well theres good news and bad news...the bad news is that work is shite at the moment. its busy they're conveniently "forgetting" to pay people for the over time that they do. well only the strikers. isn't that a coincidence? the scabs get all the favours as usual. we did them loads of favours before the strikes and the later starts and they've just thrown it back in our faces and more. i along with many postmen and women around the country am exceptionally pissed off with the breathtaking incompetence of royal mails management. for example, after saying that they couldn't afford to give us a wage rise which we have had to fight so hard for at portishead office they have now employed 5 agency workers yes 5 to cover the work of one person. now where is the sense in that especially when you are paying agency rate and they can barely speak english? on top of that we are the ones that have to take the brunt of the criticism for the decisions that the management have made over the past year, and it has dented the pride that the guys and girls at portishead offfice take in the service (yes get that word mr crozier, service, not profits) that we deliver. don't get me wrong is still enjoy the job but the circumstances are becoming far more awkward for us to do our job properly.
there have been two very good training sessions since we last spoke. one on clifton prom and the other at clifton college one the road both. clifton prom is a hill session, with varying lengths of repetitions one long one just over a mile, one just over a k, one just under a k and the other about 700 yds. we covered one long one, 3 of the 2nd longest and 3 of the shortest and whilst my times were slightly down on my fastest from last year that was to be expected with the appalling weather. i managed a 5:45 for the first one the next set were all smack on 3:50 and around about 2:15 for the shorter ones
the weather was even worse for the thursday so only a hardy half dozen or so turned out for this one. apart from craig peters and his gb u20 international brother, i was leading the group for all of the reps closely followed by claire willer, who i can always tell because she has a very distinct breathing pattern when she is strugling for breath. we did three times two laps and 3x1 laps and i recorded times of 4:42, 4:37 and 4:32 which equalled my best, which i only realised when i checked it out in my training log this morning. pleasing given that the conditions were better that day and it was done in a much shorter session. on the shorter reps i did a bit of a pedestrian 2:15 on the first one and gradually got it down to 2:08, which in good conditions would probably be worth 2:04 given that it felt like we were running in to a head wind the whole way and that by the time we finishedthe peters brothers were 60 or 70 yards clear of me and i was 20 or 30 clear of the rest.
finally i'm predicting that ricky hatton will win tonight. he looks fired up, while mayweather looks washed up and he wont know whats hit him when when he walks out in front of the "barmy army". when he gets in to the ring the hit man wont give him a moments rest, and floyd mayweather does not like being roughed up. i see a knock out at about the 11th or 12th round or maybe a points decision in what could be one of the greatest contests of all time. this is a fight thats as big as the leonard-hagler-hearns-duran battles of the 80's and i haven't been this excited about a sporting contest in years. what makes my mind up is that all boxers (not media) are saying ricky will win. even george foreman called mayweather a coward! bring it on!
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Looks like you were wrong again with a sporting prediction. How sir, can you nake such a wildly inaccurate statement and then make no further reference to it when it doesnt come true. I was at that fight and Hatton couldnt get anywhere near Mayweather after the third round. Mayweather was always the better fighter and shows that skill will always defeat bravery.
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