That Friday feeling...
Today has been a weird one, not so much in that it's done one thing or another, but more because tomorrow is so full of unknowns.
I'm doing this 10km Assault course with no running training because of a sore left achilles and knee. I am pretty confident I can soldier round 10kms easily enough, but then it how the 'assault' parts play out.
So left my strength training off today, we did a nice easy spin class:
6 x 1 km build to sprints with 2/3 minutes recovery
Then a 6km 250m easy 250m sprint.
This afternoon we decided to go and see the latest Twilight movie at Bluewater....
Ok WHAT is it with slow bloody drivers???!
There was some fog, but not you can't see your hand, more of a case of light dusting that meant a drizzly mist. A journey that normally takes me 20 minutes (30 minutes in rush hour), took 1:55 hour, an average of 12 miles per hour!
I've really decided that slow people should be given their own planet, or island then they can go and diddle about there and not in front of me.
They just get to me. How many times has someone edged in front of you as you're about to get off the train, rushed to the stairs, then gone up them in slow motion three abreast. Too many times! Give them a personal stop sign that the fasties can tun off as we leave the station.
Read the article in the Metro this morning about Lord McAlpine going after people who said something on twitter. I don't know what they said and I can understand why he wants to go after them all, I just have to wonder is he setting himself up for a different type of backlash. I know if I felt bullied I would find something, Time will tell.
Also had an interesting comment made today by a couple of clients. We were discussing the guard that is about to start a 5 year sentence over the death of a 16 year old girl. Mixed feelings here. I don't particularly have a lot of affection for travel workers. The customer service angle is virtually non-existent and they just don't seem to get it. But the question that was raised is that, as a customer the guard is there to make sure we are safe, comfortable and well informed during our journeys. But do the staff see themselves as that or just the guy/girl whose expected to get the train out on time.
When my wife Lucy was heavily pregnant we were coming home from the theater, we were walking up the platform with about a minute to go before the train left, and the guard closed all the doors. About 60 of us were left standing on the platform with a 40 minute wait till the next train. Their attitude was rude, obnoxious and righteous. I have always lived in the hope that these people enjoy a huge dose of karma at some point. And when you do complain absolutely nothing happens.
I'm doing this 10km Assault course with no running training because of a sore left achilles and knee. I am pretty confident I can soldier round 10kms easily enough, but then it how the 'assault' parts play out.
So left my strength training off today, we did a nice easy spin class:
6 x 1 km build to sprints with 2/3 minutes recovery
Then a 6km 250m easy 250m sprint.
This afternoon we decided to go and see the latest Twilight movie at Bluewater....
Ok WHAT is it with slow bloody drivers???!
There was some fog, but not you can't see your hand, more of a case of light dusting that meant a drizzly mist. A journey that normally takes me 20 minutes (30 minutes in rush hour), took 1:55 hour, an average of 12 miles per hour!
I've really decided that slow people should be given their own planet, or island then they can go and diddle about there and not in front of me.
They just get to me. How many times has someone edged in front of you as you're about to get off the train, rushed to the stairs, then gone up them in slow motion three abreast. Too many times! Give them a personal stop sign that the fasties can tun off as we leave the station.
Read the article in the Metro this morning about Lord McAlpine going after people who said something on twitter. I don't know what they said and I can understand why he wants to go after them all, I just have to wonder is he setting himself up for a different type of backlash. I know if I felt bullied I would find something, Time will tell.
Also had an interesting comment made today by a couple of clients. We were discussing the guard that is about to start a 5 year sentence over the death of a 16 year old girl. Mixed feelings here. I don't particularly have a lot of affection for travel workers. The customer service angle is virtually non-existent and they just don't seem to get it. But the question that was raised is that, as a customer the guard is there to make sure we are safe, comfortable and well informed during our journeys. But do the staff see themselves as that or just the guy/girl whose expected to get the train out on time.
When my wife Lucy was heavily pregnant we were coming home from the theater, we were walking up the platform with about a minute to go before the train left, and the guard closed all the doors. About 60 of us were left standing on the platform with a 40 minute wait till the next train. Their attitude was rude, obnoxious and righteous. I have always lived in the hope that these people enjoy a huge dose of karma at some point. And when you do complain absolutely nothing happens.
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