House of Pain

Not just a 90's music reference, but a fact of life at the moment.

Yes yes I know girls have high pain thresholds and boys don't. Yes I know that manflu is the most life threatening non lethal, but I hurt.  A lot.

Just a dull ache, located erm .. in my body ... everywhere. This has made the last 3 workouts based around grin and bear it.

I must have distorted the fabric of space time when I run because on one occasion 3 minutes was long than my whole 6 weeks holiday as a child! 

Still by 8am this morning I had completed my brick (40 minutes cycle followed by 15 minutes run). Ouch. And this is week 3 of 12. Woo and Hoo.

Ignoring my self pity and frankly childish moans, those that know me, know that I am quite frankly a bit odd at times.

Voices in my head this morning....(does wavy hands thing)

"Good morning Dragons. Today I am going to pitch to you a new and unique idea in branded exercise programmes.  It is called Two Toned and will reach £100 profit after year 3. I am asking for £100K investment for 4% of the company.

Studying the current offerings in the marketplace, my research identified a gap in the working out and and Ska  music. I havent heard of any other gyms in the Accrington area offering such a unique and stylish proposition.

Before you rush to invest I will outline some of the details. Two Toned will be a black an white themed gym, with all of the music supplied by Ska and Two tone bands.

Members will have to wear pork pie hats whilst working out for that extra Beat Burn (TM) which by providing coverage the head area will increase atoms leaving the body by up to 1% 

The gym will have a house band led by the weight loss king Buster Blood Vessel. They will provide up tempo music, a performance to perspire to.

The gym will also host every wave of Ska bands up to and including the 3rd wave. 

Themed nights include Beatercise, Leaner than Jake, Rowing with big Fish and Rankin Roger Run.

We would extend the chain with brand such as New Row Mantics, Rock and Run, Middle of the Row and Cross Country Music. 


I am now open to questions .... .Yes Theo ......" (wavy hands)

 Music Corner 

This week is that amazing duo -   
Carter USM with Surfing USM 

The intro to the song just explains it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l6vTw97QWs




 

Mmmbop

So I am back .. after a few months. Missed me ? I doubt it.Well welcome back to this irregular and frankly irrelevant load of tosh that is my blog.

In the intervening months I have almost moved to a small hebridean island, started volunteering at a horse sanctuary and now am living the dream in a small northern town.

Due to the move and life getting in the way training dropped off (erm sort of stopped) with it becoming patchy.

Got back to the Gym at the beginning of December and hated it with a passion. Then foolishly, I accidentally entered my first triathlon. Well as accidentally as you can do it, and no I wasn't drunk ... the theory being that if I have a date, I need to get training.

Which it has. Over the last 5 days I have trained un 4 of them, including two pool sessions and two lots of running. It hurts. A lot. And the next day you get up and start all over again. 3 months of this ..eek.



So why Mmmbop. well like any good scholar I have been doing my research about triathlons and came across something interesting. There are different levels of triathlon with the top one being the Ironman. This is pain on a epic scale.

Roughly it consists of 3.8k swim, 180k bike ride and then a marathon. One after another.  In under 17 hours.

Those who have completed it like to adorn themselves with a badge of honour, which is the M Dot. It is the Ironman logo.

So why do I care. I dont. Sort of.

Imagine this scenario, an unruly class is messing about the teacher threatens to give them a test if they don't behave. Out of the 30 students 29 will be dreading a test, yet one will want to take it, to test themselves.

A lone voice against the sanity peddled by others.

Some where inside of me is this class. 99% of me looks at an M Dot and thinks yeah that's nice.

But I am never going to get one.

Yet...

yet..

somewhere is a quiet voice saying "yes I would love one".

Reality strikes ...

I wonder if they do fake transfer ones ...

Music Corner

 The only way I can get through some of the runs is to listen to decent music. So each week I will bring you one Tuuuuuuuuuuuunnnneee that has eased my misery.

This week it has been Apollo 440 - Odessa Dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZEXIvQz-0

Please if you have any recommendations for Tuuuunes to run to I am all ears ...

Apologies for lack of funny stuff but this is the first week so breaking you in gently.
Next week I will do better.