Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Morning recovery session before the OA Board meeting (which for me started at 10am). I had the idea of going out to an island, which sounded attractive in theory. It was a bit less attractive in practice - I'm staying next to what's described as "Norway's biggest shopping mall" (I was under the impression that Norway's biggest shopping mall, if defined by the amount spent there by Norwegians, was actually in Sweden), and getting to said island involves a couple of kilometres each way of negotiating commercial districts and main roads in peak-hour traffic. It was nice once on the island though. Back considerably better today.

I realised before I started that I'd put my gloves in the wash by mistake and they were still at Cassie's. If it had been, say, -2 I'd probably have just gone with bare hands, but at -7 I didn't think that would end well, so I improvised by wearing socks on my hands instead. Seemed to work OK.

It was reported today that an international study of sports governance structures had actually rated FIFA second-highest. It doesn't say a lot for the rest, although I suspect that FIFA has a lot of structures which look reasonably good in theory but buckle in practice under the deluge of money that floats around football. In case you're wondering, shooting took the wooden spoon. (Orienteering wasn't part of the study, although looking at the criteria I think IOF would score reasonably well).

C • Island 2

I think this is my first swim in Norway, in the pool at Bekkestua (with my nephews enjoying themselves in the kids' pool). Thought I'd picked an appropriate lane but someone felt differently, because they said to me something in Norwegian which I took to mean that he wasn't happy with my presence and wanted me to go elsewhere. (Swimming in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne has given me plenty of experience of locals who don't take kindly to interlopers on their turf). Moved across to what I thought was the fast lane with no further issues.

C • Skating 8