1 day to go!

I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Been in Wanaka since Monday and swam 1 lap of the course on Wednesday. Had the carbo loading dinner last night and that was cool. So much food and so nice!

There are heaps of people here for Challenge Wanaka from all over the world and at the dinner last night we met up with our Uncle who is doing Challenge also, whom we've not seen for about 16 yrs - so it was nice to catch up.

We've not long come from the athletes pre race briefing which was informative, and will just chill out now. I'll have a little swim maybe, still undecided about that. The Contact energy tri races are on this afternoon so I guess we'll be down town in amongst it watching the guns doing their thing. I've taken some cool photos so will post some on here next week after it's all done and dusted.

Talk to you Sunday maybe with a post race report. 

Mr Tua

The coundown thingy says 8 days to go!

Happy New Year people. 8 days into it and I'm becoming rather excited about the whole affair.

Just a short blog today. Have to pack my bag for the 3rd time!

I worked out yesterday and I thank the internet for sites like www.zoggs.com.au for being able to track ones training, that from when I started training for this journey to Wanaka and up until the 31/12/09 I had clocked up 222.375 km in the pool. Sort of blew me away really because it seems like such a long way. I just hope I do the training I've done some justice.

Remember Mr Tua's wish list? Well there were a couple of things that never happened:

1) The wedding... Nevermind life goes on and am happy to report that I am very happy. Thanks Anna and I guess thanks Mrs Miller :)

2) 100 kg by race day, not going to happen BUT to be honest I'm not at all bothered! I made it to 120.3 and it will happen but just not now. I'm happy, healthy, can swim like a demon when I want to AND can run 5 km in under 30 mins which wasn't at all possible when I was 156.5 kgs. I've done well I think and it's still a work of art in progress, oh and I got to throw out the fat bastard clothes lol.

Off to ChCh in the morning and I'm excited.... Did I say I was excited?

One last thing, GOOD LUCK to Kathy and Paul, along with all the others that I've met in swim squad and along the way who are doing the Port of Tauranga Half Ironman in the morning. Go Hard and kick it's arse!

Mr Tua