Happy Anniversary

Well today is the day. As of today I have been doing this blog for a year. It has certainly been an interesting 12 months. There have been some real high points, fastest age grouper at Mandurah 70.3, third at the half Metaman and finishing my first Ironman. There has also been some real low points, dnf at Geelong 70.3 and a dns at Melbourne Ironman. But on balance I think it has been a really positive 12 months.

Beyond results, there have been some other real highlights, I have well and truely settled into Perth. Between Break Your Limits and Swim Smooth I have a great bunch of mates and peers here. I was not expecting to find a group of triathletes just as friendly as I had left in Darwin. A bigger group no doubt, but just as welcoming. Perth has become home.
Including this one, there have been 352 posts over the past 12 months. Getting close to my goal of doing an update every day. In that time the site has been visited about 17300 times. For those interested the most visited pages have been my race reports for the Mandurah 70.3 and the Cairns 70.3, both of which have a couple of hundred views each. I am pretty sure that some of those visits were even by people who are neither related to me, coaching me or spambots (at least one or two) . 

Some of the things I have learned over the past 12 months are that if I post before lunch time I get more views, less people read blogs (at least this one) on the weekend and blog spambot are really annoying. I have also learned that I use the word 'pretty' to much when I write, and I and don't know the difference between to and too. I apologise for both those things.

It has been an interesting year, I look forward to the next 12 months.

On a training front I had an absolute leg smash of a ride today. Probably the last one before race day. It was a finish riding, stand still for a while, leg quivering sort of smash. Ouch. Good session for mental strength, but boy am I glad that it is done.

I have the running equivalent in the morning. Hooray?