AS GOOD AS IT GETS PHASE DAY 312

DVT DAY 327

A.G.A.I.G DAY 312

Friday and I wake late, an egg and coffee breakfast before I settle down to do some preparation for a review I am doing in February. While I wade through imformation the post arrives and I get a lovely card from my friend and supervisor. It makes me smile and chimes in with some of the ways I feel at times during lockdown.

Sometimes it just feels the right thing to do .

By lunch time I am in my training gear but decide its ideal to wash and wax the cars in. So I spend a hour or so doing just that. It is a fact that when you finish washing and waxing a car it rains, so of course it did. I rang a friend to catch up with what was going on at one of my old places of work and to talk about the reality of working as a student mentor. It was a really useful conversation apart from being good to catch up.

I discuss with my partner when it would be best to pick up her mothers walker from her house. We decide to go today so that we can have the weekend free and not have to drive in the coming snow. I start to prepare a pork stew, for the evening meal when a friend calls and I have the pleasure of another call. She has just had the excellent news that all the families COVID tests have come back negative so some of the constraints can be loosened. I returned to preparing the evening meal so that I can stick in the oven while we go off to collect the walker. We drive off to collecect the walker, the round trip takes long we enough for the meal to cook.

Home with the prize we eat tea and settle down to watch Leicester Tigers get beaten by Sale. Another crap performance by a bunch of muscle monsters who seem to have little idea about rugby that does not include an endless kicking of the ball to the opposition in some mythical quest for yardage. I think it is defintely time to give up the season ticket and invest the money saved in some other indulgence like going to watch the local ice hockey team in Coventry.

Today I failed to get to the shed to train, my excuse is that I was overtaken by other things, but that’s not the case. So tomorrow I shall need to get myself in gear and do a longer session. I am desperate to get below 92 kilos this week at the weigh in on Sunday as Monday is an injection day and if it goes to recent form I shall feel crap for a couple of days afterwards.