I am an enthusiastic amateur at triathlon. I have been racing for years and my usual event is Olympic distance, i.e. 1.5km swim, 40km bike, 10km run. The professionals finish in about 1:45:00 and my average is around the 2:40:00-2:45:00 mark. Before Christmas I did a 2:39:00 but that was a draft-legal (pack cycling) event on a dead flat course.
Although I was never interested in sport as a teen or in my early twenties, I love triathlon, and as a result love swimming/biking/running. This is an event I can do with my wife and daughter, and as I'm 34yo I can realistically look at age group racing for the next forty years. Not like other sports when you're 'over the hill' at 25!!
I work best when I have a goal to look forward to, so as part of the 21 day challenge I'm getting back into training. Last year was difficult with a new baby and minor personal illness, but I'm ready to get going again!
My grandfather was underage when he joined the NZ army to fight in WW2. For around five years he sent almost one letter a week to his parents about life as a soldier. He trained in Egypt, fought in Greece and Crete, then was captured in Libya and spent the next few years as a POW in Italy and Germany, before being freed by the Americans at the end of the war.
I have all of these letters and have spent a long time transcribing them and also making high resolution scans of all the letters. They are in fairly bad condition and I wanted to preserve them for the family history. In late 1999 also traced some of his footsteps in towns in northern Greece, but unfortunately my daypack was stolen shortly afterwards and I lost all the photographs.
In their current form, the letters can be found in: http://alanbisman.weebly.com/ (publicly available to read, but please be aware they are part of personal family history and not to be used for any reason without express permission).
Hey, why not? I can easily juggle with three balls and it's a new skill to learn. I have some time off for the christmas break so I can download some How To tips and see how it goes. Nothing fancy, I'd just like to juggle - lets say - twenty 'throws'.
I have decided that juggling two balls at the same time with both hands doesn't count.
