same old same old

i've not been on here for a few days but thats precisely because i have nothing to report. rowing wise i am building up my fitness levels slowly but durely and i have now finished the course of anti biotics that were prescribed to me by the doctor. steady state stuff but i'm enjoying it and i feel like i've had a new lease of life. for the moment the days when i would wake up feeling like an old man because my joints were so stiff have gone. i've put on about half a stone in muscle because of the upper body work that i'm doing. i'm still jogging once a week but thats all it will be for the while. the aim is to get my 2000 meter time on the ergometers down to under 6:30 before i join one of the local rowing clubs, then go there claiming i've never rowed before and astonish them with my talent, which is only strictly true in the sense that i've never rowed on water before. i'm planning to do 11400 meters steady tomorrow and the first hard 2000 meters will probably be the week after next.

apartf from that there is very little going on at the minute with no competition and work feels quite dead by comparison to the long days we had in december and i'm now very much looking forward to the summer and the lovely weather we will hopefully get and one thing i certainly wont miss is having to train on the track and the monotomy of having to churn out endless 400's 500's 600's etc running past the same markers time after time after time. whilst i still run for pleasure i thought that i would have real difficulty giving up running competitively but that has not been the case and i really feel like i have made the right decision