Wednesday, July 30, 2014

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Iron Man


I finally manned up and signed up for Iron Man. After talking about it for a long time, I committed to Melbourne Iron Man, March 22nd, 2015. I originally wanted to do Lake Taupo or Brussleton, but the logistics of actually getting to these events, and the cost involved made them much less appealing than Melbourne. Maybe for my next Iron Man ;-)
Anyways, training as Marathon training as per usual at the moment, bar a few little niggling injuries, but with my main focus being staying in good health to start Iron Man Training on Sept 22nd, for 6 months of "Game On!" before race day. It's going to be hard, but I am super excite about the challenge.
I am also stoked as I have now got the opportunity to build a time trial bike :-) Kate will be stoked with the prospect of a 3rd bike in the house :-)

Saturday, July 26, 2014

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House hunting again. This was an interesting fence next door to the place we were checking out in Mile End. This fence may give an idea as to how run down the place was that we were checking out...a definite dooer-upperer :-)

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Wandering through Hahndorf. Hahndorf is such a cute little town, very touristy but it has managed to maintain it's German feel without becoming too tacky and full of shithouse tourits chiches. This stroll and nice arvo in Hahndorf was followed by date night, which comprised of Blue Cheese from Udder Delights, a mad chocolate Pate and gluten free crackers along with fresh hills grown apples. Amazing. I then signed up for Iron Man Melbourne! All this was started with a market shop in the morning and a run around the Torrens with Kate. Her first run since her Knee operation! All up an amazing day.

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Kate at the Benjamin on Franklin for Astruds birthday drinks. I got her to throw this pose. I thought she fit in really nicely with the old school lamp and couch.

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Wandering Rundle Mall in my lunch break, these Adidas breakdancers were killing it...inside a giant glass cube. Pretty cool and dynamic. Rundle Mall is really starting to get some cool stuff like this.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

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Wandering around Adelaide looking for photo reference, I scoped this cool facade with a broken window that a tree was pushing through. Reminds me of Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park - "Life always finds a way".

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Lunch break sitting in the stairwell. Munching on my salad, I didn't last too long as it was ridiculously cold.

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New business cards. Hopefully they bring in the photo work ;-)

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Our new planter boxes. Repurposed timber palates to grow our fresh herbs and veggis. This kept Kate and I busy for Sunday afternoon. Wish it had been a bit warmer to enjoy the outside a bit more.

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My awesome friends Laura and Tomasso got engaged today! I was there to capture some pics as they fell from the sky into Royal Adelaide Golf Course. Tomasso proposed in the air, and then got down on one knee as soon as they landed. Such a special moment and I was so stoked to be able to capture some nice photos for them.

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Embarking on my second 19km training run for the week. I headed up to Unley Pool, then North along West Tce, around the parklands, memorial drive, through North Adelaide, Melbourne St, the Torrens and to work. I think the best 19km I've ever run, and with 11km of Marathon pace in there it felt really good.

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Quatchi posing for a portrait. Need I say more.

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Getting ready for another early morning 19km run. Raining, not so nice, and headed straight to work. Thankfully there is an awesome shower at work, and I got in early so I headed to the supermarket and treated myself to an epic museli brekky.

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Busy on a project at work! Steve is in the zone comping together our final renders.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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Late at night and running out of time for a photo. I decided to get creative with a self portrait. I actually quite like it.

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Heading to the Wayville Showground Farmers Market form a beautiful morning of eating good produce. This was a really enjoyable morning market trip as we had already bought our groceries at the Central Market on Friday night, and hence this shop was purely enjoyable and relaxing. It made the market way more fun and was much easier to take in all of the nice flavours.

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Taken on Rundle St just out front of a dress store that Kate had just managed to spend over a hour in at a buy two get one free sale :-) Yes she got a good deal...while she was doing that I took random photos and went to T2 to get some Yerba Mate and Lapsang Suchong.

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Once again, another busy and late day! Cooking up a storm, I kinda liked this cliched global knife and chilli shot.

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What can I say...late and running out of inspiration. This is the cash that I borrowed from Kate to get to Immanuel pool the next morning :-)

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My quivver of snowboards. The oldest one being my Burton Bullet that I got in 2002. The newest my Dark Series that I purchased at WWS Board store, Bellingham, fall 2012.
The Burton Jussi came from a South Lake Tahoe Boardstore, 2004, purchased while I was there on a ski season at Kirkwood. Finally the Lib Skate Banana, ordered with my $800 from K-Rudd, just so happened to be ordered from the same boardstore that I got the Jussi from, just a few years later, 2009, and first ridden in NZ with some amazing pow at Cardrona.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

24 km training run



Another large sunday training run. 24km from home to brighton then down to semaphore. Beautiful morning for a run, except for the ridiculous downpour about 10 mins into the run that left me soaked to the skin for the rest of the run.

19 kms were ran at marathon pace, 4.22min kms. Still not what i'm after, but ok. 

The rest of the day was awesome with many coffees,  a nice morning at the wayville farmers market with kate.

I then managed a 60 km bike ride on my rad new bike and am now suitably smashed. 

Finally i cooked an amazing fish pie for dinner! Awesome sunday!

Friday, July 4, 2014

Lobethal Run!



So last weekend we went to a mates vineyard in lenswood. It was a rad weekend away! Kate and i camped out in the vineyard, we all cooked up amazing food, and i hit a beautiful morning 20 km run on sunday morning! I headed out along croft road, left onto edwards hill rd, right on fox creek rd to lenswood, left on lobethal rd to lobethal, last left before lobethal out to croft rd, back down fox creek rd then back up the trails to croft rd and back to the vineyard. What an amazing morning! All while this was happening, the sun was rising, the cows and horses were rising. Such a beautiful part of SA. 

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

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Adelaide sewer covering, Featherstone Place. Lunchtime walk and phone call with mum for some good old motherly advice! Really, what would we all do without our mums :-)

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So I asked Bicycle Express if they could hook me up with a old frame to use as a commuter as I cracked the headtube of my old bike. They come back with this. Trek Discovery Channel Lance Armstrong frame....$50. What? Thinking of building it up as my tri bike maybe. Too good for a commuter.