It's weird the things that stick in your mind isn't it? I mean, it's never the important stuff like birthdays and anniversaries *ahem* and such like. It's most usually the randomly stupid stuff that actually doesn't matter in the slightest. Example -
Whilst in the gym, I was doing reps of bicep curls in front of the massive mirror on the wall. This wasn't for the sake of vanity (well, not completely anyway) but simply because that is where the dumbell rack is, when I noticed something a bit, well not nice looking. It was my armpit hair sticking out!
"This is not so bad Walker, why the fuss?" I hear some of you think. Well, no, it's not so bad, but it still made me cringe a bit. I don't have especially dark hair and I don't particularly have lots of it, which for some reason (for me anyway) makes it a damned sight worse seeing the wee beasties making a bid for freedom in public.
I have therefore decided that the only course of action to be taken is get the clippers out and trim they little blighters right down.
Ooh, nearly forgot, Juneathon!!!!
Ooh ooh ooh, MY GARMIN ARRIVED WOOOOO!!!
I am especially excited as a Garmin was the whole reason I started 'athoning and blogging in the first place.
I will review it at a later date as I will need to clock some extra miles through first in all types of weather over different terrain and stuff, so in the mean time I shall supply the link to the Garmin Connect page for yesterdays run. Juneathon Day 3 with added statistical geekery.
Hurrah, it worked!
There you go then, what an exciting day that was. See you again soon.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Sunday, 2 June 2013
Ooh dear, that's not a good sign!
Running is going ok though, yaaay.
Fear not merry gentle folk, I meant my ability to think mildly amusing blog titles.
Meh, and so to day 2.
Twas a pleasant outing again, which is a nice start to Juneathon I think you may agree. As day 1 was a run home from work last night, and as much as I hate to do it tomorrow, I must return there in the morning. On my way there I intend to go to the gym where I will attempt to burn some fat and double my 1-pack.. But for this I need my bicycle. Guess where the little beggar is? Yup, it be at work, so, as they say in the famous song, hi-ho hi-ho it's off to National Grid Stores I go.
That was my run today, back into work to pick up my bike, in a slightly quicker time than yesterday, which was nice, followed by a little bike ride back home.
Tomorrows run will again be on my way back from work, but this time armed with a Garmin FR110! Yaay me for finally getting one woo woo.
So, till then my athletical type chums, pip pip.
Fear not merry gentle folk, I meant my ability to think mildly amusing blog titles.
Meh, and so to day 2.
Twas a pleasant outing again, which is a nice start to Juneathon I think you may agree. As day 1 was a run home from work last night, and as much as I hate to do it tomorrow, I must return there in the morning. On my way there I intend to go to the gym where I will attempt to burn some fat and double my 1-pack.. But for this I need my bicycle. Guess where the little beggar is? Yup, it be at work, so, as they say in the famous song, hi-ho hi-ho it's off to National Grid Stores I go.
That was my run today, back into work to pick up my bike, in a slightly quicker time than yesterday, which was nice, followed by a little bike ride back home.
Tomorrows run will again be on my way back from work, but this time armed with a Garmin FR110! Yaay me for finally getting one woo woo.
So, till then my athletical type chums, pip pip.
Juneathonagain day 1again.
Hello!
I'm still here. Sorry.
And so is Juneathon, the vicious bastard. Only kidding fellow 'athoners, it's not vicious.
Well, stuff has happened since last I infected the web with my drivel, it'd be a pretty boring place if it hadn't really wouldn't it. But I may well go into that at a later date.
And so, to the important stuff - Juneathon.
I'm going to take it easy this year in a probably vain attempt not to smash my legs off, and by easy I mean not running 10 miles twice in 24 hours like I did last time, stupid boy. Mostly I will be running to and from work (3.65 miles) to start with, with a club run slung in there hither and thither for the first couple of weeks before I up the distance at all.
So that is where we start this years attempt, with a 3.65 mile run home from work at 9pm last night, hence the next-day bloggage. It wasn't a very exciting run apart from having to stop suddenly to avoid being squishedby a car, but it was quite a pleasant evening, so that was nice.
That is the end of that'n, I shall return later however with more "exciting" adventures. Till then, ta taa.
I'm still here. Sorry.
And so is Juneathon, the vicious bastard. Only kidding fellow 'athoners, it's not vicious.
Well, stuff has happened since last I infected the web with my drivel, it'd be a pretty boring place if it hadn't really wouldn't it. But I may well go into that at a later date.
And so, to the important stuff - Juneathon.
I'm going to take it easy this year in a probably vain attempt not to smash my legs off, and by easy I mean not running 10 miles twice in 24 hours like I did last time, stupid boy. Mostly I will be running to and from work (3.65 miles) to start with, with a club run slung in there hither and thither for the first couple of weeks before I up the distance at all.
So that is where we start this years attempt, with a 3.65 mile run home from work at 9pm last night, hence the next-day bloggage. It wasn't a very exciting run apart from having to stop suddenly to avoid being squishedby a car, but it was quite a pleasant evening, so that was nice.
That is the end of that'n, I shall return later however with more "exciting" adventures. Till then, ta taa.
Monday, 1 October 2012
Getting back on track.
I lied.
I didn't do what I was going to do when I said I was going to do it. I realise this makes me the most evil type of sinner in some peoples eyes, but they're weird. Truth is, I'm an idle facker, ask anyone who knows me.
Hey ho, stuff has happened though. TT has started again, 1st match in the Newbury league this season gave me my 1st singles win in this league - this is my 3rd season - and it's division 1 too. Go me!
2 nights later I played in the Didcot league for my team (nay, club) Upton (A) Village TTC in Division 2 and won 2 of my 3 singles matches. Prob should have won all 3 but played like a soggy fanny in the 5th end after coming back from 10-6 down to win the 4th end. Long time team-mate and buddy Jim Tripp got revenge for me though by whooping young Charlie a good'un in 4. Nice one Jimmer. Sadly though, we lost the match 7-3 so only 2 points from our first match of the year.
I did manage to get out for a run on Sunday gone (30th Sept) after nearly 2 weeks of nowt. Was only a 5 miler but proved to be quite hard work towards the end, it being uphill for the last mile and against the wind, nice to get out there again though. I have since decided to get back on the sub 45 10k thing again and have decided to give the Adidas miCoach app and training jobby another go. This will start mid-October and last for 20 weeks so I shall see if I can find a nice local 10k race at the beginning of March.
I have a couple of weeks to get the legs back on before this all starts so will be chucking in at least 3 runs a week until then, just to get them going and get them used to running properly. Logistically, especially this week, this is going to be quite tricky to get them in, but I think I've got it sorted. Tues morning run into work, Tues evening ride home to fetch Sammy from Beavers, wed morning and evening will be biked followed by a run into work on Thurs. Shall most likely ride in on Fri then bus it home in the evening so I can run in on sat morn. Might even make that sat morning run a 10k'er, I will let you know.
One last thing before I bugger off for a while. I have started to do one of the programmes, (yes a running based one) on the Adidas miCoach game that I won care of Cathy's blog 'ere.
It was easy enough to get the hang of, the famous sporty type on the tele does an exercise and you copy them doing the same move at the same time, easy enough. I fear however I was wearing the wrong type of clothing - jim jams - well it was 5 in the morning! I managed to get most of the exercises done but had to skip a couple of them as Wall-E (the Kinect unit) wasn't picking up the movement very well, I shall blame the baggy sleep troose. Also, it didn't help having a cat crawling about squeaking in my ear and appearing on the tele next to me. Effing thing.
Still, I now have a better understanding of Wall-E and what he can and cannot see and will be better prepared for my workout on wed morning. I shall update again soon.
Stu
I didn't do what I was going to do when I said I was going to do it. I realise this makes me the most evil type of sinner in some peoples eyes, but they're weird. Truth is, I'm an idle facker, ask anyone who knows me.
Hey ho, stuff has happened though. TT has started again, 1st match in the Newbury league this season gave me my 1st singles win in this league - this is my 3rd season - and it's division 1 too. Go me!
2 nights later I played in the Didcot league for my team (nay, club) Upton (A) Village TTC in Division 2 and won 2 of my 3 singles matches. Prob should have won all 3 but played like a soggy fanny in the 5th end after coming back from 10-6 down to win the 4th end. Long time team-mate and buddy Jim Tripp got revenge for me though by whooping young Charlie a good'un in 4. Nice one Jimmer. Sadly though, we lost the match 7-3 so only 2 points from our first match of the year.
I did manage to get out for a run on Sunday gone (30th Sept) after nearly 2 weeks of nowt. Was only a 5 miler but proved to be quite hard work towards the end, it being uphill for the last mile and against the wind, nice to get out there again though. I have since decided to get back on the sub 45 10k thing again and have decided to give the Adidas miCoach app and training jobby another go. This will start mid-October and last for 20 weeks so I shall see if I can find a nice local 10k race at the beginning of March.
I have a couple of weeks to get the legs back on before this all starts so will be chucking in at least 3 runs a week until then, just to get them going and get them used to running properly. Logistically, especially this week, this is going to be quite tricky to get them in, but I think I've got it sorted. Tues morning run into work, Tues evening ride home to fetch Sammy from Beavers, wed morning and evening will be biked followed by a run into work on Thurs. Shall most likely ride in on Fri then bus it home in the evening so I can run in on sat morn. Might even make that sat morning run a 10k'er, I will let you know.
One last thing before I bugger off for a while. I have started to do one of the programmes, (yes a running based one) on the Adidas miCoach game that I won care of Cathy's blog 'ere.
It was easy enough to get the hang of, the famous sporty type on the tele does an exercise and you copy them doing the same move at the same time, easy enough. I fear however I was wearing the wrong type of clothing - jim jams - well it was 5 in the morning! I managed to get most of the exercises done but had to skip a couple of them as Wall-E (the Kinect unit) wasn't picking up the movement very well, I shall blame the baggy sleep troose. Also, it didn't help having a cat crawling about squeaking in my ear and appearing on the tele next to me. Effing thing.
Still, I now have a better understanding of Wall-E and what he can and cannot see and will be better prepared for my workout on wed morning. I shall update again soon.
Stu
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