2012 - Three weeks, three runs

Haven't posted for three weeks. Would love to claim it is because of the hectic life I have been leading but really it is because I have done nothing worth writing about.

And three runs is a bit of an exaggeration as well. Made three trips to the gym this week. It is in the office at work so no risk from going outside.

In those three sessions I have managed to rack up the sum total of 6.1 miles on the treadmill in a little over an hour. Not even 10k, split over 3 sessions. By this time last year I was at 86 miles, including 3 races, plus another 19 miles on the bike (9.8 this year) and 3 miles in the water (1.4 this year).

Eating junk for the last 7 months and those three trips to the gym have finally helped me put another kilo back on. I am back up to 73kg now, still about 9kg below where I should be, and 11kg below where I was.

Broke Bike Mountain

Relatively good start to the year having been out today to visit my granny and I got out on the mountain bike with a couple of friends for a while.

Mountain biking is turning into an expensive hobby. Only the third time out on the bike and it will require yet another trip to the shop for new parts. Broken front mech this time. Still cant figure out how it broke. It is a relatively protected component so it can't have hit it on rocks or roots.

The bike shop website says they are open tomorrow, so hopefully will manage to take it in and get it fixed before going back to work. Will probably need to find someone to go with me though. Yesterday's solo trip to the local shop, even though I drove the quarter mile there and back, resulted in a couple of hours of being sick and the subsequent dehydration left me this morning with a New Year's hangover today without any of the drinking jolliness.

Still another couple of days to fill in before going back to work. Running out of books to read, films to watch and more than sick of holiday TV. The bike shop should fill an hour worth of tomorrow but could do with the distractions of being back at work.

New Year, New Blog

So 2011 stands without a doubt, challenge or contest as the worst year of my life.

While I am still far from being back to my normal self, December at least saw some fairly major progress in that direction. In the spirit of New Years, new starts and all that nonsense I have decided to begin a new blog.

Let us see what 2012 brings then...