2% of the population have an accessory ossicle navicular

Well I thought it about time to get back into this blogging caper. It has been quite some time since the last documentation of all things random. Unfortunately though I don't even have an excuse for not keeping my fellow blog readers up to date other than the fact that not much has gone down in the past 6 weeks. Well I stand corrected...I did in fact discover the always exciting news that I have an extra bone protruding from my right ankle (accessory ossicle navicular) that apparently shouldn't be there...thanks mum and dad for that one.

For the past 6 weeks I have been putting in some solid training (well as much as the much loved extra ankle bone allows) in preparation for the upcoming Aussie tri season. It was at this time that I came up with the great idea to take on another challenge and step up in distance to half ironman. For those who have no idea what this even means, it is a triathlon made up of 1.9km of swimming, 90km of cycling and 21km of running...crazy I know. However today was the day that I took up the challenge and competed in my first half at Shepparton. My number one goal for the race was to finish (tick), learn LOTS (tick), place top 10 (tick, 8th overall) and to have fun (not quite a tick on that one, however I'm sure one day it could be a barrel of laughs!)



I was hoping for around a 4hr30min-4hr40min finish time and ended up in 4hr34min which I was pretty stoked with. I was super happy with my swim, pleased with my bike and just glad to get through the run.

So for now it's time to eat, sleep and recover in preparation for more racing next weekend. Happy days!!