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Training Archive: ba-ba

In the 30 days ending 2008-06-30:

activity # timemileskm+m
  Running17 8:32:02 39.93 64.26 1904
  Biking6 6:55:00 62.18 100.07 383
  Orienteering5 5:25:33 21.51 34.62 104963 /78c81%
  Gay Sport1 45:00
  Climbing1 30:00
  Streching2 13:00
  Dancing1 10:00
  Total33 22:30:35 123.62 198.95 333663 /78c81%
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Monday Jun 30

Running 1:25:00 [3] 14.4 km (5:54 / km) +320m 5:19 / km
slept:10.0 shoes: Asics somethings
Gentle run as legs were a bit tight.
Along the SVT to Birch Vale, then up to Stich Lane then up to Lantern Pike. From there, down towards Little Hayfield and a bit of a walk along the Glossop road before heading up to Middle Moor and Chad's Cabin, before heading down into Hayfield and back home along the trail.
tha root

Any chance of points for ex-Stockport Harrier Harriet Bowden?
Biking 36:00 [3] 6.9 mi (5:13 / mi)
shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike
Got back from the run, then sis says we should walk to Bridgemont to meet mum and dad doing folky stuff. I say we bike, so I have to wait every 5 mins while sis sorts her chain 3 times on the towpath. Have 2 pints (and a burger) on the parents at the pub, before nailing it back before it gets dark.

How many points for bumping into Joe Foy, who I know from my past, who played for stockport county at one point?... :p

Sunday Jun 29

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slept:9.0 weight:69.4kg
Yesterday Eddy had a 'leaving New Mills for Sheffield permanently' drink in the pub, so went down for a few drinks, but Eugene and I got bored, so went to drink cider then to Darren's for his birthday do - sitting around talking mainly, but was good.
Slept in 'til the afternoon, then spent the afternoon out and about as I have my fingers in so many pies! Legs felt a bit stiff after biking/running the last 2 days. Knee... hurts a bit, but is so much better than it could have been after 6 days running-rest. Mum has decided it may be a 'good injury'...
That said, alcohol last night didn't numb the pain at all... it hurt like hell on the way home!
Also, I've found I have a nasty habbit... when not around University people, but people I sort of know a bit but not too much, all I do is talk about University, which bores me, so I feel sorry for the poor bastards that have to listen!

Saturday Jun 28

Biking 46:00 [2] 8.66 mi (5:18 / mi)
slept:7.5 shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike
Ride into Whaley along the Canal, and then back.
Why are there so many daft people who, when they see you on a bike, don't get out of the way, but stand there and look at you? And they're always fat, so if you do go around them you end up in the drink!..
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Pootle around the memorial gardens before the race, scouting out the begining and end of the race. Glad I did, as the route took us through a river that looked a lot shallower than it actually was, which caught many people out...
Running race (Whaley Waltz fell race) 45:27 [5] 5.5 mi (8:15 / mi) +320m 4:21 / km
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
The first running of the Whaley Waltz fell race, which was organised to coincide with the carnival, so we had to wait for the traffic to clear before we could start, which meant muscles got a bit cold.
Good weather though, and a good route.
Nailed the start along the road, but, in hindsight, went out a bit too fast, but I wanted to see how I do if I start a race hard. The climb up to Windgather via Taxal was a bit tough - there was a lot of 'walking with purpose' going on, resulting in me being passed by a few people, but on the way down I stuck with those people along the twisty 'ridge,' and when we hit the track/road, they seemed to slow down for some reason...
Then there was the last river crossing, just before the finish. Many people thought it was shallow and so took a step - I knew it was pretty damn deep, so long-jumped it, and still got wet to the nipples! But because of that I managed to beat a guy out of the river and kick into the finish to finish 20th out of 100 odd...
Good race, and felt good. Knee twinges a bit now, but nothing compared to what it sometimes does!

Route/climb etc. here ...and check out the prize list! Pretty good! Although they were a bit stingy with the bottles of wine - they had a cart load left at the end of it! However, won a spot prize, so now have my first pair of running bear running socks. Win!

Streching warm up/down 5:00 [1]
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Rivers on routes: a good reason for not carrying an ipod, or not wearing a white top (if you're a girl, at least... some did make that mistake haha)

Friday Jun 27

Biking 2:38:00 [3] 19.62 mi (8:02 / mi)
slept:9.0 weight:69.9kg shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike
Good day for it, if a bit windy at points, but the rain held off, which was good.
Along SVT to Hayfield, then up Highgate Road. Onto the bridleway behind Mount Famine and South head, then down and up again to the Rushup Edge road. The the Bridleway heading up Lord's Seat, before turning off down into Barber Booth in Edale. To Jacob's Ladder via Upper Booth. Push the bike up the Ladder, as the bike route is horribley loose stoned which I dislike when uphill. To Edale Cross, then down to Edale Road and back into Hayfield, then back to N.M. along the trail, finishing, as ever, strongly up Watford road :p

distance includes the 2382ft of climb involved. Distance travelled is taken fron my Speedo, climb from here!
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After my ride, rushed out to Mancester to meet Eugene to see a film. Spent abit of time spending money in Fopp whilst we waited for Daz, then went to see the latest McAvoy/Jolie film - Wanted.
DO NOT GO AND SEE THIS FILM - IT IS TERRIBLE
I love McAvoy, but if he makes any more films like this, the affair may well be over. sigh.

Thursday Jun 26

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slept:9.0 weight:71.7kg
Managed to tweak my knee whilst turning in the kitchen last night... damn tiled floor!
Anyway, went down town to get new brake pads for the bike, so I can actually stop now! Despite the knee, decided if the weather was nice I'd go to Pennine regardless. It's tipping it down, so I haven't gone, which is probably a good idea.
Stayed in and watched the mennace, read LOTR, slobbed on the sofa, hoovered and ate.
Starting to get irritated...

Wednesday Jun 25

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slept:8.0 weight:71.7kg (sick) (rest day)
Bastard hayfever has turned into a bit of a cold over the last few days. Feeling a bit better than I though I would today, but still feel a bit lathargic.
On the up side, knee feels good. May go for a trot tomorrow, see if it's a bit fixed. There's a fell race in Whaley on saturday that I'd quite like to do, up to windgather and back - like to see how many people I could nail on the way down the hill...
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feeling a bit better now - hopefully I'll have a good night's sleep!
Safin beating Djokovic - great match! Fell asleep infront of the Ivanovic match.

Tuesday Jun 24

Climbing 30:00 [3]
slept:8.0
Headed out for a relaxed afternoon at Castle Naze with Iain, Mark and Lauren. Followed Iain up an HS and VS. Led a poxy little HVD, just to check that my placement is still good, what with not having climbed for nearly a year...
Spent about 4/5 hours en route to/at the crag, but we were taking it very slowly...
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Feel a bit poo, so watching TV and eating lots of crap. I like this time of year - there's always Wimbledon on the TV to make you fall asleep.

Monday Jun 23

Biking 52:00 [3] 9.0 mi (5:46 / mi)
slept:10.5 shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike
Was going to do a bigger bike ride, but slept in and felt in a bit of a slobby mood, so watched tennis. Decided to try out my new bike helmet, so went along the trail, up to Chad's Cabin, down to the reser, back into hayfield via Kinder Road then back home. Took it easy at times, bit harder at others. 9miles inc. the uphill, not too sure about the height gained, about 200m or so though...
Knee felt OK as wasn't putting any weight on it. Went for a walk later, knee felt good. I'll lay off it for a while, keep up my fitness on the bike hopefully.
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Just looked at Focus, saw the NopeSport urban league, and realised that I've ran in 3 of them, and with 5 to count, and 1 race left in Sheffield, hopefully I'll get to Leeds and complete the series!
I must say, I do like town races, what with being a simpleton when it comes to navigation :p

Sunday Jun 22

Orienteering race (Stockport Town Race) 49:45 [4] *** 7.4 km (6:43 / km) +110m 6:15 / km
spiked:20/24c slept:6.0 weight:69.9kg shoes: Asics somethings
MDOC's Stocky town race, good place to do it actually. Courses took me everywhere, and, even thoughI know the stairways etc. in Stockport quite well, Still managed to catch myself out a few times! Lost contact with the map once, but a 90 degree error resulted in no time lost as the control was on the side of the road - each control being marshalled to protect it from the locals meant there was no problem finding the control... apart from number 11 (which was also 16) which I managed to miss both times, despite Liz yelling/waving at me...
Most time lost was due to slowing down to plan routes, and a bit of walking every now and then to ease the knee, which now really hurts quite a bit. Gay...
C • uhoh.. 2
Running warm up/down 5:00 [2]
shoes: Asics somethings
Run from Tesco carpark to the start.

Saturday Jun 21

Dancing 10:00 [1]
Iain's Dad's (and others) Birthday bash. Turned up, found iain, and spent the rest of the night behind the bar. However, 3 kegs, 210 pints of free beer, so was a good do. Had a Ceilidh, did a bit of dancing, then Iain, Mark, the bowdens and I showed all the old folks what the kool kidz are doing on the dance floor nowadays to the 'disco' - i.e. dirty/bad taste/daft dancing.
Much beer consumed. :)

Thursday Jun 19

Running 45:00 [2] 4.86 mi (9:15 / mi) +161m 5:13 / km
slept:8.0 weight:69.9kg shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Seeing as I'm at home aloe most of the time, I've become a housewife. So before becoming a domestic godess, I decided to go on a slow pootle up Lantern Pike with many rests. Felt a bit poo, downhill on the road hurt the knee a bit. Also feels like I've been kicked in the balls... which is odd.
Debating whether to go Pennine training later. I think I may do...
C • do it 6
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Knee felt a bit bad after running down the road from Lantern pike, so going pennine was always iffy.
Then it started raining (so I had to rush out and get the washing in...) and that coupled with knee meant I couldn't be bothered, so I stayed in, watched a cracking Euro semi, drank Cider and played with the hamster. Grand.

Wednesday Jun 18

Biking 1:53:00 [3] 18.0 mi (6:16 / mi) +383m 3:40 / km
slept:10.0 shoes: Claude Butler Trail Ridge(Bike
Had intened to do about 10 miles, but I missed my turn off as forgot where it was and hadn't looked at a map before leaving.
Decided to go out when I did to avoid the worst of the rain. Which worked OK, only I got stuck in a massive cloudburst whilst in Chapel.
From home to Hayfield along the SVT, then up Highgate road, cutting off onto the bridleway. Round the back of South Head. Was meant to turn off and head through the wash to chinley, but carried on and ended up on the Rushup Edge road. Down that carefully as was wet and had no helmet, into Chapel. Then trhough Chapel Milton, Chinley and Buggy before hitting the cannal at the baisen in Buggy. Back along the cannal to Newtown, then up throung the centre of New Mills, finishing with a sprint up Mellor road to home.
Was damp, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I'll get meself a helmet at the weekend - the lack of one today, coupled with the rain, lead to me riding slower than I can at times.

Here's tha route
Map my riun says it was only 16 miles and a bit. which is wrong, as my Speedo says 18 miles door to door. so ner.

Monday Jun 16

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slept:7.0
Went down to Hallam to meet the guy I'm working under for my lab thing during August/September, then came back to the squat to pack stuff to go home.
Am now home :)
Will have a few days chilling and walking about, then I'll do some running etc etc.

Sunday Jun 15

Orienteering race (Chase Challenge LongO) 2:37:38 [4] *** 16.4 km (9:37 / km) +580m 8:10 / km
spiked:10/13c slept:8.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Had a pretty crappy nights sleep what with hayfever, blocked and runny nose and all.
Long O B class - Cannock Chase. Was good. My Route planning was OK, but my decision making was pants. Also, monster long legs were used, when I didn't even get near the North West at all! Still. Other than a fanny at 4, which I put down to a massive dock off track being down as a small path, resulting in me being 2 re-entrants away from where I though I was, and poor map at 10/11/12 (and it being very technical on a 1:15000) Was OK. Having people around me in iffy areas meant I didn't get really lost and spend ages traipsing around the last 3km loop looking for flags, but still dead chuffed that I could actually complete it in a reasonable time (I targetted around 2.30, and I did spend about 15mins fannying about with shoes/food/water etc en-route... and putting the A3 map in the A4 map bags provided...) and do sub-10 min kms, what with my shoddy navigation, lack of speed today and dodgy knee.
All in all, a good weekend!
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I'll have a few days rest before pootling around Kinder and area a bit.

Saturday Jun 14

Running 1:10:00 [2]
slept:7.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
A fairly gentle pootle around Cannock chase with Zanthe and Gaz whilst the others were MountainBikeOing. Also let me have a look at the terrain and distinctive tree patches for tomorrow!
Biking (Trail Biking) 10:00 [2]
Beetled around on Lucy's bike after Wil got back. 1st time I've been on a bike in ages!
Orienteering race (Chase Challenge Sprint) 15:10 [4] *** 2.72 km (5:35 / km)
spiked:11/13c shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Sprint around somewhere Called 'Darwin Park,' a new housing estate outside Lichfield. Alright area to do it, but what initially looked like there were many route choices resulted in hardly any at all - winding around roads was the quickest route by far. Also, blocked off Gardens looked like they could be cut through on the map - Didn't really fancy doing that... Still, good, Only lost about 10secs overall. Could have gone quicker, but Thursday and Friday had caught up with me a bit. Top10 finish though!
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Barbecue at Chez Gaz's before crashing out on the floor.
Had Ham and Jam sandwiches before sprint race. mmm, they go well as they rhyme. I want to try lemon curd and cheese. They'll go well as they're the same colour.

Friday Jun 13

Orienteering race 30:00 [2]
slept:5.0 shoes: Asics somethings
ShUOC Alc-O
I didn't vomit.
Wil's home brewed spirit was suprisingly good.
Good fun!

Thursday Jun 12

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slept:5.5
Exams finished (was OK...). HaVe had 7 pints by 1. Am ow starting opn bottles, and heading plug later. Bye folks!!!!
tehehe!

Wednesday Jun 11

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slept:7.0
A crap night's sleep after a good game o' risk! Felt very lathargicall day. Got a bit of work done towards tomorrow's exam, should easily be enough, but I'm more looking to hitting Bar1 at 10am for pound pints... :D

Tuesday Jun 10

Gay Sport (Ultimate Frisbee) 45:00 [1]
slept:7.5
My first Ultimate Frisbee experiance. Was quite good, despite my team loosing dismally to Fazza and Danger's team...

Monday Jun 9

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slept:6.5
Nice exam today, fairly easy.
Am suffering a bit from the sunburn.
Going to stay in watching the mennace/Euros. Not going to contemplate circuits as it's too damn warm, and I'm tired.
I may go for a run much later, when it's dark and cooool.

Sunday Jun 8

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dear lord, where has my alcohol tolerance gone?!?
Running race (Edale Fell Race (Hungover) 47:25 [5] 4.66 mi (10:09 / mi) +405m 4:59 / km
slept:7.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Was in blazing sun, but I felt poo as was hungover from last night, and lacking in energy as my sustenance was on the floor outside Somerfield :S.
Still, at least I didn't Vom en-route like Wil :p
Felt like death at Grindslow knoll, and was going to let the lad I'd been racing get away. Bum-slid a bit of the plummet, but then nailed it on the field afterwards, taking about 6 people in 20 seconds! But then the road hit and was a bitch, but I managed to (somehow) have enough to put distance between the guy, and take 2 people on the finish!

Really quite sunburnt now...
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Run to start. just walked a bit to warm down.
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HAHAHAHAHA.
Just found out I was first U20 Male. Fantastic! There's wine as a prize. oh... oops!

Saturday Jun 7

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slept:9.5 (rest day)
Work, watching the footy, work

Friday Jun 6

Running race (Castleton Fell Race) 53:10 [5] 6.0 mi (8:51 / mi) +457m 4:27 / km
slept:8.0 shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
A good race for running! Steep uphill, gentle, but long and sustained uphill, gentle downhill, bloody steep downhill with stone steps, and a nice long road at the end where I kicked away from the guy who was just behind me (but was a bit younger methinks)
Kept pushing, depsite my stomach contenets sloshing around, which was odd as I hadn't eaten for a while before hand. Go ahead of Gaz on the way towards Losehill, then down along the ridge and up the gentle slope to Mam Tor, before turning around and nailing it back! The road seemed longer on the way back than it did on the way out!

This is the route. The 1500ft climb appears to be about 1100, at most, but I'll take the one given by the organisers!
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Bit of pootling around the field before and after.
We got onto the topic of sprinters on the way home.
Sprinters: Warm up for 2 hours, run for 11 seconds.
Fell Runners: Warm up for 11 seconds, run for 2 hours.
Nice symmetry there.
Gonna do no running tomorrow. My knee may not be happy tomorrow, and I want to run Edale on Sunday. I'm excited about the decent already :D

Thursday Jun 5

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slept:5.0
Bit of a rubbish nights sleep, as took 100mins to nod off.
However, exam went well. Not aced it, but feel I've got a solid result.
Left knee still hurts a bit, and it's been joined by a bit of ache on lower left leg. If I go Intervals tonight, it'll be for heckling purposes only. Possibly with beer.
C • go go go go go go go go go go go go 1
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Asics somethings
Down to Endcliffe, then a bit of pootling around.
Running intervals (Parlaufs) 25:00 [4]
shoes: Asics somethings
Parlaufs in the woods. Ran most at 5, but the last 2 were run at 3 to warm the knee down/not cause any unnecessary pain later.
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Am now home alone as all the others have finished exams and gone home. This has its pros and cons:
Pros: 1.) there has been lots of food left that I can eat. 2.)I can play the violin loud if I want (although I did this and a 'absolute silence' notice was put through my door earlier...) 3.) I won't have to do any extra washing-up. Just my own!
Cons. 1.) If I want human company, I'll have to go searching for it. And arrange it. =effort and time away from revision 2.) The house still smells.
hmmm

Wednesday Jun 4

Running warm up/down 12:00 [1]
slept:9.0 shoes: Asics somethings
Had a terrible night's sleep, so decided to lay in and got up at 11, which hit the work a bit.
Took ProPlus to counteract the drowsey hayfever tablet, which resulted in me haveing the concentration of a gnat.
Run to Goodwin and some of the way back with Faz
Orienteering 1:13:00 [3] *** 8.1 km (9:01 / km) +359m 7:23 / km
spiked:22/28c shoes: Asics somethings
Road Oing around Walkly, crooks, Bole Hill, Union, crookes park, crookesmore, Ponderosa, planned by Faz, who engaged me in a sprint finish. He lost.
Took it more at a jog because of the knee. Walked around the undergrowth in Bolhill as it sucks big willy. Several long schleps up the hill resulted in a lot of climb!
Apart from making a 90degree error on the way to 4 (lack of compass?) and a bit of fannyong at 5, not many problems. Aprt from nettles and traffic lights :)

This be the course and this be what I did
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Knee felt OK when running. Aches a bit now, but no way near as much as it could do. I'll put some frozen vegetables on it whilst I cook my sausgaes!

Tuesday Jun 3

Running 39:00 [2] 4.8 mi (8:07 / mi) +64m 4:51 / km
slept:8.0 shoes: Asics somethings
worked from 11-1ish. Flatmate came in after his last exam and put musc on. I was going to go for a run anyways. Come back and he's cleaning and filled 3 binbags with detritus from the living room!
Just a boring, wet slow-poke jog to fulwood and back through the parks. Boring.
Although I did see a woman with a plastic bag wrapped around her head. Maybe she'd had an operation...
Typical - Liz leaves the country and it pisses it down. She'll love this!
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Grrr. Feels like someone's stabbed me in the knee.
Had this pain a few months ago, but in my right one. Doesn't feel as bad now as it did back then. Hope it goes away like, tonight. Was looking forward to some bombing around walkly with the lads tomorrow, and a few hilly hilly fell races over the weekend...
Streching warm up/down 8:00 [1]
trying to make the knee feel better. It helped a bit...
C • Pain 2

Monday Jun 2

Running tempo 5:45 [4] 0.91 mi (6:18 / mi) +10m 3:48 / km
slept:7.0 shoes: Asics somethings
Had a nap before the trunce, only I turned my alarm off instead of hit snooze, so I had to burn it to goodwin to catch a lift with Middleditch, seeing as I'd missed the one I was meant to get with Wil
Running warm up/down 10:00 [2]
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Pootle round the field beforehand
Running race (Trunce #4) 29:15 [5] 4.25 mi (6:53 / mi) +167m 3:49 / km
shoes: Decathlon Kalenji Kapteren XT
Trunce numero 4-o.
Once agin got stuck in the pack at the begining. Gaz was about 3 people ahead of me at the start, and by the bend he was 150yards ahead due to the amount of people I had to negotiate, but managed to pass a lot of people from there on on the flat/down to the first river crossing. First step in the river and I immediatly thought 'damn it, why didn't I bring a spare pair of socks?!' Negotiated the slippy get out and felt good. Overtook Wil at the Stile at the top of the 1st real 'hill,' Hit the road, and didn't feel too bad. Had to make sure I kept pushing, but the road didn't hit me this time! Took Gaz at the kissing gate on the way back up from the river (was going to offer him a kiss...) Then Zanthe on the track past the farm. Managed to hold her off at the finish as well. Mullered my PB by a minute (officially) but by 1.20 according to my timing of last time ;P
Felt good at the end. Reckon I could have carried on for another 4 easy miles!
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Right. My exams start this week (finally) so here's my plan to be raring to go for them:
Early nights, i.e. before 1, preferably before 12. I've seen every scrubs episode going, I don't need to stay up late to watch them again...
Wake up early - 8-9, so getting up for a 9am exam isn't a massive shock to the system.
Train. to release any stress I may build up (little), but mainly to work towards next year at uni :D
Work Have an Idea of what may be in these exams I'm sitting.
Beer To help me sleep. And we all know it's a good training tool!
Once I get home: Hit Kinder/the surrounding area every day to get some good hills and distances under my belt...

I've already hand washed my training tops in my sink, with fairy liquid and soap. Dedication? I think so!
Now, I'll find out if this plan works at some point in August...
(when I'll be the size of a house and a chroic Alcoholic...

Sunday Jun 1

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slept:8.0
yeah, done nothing all day apart from a bit of work and a lot of procrastination, including reading wiki articles on all the UEFA 5* football stadia...
Left hip feels funny every now and then. All in all not felt in the mood for going out. I did end up at my friends night last night :P
Trunce tomorrow. Should be fun. Hope I don't die on the road... may wear the road shoes to make it easier, but that depends on the amount of Mud going on lsewhere on the course.


 

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