Ball to the wall#

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:00:00 +0000

Perhaps a bit faster than 8mph. GPS trace is here (it doesn't start at the beginning because I didn't give it a chance to find satellites before moving off) and demonstrates that a fair amount of fun was had at the front - more so in the second half. Somewhat hobbled, metaphorically speaking, by my ankle - there was no full-on sprinting to be had, but a good skate anyway. Pictures on the London Friday Night Skate web site.

I have a new toy. No, sadly, I'm not talking about my boots (which are stil not here whine whine where are they whine I need them for Le Mans whine whine), but yesterday when I left work I was feeling somewhat under the weather (probably a viral thing: today I'm actually off work with a throat that feels sandpapered and a headache and my temperature is all ovet the map) and decided on some retail therapy at Decathlon before going home - so, now I have a great big inflatable Swiss ball. Which is more fun than ab crunches by a factor of 10000 per cent, and even if it's only a tenth as effective in principle (I have no idea if this is the case in fact), on the basis that I haven't been doing any core exercise at all, is bound to be infinitely better for me in practice. I hear there are some people around who actually approach training in a disciplined fashion, but I'm really truly and emphatically not Mr Motivated when it comes to anything I don't enjoy doing...

And I'm still mostly refusing to wear my speed boots again until either the new ones turn up or it becomes obvious that they won't. Teh suck.