Mince, movies and medleys

I spent an hour this morning on my wind trainer, watching a DVD. My sit bones are now a bit grumpy because I was in the aero position.  The cat now hates my guts because she hasn't been able to get into her cat bedroom - the wind trainer is right next to it and she hates the noise! I now have my four-legged hot water bottle back, just in time for summer. So, we've been parked on the couch watching DVDs tonight. I thought Grown Ups might have been a lot more funny than it was, but it was more Happy Gilmore than Wedding Singer. Still worth a watch though.

I did the gym thing and the paddle at the beach thing, then decided to hit Ikea for lunch. Nothing like a kids size meatballs and mash with an apple for desert, although I think their meatballs need a trip through the microwave to strip the fat out. Oh, there's a good tip. If you whack your raw mince, meatballs or hamburger patties in the microwave for a couple of minutes on high, much of the gross saturated fat comes out of the meat. It really is gross, just try it sometime and see how much slime comes out of your five star mince! Of course, I George Foreman everything else, but this microwaving of mince is really fun!

When I'm doing spag bol, I nuke the mince first, then drain the slime off and shove it in a pot or pan with soy sauce, beef stock, passata and fresh basil. I can't eat garlic, onions or leeks, so I can't use nasty pasta sauce in a jar. That's okay though, it makes my spag bol pretty clean and pretty fast. The soy sauce and beef stock puts the flavour back into the mince that stripping the slime takes out.

14 more weeks until Dextro, and I'm feeling really motivated and very much looking forward to it. I'm recording everything on Foxtel that is exercise, triathlon or fat person related, for motivation. Speaking of which, I'm happy to advise that Kona 2010 will finally be on Foxtel this week. I've got it set to record in HD and normal formats, just in case there's a satellite issue and I miss it. I need Kona as motivation, and I love that there's so much triathlon on Foxtel, it's great that I can watch my sport on TV here. Sadly, I lost all the previous Ironman and ITU events I had recorded when my iQ box was swapped over. Boo, hiss.

I don't have much else to report, so it's off to bed with UltraFit magazine.

Catch you tomorrow.