What's Timbo Up To Now

Friday, January 6, 2012

Photographer documents his life in self portraits everyday for 12.5 years

Jeff Harris documented his life by taking a photograph every day for 12.5 years. What starts out as a simple process of taking 5 minutes out of every day, becomes a very profound and i found inspiring journey. Be sure to watch it all the way through.

Watching this has got me thinking, i don't know what about - but i am thinking...

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tim's European Adventure....Part 1

It was early 1974, a 1 year old non-tweeting Timbo (me, obviously) and his parents (who shall be referred to as mum and dad, for obvious reasons) set about on a tour of the world. I have absolutely no recollection of the trip, but i do know it lasted about 8 or 9 months, involved a few long boat trips and touring Europe in a campervan...

Here is me with mum and dad and the trusty campervan, which according to the logo emblazoned upon the front, appears to be a Commer. And yes, i am wearing purple, and Mum and Dad appear to be in matching outfits...

Now lucky for us all dad was carrying a camera, and for the youngsters amongst you, back in the old days cameras weren't digital - which is probably lucky because although computers existed back then, the PC as we know it didn't - and photos were an actual process where the image was transferred via exposure of light onto a film or slide negative...but i digress. Anyway we ended up with a significant number of slide and film images.

So in the great tradition of the Slide Night, i'm going to bring you countless images of the trip, in some sort of random order. Actually, mum is doing the digi capture of the slides and i'm pilfering off her FB site.

He we are in front of the Fairstar in Tenerife, just slightly disappointed that mum and dad's clothes don't match.

Here's me and mum in Amsterdam having a picnic lunch. Just wondering why the bottle closest to me looks suspiciously like a beer bottle, let's just put it down to Amsterdam in the 70's.

And the last of today's shots is dad and me in a camping ground in Barcelona.

Until next time... Cheers

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

New Years Training so far...aiming for Sandy OD tri

With Portsea Twilight this Saturday, a two week holiday in about a week and a half and Sandringham OD tri in about 4 1/2 weeks, and following a less than impressive December training wise, the New Year was the time to ramp things up...

New Years Day - mid 30's - about 40 minutes in the house of pain that is the bike on the wind trainer... oh yeah, this was late in the day once i'd re-hydrated from my 50k NYE bike ride...
2nd Jan - 40c - 9k run, with about a 1k of lovely soft beach sand in the middle, back by about 7:45 to avoid the worst of the heat...
Yesterday - 1.7k swim, 500m w/u, 500m single arm pulls alternating on the 50m, 10 x 25 max sprint / 25 recover with 10 sec break, 200 cool down. Man that hurt!!
Today - Nice easy 8k run before work...

It's not too hard to keep motivated running around a river with the beach only 3k from home...

Hopefully i can keep this up, training through the holiday might be a little tricky, but so long as i can find a gym with a spin bike, and a pool, should be all good :)

Getting my Training Back on Track!

It was just before Christmas, 12 months ago, that i decided that it was time i got fit and active again. So here i am 12 months later, knee injuries recovered from, knee caps tracking straight, achilles tendon fixed, a truck load fitter and healthier!!

A few fun runs completed last year -

Portsea Twilight (6.7k),
Run for the Kids (14.4K),
Puffing Billy Great Train Race (13.2k of HILLS!), and
Arthur's Seat Challenge (6.7k rising 300m...hell in sneakers!!),

and it looks so simple in pictures...

and i'm lining up for Portsea again on Saturday.

As good as running over the Bolte Bridge and through the Domain Tunnel was, i don't think i'll do the Run for the Kids again...the crowd kind of sucked... But the others are definite starters :)

Following my knee injury (which was during week 1 of a 16 week half-mara plan), it was agreed with my physio that i would cut down on the amount of running i was doing, so i thought... after a 20-odd year break, it was time to get back into triathlon (i did a season when i was 17/18). So back in the pool and on the bike i went.

Highlight of the cycling year was the Eastlink Bike Ride, 75k from Ringwood to Frankston and back, with the tunnels attacked just before the finish...although a close second was a group ride along the Great Ocean Road...in the pouring rain...50k of hills and bends and awesome scenery...

And as you can see from the charts, my speed and cadence was up and down with the hills...

So, where to from here...

Well apart from the Portsea Run on Saturday, i'm entered in a couple of Olympic distance triathlons (1.5k swim, 40k ride and 10k run), one at Sandringham in about a month and then Noosa in November!!

So as well as all my other inane ramblings i'll bombard you with all my training...Cheers :)

I really must get this blog active again

In an attempt to get this blog up and going again i've installed the app on my trusty iphone. I'm also going to mix things up a bit. A bit of something for everyone which will hopefully include random events, sailing stuff (when i get time to fix that damn hole), my training data - in case you haven't heard i'm an athlete :), and of course my photography.

In the interim here's a picture (crap quality - 20MB reduced to 40kb to put on FB, original somewhere at home) of a cockatoo...