What a week!

Xin chào ,

This has been one of the most amazing weeks EVER! Above you will find the video of my appearance on Channel 10 news on Wednesday night with Ben from work. I was out with the walking group at lunchtime Wedneday, when at 12:45 I got a call from Ben. Ben told me that Channel 10 had contacted him and wanted to do a story on him and me for the news. Ben for his training to hopefully win the City 2 Surf, and me for my efforts in losing weight to just be a contestant. I agreed and ran back to work, grabbed my stuff, and we were waiting outside of work at 1 to be picked up and taken to Bondi for the filming!! It all happened so quick!

The filming was great and the reporter, Blowy (Andrew Blow) was an awesome guy. He told me how excited he was to film me and that he thought my story was great. He'd seen this blog and couldn't believe the difference. On the way there we discussed using my initial shirt off pics. I initially said no, but he and Ben talked me into it - stating that guy at 150kgs is a different person - not the same person I am today - so I agreed! We filmed on the Bondi-Tamarama walk, and had a few people watching us - it was quite surreal!

I rushed home to watch it on the 5pm news, and was blown away by the story. It was so cool! And the reaction at work the following day was even more amazing. The story was given to all the executive managers and I got so many compliments - just brilliant! The head of my department called me the next 'DI star'!!

I'm writing this still on a major high from todays events so I hope I don't come across too cocky- i'm just still giddy about this!

Needless to say i'm going to be putting my best efforts into the race on Sunday. Last Sunday I did a trial run with Neil, and we did it in 85 mins. Not too bad. Without the traffic lights etc this Sunday, i'm hoping for a time under 75 mins. I will report my results on Sunday evening.

Thanks for reading and wish me luck!