17.15 UK time - Bye bye Blighty! See you in 3 weeks time....:-)

19.30 UK/2.30 am local time - we've had a really good flight so far and we just watched Simon Peggs new movie 'Paul'. Well worth it, lots of giggles, got told off by karron 3 times for laughing to loud :-)

20.30 UK/3.30 local time - I noticed when we were getting on to the plane that there were quite a number of people in 'Great Britain' tracksuits. Now heres a coincidence - with 2011 having being so busy at work, I never got round to doing a Triathlon in the summer as I had planned. So after putting on an extra stone this year, I decided a few weeks ago that I would definitely do a few of them in 2012. I've also committed myself mentally to do an Olympic distance Tri, at Rutland Water.

So there I was, reading my Tri training book and working out the next 6 - 9 months training plan and it only turns out that most of the 'Team GB' triathlon team are on the plane! Who'd thought it eh. I got talking to one of the competitors who told me it's the standard and the paraplegic world championships in Beijing this weekend. His name was James Smith and he's in the paraplegic event, racing on Friday. The rest are competing on Sunday. Good luck to them all.

22.30 UK/5.30 am local time - We watched the sun rise over the Cayan Mountains of Mongolia - what a cracking site, I've put a couple of pictures in the 'on our way' album.