About Me

The fam

I'm just a regular guy.  At the time of writing this (Feb 2014) I'm 30, have a wife, a near 2 year old daughter and another little Miss on the way.  I live in the outer Eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and work full time in the city.

I've always loved sports.  I'm pretty sure as a kid I played almost every sport possible.  I was a decent enough cricketer, managing to play for both Ringwood and Croydon at representative level as a junior and winning a few batting and bowling awards along the way.  I was ok at AFL, played a bit of soccer, tennis, basketball and even tried my hand at table tennis!




As I got into my late teens and school started to get in the way, as well as the social aspect of being a teenager, I lost the passion for playing sports.  I still loved watching it, but playing was becoming too much.  Then came the late nights, the beers, the car etc...and I got lazy.  I by no means got fat, just lazy. 

The last of the peaks conquered - Baw Baw

It was then probably something like 9 years, about 2009/10 before I got "unlazy".  My older brother said that, despite being a lazy bastard, I somehow still had the body of a cyclist (he was a keen cyclist/triathlete and still is).  Well, the seed had been planted.  I went and bought a bike, a Specialised TriCross, thinking I'd just potter around the looking trails.  My first ride was a 16k dawdle to Yarra Glen.  I was KNACKERED!  Nearly spewed!  But I was hooked.  Bring on the hills!  About 6 months later, I upgraded.  Went the whole hog and splurged on a Cannondale SuperSix - brilliant bike.  What started out as a hobby riding once or twice up the regular "1 in 20" in the Dandenongs, turned into a desire to seek new mountains to challenge myself on.  So Donna Buang came and went, Lake Mountain, Mt Buller, Buffalo, Hotham, Baw Baw etc...

Dad after finishing his 2nd Melbourne marathon
and my brother finishing his first
- with no training!

Time for a new challenge!  In October of 2012 my old man ran the Melbourne Marathon.  Talk about inspiring!  I mean he's fit and runs a lot, but seriously, he's my Dad and I can't run a marathon!  Challenge accepted!  My first attempted long run was a halfie, FAIL!  I did 17k and once again, near vomit.  This was going to be a lot harder than I first imagined!  I trained for about 6 months for the 2013 Melbourne Marathon.  I was ready way too early, peaked too soon.  Got injured 4 weeks out.  ITB Syndrome, the bane of so many!  And to make matters worse, my brother ran the whole thing without a minute of training! 
I vowed to regroup and do it better in 2014.  And while I'm at it, I set a goal to run 2014km in 2014.

That's me, I don't really have any particular motivation to run or ride, I just enjoy it, plain and simple.  If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't do it.

I'm not particularly fast, if I can do 5k in 25 minutes I'm generally happy.  I'm not gifted, I can't just go out and run 10km+, I need to work hard.  I don't have oodles of time to do what I love doing.  I don't take myself too seriously, but during recent months I have certainly begun paying attention to what I eat, what I drink, how I maintain my general well being. 

My reasons for making this blog are:

- Keep track of what I do/eat on a regular basis
- Hopefully give others training ideas, new routes to run/ride
- Alleviate boredom
- Just generally write down some of the stuff I'm interested in, and who knows, maybe other people are interested in it too.