Time flies when you're having fun, and when you're training the house down too!  It's been great back in the land of not being lean mean posing machines.  Now mass building maniacs (I'll think of something better than that 'MBM' at some stage). 

So yes, we're alive and well, and gearing up for another busy holiday season in Whangamata.  But who cares about that, training has been going great guns!  Still the early morning training sessions going down, training down to four days a week, for plenty of recovery.

Back to the land of the living at last!  Into our second week of weights, and third week of eating enough food to fuel some decent workouts!   We're also back onto our maintenance eating plan, so no more cookie times for this cowboy.  I'll just have to eat them all on our free eating Sunday!!

Actually that would be an interesting exercise, sort of.  Buy all the things that grab your fancy through the week, but then don't eat them, and see what you've got by the Sunday, and would you be able to actually eat them all without making yourself sick...  S'pose you could just record what you eat too, but that'd be too easy, much harder to have the food in your hot little hands and not eat it - a battle of the brains!

As the smoke clears the and toilet paper goes to where all good toilet paper should go to (I don't know where that is, and I don't want to know, I press a button, water magically appears and carries all my troubles away), a few moments for some reflection on the Phil-Asia Championships in the Philippines.

Firstly the results, obviously not happy with where we both placed, but such is this sport of ours - subjective and down to the eyes of the beholders - in this case the 11 judges, 2 Kiwis and 9 from all over the shop.  And what they were looking for, another case of who knows! 

Pre flight - we hit the wing tomorrow at midday or so, NABBA Phil-Asia Championships, here we come!

And thankfully, NABBA North Harbour also been and gone and no casualties - we've not retained water like camel at an oasis, not having a million kilos of pure refined sugars obviously the key, which we knew in theory, but we now know by practise! 

I was pretty worried about this, as with flights and competition just five days after North Harbour I thought we could really foul this up.  The Wednesday after a comp in the regular season I am usually at the peak of retention, and then the water/weight drops off as fast as it comes back on, faster even.