Exercise filled weekend; God I'm knackered today

[machogrande]

We were out on a little bike ride yesterday morning and had to pop into Marks & Sparks as we needed a loaf of bread and some fruit, but having bought them we were of course then faced with the problem of how to get a carrier bag of food home whilst on bicycles. We could have just gone for the traditional 'bag over the handlebars' trick but then you

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[roseberrysdream]

Training for a triathlon, old man? :P

[machogrande]

Yep. In 2010.

[roseberrysdream]

Do you jest or do you speak the truth and vow to go from zero to hero? If the latter is the answer, I suggest you get this months edition of Runners World where they have a beginners guide to triathlon.

[machogrande]

It's a jesty-ish version of the truth-ish. Sort of.

I *would* like to do a triathlon, but it will take a huge amount of reconditioning, training, learning to swim and a new left knee. Unless they could let me leave out the running bit. And the swimming.

So basically I just want to be a cyclist.

[recsat]

I'm gonna start swimming most mornings... i'll aim to beat 22 as my benchmark :)

[machogrande]

I have to warn you, it's not a very high benchmark! ;-)

Have you made any decisions about your US move yet?

[recsat]

not really. am starting to waver big time after realising that my redundancy money would make me debt free for the first time since University.... GAH why is life such a bugger? I decided i might start applying for stuff here in case i change my mind. I would like to do it for a year or 2, but i just don't know whether it's really feasible or not ya know? debt free versus being in debt. However if the exchange rate drops so the pound gets weaker, i'll be quids in when i come back....GAH I JUST DON'T KNOWWWWWW

[machogrande]

If you changed your mind about going would you still get the redundancy payout? What's your gut instinct at the moment?