Archive for February, 2008

Dial notcher

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Ghost Bike

Shuffling on, the second week of Training Proper Like has gone to plan. Rapid ice, wrap, heat has, grasping a large trunk of wood, hopefully seen off a tightening right string of ham. Mileage has been gentle: a meandering 35 jogged, 40 or so on the wheelage, a thrashed 400 m in the watter, but the boid system feels cleaner and bendier than it has for a good chunk of time. Ped and spin toys help focus the distance and speed douffas. Existance could be considered relatively dull – sleep, eat, work, run, eat, read, sleep, for the most part – but the focus and gradual mountain climb stimulates the birdbrain good enough for now, innit.

Larding Off

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Park foot

Despite my tubes suffering a lingering spout of sputum in the cold winter air, first week of ‘proper’, formalised training for the NYC triathlon and marathon has gone as planned. The bird flippers seem to have become more oiled in the process of covering the first 20+ miles over the past 7 days. So far, not much beyond shuffling lardily around the park, but it’s progress and pretty much every mile on foot, wheels, and in water have been mapped out until July. There will be no excuses. The Haggis n’ Sporran run at the end of March, the usual 5 boro tour, and the Montauk 100 have been booked for intermedary events. Hopefully come the last of them, there will be a certain trim in.

Stumpshuffler

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Restaurant delivery bods often slyly shove flyer menus into the cracks of apartment doors in the afternoons. I had discovered that if you hear them doing this and are quick enough, you can really freak them out by slowly, but firmly, pushing them back out again…..

All mouth and no balls

Having had scuppering throat knack and associated head buzz wobblies for a couple of days, I managed to drag myself out for a gentle, rehabilitating jog around the park this afternoon. A drenching in the winter sun did the neurons good. A nod that I’m likely able to participate in this year’s marathon, as well as already signed up for the pain of triathlon in July, has nudged me to put together a proper training schedule for the next half year or so. A much needed de-chubbing and distance build will now ensue. Although still sluggish and shuffly, the legs turned a corner (figuratively, literally, and then figuratively again) last week and the joints are running much smoother than the last copula months. With a few pointers here and there, there is a proper plan – just needs the discipline for glue.

Running impression

London to Brighton is well made, definitely grim, and a tad disappoiting in its ending, but recommended. New Uncle Bob long player pretty strong overall. Ex-Orbital Harnoll albums: Paul Hartnol‘s offering is all over the shop stylistically, but pretty interesting. Meanwhile, brother Phil, one half of Long Range, is a bit more cohesive on the electro front; opening track, “Lie Down”, is spot on.