Last Time, On MacGyver….

Regular readers will be surprised to learn that I’m not in fact MacGyver at all, it’s just a post title that came to me. I’ve not posted for a little while so that’s why.

Work has been crazy busy this last few weeks as the new financial year starts, and yours truly has been permanently staring at a screen or buried under pages and pages of (very boring) code. I’ve broken the back of it now though, and the near-permanent headache and stress vein can be put back on the shelf for a while. Training’s going pretty well now, and I’m supplementing it with the very handy gym at work a few lunchtimes a week. It’s sparsely equipped, but I can row, run, pedal and, umm, cross-train(?). There are a couple of resistance machines which offer a few different exercises, and I’m finally taking note of what weights I’m working with. Hopefully they’ll go up in the not-too distant future, but for now I’m working at 70KG for lat pulldowns and seated rows, and 65KG shoulder pressing. It’s not massive, but then my arms and shoulders have always been my weakest area. I’ve also started swimming again, hooray! Just fifty lengths to get going again, but my aim is to get up to around eighty in an hour. I’m a way off that yet, but managed those fifty in about 45 minutes, and after a year off regular swimming I’m happy.

On top of that I get a little extra exercise on Monday nights still, courtesy of dog agility training! Me and Murphy still go and he’s coming on brilliantly. We’re up to 16-17 obstacle courses and he’s started to really get the hang of his weakest area, the weaves. I think competing is still a little way off, but I’m hoping to get him entered into something later in the year. It absolutely lashed down with rain for a while during last night’s lesson, which soaked me and the dog (and consequently my car…), but in return we got this beauty…

Lovely double rainbow, carn brea monument in the distance

There are some weeks when it can get very frustrating, especially if Murph’s not really ‘with it’, but more often than not it’s my fault if he gets something wrong. He really enjoys it though and has lots of friends there now, so even when Monday has taken its toll on me and the very last thing I feel like doing is running around a field in my wellies after a soggy spaniel, one look at this little face and I really can’t help but take him.

What a sad looking pup...

Work on the house has picked up again, and I’m elated to say that we have walls! Ok, they’re about five feet high, but they’re walls damnit! We’re told that we should be well up into the first floor by the end of the week, and from then on it’s almost going to be like having a home again. There are plenty of pictures I need to take off the camera at home to update progress, it’s just a case of finding the time and getting my backside in gear.

And to finish, well done Carl Froch. What an awesome fight on the weekend, talk about leaving it to the last minute! There’s more great boxing coming up too; Hatton Vs Pacquaio and Haye Vs Klitschko. The David Haye fight is going to be spectacular, I cannot wait!