Powering On

Hey everyone, hope you are well.

I certainly am. I've been a weight loss demon this week and reckon I just may break through that 110kg barrier by weeks end. It's been a nice week not having to bust my arse essentially working and studying full-time. I don't have another internship week until June so I can set my mind to Uni work and a decent fitness regime.

As for the latter, I've had a really good week on the fitness front. I've managed around an hour everyday except today (bit of a couch day today but I watched sport so that's ok isn't it) including a ripper 1 1/2 hour basketball session on Tuesday. Thanks to my volunteer basketball coaching with Dragons basketball I get free use of the PCYC facilities during the week and I try to get down at least once a week and have a shoot around on the court. I'm really enjoying getting active again on the basketball court and if my knee allows me I'm even considering a run in the over 35's comp (bloody hell who knew you became a veteran at 35).

The diet's been in check this week as well and with two and a bit days to go before the weigh in, I'm hopeful of cracking another barrier. One thing that becomes more noticeable by the day is the relationship I have with my clothes. I'm beginning to look a bit stupid in a lot of my T-shirts now that my supercharged gut is fast disappearing and I've given up on all of my pants from the start of the year. I've included a partial shot of me from today wearing the jeans I bought in Thailand in November last year. The good news is I've still got some smaller gear to get into so the motivation remains in the closet for now. And even if I run out of existing clothes to aim at, I do have one final piece I haven't fitted into since I was about 19 or 20. My woollen VFL Richmond Guernsey. I think I got it when I was about 17 so if I ever get into that it may be time to call the folks from Guinness (that's the Records ones not the Irish ones).

So as you can see things are rolling ahead nicely. The rest of the week looks great as well with a 50 odd km ride on Saturday and a night at the pub with the Richmond crew for the footy on Saturday night. So its up early for a decent ride tomorrow morning as well which will followed by a day of homework, sub-editing to be precise. Let me show you how important sub-editing can be:

Let's eat, Grandma.  OR  Lets eat Grandma.  See sub-editors and punctuation save lives.

On that note, it's goodnight for now.

P