The City 2 Surf
on Aug 9, 2009 in Fitness City to Surf running Sydney Today I completed my very first City 2 Surf – a 14km fun run from the Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach.  My preparation for this event was marred by injury, first I developed tendinitis in my right foot which was closely followed by an inflamed Achil...

Big Thank You
on Aug 3, 2009 in Fitness I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who congratulated me on my win at AMAC.  All your wonderful comments mean a great deal to me.  I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends – yes all of you who read my blog, but who I have not...

Competing At AMAC
on Aug 2, 2009 in Fitness Kung Fu Martial arts If you told me at the beginning of the year that today I would be competing in my first martial arts tournament, I would have laughed at you.  I would have told you that there was no way I could even do martial arts, let alone compete in a tournamen...

Stating The Obvious
on Jul 27, 2009 in Diet Iced coffee Weight gain This article just appeared on SMH about the “startlingly” fact that ice coffee drinks contain a lot of calories. Now look at this drink and tell me would anyone honestly think that this drink is healthy?? Look at the amount of cream for...

Oh…crap
on Jul 23, 2009 in Fitness Kung Fu Somehow at training tonight my Sifu (instructor) managed to talk me into going in a tourament next Sunday.  I know I need to start going into touraments to get competition experience, but I wasn’t quite expecting to start this soon and to have...

Out Injured… Again
on Jul 17, 2009 in Fitness achilles tendon injury I think I have broken the world record of the fastest time someone can re-injure themselves – 24 hours.  My tendinitis in my right foot had resolved itself and was feeling great, so on Monday night I went, armed with some great running songs,...

The Power of Good Songs To Run To
on Jul 13, 2009 in Fitness running music I went for my first 5km run since developing tendinitis in my right foot three weeks ago and my foot felt really good, no pain at all.  I ran it in 38:07 which is 16 seconds off my PB of 37:51.  Not too bad for someone who has been sitting on their...

Off Track
on Jul 11, 2009 in Diet Fitness Just realised it has been 10 days since I have updated. Sorry folks. I have had the week from hell this week (you can read all about it on my personal blog) and that has thrown everything off track. My diet has gone out of the window (hides the ev...

Update From The Sidelines
on Jun 30, 2009 in Uncategorized It has been just over a week since I was diagnosed with tendinitis in my right foot and was told I could not do any physical activity until it healed. It has been a very long week. My body is just not used to sitting around doing nothing and I am go...

Sidelined For two Weeks
on Jun 25, 2009 in Fitness injury Tendinitis Last Tuesday at my Kung Fu grading, I hurt my right foot during the warm up.  I didn’t really think that much of it and the pain wasn’t anything serious, so I took no notice of it.  In fact I took so little notice of it that I went to t...