Yes Dear, You're right, I'm sorry.

The most important two rules about marriage are this:


1. In the event of a disagreement or difference of opinion between husband and wife, the wife is ALWAYS right.


2. In the unlikely instance where the wife is in fact wrong and the husband is in fact right, refer to Rule 1.


So, I got married over this weekend. It starts a completely new and exciting adventure, one which I'm both happy and thankful to have my beautiful wife involved in, because lets be quite honest - without her I probably wouldn't have lasted this long. She is, and hopefully will always be (providing she doesn't wise up and leave my ass), my good luck charm. Why she thinks I'm worthy is completely beyond me (and most of my friends and family's) comprehension, but we all agree that I'm the lucky one!


Thanks need to go out to many, many folk, without whom I would've either had a heart attack or started World War 3. 


So special thanks go out to Linelle, my Hill Billy Lynotherapy fellow sufferer and ever willing running partner, the "20 Min's" a day kept me sane and in some sort of stable mental frame of mind to be able to help out where I could with all the wedding prep.


Another big thank you must go out to my best friends Heather and Jem (my best Best Man), without you both I don't think I would've found my way up to Chapman's Peak to make the ceremony, not to mention all the before and after little things Angela and I didn't even know we were supposed to consider. Heather is an amazing wedding co-ordinator / dominatrix, she should have beaten me more and I'm glad she didn't.


To Jenn, we definitely would not be married now without you! The pre-, during- and post-ceremony and reception was amazing, not to mention your incredible wedding cakes. I'm just a little sore I didn't get to eat more wedding cake on my wedding day, however I'm appeased by the three half-cakes we have yet to wolf down between Angela and myself, though I'll be doing more of the wolfing I'm sure - just because I'm greedy...


To our families for putting up with us while we both seemed to be a little direction-less at times, and at all times overstressed, you're all amazing! Thank you so much for all your support.


There are many more to thank and I will get around to you all personally, but in the meantime thank you all for sharing in our incredible day and the start our journey together, we look forward to sharing our lives with you all as we write new chapters in our Journey Book. Pictures and Thank You notes to follow!

What shall we do with the tired bachelor?

Three days of "Single Life" remain, and I can't wait to start the "Married" part. 


All the stress and worry before and on the day is worth it and it's just amazing from then on, this was the news I got from a good friend who got married himself on the 13th. He's currently, as I write this, on a plane to some exotic destination with his "new" wife for a decent honeymoon. Nice!


I've taken to running twenty minutes every morning now, having been motivated (or should I say guilted?) out of bed to join my running partner, and fellow tortureree Linelle, as she herself is also going through the Lynotherapy motions currently and is restricted to 20mins on fun and stress relief at a time too. 


I can tell you it's frustrating having only 20mins to run a day, but I've decided to use the opportunity to cold turkey it into my Vibram Five Fingers and am solely running in them. As such, the 20mins restriction is a bonus as I am able to slowly build up my feet and my form at a rate which won't hurt my physio-fixing or break my body.


I've been given the nod from Benita to be able to increase either my mileage or time by ten percent a week, so pretty soon I'll be back to running 10km...


Climbing and running have been keeping us sane so far, after the excitement and frantic panic of the wedding is over, I think we'll both sleep a little better and decent training can take the place of all the wedding planning.


Just three days left...

So - A week of catch up, both literally and figuratively.

Well, after the last post I did go out and do something active! Not sure on the precise order, but it had something to do with running with Angie out on the Rondebosch Boys High grounds in our Vibram Five Fingers (VFF) to get used to running in them more often (Angie has taken to wearing them as often as she can, even for jaunts to and from the shops which we both seem to be doing more frequently, both the VFF wearing and shopping) as is understandable with the wedding "looming" just two weeks away.

To be honest, and yes I realise I'm digressing somewhat. I'm really looking forward to the wedding for numerous reasons, and although one of them happens to be so I can get it out of the way and Life can go back to some semblance of normalcy, the main reason is this: I'm looking forward to seeing my beautiful, smiling Bride in her lovely dress and surrounded by friends and family.

Okay, digression out of the way. I then went climbing the following day and outdid my pitiful Tuesday attempt at any route and killed a 17, two 18's and two 19's solidly - all top-roped but without breaks and all in a single block. I have my eyes on a 23 Derek completely blew away on Tuesday that involves lots and lots of stretchy, stretchy moves and some creative foot and handhold maneuvering.

If you have time and are interested in the Five Fingers even a little, check out this site, Pete's writing is brilliant and expansively explanative! http://www.runblogger.com/

That's enough blogging for one day, more to follow soon - possibly with a gym session and a "full" week of climbing and running thrown in for fun, if I can commit and stick to it this time.

Cheers for now.

So - new directions...

After much time spent away from the net, and subsequent experiences earned in real-time life, I've decided to change the focus of this oft-neglected blog... Haha, yes, I intend to post now about what I'm actually doing rather than what's happened or what I plan to happen. So, tonight I'm heading off to CityROCK in Obs for a nice climbing session! I'm in desperate need to release some stress and get some exercise.


Till next time, ciao!