Take it away Big Kev

Mainly as most people know right now because my gorgeous daughter, Genevieve Anne Berriman was born on Sunday 17th October at 1.11am. Weighing in at 3.48kg (7'11) and 49cm tall. This much awaited interuption has been the best thing I have been involved with, particularly as I managed to avoid North Face comparissions through SWMBO's labour. Though I did point out that this mainly cause given the time she had only got to the Old Ford Reserve and the hard bit was still ahead.

Good thing she was still attached to a placenta or I may have been given the same treatment she dished out to her opposite 2nd rower at Southern Districts one day.

Any way here she is, the best disruption to a once well balanced daily schedual I could ever hope for:

Decided as such I should try and find a song a week for Genevieve, so with no commitment to being able to maintain it thought we might start with this foor week one:

Macca Makes Scambullant Hall Of Fame

Ive had a great week of training this past week despite the interruption that should have occurred by now. Largely I'm putting it down to the sensational racing that was Kona last weekend, specifically watching the highlights of Chris McCormack taking his 2nd win and securing the third position in Scambulants Ironman Hall of Fame:

1. Scott Tinley
2. Greg Welch
3. Chris McCormack

Some controversy I'm sure, but its more than what they do in the race to make this esteemed list.

Having seen a number of interviews and highlights reels I thought I would drop a couple here for future reference. Hope you enjoy watching them as much as I do.


Warning: The music on this clip has a lot of swearing if this is going to offend you.

This second one is sensational, with McCormacks prerace thoughts:


Now is there something else I should be doing today! Or in the past 6 days!

Found this thrid video as wel, from Macca and Specialized. A great interview post race that breaks down how the race unfolded in his own mind:

Clearing the Mind & Taking A Load Off

After a really crap run this morning I needed to do something to occupy my mind that was not reflective of this session and to fill in the seconds as I wait for SWMBO aka 'The Big Unit' to take her load off, or out as the anatomical case may be. Not sure if the two items correlate but I'm sure I could blame The Big Units discomfort in growing another person for my inabilities to put it together over the beautiful 2hr session planned for this morning.

Generally the past couple of weeks have been go as far as training goes. Getting out (almost) every day and doubling most of these in the build up to the preseason events kindly provided by the triathlon world. Having said that, my bravado in stating "I don't need to worry about a phone as most 1st pregnancy's have a 19hr labour and surely I'm not going to moving that slowly" has completely disappeared to more reflect "hope you don't mind running 1km loops from mine to make sure I have phone reception and can get back as quickly as possible". Should make for an interesting ride tomorrow, assuming the evening is not spent at Nepean being the most useless of support acts the world has ever seen.

That all being potentially true I have spent the time investigating my role post pop and feel my time has been well spent. I haven't thought about my crap run at all, haven't done anything to the Big Unit that drew out her 2nd row rugby playing nature, and learnt a bit about what it takes to do the dad thing well:



All things said I spent the morning focusing on this issue and think I'm on the way to a successful beginning (when ever you are ready Big Unit):

By the way does anyone else think the Dad from the clip looks like a certain fairly well known runner in CR circles?