Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

Wasn't finding it that easy to get myself going for this (the Achilles, as often on a long trip without a massage, is taking longer and longer to warm up), but more or less reasonable once doing the reps - until getting a twinge at the top of my right quad at the end of the 5th one. Didn't want to take any chances on this and immediately abandoned the session. It was already improving by the time I finished walking back so I don't think it will put much of a hole in future running plans (although I'll find out tomorrow).

Warm-up - no warm-down today (at least no running one).

I'm at the stage where I'm trawling a lot of national meteorological service websites in search of additional fragments of information to use in my reports. I was somewhat surprised to see that occupying pride of place on Paraguay's website was a rainfall forecast map for 12 November 2014, a somewhat familiar date (not sure why they were showing that one off because most of the forecast rain failed to materialise, at least in the places where I was). Africa has a few good ones - often from multi-country groups like the Niger Basin Authority - but also a reasonable number of countries where the national meteorological service either doesn't have a website or has a website that doesn't work (Zambia's, which last time I tried had the forecast for some date in 2006, is one of those). Nigeria's website took me to a promise to pay me US$6 million if I put my bank account details on an online form a "current" report which was four years out of date, and Burkina Faso's was blocked by the WMO firewall because they think it's a gambling site.