? well, i have a few reasons but i am not sure that they are completely clear to me so i am not sure that they will be clear to anyone. i think that if i try and explain them, you will gain an understanding but i think that it may be different to mine.
but here goes:
firstly - why i am entering ironman nz.
the seed was put in my head a few years ago when a mate of mine started talking about it. since then it has been growing and now it is has become dream of mine - something that has to be done.
but that is the boring part.
the ironman is all about that crap about setting yourself a physical and mental challenge; about the discipline and work one has to commit to and the sacrifices etc.
i think that is all valid but i think that those reasons are almost cliched. and as with all cliches it looses its meaning somewhat.
so why am i doing it?
because i want to. because it is a cool race to do. and because i can tell people i did it.
because i like the idea of being a little heroic (even just to a few people), and i think that people that have done it are heroic.
why am i not telling anyone that i have entered?
that is my challenge. that is the self growth part of the ironman. that is the part of my self that i want to work on. i am a big talker. whenever i race i talk it up. "i am going to do the best race ever." "i want to go out hard and see if i can hold on for a good time." "i am going to smash this race." and generally i perform worse than i talk about. i try to be humble but i don't think i succeed very much. also my motivation for the ironman is dangerously close to doing it to impress people rather than doing it for the race.
so i am not telling people about it. i want to try and keep it slightly more pure than my motivations. i want to use the race to grow up a bit.
and i guess i am writting this blog to release a bit. to talk it up a bit. to get it out there without compromising my challenge to myself.
do i fail by doing so? i am not sure - maybe. but it this is fun and i don't care.
but here goes:
firstly - why i am entering ironman nz.
the seed was put in my head a few years ago when a mate of mine started talking about it. since then it has been growing and now it is has become dream of mine - something that has to be done.
but that is the boring part.
the ironman is all about that crap about setting yourself a physical and mental challenge; about the discipline and work one has to commit to and the sacrifices etc.
i think that is all valid but i think that those reasons are almost cliched. and as with all cliches it looses its meaning somewhat.
so why am i doing it?
because i want to. because it is a cool race to do. and because i can tell people i did it.
because i like the idea of being a little heroic (even just to a few people), and i think that people that have done it are heroic.
why am i not telling anyone that i have entered?
that is my challenge. that is the self growth part of the ironman. that is the part of my self that i want to work on. i am a big talker. whenever i race i talk it up. "i am going to do the best race ever." "i want to go out hard and see if i can hold on for a good time." "i am going to smash this race." and generally i perform worse than i talk about. i try to be humble but i don't think i succeed very much. also my motivation for the ironman is dangerously close to doing it to impress people rather than doing it for the race.
so i am not telling people about it. i want to try and keep it slightly more pure than my motivations. i want to use the race to grow up a bit.
and i guess i am writting this blog to release a bit. to talk it up a bit. to get it out there without compromising my challenge to myself.
do i fail by doing so? i am not sure - maybe. but it this is fun and i don't care.
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