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What a gorgeous, succulent, well-cooked steak I just had for evening meal! With lots of mixed veg, and some equally tasty & beatiful mushroom sauce stuff. Yum yum yum! *happy belly* I've been eating very healthy for a week... lots of salad, veg, cereals... and much less fried sausages, bacon and deserts. Not that I'm fat or unfit, but that I want to be fit ter! Oh and by request (kind-of) I'm trying to see what it takes to get a sixpack back! In the gym I'm doing the same upper-body routine (my weakspot) that I planned on doing out here, but have also started adding more cadiovascular (my strong area) to the mix too, just to keep that side of things up. Tags: fitness, food, gym, health, steak
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Started off very hectic today... lots of varied and random problems, most of which I could only monitor and inform other people about. Going to monitor bandwidth usage on a few satellite links, in depth, although I don't think that that's the issue at all. On another link, two nodes just *cannot* seem to sync their timing, and one location keeps dropping to internal timings, which dropps it off the net. Awkward; the new cards we sent up there this week hasn't fixed it. Which annoys our bosses. Anyway... went to the gym early this morning (4am), after chatting amicably to a friend, and done a heavier circuit, upping all the weights and stuff, and not doing any toning at all. I need to learn to get to the gym earlier, do an overload circuit then go running for 30mins -> 1hr, then go do another overload circuit. Anyway, am going to midnight scoff in 30 mins after B gets back from hers, have a nice Sunday evening you all. Tags: fitness, gym, nightshift, work
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Edit: I can't believe it! It's the weekend *and* my Internet connection has just started working! *in shock* Cycled 68km! That's 40 miles for those antiquated (British) wierdos who still think base 10 isn't a sensible number system. 40 hilly miles... (I think in miles because I'm a backwards Brit...) I was learning a route from Elmpt to Wildenrath in Germany, but my initial route down roads 230 then 221 met with quick failure when I saw big red "No Cycling" signs on the 221. I backtracked beyond Niederkruchten until I found a way that, in English, is called a "Remote Cycle Path". Using nothing but the sun as pure luck as my guide, I set off into unmapped, unchartered territory, where no Human Being (except the locals) had gone before. If I went wrong, I could have easily emerged 20 miles inside of the Netherlands before I'd even realize. If I went less wrong, I could emerge anywhere in Nordrhein-Westfalen. As it happens, things went swimmingly and I emerged in Wildenrath against all the odds. Admittedly more than a dozen times I stopped... "Right... Land of the Rising Sun is in the East, sun is over there, off-center, setting to the West... so *this* is probably South-ish!" Well, it works. OK, admittedly it did help that the entire fermradwanderweg was labelled "R9", "E9", "A1" or "8" along the route through the forest, although confusingly at some junctions various combinations of those numbers would point in random directions that weren't South. Only after arriving in Wildenrath did I realize that I didn't know *exactly* where I was going. Where, in Wildenrath, was my workplace? Well, not in Wildenrath for a start. No. I saw some vehicles with British number plates and asked them where my work was. After leaving Wildenrath and going near a place called Klink, I went through Petersholz, and eventually found it. I got there at 16:10, 10 minutes after the local shop had closed. Grrrr. There is a swimming pool there (woo hoo!). Which I care about, because I'm moving to Wildenrath in October. Anyway, finding my way back was much easier. All I had to do is head North, by keeping the sun on my left. I travelled over farms, between farms, over some dirt tracks, and without navigating a single large road with unfriendly "No Cycling" signs, or any other type of real road, did I magically emerge in Oberkruchten. Which is basically Elmpt, where I live, only a mile away. And to top of the amazing luck, there I found a cycle shop where I now plan on buying such things as tyre pumps, water bottle holders, lights and a badly needed new seat. Took me 90 mins to get back, still, 'cos I did go on a few explaratory diversions. Sometimes, you see, just "going North" gets you into Private Property, and other such problems. I will cycle this route every Sunday, there and back, to learn the route and get my time down. Tags: cycling, fitness, germany, work
Current Mood:  happy
Listening To: "Psalm 23" by E Nomine
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Lots of extreme cycling in the gym... was absolutely dripping with sweat, my (tight: bad choice) tshirt and nifty little shorts were plastered to me, and my forearms and hands were so covered in sweat that I abandoned reading my book on the handlebars. Done a few sets of pure uphill, increasing-incline routes. Leg work is my strength... running, long-distance, cycling... etc. Upper body is weak... but I went to the downstairs machines and found that my favorite upper body machine was out of order! I was well disappointed! I haven't been downstairs in this particular work gym for half a year on account of not living on this particular work premises. Anyway the shower afterwards was brilliant... if lonely. Very much wanted my S.O. to give me a good scrub :-) Oh yeah... that much work = aphrodisiac. Anyone else? Tags: aphrodisiac, cycling, fitness, gym, shower, sweat, work
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My actualy job is quite satisfying... Taking things apart, fault-finding, soldering, swapping boards and bits of kit from box to box as a way of eliminating causes of faults, etc. Ordering spare parts. Lots of the kit is very heavy. The vehicles are massive, strong, varied. Paperwork, works registers, parts ordering and a whole room full of technical descriptions of every single piece of kit. It's a steep learning curve, lots of learn and lots to do. It's a bit dreamy :-) I done a fitness test this morning, done "average" in upper body but done well on the 2.4km run (1.5 miles), which I done in 9 minutes 6 seconds. Not my best time but I had no warning at all we'd be doing it, and had tracksuit bottoms on (heavy & hot), and haven't done much fitness stuff since Christmas. Um. Workmates are all very laddish, although it's very cool chatting and talking with the more intelligent & work-orientated ones. Snail mail takes ages to get here. Thanks to my friends for emailing me, it's one the few contacts I have with the outside world outside of work! Because snail mail takes so long I've hardly been talking to my girlfriend, who I miss! Tags: fitness, work, workmates
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Done 3 sets of 800 meters for PT today. Each with a 30second rest period inbetween. I was in the fast group, of three groups, and coming in the first few positions in the fast group for each run. First time, I done it in 2 minutes 30, second time in 2:44 and third time in 3:00. Not including the rests (which of course sped up the average time) I done 2.4 km in 8:14, that's about a mile and a half. And all that after doing a few miles for boxing training at 6am as well! A few miles and a hundred or so pressups! The staff didn't quite think out the pressup routine... we ran down a street, each time we passed a lamppost we would do some pressupts. 1 at the first lamppost, 2 at the second, 3 at the third, etc. However there were 20 lamp posts. The total pressups would have been 210... but NO-ONE kept it up! We sprinted inbetween each lamp post, after the first 10 lamp posts I'd done 55 pressups and then slacked off as did many others. My upper body isn't as good as my running. The formula to calculate the total number of pressups we were supposed to do is (n + 1) * (n/2) (The maths: Assuming an even number of lampposts, you pair up opposite lamp posts, so between the first and last lamp posts you'd do 1 + 20 pressups (21), the second and second to last you'd do 2 + 19 = 21, the third and third to last you'd do 3 + 18 = 21... this way, you get 10 pairs of 21 pressups = 210 pressups). As a formula that is number of pressups = number of lamp posts (n) + 1, times by half the number of lampposts. total = (n+1) * (n/2). This formula works for any sequence where you are adding up numbers that go up in ones... 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6, etc, so at 10 lamp posts I'd done (10 + 1) * (10/2) = 11 * 5 = 55 pressups. (If the total number of elements is ODD, the formula doesn't work because you can't properly pair an odd number of items. Then, you remove the middle number, apply the formula, then add the middle number to the result. Tags: boxing, fitness, maths, running
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