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As you can tell I haven't blogged a lot lately, 3 months since the last post in fact!I did think about writing a race report for Graperide but didn't. All I will say is go and do the Magnum, its an amazing event, its worth doing just for the sunrise as you bike into Picton on the first lap.So this is me signing out of blogland. I started the blog initially to track my journey through to IMNZ 09

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Here it is, the race report. Sorry it took awhile, I kinda needed to digest the race that was Wanaka, the build up was interesting to say the least but this is about the race so here goes......Deep down I was hoping that I could go around 13 hours, 13 and a half was my outside goal depending on what the wind was doing out on the cycle course.Pre-race on the morning was interesting as I wasn't

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The days leading up to Challenge Wanaka were so full of random things going wrong that I thought I would share these first so that my RR is just that!The drive down was interesting to say the least. First mini-drama was plugging the iPod into the device that plugs into the cigarette lighter so the iPod can play through the stereo, this managed to blow a fuse and the electrics in the stereo and

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That is my new mantra, 'suck it up Buttercup' will help you through when the going gets tough! But we'll get to that, lets start at the start of the day for what was Half Ironman number 3 in my race repertoire!Did things a little bit different this year and drove down to Ashburton on race morning which meant a 4.30am wake up call. I'm ok at that hour of the day but Geoff was also racing, him and

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Yikes, that was a ride and a half today. Headed out nice and early to do hilly long bays again, this is probably one of my favourite rides, nice hard climb up to the Kiwi, cruise along the Summit Rd to Coopers and then done Gebbies around the bays up Evans and then home. Last week was great, I cranked out a PB to the Kiwi, that hurt a lot! Spent about 5mins at the Kiwi trying not to throw up

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So I headed off to Palmerston North again last weekend to do the Palmy Half again. I quite like this course, its quite pretty and runs along the river for most of it and given that I did a PB there last year I was pretty keen to go back and give it another nudge to see what I could do, esp as I had been running well recently. Saturday afternoon was fun, Pete has a choc lab, Cadbury and his

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Right, I haven't quite fallen off the face of the planet but have been taking some time out from blogging etc for a number of reasons. Partly cos I couldn't be bothered, it seemed almost like it was a bit of a chore and it has been nice to tell people what I have been up to without them saying, 'yeah I read that on your blog' also partly I have been in a bit of a funk. Yes, me, really! It was bad

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Some amazing things can happen when you walk the dog on a cold and windy beach...Have you ever been told you can't do something or think maybe you're physically not capable of doing something that you would like to do? Then this is for you:Believe in yourself; chase the seagulls!At least once a week I take the dog to the beach so he can have a big hoon around, usually I spend the whole time

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First up here are my goal times heading into race:Swim 1 hour 20, Bike 6 hours 30, Run 5 hours - total time of 13 hours allowing about 10mins for transitions!Pre-raceAlarm was set for 4.30am but I didn't need it as I had been awake for awhile, it's fair to say I was pretty excited that race day was here! Up and ate breakfast which was challenging, even though it was food I eat everyday it didn't

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Friday was a bit interesting weather wise, I got up early to go for a quick swim as I was going to the women's breakfast to listen to Paula Newby-Fraser speak. It was raining fairly steadily while we were swimming, there were lots of folk heading off for a quick ride etc but I had already decided I was just going to swim rather than risk sliding off my bike in the wet. The breakfast was really

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Before I get stuck into writing my race report there is something a little more important to do and that is to thank everyone who helped along the way, I got the easy part, I got to sod off for hours at a time to train and then on race day I had people running round after me helping me change and handing me food etc. Huge thanks to.... Geoff - for putting up with me for the past year when I have

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Well I am briefed and just need to drop my bike etc off. Met up with Deb N and Di C before from Ontri so that was very very cool :) Nice to meet a couple of faces I have 'talked' to for awhile and will have more folk to see and say hi to on race day which is now tomorrow!!! Yeehaa!Next time I post I will be an Ironman all going according to plan and it will go according to plan!Weather here is a

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Wow that was a long long registration line! It did move pretty quick so that was cool. I am now officially tagged, weighed and have an awful lot of Ironman stuff! Yes Rachel I spread it all out on the table and took piccies before attaching stickers etc to bikes.Had a wee stress moment this morning when my bike didn't pass the bike check!! Aargh!! Had a slightly loose headset so $15 later it was

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Well here we all are in Taupo! Me and my bike made it here safely!! It's a gorgeous drive from Palmy to Taupo. Have found our house and settled in (which means bike parts and gear everywhere!!) and have checked out the expo etc. Already done some shopping, Orca running shorts for $20!!! Have scoped out the merchandise area and will be back to buy some very soon! Just had my wetsuit didymo dipped

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Well, here we go it's time to leave to catch the plane for Palmy North, then I'm heading to Taupo tomorrow morning.Not sure if I will get to blog or Facebook again before race day, so thank you all for your good luck wishes and support and help over the journey. It's had its ups and downs and now I am just excited about race day and actually doing it!For those who don't know, you can track me (

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Freaky eh!! It's nearly time! I want to say that its scary that the countdown is in single digits and in the final week but its not, its exciting!! I am looking forward to getting to Taupo and doing all that pre-race stuff that we need to do and by golly there is a lot of it to do!!I am however finally quite sick of cycling around ChCh, this time last year I had never done that round around the

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Well it all looked a little like it was going to be a washout just like last year! Friday saw us with torrential rain, it pretty much poured down all day! I very dubiously headed off to registration to pick up my race pack and Nad'ya's as she was out of town. Briefly thought about trying to change Nad-ya into the non wetsuit swim category!! hehe! Decided that would be a bit mean and didn't do it!

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Yeah yeah I know, its been ages! I've been busy! These last few weeks of IM training have been tough, fun but tough! 2 more biggish days tho and then its taper time! Blimey, this time in 2 weeks I will hopefully be asleep getting a good rest before race day!!So what has been happening? There was another of those fun 180km rides! This time it wasn't roasting hot out tho which was nice, in fact it

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The training week that is! Wow, 20+ hours as well as working pretty much full-time (ok, I do have Wednesday afternoons off at the moment to train) and travelling to Wellington for work on Thursday. I am officially buggered but I can say that I have done it all and pretty much done it as planned!The weekend was huger than massive if thats possible! Saturday was an 80min open water swim, 180km

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I actually really really like this race although after today I am kinda scratching my head wondering why! It was hard and I mean really hard!We headed down to Timaru yesterday and did all the registration stuff yesterday as well as showing Al round the course as he was doing the multi-sport race and hadn't raced down there before. Up bright and early this morning, we had found out that transition

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Phew, I think I prefer the hard weeks, at least you know it will hurt!! hahaHad a pretty cruisey training weekend really and it was kinda nice for a change, it also meant I actually got some housework done for a change cos I had time!Yesterday was a swim at Corsair, the water was lovely and warm and flat which was great. Then after a rather slow transition where I ate my breakfast I headed off

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Why is that? One would think that an easy week would be easy. I suppose it normally is but coming at the end of the biggest week I have ever done probably means that anything would be hard. Last week was pretty huge 17-18 hours of training plus going back to work. I suppose I should be grateful that I survived!Tuesday was unfun, cycling down Hackthorne from the Cup I managed to drop my chain and

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Phew, 5 hours on your own on a bike is quite a long stretch, I guess this is the part of the training where it really pays to enjoy your own company cos you get to spend a lot of time on your own. Yep I know there are plenty of people who will ride with me but there are a couple of reasons why it is good to go on my own particularly for these uber long rides - I tend to not use my aerobars when

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When we go for a 3 hour run? It's often quite tricky to plan out where to go on a long run, esp when it is a flat one, let's face it those ones are a little boring! No exciting views or anything like that. I tend to do my flat runs from home, makes sense as I live on the flat and living by the river generally means it is quite a pretty run, often with a bit of abuse from kayakers that I know and

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When driving up to Kaikoura yesterday I saw a sign that said Picton was 226 kms away. That is the distance of an Ironman race, crazy to think that soon what is a reasonable length drive is the distance that I will cover in one day using just my feet, arms etc to swim/bike/run that 226 kms!I guess the good thing is that this realisation didn't seem scary, just kinda real!

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Blimey, but its warm as all the ChCh girls know! Today was my first half day on a Wednesday so that I can do a big mid-week training session, more than a few people questioned my sanity today when they learnt that I was heading out at 12.30 to train for 4 hours in 30 something degree temperatures, as I said tho I will be doing it on the day no matter what the weather is doing so best practise now

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Yesterday was my turn to be taken out for the day by Geoff, wow I'm pleased I went first cos he set the standard pretty high!! Geoff is normally pretty casual about timelines etc but he had planned everything down to a T and we had to leave home by a certain time etc etc, was quite cute to see him stressing about being somewhere on time and he couldn't/wouldn't tell me where. We headed north out

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I've had a very rare evening home on my own so I watched Horton Hears a Who on SKY movies, it is the coolest movie! It's a Dr Suess movie so fully animated and cartoony but very funny and sweet :) Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet!

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Gutted, just when you start to feel all relaxed its time to think about going back to work!Still have managed to get some good training done in some rather stellar (if hot) weather. So to catch you up on the last week since Geoff's big day out, ohh and my big day out is tomorrow, it feels like Xmas Eve again and he won't tell me anything even with all my bugging and general annoyingness!Monday

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This was fun, what we have done as we don't actually spend a lot of time together just the 2 of us between both of us training etc etc we have picked a day each while I am on holiday where we have no or very little training and we take each other out for the day. So on Sunday I took Geoff on his day out and it was heaps of fun.I had to do an hour run, I was planning to run up Capt Thomas so Geoff

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Had a fun day of training this morning, over to Corsair Bay for the tri club swim. I've never actually been to one of these before and it was heaps of fun swimming with so many other people! And the good thing was that I pretty much swam non-stop whereas if I am on my own I tend to stop every now and again and make sure I am heading in the right direction etc. Then a very slow transition while I

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Well, this morning was the Canterbury Tri Club Xmas Cracker Triathlon, always an interesting race this one, you would think so close to Xmas it would be stunning weather and it would be great for racing? But no, this is one tri that is very rarely a tri, in fact it has been reduced to a 5km run before! Today it changed to a duathlon which was a good call, it was pretty chilly out there,

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Well, I actually managed to wear myself out! I woke up on the Monday after those last 2 races and said to Geoff that I felt so tired that I just wanted to call in sick cos I just didn't have the energy to go to work. I am however a little more committed to work than that so I headed off for my swim although I did cut it back and took it pretty easy. Got to work and my manager looked at me and

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Thought it best I get my race reports up to date before I race again on Sunday! I'm starting to think that blogging is going to get less frequent between now and IM!So, about 2 weeks ago I did the final Womens Tri, the day after the Harbour Ride, needless to say I was feeling pretty tired by this stage, too many early mornings right after a couple of bad nights sleep thanks to the silly

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Well, its a week late but here is an RR for the Harbour Ride.For those not in the know, the Harbour Ride is an 80km ride which takes you through ChCh along the base of the hills out to Tai Tapu and Motukarara before heading into the hills and taking you along the bays towards Lyttelton and back up over the hill home to Sumner. For the locals its just good old Long Bays that we ride all the time!

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Urgh, so after going to bed early last night I spent most of the evening cuddling the toilet bowl. Ewwww! Very unimpressed! So, definitely not so ok now. I think I must have eaten something that didn't agree with me while I was in Wellington yesterday. Am having my first day off work sick in well over a year. I have managed to get up and stumble down the drive with the rubbish bag cos its rubbish

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Hi,Yep I'm still around, really I am! I have been way too busy and too tired to post. There will be a couple of race reports soon, Harbour Ride and the last PhysioMed Womens tri. Right now tho I am pretty exhausted so am off to bed at a nice early nana hour of the night to try and get some rest so that I can go and play again tomorrow!Cheers, Nades :)

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The official pics are up now, go here: http://www3.marathon-photos.com/scripts/event_entry.py?job=Sports/RSNZ/2008%20Sports/South%20Island%20Half%20IronmanI have ordered mine as there are heaps and heaps of them!

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Here is the lazy version of the pics, I have uploaded them onto Facebook, they will make it here eventually. In the meantime you can check them out here:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=69444&l=72215&id=654229553

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Alrightee, I have now slept and eaten etc so here is the whole day from go to whoa. The Race Plan:The goal was 6 hours, this was a pretty big goal as last year I did it in 6 hours 36 so I was banking on being able to carve 36mins off my time which is quite a chunk! Richard and I planned it out earlier in the week, we worked out that if I swam the same time (its hard to know how your swimming is

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This is the short version, I think I need sleep so I can blog properly!I had a goal time of 6 hours and finished it in 5 hours 55mins! That is wicked!Due to my own inability to push the buttons on my HRM hard enough, the first time I truly knew who I was tracking was about 4 and a quarter hours into the race, near the end of the first lap on the run.When I went over the race plan with Richard the

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Phew, its been a long couple of weeks since my last blog. As my training gets longer and harder my blogs seem to get less frequent, while I am out on those long runs/cycles I think of lots of interesting things to say and by the time I get home I am too tired to blog it! Oh well, thems the breaks of playing in the big kids sandpit eh! Soo, here we are, 2 sleeps out from the Ashburton Half IM,

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Blimey, the last 2 days before an easy week are always kinda tough and this weekend was no exception! To make it more interesting I had to work on Saturday morning, after finishing at 1pm I headed off home, meandered down to the local school to cast my vote then quickly tried to eat enough food to sustain me for a 4 hour ride. Nadia kindly offered to keep me company for part of my ride which was

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So, its November now, that conjures up thoughts of sunshine and warmth. But no, we get snow!! Crazy!Wednesday night was spin (was sposed to be an outdoor ride but reverted to spin as it was soo cold out) then a run off the bike. Spin was all good, it was inside in the warm! My thighs were feeling it a little after running in the plantation the night before, it's all sandy in there at the moment

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Here we are a week later so figured I better write a race report for last weeks race. I got a bit busy doing the boys blog for the 5 Passes.There's not really a lot to report this time as everything went ok which was really nice. The weather was good, yay! I got there nice and early again, I do like that end spot on the rack, it's just easier to find and less crowded with only one person beside

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Gee, what a day! Why does the weather never co-operate when you have something planned? And yes I know it's good to train in all weather but I'm telling you now if its that windy at the Half Ironman I am pulling out! Right, back to the start.Today's plan was to head off to Ashburton to do a simulation on the Half IM course. Kalina and I loaded bikes in the car and headed off to Ashburton to meet

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Well hello from Nightcaps! I flew down to Invercargill last night and the folks picked me up from the airport for about an hours drive to their wee cottage in Nightcaps which is a tiny wee coal mining town in Southland. It's quite pretty but very tiny! Nightcaps has a population of less than 400 people to give you an idea of the size, however I discovered the other day when I googled it that

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Hmmm so its been a couple of weeks since I posted eh!I have been in a bit of a slump, it hasn't been an easy or fun couple of weeks. I was reading Rachel's blog about her meltdown the other day and reality hit that I have been having a bit of a meltdown of my own. I tend to go quiet when things aren't going well or am feeling under pressure about stuff. Am feeling more balanced about things now

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Yay, its race time! They reckon there are only 2 states, waiting to race and racing! Well I'm pleased that I can stop waiting to race and actually get out and race!!Not the best day weather wise alas, when I got up I could see that it had rained but it was warm so I was about to head out in normal cycle kit, then it started to rain so I added a layer and quickly grabbed an extra pair of leggings

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Transition Setup Bright coloured towel on the ground beside your bikeLay out gear in the order that you need it, eg cycle shoes close to the front, runners at the back. Leave room to stand on the towel to wipe off your feetHelmet upside down on aerobars, place on top of cycling shoes if no aerobarsPre-fit helmet to your head so it can go straight on without having to adjust or remember to adjust

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OK, I may have a sad idea of fun! I had spin class tonight followed by an hour run. Strangely enough this was actually my own idea?? Really it was. I talked to Richard a few weeks ago about how Wednesdays are days where I could do more training but don't really because we have spin class so I suggested leaving my bike at spin while he takes the next class and heading out for an hour run. It's

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Hmmm, after all my growling at other people about playing catch-up with training sessions I have gone and done it myself. Normally I find it relatively easy to fit everything in, except for on Thursday this week for some reason. All I had to do was a 45min swim and a 45min run and as I didn't need to be at work till around 10-10.30 I figured it would be pretty easy. I got up and took the dog for

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Ok, so rather than having the world's longest list of comments on my blog I figured I would be clever and create a Wiki! So after a little googling I now have my very own Wiki, with a Wiki people can add to the comments etc as well as creating a to-do list of things we might need etc, the list is endless I guess. Why a Wiki? I learnt about these in a Team Leader Forum at work last week and it is

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So here we are just 5 weeks later and doing another half marathon, the things we do if they turn up in our training program eh! Twas a little different this time in that I had to ride my bike for an hour first and given how I was feeling after yesterday I wasn't even sure that I would want to get out of bed this morning! After a bollocks nights sleep (why do boys have to play with their bikes at

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So the plan for today was a 90min swim, straight swimming to see how far I could get in 90mins! I decided to head off down to Centennial as it is often quieter there on a Saturday morning, it was fairly quiet although there was an aquafit class in the lane next to me to start with so it was a little bit like doing a rough water swim! My plan was to hit the lap timer on my HRM every 10 laps so I

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When you are out on a ride and about as far from home as you could possibly be on the ride, most people you know are already out riding (and they are riding in the opposite direction) and you break your spoke? This was a first for me and while I do carry tools and can fix most things that happen on a ride I have never replaced a spoke and don't carry spare spokes around 'just in case'.So, back to

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What was looking to be a pretty quiet Saturday became a nice busy Saturday but it was fun! Headed off early-ish this morning for my hour long run, headed off round the river for a change. It was lovely out there today with all the rowers and kayakers back on the river, even the whitebaiters were friendly and saying hi this year (ick tho I can't imagine eating anything that comes out of that river

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Really I can! And without my glasses!I'm still a little stunned that this time last week I needed my glasses to see normal every day stuff and now I don't! LASIK is kinda like magic I have decided!So how does it all work? What happens? Does it hurt? These are questions I have answered many times in the last few days!Last Wednesday I had an appointment at the Fendalton Eye Clinic to have my eyes

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Headed off to ride around Ashley Gorge today, nice wee undulating 75km ride! Again I was the token girl, this is starting to become a theme lately, oh well more hard pills for me I guess! I haven't ridden out around Ashley for ages and ages so it was really nice to be out there today in the countryside instead of hitting the Port Hills all the time. Twas a bit chilly to begin but a very nice day

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Stink my phone has died!! Grrr! I managed to biff it out of my pocket last week wen I was out riding, luckily Anita and Deo were behind us and picked it up (I never even heard it fall!) and it went back together just fine and was working reasonably well, (I say reasonably as apparently I haven't replied to some texts this week and some of mine haven't been received either) and today it just gave

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Had a great run today! Headed up Rapaki and then along Mt Vernon track and then some random wee track to Scott's something or other (can't remember what its called). The session goal I had set myself was to run the whole of Rapaki on the way up, well that was a bit ambitious but I certainly went a helluva lot better than I did last time I went up there! Having said that I think I am pleased it

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I can't wait any longer, its all too exciting and I can barely sit still now and am generally being annoying to those who do know as well as those who don't!So yep quite a few of you guessed it, I am off to have my eyes LASIK'd tomorrow at 3.20! Spent 2 hours there today getting my eyes mapped etc, its real trippy and really looks like a topographical map. I have asked the 50 million questions

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And here we are again, another Sunday evening has rocked around and I'm another week closer to IM. Yay that Spring seems to have sprung! Woohoo thats so cool!Things are a'happening, I have confirmed accommodation for Taupo that is really handy to everything so thats cool, I have also booked in my massage lady so I can start having weekly massages from Thursday week (can't start this week cos I am

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Yup, my stunning piece of Italian carbon fibre beauty is officially a year old! The final mammoth payment has departed from my bank account and I am a free woman who owns a sexy sexy bike! Hmmm, I went and looked at the new Wiliers and that was probably a mistake, but just check out how much prettier they are this year...

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Tis important this dog stuff! I was feeling a bit bad for my boy as all his stuff is hand me downs from Tara and Merlin. While its cool that he is using their stuff I figured it was time he had something that was just his, rather than pre-loved. Poor wee Zac, everything is pre-loved, his bowl, collar, lead, blanket, toys and the list goes on. Since he has destroyed the foam mattress from his bed

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Yes its true, this evening it was warm enough to run in shorts for the first time in ages and ages!! It was sooo nice! Today was the first day of many things! First time I haven't worn my puffa jacket to work in ages. First time I wore jandals to the pool in ages (I have to walk about 3-4 blocks from my car to the pool). First time I heard the birdies chirping outside my window in the morning.

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Well lots but I'm not gonna tell you about the thing yet! There has been some intriguing guesses which have certainly made me giggle! We are a curious bunch by nature aren't we!Phew I was pleased that I was smart enough to go for my Sunday ride on Saturday as the weather on Sunday was disgusting! Rode out to Sumner and up Evans from the Sumner side, it was only the second time I have ever done

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Yep, everything is getting exciting at the moment! Yay my bike is mine officially this week! Phew, 12 months goes quite quick really doesn't it. So that's pretty cool and having that extra money in my pay each week will go a long way! My new wetsuit arrived today and it is awesome! Managed to score a Blueseventy Helix for $419, not bad when they retail for $719 and its brand new so thats cool, no

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Well I have gone forth and achieved another PB! Woohoo! I do believe that every race I have done since Richard has been coaching me has been a PB! Crazy eh! Good crazy though :)I flew up to Palmy on Sat am to stay with Geoff's brother Pete and his partner Jill. They were both planning on doing the half marathon as well, poor Pete tho he was really sick and after being up coughing all night

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Palmy North half marathon this weekend, weather is looking interesting, thunder, rain and norwesterlies but 12 degrees, which actually sounds warm given how coldies it has been in ChCh. I think I have packed just about every piece of running clothing I own cos I really don't know what I want to wear in that weather so figure best be prepared! Am hoping that I have remembered to pack my running

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Yep we all know that right but I am only just realising what this really means in some ways. Yep I get all the time and effort its going to take and I am balanced about that. I am just discovering other things tho like I don't get to taper for a half marathon when everyone else does. They do because it is a key race for them whereas for me it is actually just a long weekend run that happens to be

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Gosh 6 weeks rolls around fast and before you know it its time for a new program all over again. Its always exciting getting a new program cos while some stuff stays similar, eg spin on a Weds, you never know what other wee surprises will be in there. Some good and some not so good! It seems if you are training for Ironman you don't need to taper to race a half marathon... Hmmm so I emailled

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Well slack at blogging anyway! I guess if I'm going to feel not so motivated about something its better to be about the blog than the training!Last week was an easy week anyways so not a lot of excitement going on. Quite seriously the most exciting thing I did was buy new togs, mental notes to stay away from adidas ones as both pair have crumbled under the pressure of regular use, having said

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So yesterday was the good! Considering that my day called for a 2hour 20 run and a 45 min swim there was a lot of potential for this to be a nasty day! After talking with Richard earlier in the week about the fact that I didn't really pay a lot of attention to my HRM other than look at the data afterwards.... This is mainly because at this stage of the game for me I have found it more beneficial

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Gosh I've been a wee slacker! No blog updates for a week now! I'll give you the weekly stuff then do the weekend separately! At the moment I am tapping away on my blog while soaking my feet in the foot spa, ahhh feels good!Week was good, all the normal stuff happening. Swim on Monday, thats usually when I do a 1km TT to see how I am going as its my long swim of the week. TT time was about normal

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Fabulous weather for training this weekend! Not! Well that's a bit of a fabrication, yesterday was quite nice if a little chilly, today was bollocks! Yesterday I decided I needed a sleep-in as I felt that I hadn't had one for ages so I kinda casually got up when I woke, then managed to watch the Tour de France while having breakfast so I think it was probably about 11am by the time I headed to

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Ok, odd title I know, not sure why that, it is what I emailled Richard when I discovered that work stuff was trying to interfere with my training - I guess it is just life at the moment and I am lucky that life doesn't interrupt more often!Marathon running was all good fun again, I did however discover a place I now wish I never knew existed! If you ever go up Rossmore Terrace be wary of the

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Oh dear, I broke stuff today! heheeeYesterday I noticed that the cord on my hairdryer looked like it had been chewed a little by a certain wee dog who shall remain nameless to protect his identity! I got Geoff to check it over and he reckoned I would be ok as long as I didn't hold it on the chewy part. We also figured that the dog may have had a wee zap given that it was plugged in while he was

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Yep, thats right! Only 33 weeks left until the big IM. Yes it may be sad that I know these things but hey I'm not quite at the counting sleeps stage, that will come tho! Right now there's far too much going on to be doing that just yet.It's been a pretty quiet week this week being an easy week. Well an easy half week, still not sure which part of the 2 hour run followed by spin was sposed to be

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Ohh I do like to run! Well I do now! Ah tis funny how times change, I used to refuse to run but now I love it and am almost gutted that I don't get to run again until next Tuesday! Went to the Marathon Clinic again last night, I am now a fully paid up member, anyone see that coming?? Was another fun night of hill running, this time up Hackthorne to the Takahe, every time I bike up there I see

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How does it go? Something about doing a good deed a day? Well, I seem to be clocking up the good deeds at the moment in a random kind of way. Yesterday's good deed was a combined effort with Geoff. We had popped down to the Palms to the supermarket and the car we pulled up beside had the keys sitting there in the drivers door! Eek, how would you feel! We umm'ed and aah'ed about whether we should

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Well, there are 2 kinds of Sunday rides, there are the full on hard out spending time in the hills kind of Sunday rides and then there are the coffee rides. Luckily I get these specified in my program, just in case I confuse a serious ride with a coffee ride! Yesterday was the serious type of ride, 4 hours on the hills, no coffee! The boys were excited until I told them there would be no coffee

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Another busy week is coming to an end! I had my swim analyzed/assessed/whatever you want to call it the other day which was interesting. I was at Aquagym along with Tim who Richard also coaches and just to increase the audience size Richard was there as well. It wasn't really too bad, it's just never fun being critiqued is it even when you know damn well that there is heaps you can do to improve

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You may or may not know that I recently won a voucher from Slynkey.com for a cut and colour at Ginger Meggs. I finally got around to booking in the other day and headed off there this evening and had an amazing experience! Mike Hamel cut my hair, he is one of the best hairdressers around and is a pretty nice guy and certainly knows his stuff!! I didn't really have any idea what I wanted done so

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So whats with this coffee thing you ask? Well, it's the thing I need/want to have everyday. I was going to say that it is my 'nirvana' then I Wikipedia'd it and decided that word doesn't really fit the bill. Hmm how to describe to non caffeine people just how good that coffee is, that first whiff of the freshly ground and roasted beans, the perfectly steamed milk blending with the espresso to

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Ohh I have been a slack wee blogging girl eh! Here's a quick catch up:I went off to Wellington on Thursday for work. OMG, flying into Welly was terrible!! Super bumpy and not fun at all, I am an ok flyer but that one had me a tad worried! There were a few green looking people getting off that plane. You know its bad when the pilot says that it is unsafe for the stewardesses to serve your water

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Soo this random thing turns up in my program called the 'Marathon Running Clinic' and I know nothing about it and was sposed to go forth and do it on Tuesday! Eek, nothing like not knowing what you are in for I spose. No further info provided, no link to a website, no nothing! If I had been thinking rather than reacting I would have Googled cos we all know that Google knows all! I sent a couple

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Haha you guys are funny! After I read the first couple of posts I thought I better post the list or I'll never hear the end of it. Sorry it took so long, some of us have a job and umm some training to do for the thing in March. So to answer some of your questions: No Paula there are no cupcakes on or near the list however if you want to bring some to Taupo that would be ok, Rachel yep the pantry

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Really truly I am, hopefully in a good way tho!Check out this pic of my pantry door..... yes that really is a to-do list for a race that is 250 days away. Still I have a nice sense of satisfaction that I have got some plans laid out where I can see them daily and there are some quite tangible things in there that will be easy enough to get sorted, hey there's already a couple of ticks on my list

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Phew definitely did the right thing not cycling today, sure it wasn't peeing down like it was yesterday but the roads were so wet it may as well have been raining. So off to Bottle Lake Forest with the dog for a 90min run after a bit of faffing about to find him a dog tag with my address and phone number on it in case he disappeared off into the distance never to be seen again. Poor wee bugger,

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This week has been hectic so its been kinda lucky that its been a lightish training week otherwise I don't know how I would have got anything done at all! I don't normally talk about work on my blog cos this isn't about work so this is just a quick snippet cos it's work that made it hectic and will do next week as well. My Team Manager has been away this week and I was asked to step up and act

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I swapped my programme around this weekend as the thought of a 4 hour ride in the rain on Sunday wasn't very appealing. The weather man is a little fickle I would have to say as other than about 5mins of spitting I don't think it actually rained, having said that, it was a far nicer cycling day yesterday than today so I think I was smart to change my days.My goal for todays training session was

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Blimies it was cold out this morning! I had to work from 9-1 so I was up earlyish (late compared to normal but early for a Saturday!) and walked the dogger, brrr very chilly out and even the footpaths were covered in frost. Hmmm, my cunning plan was to ride to work then head out on my ride from there, so not looking forward to that initial ride! I thought about driving my bike to work or just

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Now maybe just maybe I have played the odd practical joke on people in my team from time to time, you know, fun stuff like packing up their desk and hiding their stuff while they are on a weeks leave - it helps if you drop in some hints such as 'I might make some seating changes while you are away'. Other fun things included ransoming off my managers coffee cup as he kept leaving it in random

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Aah to run is such fun!Running is one of those random things that either seems to go really really well or it just sucks! I never used to know this cos I never ever used to run! Ahh the good old days....not!Today was one of those days where I run home from work, now I can get home from work in under 40mins but had to do an hour run today so knew I would have to lengthen out my normal trek home.

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And no for all you weirdos out there the day isn't about replacing your missing hair follicles!! To satisfy your wondering here is the official definition of Rogaine from my friends at Wikipedia:Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country navigation. It is closely related to orienteering and many people enjoy both sports. For all participants, compared to an orienteering meet, a rogaine

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Stuff that in the past I would have thought weird or just plain odd is now becoming normal and in a strange way I think I kinda like most of it. So what kind of things you ask? Try these out for starters....I think swimming a 3.8km TT is fun!Its normal to get up and put my togs on and wear these under my trackies while I walk the dog in the morningIt's normal to get up at 6am every day and walk

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Blimies, another week nearly done and dusted!Yet another whirlwind of a week as they all seem to be at the moment, not sure how I am going to cope when the training levels start to pick up! Oh well, cross that bridge when I get to it I spose. I started reading a book on time management today, someone kindly left it on my desk a few months ago so I figured it was about time I looked at it, let's

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Orienteering is just fun!! It really is, if you haven't given it a go then get out there and do it, I'll be very surprised if you don't have fun. We did decide that it was all a little bit British in a Famous Five adventures way :)Today's event was up on Godley Head which was beautiful today being surrounded by all the snow capped hills in the nearby vicinity. It started off a little crisp and

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Tried a couple of new things this week, hmmmm running at lunchtime was a novel experience that I don't know that I am keen to repeat on a regular basis. It proved to be quite a mission and given my work location not a great deal of fascinating places to run. I headed off down Madras St, along Armagh St, around North Hagley Park and back to work. By the time I got changed twice, showered and ate

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