Tag: Beer

June Update – trips, chillis & projects

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update, I did recently update the events and trips page with details from the trip to highlands motorsports park, all the day’s events and experiences.

Here’s a link to the you tube video i made of the day ——> link

I’ve been keeping up to date with my fitness goals, last week I ran 30km during the week and about 10km of walks too, my V02 has just gone back up to 41 which is good, so I’m getting a lot of activity happening in preparation for the Tongariro crossing later in the year. The treadmill is looking a bit worse for wear and needs a new belt sooner than later.

Chilli season has all finished and we had a great harvest this year, i ended up giving a lot away to workmates as I already have plenty in the freezer and preserved.

Carolina Reaper

I’ve been working on the cnc machine, changing over the mainboard that I’ve been using, tidying up the wiring, designing and printing up some parts.

I managed to go on a short-day trip to Auckland last month to pick up some pedals for my sim rig, on the way back I stopped in at Hampton downs racetrack for lunch and a look around their car showroom. Was nice food, not very busy on the day.

The new sim pedals
Burger for lunch at Hampton Downs

Updates

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V02 up to 41!!

Exercising pretty much everyday, however im in the office for the rest of the year, so my daily steps are down a fair bit. Weights happening a bit, but mostly treadmill or walks down the river. Been a massive year on the fitness front, i feel ive done really well and have lost a decent amount of weight, keen to keep going next year, work on running and weights.

Brocollis are all done, so ive put the rest of the chillis in, grabbed a trinidad scorpian and a carolina reaper to see how they go in the garden instead of pots this year, flower garden is going well, ive added a few more plants to it, i think in a few weeks its going to look amazing.

Lawn has been scarified 3 weeks ago, and have started on it with the reel mower this last week mowing every second day, will need a fert again soon, weather is starting to heat up so will sort watering program soon.

3 more days of work before holidays, ive only had 3 days off in the last month, as we have been super busy and running during weekends. at the same time we have had quite a big reshuffle, so have had a few job interviews happening, nothing changed yet.

Ive got a home brew kit coming for christmas, going to take a bit to set up, as will need to sort a cupbard, filtered water etc to get it right first time, ill have to do a chunk of research before the first batch.

A few pictures of the garden progress

Massive fire down the road the other day at a boat manufacturer, not far from my work, we got the stay inside alert message at home, was alot of smoke

Nobody hurt, but not much left of the building, was a power cut just before the fire, so possibly a cause.

We have had a blackbird making heaps of noise over the last week, our cat may have caught his partner? We have named him scott, he is pretty annoying and starts chirping from 5am right through to 8pm

Chillis and beer day happening this week, so i should get some content from that day !!

Recovery

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

Just getting back into it this last week, due to getting the flu early in the month and it taking a good two weeks to feel good enough to get back into exercise, hurt my ankle too, so that didnt help progress either. Thankfully my weight remained pretty constant through it all.

Feeling much better now but don’t want to overdo it straight away, so currently the plan for the next two weeks is to do alternate days on the treadmill, walking and running for 30-45mins. Looking at around 6kph walking and 9kph jogging for the moment, just on a .5 incline. All treadmill workouts for the moment. Trying to take it a bit easy really.

Kinda disapointing that id only just added weights back into the routine, but will put them back in once ive done this two week cycle. I think i will have two rest days a week instead of one moving forward, but we shall see.

It’s spring here, nearly summer, so I’ve set up all the outside furniture, sails etc. It’s Very windy today but all seems to be holding up well. It will be a nice quiet area to spend hot days over the summer with the family.

Chillis are growing well, Ive got full gardens now, so untill the brocolli is ready i cant do too much beyond weeding and squishing white butterfly caterpillars. Ive put in five jalapenos as last year we didnt end up with any, hopefully the are ready for the chilli and beer day. Made a full flower garden, cant wait to see what it looks like in a few months.

Designed cut and partially assembled a new sim rig for one of the guys in the sim racing group yesterday, cant wait to see the final result as was looking really good the work we had done, managed to bend a saw blade, so that part wasnt much fun and an unexpected cost.

We have a hotlap challenge currently going in the racing group. Bathurst in V8 supercars, which is looking pretty popular, with 15 members having times so far, ranging from 2.07-2.14 ish, so fairly close.

June Update

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

Hey Guys

June is always a flat out month for me with 3 family birthdays, Happy birthday to Donna, Hannah and Mathew.

Ive been keeping up with my workouts, V02 at 39. weights have made quite an increase with bench,squats and rows sitting at 50kg each at the moment, which i think is really good progress, went for a nice walk down by the river today, 10km and pace was 8:30 per km, so definate improve from the 9 mins per km at start of year.

Im going away on a work trip to Invercargill and the Tiwai point aluminium smelter early next month, gonna be freezing, but should learn somethings about aluminium production and will be good to tour another factory.

Shout out to Hamilton beer and wine company Went in over the weekend and am still blown away by their selection of beer. Staff are always friendly and they have weekly events happening. I recommend stopping in if in Hamilton and need refreshments.

Ive been given a new old 3d printer, which ive tested and it works pretty well, have been using ABS with it , print area is only small 100mm. but for a freeby its good. Ill put up some print pictures when i have a few more made.

Sim racing in the weekends is going well, we are getting up to 10 people regularly with lots of friendly banter and some slightly competitive racing at points. Feel free to join the racing group Facebook Group Link . Mostly Assetto Corsa on PC however some play other games, there is a discord group for chat too.

Have a great month, hopefully i can start increasing the content here soon.