Last Day of Work
On Friday 16th April i completed my last day of work for almost 6 months and what a great feeling it was. I have been working for the FAST Joint Venture for the past 12 months and with Calibre Projects before that and while i have had my fair share of holidays i have never been away from work for more than 2.5 weeks. The crew at work gave me a great send-off and i’m looking forward to staying in touch while i’m away and catching up on my return.
So, you are probably wondering what Lisa and i are up to and why i’m not working for the next 6 months. Don’t worry, i haven’t turned professional and i have no plans to start training/racing full time. Lisa and I have been planning a round the world trip for the past 12 months which all started to come together when we sold our house late last year. Everything else has been geared towards getting ready for the trip and saving our butts off as not working for 6 months is going to seriously hurt the bank balance.
We depart for Los Angeles on the 14th May to start our road trip up the West Coast of the U.S. travelling all the way up to Vancouver and visiting places like Las Vegas, Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, Yellowstone National Park, Seattle, Whistler and Banff to name a few along the way. Next stop is New York for 2 weeks before heading to Paris to catch the end of the Tour de France. Once in Europe we haven’t quite worked out what we are going to do but some of the countries on the top of our list are France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Germany, Spain, UK and possibly Sweden. We have 3 months and a car so we will see how far we get but we have started a map that you can view at any time to follow our adventure at:
If anyone is overseas and wants to catch-up anywhere be sure to check Facebook and send us a message and we will try to meet up somewhere. Lisa is also preparing a travel blog website which she will update regularly and we will load all our photo’s. As soon as this is up and running and will post the link.
In the meantime it is business as usual for me on the training and racing front as i have 2 Anaconda Races to complete before we head off. These will in fact be my last races for a while so i will be making the most of it and putting it all on the line. The last week i have been slowly winding down the training in preparation for NZ Anaconda to be held on Saturday 24/04. I will be up against arch rival Grant Suckling once again and there will be plenty of competition from the local kiwis. The very next weekend is Anaconda Forster which is held over 2 days so i have some serious recovery work to do to make sure i’m in good shape. I need to win at least one of these races to take out the Anaconda Series but you can check out the latest results at;
http://www.rapidascent.com.au/asp/AnacondaEventChooser.aspx
While i have been struggling at training over the last 4 weeks or so i think a good taper before the New Zealand race will put me in good shape and in much better condition than the previous races this year. I have been consistant with all legs in training and very pleased with how the paddling has been coming along. Hopefully this will carry me through and fingers crossed all goes well on the day. I will update the blog next week with a race report and hopefully i have good news for you all.
SeanO
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