You’ll all be pleased to know that there’s not a great deal to tell you about this week, so this will be a short and sweet one. If I’m honest I’ve had one of those weeks where you're rushing around like a mad thing and achieving very little, which is never good for the old morale. But, I guess that I must have achieved something, no matter how inconsequential in the big scheme of things. I did run home, and then back to work the next morning, one day in the week, which is another step in the right direction and another increase in the miles I’m managing to sustain. It’s only 10 miles each way, but running home one evening and then getting up early to get back to work again, gives me 20 miles in a 14 hour window, so there’s not much recovery time there. And getting up at 05:00 to run to work in the rain can be pretty hard going sometimes. That’s all part of the fun though, and if it was easy everyone would be doing it, wouldn’t they! The best bit of news from the weekend is that I’ve finally got “The Boy’s” car back together and can confirm that it’s fixed, which is a massive result as far as I’m concerned. There was no way that repairing it would have been economical if he was paying someone to do it for him. But he’s back on the road again, and he’s got a well maintained little car there that will easily see him through another couple of years (I hope). If I’m honest, I probably got as much (if not more) out of fixing it than he will get out of it being fixed. But from my perspective it was a brilliant learning experience, and it’s been another one of those jobs where anyone you talk to says “You can’t do that” or “You’ll never be able to fix that”. But I have, and I’ve got a tremendous sense of achievement out of doing so. It wasn’t an easy job, and there were a few moments where I had to use all my ingenuity and cunning to overcome the problems that working on the floor brings. But the job’s done now, and it’s running as sweetly as a Swiss watch (not that I know anything about Swiss watches, so I don’t know if they run sweetly or not). Having got things back together on Friday afternoon, I took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone and arranged to meet “The Boy” in Swindon Saturday afternoon. Meeting him half way not only gave me the chance to do a few miles in the newly fixed “Old Man Mobile” before I handed it back. But it gave us the chance to catch up over lunch too. And I must confess that it made a nice change for me to actually sit down for lunch, as well as it being really nice to catch up with “The Boy” with no other distractions for a couple of hours. There’s not much else to report from the weekend other than that. Sunday morning I dragged myself out of bed early for a bit of off road running fun. Managing to get fully muddy in the process, which was nice, and also managing to get ten miles in before it started raining, which is always a plus. And the afternoon was spent washing a couple of weeks worth of road dirt and detritus off my bikes, and generally catching up on a few odd jobs and a bit of bike maintenance (fixed a puncture twice and then gave up and put a new inner tube in (I think the inner tube was too damp for the patches to actually stick)) and sorted out a few other minor jobs. And that was that, another week done. I suppose that eventually I’m going to have to start thinking about Christmas, but for now, I’m sure I can have another few days pretending that it’s never going to get here and I’ll worry about that later!
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Paul PerrattOld enough to know better, young enough to still feel invincible, stupid enough to keep on trying the same thing again and again. Cyclist, Gardener, Runner, Hiker, Cook, Woodworker, Engineer, Jack of all trades and master of none, Anti social old git and all round miserable bugger. Archives
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