Sorry bout the huge picture but I took it this morning and i love it so ....

Great Picture

I didn't take this picture but I think its a great effect. 

I like the way that stuff on the road looks like snow ... 

... hold on ... it IS snow! Well it's hailstones/sleet/snow ... in Papamoa!!! WTF!!! 

The world's weather has gone crazy!!! Glad we're well stocked up with firewood this year. Think its gonna be a long winter.

Ironman? Nah! ... well maybe ... maybe not ....

So ... I saw this advert in the paper for a weight loss challenge in Tauranga. Fifty people sign up for a 12 week challenge. Thirty five bucks to join. One dollar every pound (half kilo) you put on. Five bucks if you miss a week. BUT .... the person at the end of the 12 weeks who loses the most weight wins nearly $700 ... about the same amount as the fee for IronmanNZ. I put it to Jo that if I win it I could use the money for that. It wasn't a definite NO so I'l take that as an almost yes. If I win it then I think I could swing it. I was thinking not for next year but the year after but what the hell if I can win this thing I'm doing IronmanNZ in March 2010. Oh yes I have to win the challenge first. It's percentage body weight so I have a chance. I can be disciplined for 12 weeks surely. I can lose heaps of weight in 12 weeks. Then I can eat ... and plan Ironman 2010. I want this. Starts this Wednesday. Wish me luck.

If there was ever a case of getting ahead of oneself then this is it.