I feel like I have been in some kind of holding pattern since the Celtman in June. I have moved flat, changed 'jobs' twice, learning Finnish and generally settling in to some semblance of a routine. But that routine feels like i'm doing nothing!

At the end of August me & Outi moved flat to Portobello, a quieter part of Edinburgh. Since I started ( Read more... )

So I had a go at Facebook earlier. I am not happy with the way it currently is. Fair enough, that's my choice. I came to the decision after a couple of particular occasions ( Read more... )

In the 21st century it is all about communication. Science fiction might have imagined spaceships, martians, crazy robots and lasers of doom but none of them really grasped the direction the future would take. For anyone not thinking that the technology we have is incredible need only look back a couple of decades to see the massive leap forward. ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on the heather covered slope with my back against a boulder. I feel nauseous, my legs ache and i'm so far behind my expected time that i've missed the cutoff for the mountain by an hour. I can see the car park for T2A and now think of a DNF, or hours of painful walking in the dark through boggy Scottish uplands. Just how did I end up ( Read more... )

So i've been at a loose end tonight, tired from last night's 20km run through the Pentlands, and ended up browsing Livejournal. I set up an account here back in 2001 at the insistance of kasyx and have been updating to some degree or another ever since ( Read more... )

Well I think my injuries have more-or-less worn off... I have a triathlon training morning with the club at Lochore tomorrow. I'm hoping it's going to get me back into training as i've been out for the past two weeks or so ( Read more... )

Must be the first time i'm sitting in the coffee shop thinking 'I should be outside'. Or actually is it maybe one of those infuriating times when I do one thing, I want the other, but once I have it I want the other (once inside I want out, once out I want in ( Read more... )

I'm going to skip Mallorca for now and gush excitedly about yesterday's sprint triathlon instead. For a start spreadsheets are involved! Oh my lots and lots of numbers to compare, draw comparisons, analyse and generally waste time on. I could even do a powerpoint presentation on it ( Read more... )

Still waiting for the inspiration to write my Mallorca post. I have some of it down but need the time to get it all out at once. Possibly after tomorrow's race. Saturday is the start of the season, not that it really matters as i'm doing a 'bunch' of races rather than any kind of organised plan. Think I may have put too slow a swim time in, but ( Read more... )

Hello Livejournal friends ( Read more... )