why i hate sitting around doing nothing

i hate sitting around doing nothing because it feels so unnatural to me. i am an outdoor active person by nature, so therefore the days before treadmill tests can be quite, well boring as you're supposed to do nothing as it may affect the results of the test. i may go for a run around weston bigwood tonight only a jog but enough to keep my legs ticking over. i wont sleep very well if i don't you see.

talking about unatural forms of running, the treadmill test it self is slightly odd itself for a number of reasons. for a start you have to wear a head brace which in turn holds a tube in your mouth which is connected to a computer. you also have to wear a nose clip, so that the machine can collate all the oxygen that you breathe. for the first section of the test you have to start off at slow speeds, and every three minutes they will take your heart rate and a blood sample to measure your blood lactate levels. after you have completed, six phases of this you then with a thirty second break between the intervals, for them to do the samples. at the end of each phase of this the treadmill speed goes up by 1 km/h, so it gets progressively more challenging. at the end of this section of the test, you have a ten minute break ready for the piece de rennaisance-the anaerobic section of the test. starting at a slightly lower speed than you finished the first section of the test, the incline of the treadmill rises by 1% every minute, until you can take no more. sound easy? well it is at first, but it gets VERY hard VERY quickly.

on a different subject, after last nights result bristol city's play off ambitions are still in the balance after wolves 3-0 thrashing of the scum last night. one more win will do it for us but the way we are playing at the minute. on the other hand automatic promotion is still a possibitlity but with the combination of results it would require, it is now highly unlikely. it would need hull and stoke both to lose their remaining two games and us to win both of ours. but looking back to the start of the season, we were freshly promoted and the over whelming majority of fans would have taken any thing outside of the bottom 3 after 8 long years in division 1. its just a shame that our first real bad run of the season has come at such a crucial phase, but we have proved a lot of people wrong and will hopefully do the same again next year