just another update

since we last spoke i have been on the ergometer every day. very little to report there except that i have done 2 hard 2000 meter efforts one on monday and one tonight. 6:43.6 on monday and a bit slower tonight although i didn't seem to be getting the same response from the machines tonight for some reason, whenever i pulled harder it seemed to slow down. may be i wasn't getting enough length on the strokes. i wanted to make it count tonight as i'm not going to have time to go to the gym tomorrow as i am due to be meeting ewan for lunch and playing squash so if i want any cardio i might need to go for a jog in the evening for 20 minutes or so instead. apart from that very little is happening over here as you are probably aware if you have been watching the news. we had about a foot of snow last night and it has made the roads incredibly treacherous. on the mile or so journey to the gym tonight my car skidded about 4 or 5 times and each time i was only travelling at about 4 or 5 miles an hour. postal deliveries have been suspended in some areas (sods law i'm on annual leave this week) because the underfoot conditions are just too dangerous for people to be going out in and also because of the rather unsurprising lack of preparation my the mail centre management who didn't bother gritting the yard at womac (west/worst of england mail centre) meaning that the lorries couldn't get any where! its just typical of royal mail management that in spite of the advance warnings of dire weather they still did precisely sweet fa in preparation for it!