Cley Windmill

Just had a fantastic evening at Cley Windmill in North Norfolk. I cannot recommend this highly enough. This was probably the most perfect weekend of my life! Here are just a few photos from this weekend! 

http://s1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa326/Brix2tri/Cley%20Windmill/

Veggie or not veggie?...

.....that is the question.

I am seriously considering giving up meat. After a heavy weekend of burgers, fry-ups and all round badness on a dietary front. I feel that I could comfortably cut out meat from my diet. I have put on 9lb (Now 13st 8lb) in 4 to 5 weeks due to poor diet and lack of running, cycling and swimming.

The plan, at the moment, is to go meat free Monday to Saturday. Then allow meat on a Sunday if fancied until the end of the year. Then a reassessment.

 I have no issue with animal welfare really. I love bacon. But sometimes, you have to set the ones you love, free:-)

I feel my biggest problems will come from the fact that I am a chef. Working in an environment where I can be surrounded with little snacky bits of cooked meat. Chicken breast here, bacon rasher there! Also, I have the will power of a... I don't know what, something with little will power anyway!...that's me! It will be hard, but that's life. I'll just give it a go.

At the start of the year I cut caffeine out of my diet too. After the initial head-aches, I found this quite easy to deal with. Although, I did find it affected my training mojo. I have, more recently, slipped back into coffee world. I would like to start reducing my caffeine now again too.

Hope this all leads up to starting 2012 lighter, fitter and mentally stronger. All ready and set for a season of sweet runs and sweeter triathlons.



So start the countdown 10, 9, 8,7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1..... I am now a part-time vegetarian*

Links  --- Vegetarian Society


*Not sure if i will be including fish!

Weekend break in Hopton

I have just got back from a weekend away with the family. We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Haven holiday village in Hopton. The resort itself was really nice. Quite literally, on the beach. We are already planning a mini Triathlon camp there for next year :-) 

The food at Haven was what I expected! Traditional menu of bought-in classics in the restaurant. Pizza (Papa Johns) everywhere. Burger bars, candy floss, all the normal unhealthy resort stuff. We only ate in the restaurant once. This was to celebrate Abby (my wife's) bingo win. £361....Ker-Ching!!! 

For a starter, I went for the whole baked Camembert. Followed by a Gourmet burger thing. Both pretty darned tasty.

The puddings were a bit of a disaster, but I won't go in to that too much. The kitchen had run out of Whipping cream, chocolate and vanilla ice cream. This meant the sundae's that the kids had ordered were made with clotted cream. Not nice. Also the fruit salad which my daughter was served was barely worthy of being called a fruit salad. Lemon tart was nice. 

Now, I seem to have gained a few pounds over the last few weeks (now 13st 8lb usually 12st11) I'm still recovering from my hernia op. Will start back with a diet of some sort soon.....Maybe!

That is all! :-)