Training Log Archive: philm64

SARUM Galoppen "Brown" (more like Short Brown) course, Hamptworth, near New Forest, 7.8km/120m, 4th? 55:54
Clive 52, Pete Ward 54, Lawrence Townley 57

Good run; no major errors, hardly any small ones either; bracken made it hard going & a bit hit & miss re. the line you chose. I got lucky once, in the bracken, & ran OK to the end. Fun race!

Ben Chesters' time is very fast, IMO.
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https://www.strava.com/activities/1932391851

UCR indoor roped climbing with Lynne .

Fine, cruising all the routes up to 6a, so pushed out the boat & found I could comfortably flash 6a+ with a grunt or two, but 6b involved rests & binning off (by the end!).

All good. Flight booked 15th December for a 5 day sport climbing hit to the Costa Blanca.

The "send train" arrives.......

Steady run in South bristol - my old haunts 2016-17 were calling me, so I combined it with some errands. Glad I did.

Huge monstrous 100m hill in first 1.2km or so, then nice & mostly off road, and did extra at the end to make it an hour, chased by cows in a field (scary; not safe.... had they cornered me, I'd have been in trouble - 20 of them? Public right of way but COWS DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT). Risk of death.

Twinge in upper RH hamstring-hip insertion point. Hopefully no more than a twinge, & not even a tweak. Carried on running, no real pain. some minor twinging in ASDA later. No plan to run tomorrow so should be nothing.

https://www.strava.com/activities/1926568133

Indoor bouldering at Bloc, with Zuzka ; Clio & Gav arrived later.

not very good. fingers sore, & inflexible.

Definitely getting older & creakier here.....

Managed a couple of reds & Gav showed me how to do a hard orange which gets top end 5c in my book.

About 60 mins of cycling on errands; still quite tired.

Only woken from 3- 3:45 am last night by the creaking & footsteps . Must be so cool, being a trendy young tech-savvy diverse millennial nocturnal person. With a 24/7 fluid membership of the gig economy.

I'm happy to be getting old.

Phew. Relieved to have got through the past 4 days intact. And each event went really well. Yay! Now for a rest. Don't feel as off-colour as I did Friday evening / Saturday morning either.

But.

After 4 hours sleep on saturday night, unsurprisingly I passed out on the sofa last night, wayyy before bedtime. Got to bed somehow & passed out immediately again.

BUT.

2am - footsteps above me; creaking floorboards ... just standing on them makes them creak. I could almost picture what was going on above me (very little). (mine creak too....)

THEN: 3am - the same. Creak, creak, patter patter patter. Creak.

Satuday night: get in; 2am, go to bed, can hear snoring in the bedroom BELOW me this time (this flat is normally occupied max once a week, during the week). Earplugs in. But - seriously??????

AT WHAT POINT do I just throw in the towel and can this place as a duff/dud? It's stunning, great location, own grounds, gravel drive, huge rooms, high ceilings, no mortgage ... and hands down THE MOST non-soundproofed home I have ever had, in my life, ever. This is just downright UNLUCKY. but moving again is unthinkable (4 moves in the past four years - I'm completely burned out).

As a musician, I never play loudly. Cos everyone would hear every single note.

Advice?

C • Advice 5

PS. as i type. they've finally got up upstairs, and of course the young man uses the living room as a home gym.

All i can hear is heavy steps above me, and the occasional THUMP or thud as he does his squats or whatever.

I mean, really?

What defines a home?

At my age i want peace & privacy. Too much to ask, right?