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Europe and UK trip 2011
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Welcome to my travels around Europe and the UK with some of the other Bondi Rescue boys. Here you'll find regular updates, along with photos and videos. The trip will be part business, part pleasure. But either way were gonna have a lot of fun along the way. Thanks for coming along for the ride !
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I want to be an IRONMAN !

Sunday 25th of March 2012 was the day a seed was planted in head. That seed is to grow into making me an IRONMAN ! Our adventure to Ironman Melbourne 2012 all started the day of our 100km t...

27 mar 12 1 person likes this

Its a wrap, I JFDI !!!

So here we are at the end of the road, my 12wbt is over! I J F D I = I Just F#%King Did It I lost a total of 9 kilos and am feeling great.  Im a little sad though, there...

15 dec 11

Week 12, Done & Dusted :)

I cant believe I am writing about completing my 12th week of my 12WBT, It feels like just yesterday I was wondering if Id get through my first weekend. I think before anyone starts something like thi...

05 dec 11 2 people like this

Week 11, Keeping busy !

Well, here we are, 11 weeks down and life is good, sort of. Unfortunately this week I had a some sadness in my life, I split with my partner Jessie after 18months. For obvious reasons I wont be going...

27 nov 11

Week 10, Sweating !

Wow, 10 weeks have passed and I havent had a beer, not even a sip. Is that un-Australian of me? Maybe a little but just maybe for the sake of sensibility its a good thing. Maybe we need to change the...

20 nov 11

Week 9, wheres the pause button ?

I have been doing a lot of thinking this past week, just about what happens at the end of my 12WBT. Will I fall back into bad habits, make wrong choices and give into peer pressure? Cant I ...

13 nov 11

Week 8, Gaining weight !

Its milestone week in my 12WBT and what a week its been ! Apart from completing all of my regular Swim, Weights and Shift60 sessions, I had a weigh in on Wednesday that went North. The...

06 nov 11

Week 7, Improving !

Many people ask me where I am getting the motivation to keep pushing on. After 7 weeks of no booze, healthy eating and serious training I feel it is only getting easier. Back at the start of my 12WBT...

30 oct 11

Week 6, Halfway and learning to fly !

Today is the day I hit the halfway mark and how good am I feeling?! This week I was worried I would lose some intensity but if anything I have stepped it up. My training is going great and my healthy...

23 oct 11

Week 5, Powering on !

I cant begin to explain how fortunate I feel to have such amazing people around me helping and motivating me through this 12WBT. Some may say "whats he talking about? He doesnt need to lose weigh...

15 oct 11

Week 4: Its all about the pole !

WOW. What an awesome week. So excited to be 1/3 of the way through my 12WBT but I can assure you it hasnt been rosy. This week I have really been struggling with my "inner Labrador" (as ...

09 oct 11

Week 3, and rolling on.

As the days start to roll into weeks my 12 week body transformation is coming along nicely. The routine of eating healthy and training consistently is getting easier and easier. Like Mish Bridges say...

02 oct 11

Week 2 = Training hard, feeling great !

Unfortunately the last day of week 1 of my 12 Week Body Transformation was sad for me. I wasnt sure if it was appropriate for me to mention this in my blog but the more I think about it the...

25 sep 11

1 week down 11 to go !

So the Saturday night before the start of my 12WBT I spent it preparing for the next 12 weeks. Youd think I would have been out drinking beer and tearing into a couple of Quarter pounders but I ...

17 sep 11

Blank canvas !

This is the start of a new chapter for me. Here I begin a journey back to the fitter person I have been in the past. As most of you know I work down at Bondi with some pretty fit dudes and my job as ...

05 sep 11

St Ives to Heathrow, Home !

We arrived in St Ives to a very warm welcome from Evie and Noah, their mum was the reason we were there. Zoe and her husband Andrew are involved with the St Ives Surf Club and invited us to spend a d...

17 aug 11

SCOTLAND !

Im so glad we made the decision to come to Edinburgh, its exactly how you would imagine it. Amazing old buildings that would cost a fortune to build in this day and age, super friendly locals and bar...

12 aug 11

London town

People always told me Id love London and they were spot on. Its up there in my top 3 favourite cities. From the warm friendly atmosphere to the culturally diverse areas easily accessible by a great r...

09 aug 11

Massive day in the mountains

What a massive day we had in manchester yesterday. Starting out at Alphin Pike in Manchester with the Bald Hiker, Paul Steele and 10 others that through Owl Marketing on Twitter got&nb...

03 aug 11

Wale of a time !

The last night in Dublin our taste buds went to heaven thanks to legendary restauranteur Joe Macken. Joe owns Jo Burger in Dublin but on this occasion it was his pop up chicken restaurant called...

01 aug 11

A pint of your finest Craic

Walking in to cousin Helens country house from the 1700s made me feel a little King Henry the 8th. I had to take a little look around the place as it just oozed character. When they bought it it was ...

30 jul 11

Devon11, sunshine !

Day 1 at Devon11 was fun filled and action packed ! We started the day out with a full english breakie that came piping hot from kitchen at the Orchid Hill hotel. The couple that run t...

29 jul 11

Toga Toga

Starting the morning with 7:30am training as they always do here in Tylosand, we were in wetsuits and heading right out to the point. The basis of todays training was, how to enter the water off the ...

27 jul 11

Getting dressed for success !

After a big morning board training with the Junior Lifeguards from Tylosand I spent a couple of hours walking the beach with one of the lifeguards. It was a warm Saturday and the beach was starting t...

25 jul 11

Tylosand Rocks !

Weve been down in Tylosand for the past couple days and all I can say is "This place rocks". The joint has everything you need: friendly people, warm water, lively atmosphere and great lifegu...

23 jul 11

Who likes roller coasters ?

We got a tip off Gothenburg had the best fair (amusement park) in the whole of Sweden so we had to check it out. Just a 10 min tram from central we arrived Liseberg. Its not cheap, they charge l...

21 jul 11

Tylosand & Gothenburg

Its been a fun last couple of days on Gotland island. We started the morning by putting the Gotland lifeguards through one of the physical tests we do in Australia. The M-shape course consists o...

20 jul 11

Fun in the sun

Hej AllaFor everyone that didnt get to watch my video of the Swedish Helicopter training you should be able to watch it here in my Mobile Me GalleryThe sun has been shining for us the last coupl...

17 jul 11

Baltic Rescue

Yesterday after breakfast we found the Tofta beach club just around the corner from the lifeguard station house. It has a big 25m swimming pool (where we did a pool session), beach volley ball courts...

16 jul 11

Gotland via Stockholm

Arriving in Stockholm to blue sunny skies and beautiful old buildings was exactly how I imagined it. The place is sensational ! After a short bus ride and quick walk from Arlanda airport we arrived a...

14 jul 11

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