Training Log Archive: gg

Walk the Line (8.0). Film about the life of Johnny Cash with Joaquin Pheonix and Reese Witherspoon. Well made film, really good performances from the leads, who do all the singing themselves. Music is very good. Made me want to read Cash by Johnny Cash. My rating 7/10.

Scotland v France. Hilarious. Terrible mistakes all round. Scotland were consistently bad. 7/10.

The Karate Killers (5.2). A Man From UNCLE film (60s spy show - very Austin Powers inspiring). Made in 1967 this hasn't aged very well, looking very dates. Lots of cliches and lots of henchmen dispatched with single karate chops. Main characters spent a lot of the film unconcious, but luckily the men from UNCLE (United Network Command for Law Enforcement) managed to blow up the THRUSH (the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity) headquarters in the end and stop them making gold from seawater. Entertaining enough. My rating 6/10.

Can walk upstairs (sort of), but look like a complete twat when I try and go downstairs... leg bends to about 120 degrees now (have to use my hands to help though)

Ireland v Italy 6/10

England v Wales 3/10 pathetic

Sunshine (7.3). Stunning visuals, beautiful score. Top quality sci-fi thriller. One of my favourite directors (Danny Boyle) and one of my favourite writers (Alex Garland) combining on a film which cost only £20 million to make but looks like £200 million. The Event Horizon style third act costs it a star in my book, but the fantastic music earns it back. Possibly my favourite film of 2007. My rating 9/10

Gangs of New York (IMDB rating 7.3/10). Better than I remember 5 years ago. Daniel Day-Lewis would be amazing in a Carry On film, he can do no wrong. Di Caprio spends too much time squinting, and the final fight between the main protagonists could be improved.... My rating 7/10

Cloverfield (7.9). Wasn't really expecting to like this so much, with visions of Blair Witch Project all over again, but the handheld camcorder approach actually really works, and I think the whole film is really well made. Was slightly ruined by about 20 chav girls giggling and talking and walking around throughout the film, but despite that, definitely the best 'Monster attacks New York' film I have ever seen. My rating 8/10

North by Northwest (8.6). Probably my favourite Hitchcock film, it has it all. Cary Grant as the everyman hero mistaken for someone else who makes more innuendoes than you can shake a stick at, Eva Marie Saint as the Hitchcock blond, the bad guys attempt to kill Cary Grant with bourbon, a crop-duster plane, and then Mount Rushmore... and the guy out of the Man From UNCLE. Amazing. My rating 9/10

Esher Commons, bit of orienteering, 4 times 1 minute interval running, then bit more orienteering, pairs map memory exercise with Scotia, then 20 mins running.

7 times 1km o intervals on Bagshot Heath. 10 mins warm up, 5 min interval, 1 min recovery, start 2nd interval. Slip on wet tree root. Land on left shin, just below knee. Agony. Blood all down leg. Roll around on floor. Test leg, can barely stand. Wobble 2.5km back to car slowly. Barely manage to drive home, very cold. Clean wound, still bleeding. To hospital. Still bleeding. 3 Stitches. Oww. Lie on sofa eating fish and chips.

Bollocks

C • good rest than... 6

Run with mum

Short surveying day

Running on treadmill. Steady before bed.

Surveying day

8 times 1 min int with 1 min recovery

Easy jog on Horsell Common with Scott after overnight flight