Mon - 36k around AlJasra, a shorty after yesterday. Started to feel hot towards end. Spin/abs at Ritz in evening, followed by dropping into diving at Dilmun for drink/eats/"how to be a Dive manager" lecture.
Tues - 42k (Kazakhan/AlJasra). Late meeting at work so missed my last choir singalong before the concert-that-i-am-missing. Picked up LE2JOG embroided polo shirts in evening (only 4BD each)
Wed - 36k (Kazakhan/AlJasra but other way round). Adjusted cycle cateye computer so it reads the same distance as gramin, how nerdy is that? Spin/abs in evening. Trial pack of suitcase. Final download of .txc and .gpx courses of routes to garmin, included one for the Chiltern Sportive Corto ride (54miles) we are doing on Sunday with Chris (bro') , reset basemap to UK. All set to go!
...not quite. I thought I'd check I could load the routes on the Garmin. Arggh, loaded first 2, then every subsequent attempt loaded the first one again. Panic. Quick Google and check on frank.kinlan, and found out that you have to load the courses into main memory, not the SD card. Not logical Garmin - if you can see it on the menu, you should be able to load it.
Started to remember things I had forgotten to pack. Maybe I'll need a bigger suitcase.
Thur - 35k. Met Mike Guest outside Hamala Resort, so joined up with him and did fastest splits to date. Nice to have someone to chat to. Apparently there was a football match last night which I hadn't a clue about. I felt just like Moss on the I.T Crowd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?
42 degrees, it's a chilly 19 in Sydney!
ReplyDeleteHear you're doing a practice ride with dad this weekend? Have fun on that.
It was a generalisation, I'm sure a lot of people in the UK who were affected at the time heard news of it and can recall the day. Well, I can but I guess my memory is fairly good.
Looking at these "it's the small world" coincidences. It's just if you think about the surface area of the world, then the number of people who I know then factor in time. The odds are highly stacked against me that I'd see someone I recognised. But I'd seen Zac Efron a few days before then Dessi Costa. It just makes you feel a bit strange (and makes me ponder philosophical questions) when that happens.
War is hell, I agree. It's just a lot of civilians dying in one hit, that is crazy, but it's just a statistic right.... ANd yeah, strangely enough there was only one small sentence mentioning how many Chinese the Japanese killed, yet many displays telling how many Japanese were killed.
Not going to Bondi beach as there will be no more sun while I'm in Sydney, went to Manly beach yesterday and that was awesome. Will have a couple of surf lessons further north. Promise. Also, I can think of better things than the harbour bridge climb to spend £100 on. Eg. bungy jump/sky dive. And especially as the weather isn't great. Next time I will.
4BD for an embroided polo shirt, that's so cool, got to get a few of those. Oh I could get band T-shirt made!
And when you say dropped into diving? Is that like Scuba Diving Bahrain club? Can you even dive in Bahrain? If you're ever thinking of doing your Advanced Open Water, I'd be up for it too. Maybe in Honduras actually seeing as the pound is clawing back against the dollar.
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