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So today we dived along the M40 to Oxford for the Foodies Festival, ie rock up sample free food, try and get Iona to eat something nice, try some wine and then stroll home, today however as well as organising the tickets Octavia had booked us in for the Wine Theatre “Burgundy Demystified” by Louis Jadot (the champagne tasting was fully booked)

We sampled five fantastic wines and were taken through them and Burgundy by Quentin Sadler. Quentin spoke informally with real passion about the region and also the wines of Louis Jadot and in spite of suffering from a sore throat made the session very enjoyable with his knowledge and humour.

And on the food front Iona had a very nice sausage in a bun (not interested in the Hog Roast this time) and also demolished a large ice cream before bouncing like a loon on the Oxford Mail bouncy castle.

So is it just me, or is having access to BT Openzone with my iPhone as useful as a chocolate fireguard, I’ve never managed to get a working connection using BT Openzone, in fact the first thing I do when having connection problems on my iPhone is turn off the WiFi as invariably it is connection to Openzone, and can’t do anything, maybe “we” need to create a new version of the UK Snowmap and use it to log BT Openzone #FAILs ?

Oh and on a related subject BT Openzone is not always BT Openzone when it is a BT Fon zone. I must admit I had come across this and never managed to get BT Fon to work either.

So here we go, the start of August and no training done since the start of July, of course being the sensible chap I’ve ensured that I haven’t eaten or drunk too much whilst not training, oh wait…..

*sigh*

Stood on the scales this morning and the unsurprising news is that I’m now the heaviest I’ve ever been, ever. 91Kgs, I thought it was hard to lose the weight when I was 83 – 84Kgs, I’ve now made it 7 kilos harder on myself. Time to charge the iPod, sort the Garmin, pump up the bike tyres and get out there. Training for a marathon over the last two years has done me no favours, although it has highlighted a long term problem with my leg (note to self: do the bloody physio!) but all it has really done is made me give up training when I was injured and given me almost endless excuses.

So what to do, well Triathlon seems the obvious choice, I enjoyed the training when I was doing it, and I enjoyed the competition and racing, so lets set a benchmark, 8th September I’ll be “racing” at Dorney assuming I can still squeeze into my trusty wetsuit and my bulk doesn’t break my bike! Then winter training with the aim to race in several races next year, depending on how the early winter training goes I’ll then decide on my race(s) next year….

So now, reading the Triathlete’s Training Bible and talking to people, time to do some planning, wish me luck (or point and laugh)