Monday, November 30, 2009
Catching up 2005-2009
So, what's happened since my last entry in - when was it? - November 2005?
Four years - quite a lot really. Let's see.
I've moved to Paris to live for 9 months, moved back, changed jobs 4 times, visited the UK several times, Spain (Barcelona & Madrid) , Portugal, Belgium, Holland, New York a few times, Chile, Colombia, Mexico City, Malaysia, Bangkok, Hong Kong, New Zealand and probably a few I've forgotten.
I've got fat and unfit and then slightly less fat and more fit.
My running has gone downhill, not so much in time (I'm probably running slightly faster) but certainly in distance, I struggle to get more than 4 or 5 k without injury. I can do 3k in less than 14 minutes, possibly faster on the treadmill but i struggle on the road. On the other hand my swimming has improved a lot, I've done about 40 ocean swims, in 2009 I'll have swum close to 170 kilometres by the end of the year and I'm getting close to beating 20 minutes for a kilometre.
I've seen Swindon play live about 6 times and Hartlepool almost as much and I went to Wembley Stadium to see England lose infamously to Croatia in the European Championships. I also saw England lose much more famously, or at least less ignonimously, in the Rugby World Cup Final at Stade de France in 2007.
I've discovered a world of new music; the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Arctic Monkeys, whom I saw one very hot January night at the Hordern Pavillion in January 2009 and Green Day, whom I'm seeing on December 12th.
On a much less cheerful note my beloved Susan has had fibromyalgia for almost 5 years and is doing it very tough, althoug she tries incredibly hard.
There's so much more to tall but as a) no-one is reading this anyway and b) I keep a diary there's no real point in telling it here.
Back soon with a more up to date and hopefully more interesting blog.
Four years - quite a lot really. Let's see.
I've moved to Paris to live for 9 months, moved back, changed jobs 4 times, visited the UK several times, Spain (Barcelona & Madrid) , Portugal, Belgium, Holland, New York a few times, Chile, Colombia, Mexico City, Malaysia, Bangkok, Hong Kong, New Zealand and probably a few I've forgotten.
I've got fat and unfit and then slightly less fat and more fit.
My running has gone downhill, not so much in time (I'm probably running slightly faster) but certainly in distance, I struggle to get more than 4 or 5 k without injury. I can do 3k in less than 14 minutes, possibly faster on the treadmill but i struggle on the road. On the other hand my swimming has improved a lot, I've done about 40 ocean swims, in 2009 I'll have swum close to 170 kilometres by the end of the year and I'm getting close to beating 20 minutes for a kilometre.
I've seen Swindon play live about 6 times and Hartlepool almost as much and I went to Wembley Stadium to see England lose infamously to Croatia in the European Championships. I also saw England lose much more famously, or at least less ignonimously, in the Rugby World Cup Final at Stade de France in 2007.
I've discovered a world of new music; the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, the Arctic Monkeys, whom I saw one very hot January night at the Hordern Pavillion in January 2009 and Green Day, whom I'm seeing on December 12th.
On a much less cheerful note my beloved Susan has had fibromyalgia for almost 5 years and is doing it very tough, althoug she tries incredibly hard.
There's so much more to tall but as a) no-one is reading this anyway and b) I keep a diary there's no real point in telling it here.
Back soon with a more up to date and hopefully more interesting blog.
