Have you ever noticed that when people call Tony Abbott, Mr Abbott, it sounds like they’re saying Mr Rabbit? Journo’s, radio announcers, how friggin’ hard is it to put a little break between the Mr and the Abbott?

Anyhoo, Mr ABBOTT is up at Port Ironman today competing. He expects to complete the 3.8k swim, the 180km, bike ride and 42km run in about 14 hours. The guns from Central Coast Triathlon Club will do it in about 8 and a half hours. For those of you wondering just how far that all is, it’s 76 laps of an Olympic swimming pool but IN THE OCEAN with 1,500 other people trying to swim over you and push you out of the way, a bike ride from Sydney to Wollongong AND BACK AGAIN and to top of all off, an Olympic distance marathon.

I’m getting tired just typing it all in!