Frog Boys

Here are the two boys with their Frog lunchbox pretending to be 'Frogs'

Tyler and Cody Float their boat

Grandma send over some old Lego from the UK, it must be 40 years old at least, but that didn't stop Tyler and Cody insisting on building and floating a boat..

We have finally perfected cloning and now you can see we have Cody 1 and Cody 2..

Cycling on the Expresso

I have been going to the gym this week to get back into some swimming and cycling. They have an expresso cycle machine that I have blogged about before, and I am already pretty close to my fastest time on 'Gut Buster' but today I thought I would knock off some of the basic courses and see if I could get the No 1 position for each of them at the local gym.

I did the first six basic courses today and did manage to take the number 1 spot (in a small field!!), I am already the fastest on Gut Buster.

Update1 - July 15 : knocked off three more today

Update2 - July 17: Knocked off all the basic ones Sunday

Update3 - July 21: Completed all the moderate courses as leader

For those interested, on Rabbit Run I am 62 across the world, I can probably improve on that if I just did one circuit at a time.

Honey I super-sized the kids!

Giant Tyler sitting on front porch

King Kong Cody

My kids are terrorizing Tiny Town!! Saturday morning, Alan took us all to Tiny Town for a quick look around. The kids got to walk amongst tiny buildings and rode a smelly coal train.



Rogers River Run 5k

I ran the Rogers River Run 5k Saturday morning. The original course was changed due to flooding and it seemed to be further than 3.1 miles but I managed to complete it 30 seconds faster than the last time I did this race.

Time to do some more serious distance training, as each mile was slower than the last !!

I finished 59th out of 534 and was home in time to take the family to TinyTown..

My first 4th of July cake

This is the first year we've celebrated July 4th as a family of all Americans(well, we were all citizens last year, but we didn't celebrate it as we were still in the Philippines) and to make it a little special, i decided that i'll bake my own July 4th cake!! :) (Sabrina's been good to bake mine for the last few years!! Thanks Sabrina!!)

Here is my cake:

My cake..

Superior Downhill Mile - July 4th 2011

I have run this once before in 2009, so was aiming to run this faster than the last time. This is a straight downhill run which does give you a faster time if you can handle the fast downhill parts.

I did manage to complete this in 5:39 (Official), my FR60 running watch said I ran 1.09 miles in the same time which would have given me a 5:09 time... At this pace it doesn't sound like much of a discrepancy, but it amounts to 452 feet and 30 seconds... I am sure the distance is correct if you run straightest line, so next year need to run straighter !!

There was a guy running with a camcorder of some description and so a lot of my race was captured by him (for those in the family who didn't get up to see my race...)

Next year I think the whole family can do this one, as it is only a mile !!