Archive for December, 2007

Oh, please forgive me - too much time behind the wheel this week. I’ve had too much to do, and too little time. It’s included two days in my role as a stand-up rabble rouser (7 1/2 hours of briefing a company’s staff in groups of 5-9 on a new initiative kicking off in January),...
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This morning I was going to run with Shana, but she couldn’t make it, so I decided to go for a swim instead. I think my shoulder’s well and truly on the mend, so it’s time to start pushing the distance a little, and 1,000m seemed like a nice number to try. Not too...
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Just briefly . . . we slept for the first time in our ‘new’ ‘penthouse suite’ (I can dream, can’t I?) last night. And then this morning, I went running with Shana, and she’s now through the four mile barrier, which is fantastic. She’s also getting so keen on running, that she wants to do...
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After Sunday’s spin class, I had a quick dip in the pool to cool off. Having first taken a shower, of course - it’s a pool, not a communal bath, after all. Then when I got home, it was back to shifting furniture in preparation for the carpet fitters on Monday. On Saturday, we’d made...
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**WARNING - CONTAINS SPOILERS BELOW** On Saturday night, Wife & I sneaked off  to the cinema to see the Golden Compass. This is the first installment of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, retitled from its original “The Northern Lights”. We were ahead with getting the house ready for  the carpet fitters arriving on Monday, so...
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Last week was BUSY. The work that I’ve been doing on our house for, oh, the last ten years is nearing completion, and like all good DIY jobs, is ending in a rush. Carpet fitters were coming, and everything needed getting ready. But work was also pretty busy too. We were running a workshop in...
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No, it hasn’t happened to me for years . . . but it’s probably only a mater of time I came across this film on quickrelease.tv, which shows how easily most bike locks are defeated. It’s in Dutch, with English subtitles, but don’t let that put you off watching: For some reason I’m very...
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Last week the entry forms for the North Tyneside 10K dropped through the door. I usually enter Tall Friend and myself for this race (and he reciprocates with the Stratford Triathlon), and this year I’ll be sending off three entry forms - one for Shana too. Then yesterday morning was the first Tuesday of the...
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I found this video today on The Bicycle Diaries, and I just had to post it here. Not least of all because I figure it’s the kind of thing to get some of the sweat365 team excited - no need to mention any names - just check out the photo below the video!
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