Last gym session of 2018

Hard going mostly  nice crowd in

Sunday

run

Had a pint with dr Sabrina

Gym again

Hilly tm and light session after. Wanted to get back as had stew in the oven for 4 hours . Managed to stroke mila without gett8ng slashed

Gym

Lent Kris my o zone machine . Did some 100kg squats . Had a run on the tm , did some plank and some deadlift reps.

Gym

good to see the team .

Thinking about Rupert

My mate Rupert died around new year  eight or nine years ago. We met him and his mrs at antenatal classes for Eloise , so  just over 16 years ago. We got on pretty well . Rupert and I used to go boozing and Helen and Sandrine. Are still pretty close. They were both journalists . Rupert ( Hamer) was a war  journo  with the Sunday mirror . Lots of travel around Iraq and Afghanistan .  Some of it sounded fucking scary . One of the last times I saw him he was moaning how the MoD had reneged on a promise to let him fly to Kabul . He ended up going a few week later, dec 31   2009 as I remember . A few days later blown to bits  by the taliban ( cunts ) . His  photographer , a bloke called Phil lost both legs .  Rupert was lovely , he used to come for beers after work with me and my work buddies , back when we had a real team atmos.

Boxing day

run - ok, but foot on and off painful . Thanks to the cunt

Gotta say

  Not really having a great Xmas

Gym , about yesterday

I’ve been squatting 4x 10 x 65kg, and dead lifting my body wieght but lower reps . As a result by legs sometimes feel like they have another gear for running. Still going slow mind. I was in there yesterday with a posse of proper athletes . One of them ran the 4x400 final in the 2012 . I try not to be intimated by these young fellas and in return one of them corrected my kettlebell form

Happy fucking Xmas

Run ok. Blythe packed, really packed. Lots of str@ngers but also community well represented

Gym

Olympians in . And Baz....long time

Gym

Ok.

Idiot brings young child and gets stroppy about it when I point out that gyms are dangerous places and not a crèche

Offer

Re end of job , doesn’t feel like enough. Or fair , just feel like I’ve been muscled out.

Run

for hurt8ng

More gym

90k deadlift reps . Still not sure I’m doing it right

Some gym

had a run in with the neighbours earlier . Was absolutely paranoid that staff member from next door could complain to work . I was really cross . So much so that I even sent them all a Christmas card

Run

Good for a change

Gym

afterwards

Peter the pastors funeral

moving , evangelist church wedding . He was obviously much loved and I think was as much of a send off as anyone could want

Went running

Hard work, legs tired . Must be all that squatting and deadlifting

More gym

Too fucking cold for outside

Gym more

Eloise came too

More deadlifting . 70kg

Starting to think the work travails might be for the best

Gym

sore throat. Some new weight stuff . Some dead lift reps

Trouble at work

Don’t know how to feel right now

Run , plus beer with billy . He’s an anechdote to most things

Run

Ok , core a bit sore

Gym

Much earlier , ok. Got bossed around by the pro athletes .

Run

hard today due to cold, funny weather meaning I was dressed all wrong

Gym

Very light.  No time .

Gym

Eloise came too

Run

Foot swollen all day . A bit tender too. Went running. Felt much better

Jules spent the day at mine due to cold. Also had to manage some bullying stuff  Jules at a school .  kid with stupid name giving her grief .  Sure school will sort it out . If not think Eloise might have a word

Gym

ok , quiet . Had to see Jena . Appear to have been over doing it

Lunchtime run

not great

Martin, max and Katrina

Lovely bbq afternoon. Monday morning is a bit of struggle ..

Gym

Ok. A bit fucked. Stayed up late the night before...

Going ok with the bar squats

Run

over dressed , looked colder than It was . Bumped into a crazy person ,

Gym

Wasn’t actually going to train when I got there. But after a while warmed to the idea and put a shift in . Eloise also did boxing

Gym

Lunchtime

Caned it

So hilly intervals on tm, plus squats with bar 50kg

But foot intermittently hurting 

Wednesday

Presented to seniors in the Uzbek government, really amazing . And made a new friend in Erik too, and I think Julie A too.

Bht

Bumped into kac , at the bht

Run

First outside run since I pulled my Lower back. Was ok, foot ok too in spite of strange on off hurting recently , that I need to run past bossy physio

Gym

Little bit of tm, lower back slightly better, some squats ... nice crowd in. Talked about a delegation from the gym going to the funeral. Might be interesting

Peter the paster

rip my friend. Found out earlier

X

Half an hour

on crazybclimber , doesn’t sound a lot but...

Gym

Quite heavy in the circumstances . Eloise and j here most of the weekend. As s away. Eloise revising so hard for her mocks , very proud of her

Gym

back still a bit sore so very light , felt a bit more mobile  afterwards

Follow up

Nice as pie . No inquisition , no reference to it, just day job

Injured

Doing squats

Tottenham tony

goodbye funeral x

Lovely service , not long enough.

Run, hard going

Gym

Ok , quite good session

Lots of my usual buddies . Thinking of adding bar squats , 80 kg and new skipping rope  week

Sunday

was lovely , saw Gerry, Ken , Keshira , Rafi , Dan and Richard  together for the first time In very very long time . Think the girls have got them selves a new vivacious auntie

Run

Foot a bit tender to start with

Gym , Friday

Me rowing reps and Kb x180
Eloise brilliant  boxing
Juliette two hours of dancing

Transpires

Very little of the slanderous allegations in my PIP, just day job stuff. Waiting for some kind of apology .

Eloise

we went to forest hill  6th form open day. She wants to do french and Spanish and either history , sociology , English lit or philosophy. Probably history I think. . Philosophy dismissed as too hard- I might work on that. Although it foxed me. Sociology dismissed as too now.. I was glad about that. It sounded really fluffy . Interesting and apart from the  cod parent presentation that was a lesson in how not to present , good stuff

Going to write a bit here , more .

Run

did my usual 6k. And then ran up and down Blythe hill a few times

Gym

Ok

Run

was really good

Gym

lunchtime

Run

yesterday , ok

Saturday gym

Happy place

Run

earlier , not spectacular in any way . Horrific week at work

Gym

ok . Quiet . Felt ok

But withstanding that

A pacey fast 6k , for me at least.

Run

Eloise brill parents evening, work worst day ever pretty much

Gym

ok

Run.

Hard fucking going

Gym

Blythe

Paul and merlin

Two of the brightest people I know . Fucking really good fun

Hard slow

Worst run since back on the street .. 6k . Probably should have missed it. Also got clothing a bit wrong

Gym

strange sullen athlete in. He’s always been a rude bloke every since I’ve using the place

Add to which

Went running after work , quick 6k.

Fucking smashed it

presentation to 60 or 70 people .  Board of a nhs trust, loads of doctors and a class room full of kids Fucking loved it. The lights went down and I was my dad.

Gym

Eloise came too

Run

Felt ok - took it very carefully as foot hurty

Tr

Sprinter

 team gb sprinter in

Gym

all the usual suspects.

Catching up

Gym  and very odd afternoon with SG - Saturday
5m run street - Sunday . I reckon the 2nd half faster than the first

Fb

means that I just found out that formative gf ,  starting 30 years ago, had just played a game of scrabble , and showed the end board pic. Cr@zy , lovely , I don’t know

Fucking well done me

Nearly 6k , first time five months after accident .

See how I feel later . Felt quite fit

Bad week

Tony - gentle intelligent soul. 

Mick- animated Irish barman 

Tony joe white - favourite country artist by long way.

Tony joe white

also

Tony

very gentle soul, passed on earlier . Sad about that. Not a great week in the bht

Gym

ok - all of the usual suspects

Mick Bht

Some bad news . Much love mick

Rob back behind the bar.

Gym

Lewisham vs forest hill going down. Nil nil wh3n I left , Lewisham should have been ahead apparently . Too chilly to hang on for the sh

Other than , ok

Granny’s

for a couple of days

Gym

Many of the usual suspects

Gym

Some tm, almost none of the usual suspects .

Easy

usual suspects in, plus weird ex soldier bloke.

Light

Jules finds mouse a la mais9n

Still under weather

tried to sweat it out

Under the weather

managed a bit of tm . Mood lifted slightly

Gym

Some tm

Ok

Collared again by mad Richard , he ran a marathon in prison apparently . At least morose tall bloke has gone elsewhere,

Gym

watched football Down at the arena , really good fun. Did some gym , got captured by mad Richard

Hacked off

Decent gym , meeting with ll, some other stuff re work that is demoralising

Flat

gentle earlier

Been in manch3ster e

no training for a few days , apparently it’s good to do this . Three days with fundamentally nice interesting people . It’s poetry in the bht. Not in the mood. I have my work cut out re health sector , irrespective of that role etc

Eloise has been awarded Spanish prize . Looking forward to that

Gym

some tm,  good crowd in , row8ng reps , kB

Light

gym , usual suspects

Eloise

 Boxing with mike. Some tm etc. Ok

Richard alston

Really lovely . Jules loved it too.

Gym earlier , quick . Told off by Jenna for over doing the running

Light

As no time , but managed some TM

Gym

lunchtime , gave tm miss as still swollen from yesterday

Gym

place empty . Some tm , upped the intensity slightly. Foot swollen afterwards😪. Fucking hacked off that I can’t go for a quick run withoit post run swelling. Thanks to the cunt

Gym

A bit flat. Some vertical climber ,  but gave the tm a rest as foot swollen. In the bht watching football

More bad news from work

Good session in gym , so 20 min row 4483 ms and some decent tm . Junior and I agree brexit is  going to fuck us up. Also pro rugby player in showing us how rowing should really be done

Fed up

re non materialising Job

Cunts

Gym

no tm this time As foot quite swollen

Eloise

Eloise in the gym , smashing it up with mike

Me another 3k on the DM plus rowing and some intervals and other stuff. Pretty packed 60 mins .

Gym

Same again

Gym

2 or 3k or so on tm. See how I feel in the morning

Gym

in old trainers 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😅

My favourite of all the usual suspects in💞, plus annoying smelly bloke

Hospital appt

gym , and foot healed at least bone wise. Crazy Richard gave me a drink

Gym

Eloise did box8mg , I did light one . Falling out of love with the  rower a bit

Gym

Gentle

Gym

Very light . Tried to cheer myself up . Didn’t work

Gym

under weather so light

Gym

Felt a bit fucked. New smelly bloke in

Gym

wasn’t going to, but then just went

Gym

Gentle hopping . Usual suspects.

Gym

Ok. Foot much more swollen since  hopping .

Gym

Added hops. No time for kb

Gym

Eloise locked up out of 124 . Switched energy suppliers and broadband wallahs and sorted out mortgage .

Gym was ok , went hard at it

Gym

Difficult day at work , gym was ok. Rowing reps .

Gym

tiring, expanding the kbs with cleans

Gym

a little bit half arsed. I’m operated a little more kB . Foot painful earlier. Bought both kids iPhones , one extremeLy ungrateful

Long walk

miss running. Went to  get jules PE skirt. Plus gym later.

Gym

more rowing reps...

Eloise boxing really well with mike . Whole place had a buzz . Also work quite stressful this week

Missed

went down there , but soon gave up

Gym

rather nailed reps on the Rowe

Gym

ok, one or two of my favourite members in

Gym

caned it rather in terms of rower

Gym

Light , felt a bit fucked . Hard week in terms of work

Missed a swim

Tuesday morning . Quite strenuous

Gym - lady well

tiring

Slightly longer swim

all in the curvy pool. Unsure of length and would say between 20 and 25 ms , probably 25.so a good 500m . Tiring enjoyable. Last full day of holiday . Hotel room toilet develops same fault as mine back home.

Holiday

Another good swim today, so between 400 and 500 meters . Plus core , push ups and actually sent in the sea. Watching the muppets reserving there sun beds, cunts. In a sense many if them exerting the only power they have left, that said they can’t be badly off if they are here on holiday. Either way it’s pretty odious . One lovely moment was a family coming to the pool to take photos to celebrate their 15yos birthday , before all the fuckwits got out bed and spoilt it. I  wanted to offer a group shot , but in some way it looked like such a private moment and in another I wanted to get two final lengths in

Holiday

Another good swim first thing today. Enjoyed it . Good to get in the pool before all the idiots , and there is plenty here. One of two nice people . It’s just started raining

Holiday

Fucking love swimming .  I see another bad habit coming on

On holiday

trying out swimming ..

Think I just swam 200m . Further than I have in my life I think



200m

Gym

same again really . It’s the rowing sprint reps that do it .

Caned it

gym ..

Rowing

Nearly 4400 and not partic pushing it . Some other stuff . Felt a bit  tired tbh

Gym

climber then row8ng intervals . Quite hardcore . Needed a rest after. Fuck8ng foot hurts

Very early gym

Also walked around track. 600/700 yards under instruction from physio . Remarkably hardwork. In some ways more so than the rowing intervals

Gym

some usual suspects , come to think of it none of the usual. Stereo sounds amazing

Gym

lost my iPad , got it back again. I love Catford

Gym

hard work , usual suspects plus Steph from sfac x

Head of vert market

I think , nailed it ...

Gym

intervals on rower. All the usual suspects in the house

Gym

Physio said just train , foot swelling is normal

Gym

foot swollen and painful. Gym gentle apart from rowing intervals 4.5 x 1.30 ok

Gym

1.5 hrs with all the physio stuff plus climber plus rowing sprint reps *4 @ 1min 30ea at the end

Gym

6 x 2m sprint rowing intervals with 2m rest between

Yesterday today

Friday -gym
Sat - gym

Alternating rower and climber , also Steve trying to encourage some intervals in the rower . Might give that a shot tommorow. Also doing my physio  stuff so sessions stretch out a bit . Quite like that. Trying not to think about runnning and also foot hurting today

Missed one

gym yesterday.quite light

Gym

and physio

Some more excersises to add to routine

Wobbly ball , wall stretch , heel raises on step board , plus front foot walking plus ice

Gym

ok

Gym

loads of kids in . Apparently this is a thing. Unsupervised small kids on treadmills. I had to intervene to stop one of the little ones from braining herself .

Gym

Stepped it up a little . Some more of the usual suspects in . Miss running

Vertical climber is interesting , harder than the rower somehow

Gym

some of the usual suspects .

Ok

Gym

work a bit flat, everything seems impossible

Gym

ok . Made my self vertical climb .

Gym

More workshop . Got Called out for being nasty to yet another idiot . S and g agreed to take my case.

One of my gym buddies flaked after 3mins , with breaks , on a rower !

Early gym

conflict and negative energy at work workshop , quite interesting

Gym

ok . Conrad in

Gym

ok , lunchtime crowd in . Hospital appt.. could be months before I’m able to run again ., if at all. Was a bit upset earlier

Crystal Wales

Failing at this somehow. Me and my big mouth

Gym

ok. Eloise came . Jules bowed out at stillness. Really emotional . Kids crying all over the place , parents doing the same . It was really lovely.

Eloise is finding the end of school Upsetting . I think there is some stuff going on at school too

Gym

Again . Miss running

Gym

Foot fucking hurts

France predictably win word cup

Gym

Ok

Feeling down

apparently broken bones and depression is standard.

Gym

ok , gentle on the foot

England

gym , ok . Disappointed about football .

Gym

junior in . Training a complete addict. Why people need trainers ?

News

I was run over by a car on the 31.5.  Just been going back to the gym over the last few days. It’s been lovely to get back to it and see all the guys. I don’t know how long it’s going to be before I can run again, but I intend to invest a bit in the rowing in the interim

Foot slightly hurty

gym ... ok

Gym

bit harder today . No wieght in right foot but felt good .

Gym

first day back . Interesting to see how foot holds up . Really enjoyed. Bumped into mad Richard and his new little friends

Gym

first day back . Interesting to see how foot holds up . Really enjoyed. Bumped into mad Richard and his new little friends

Gym

first day back . Interesting to see how foot holds up . Really enjoyed. Bumped into mad Richard and his new little friends

Gym

first day back . Interesting to see how foot holds up . Really enjoyed. Bumped into mad Richard and his new little friends

Gym

first day back . Interesting to see how foot holds up . Really enjoyed. Bumped into mad Richard and his new little friends

Wed thurs Friday sat

been doing the sit up and plank all week. Foot hurts .

Pissed off

One legged core and push ups

Some exercise

one legged plank and push ups . Not dropping info into this blog about the ‘ accident ‘ . Don’t want to sully it.

But amazing new from eloise re her work experience . Madam eloise indeed

Wednesday Thursday run

and run over. Three broken bones in foot

Wednesday Thursday run

and run over. Three broken bones in foot

Wednesday Thursday run

and run over. Three broken bones in foot

Gym

added some stuff to it

Run

30 deg c and a hang over. Not a great combo

Hot

run , windy . Bizarre weather . Kids at home . Popped in th bht for a mo

Gym

with squeezy

Run

Eauction

Gym

squeezy came too

Run

ok. Tiring after 13h day

Run

Fast ok

Gym

Bumped into gill from the bht

Run

quick , ok . Hot

Royal wedding

I hope her feels like I once did about her

Gym

pretty good , increased kB reps and reduced weight . Favourite

Forgot to mention the park idiots

tarmac the path with no  advance signage , nothing . All quite upset when I stomped through their soggy path . Twats

Gentle jog

ok

Gym

lite, back ok. Eloise did boxing and I left the kb alone . S o mainly cardio

Gym

bad back

Yesterday today

Gym

Run

Work stressful

Run

Again. Felt really good

Run

Hot

Gym

Again. Crazy Richard in the house . Possibly not that crazy

Sunday

Gym , ok . Working on my MA too.

Run

all good

Hungarian delahation on CW with pc . That was amazing too

Rin

Internsl meeting with great and good

Good fun

Gym

Eloise cane to for boxing . Looked like she really enjoyed it

Run

Bumped into four people I know en route

Pm Runner , two neighbours and dog man

Gym

usual suspects plus some athletes. Sensible advisefrkm junior re s . Officially nuts

Saturday run

felt much more human after , shopping with jules

Yesterday , today

thurs -gym
Friday - run

Run

contrary to how I’ve been feeling over the last couple of days was pretty good

Yesterday today

run

Gym

Yesterday , today

Friday -run
Gym -today

gym

Gym , squeezy did boxing . I had to make her

Run

interesting day at work. A  Day when it makes you proud to work for the business

Gym

Crammed , fun . Felt good . Friendly crowd . Even mad Richard

Run

ok , another paint layer.  Irish bird no longer talking to me

Gym

bumped into merlin and his journo  buddy. Good fun. Lots of topic covered

Run

longer route again, hard work after day decorating kids bedroom. E trantrum

Gym

Ok and l and lovely fes

Longer run

started Felpham beach training . 5ms hilly . Ok

Gym

ok

Run

ok , quite good actually

Gym

Quiet , hard work . Barrister couple, funky Jamaican chic

Yesterday

gym , run

Yesterday today

Run , gym

Strange new  bloke in gym . Think I’ve been offered new job  at work .strange atmos actually

Gym

ok .

Run

ok . Temperature difficult to judge

Yesterday today

run and gym  respectively . Saw Richard for hedonistic night out . Really good fun and great see one of my oldest friends thriving

Gym

Ok

Great crowd in

Run

Ok

Gym

Eloise wants to be a boxer ...

Gym

Manchester

Gym

fucking nailed it rather . Amusing the twats who think that 120sec on a rower constitutes a warm up

Run

Not great

Run

forgot to turn garmin on

Gym

eloise boxing . Did great , even though she entertained the s factor kids in the process

Fucking tv arrived . It’s too big. Took me 90 mins to set it up

Gym yesterday run today

miserable with work at the mo

Gym

yesterday and today . Today wasn’t brilliant

Yesterday gym

Run yesterday and today

Gym

Eloise did good. Made me feel a bit prehistoric in comparison

Run get

upped mileage a litttle, was ok once I warmed, internal bollocks at work getting me  down

Gym

Eloise came too. Did really well

Gym

Ok

Run

Hard , had to reroute due to council park antics

Gym

has a couple of days off. Apparently eloise smashed it yesterday. I did ok today . Hard day at work .

Manchesterv

Run after trip to Manchester and crap nights sleep, not a great one

Gym

with eloise .

Run

Sushi with Jules then 5k , intervals for the second half. Not great

Snowed in

some home stuff

Gentle gym

ok. Ellie in

Couldn’t get out due to weather

so a little core at home

Gym

1000m row 4.07

Gym

Squeeze cam along. Did really well. Ex wife has arse ache about something

Gym

hardly worth mentioning

Run

5k fast

Gym

gentle

Run

5k

Ok

Run

ok, flat out

Gym

had a email  exchange with a hifi retail idiot earlier . So glad I no longer do that bullshit...unless some 150s

Gym

ok , squeezy came along .  Think I gave it a miss yesterday

Run

not great

Gym

ok , light actually . Heavy day at work

Run

Flying

Great fuckimg day at work . Nailed it

Run

hard

Gym

Intense Kettlebell

Run

Hard going

Run

Presentation went well . Probably would do it next time

Great night In bht , really lovely . Met leader of Bbc concert orch and also mick for lend lease . Loads of connections. Have bizarre idea to get them in the pub

Gym

Ok , light. Eloise did her boxing etc

Gym

ok

Gym and happy

Lessons in swing

So yesterday

I met cloda whilst out running. We did the return together . It’s amzimg how much you cover over 20 mins

Gym

Ok , lovely in fact

Run

met cloda whilst running . Felt ok , better than expected. Irish rugby in pub.

Run

was not great

Squeezy

Did self defence for first time . She did really well . I did the gym , same today. Getting back into the rower

Another run

ok

Run

fast , best run for ages

Gym

caned it rather. Feels great to be on the rower. Good shift re masm ...see how I get on rest of week

Run

nasty weather for it

Gym

Peter the pastor in the house . Was quick as didn’t have much time but was going at the climber

Run

Ok

Gym

lovely few beers in bht. Some new friends

Run

ok . Mad weather

Gym

gentle , nice crowd

Fb

culled some idiots from fb

Tony ok

too wet for running , Sandrine good will has finished

Run

Ok , leathered it a bit . Girls at mine

Tony

tb fell over and broke his arm as him , Maria and me went to the socgen fit out meeting
My poor friend

Gym after

Run

Fast , cold

Slow on uptake

Sarah , gym , google

Run

Ok, fast . Met per after

Run

felt a bit ducked

Gym

doubled up climber and rower

Lauren in , my job clearly impacting scope for training

little dark head training bloke is difficult to get away from

Good session

Gym

ok

Run

Jules wanted to go to the  track but changed her mind about sfac .  She had a brilliant parents evening. I dropped her a her mums and went running instead.

Gym

eloise came along and I put a shift in on the rower for the first time in months . Really enjoyed it . Nice crowd in . Psycho south London idiot came up in conversation once or twice .

Run

Cold, didn’t know what to do about the weather .

Gym

jules was doing  s f a c , also ram into imperious one

Run

ok

Jules doing sfac tommorow

Selondon

Reigned in by blond Steve who is very no nonsense

Other than that nice crowd

Gym

faith slightly restored by pleasant crowd.

Struggling with cold from Xmas

quick run, first of the year. Ok . Quite quick