Friday, May 30, 2003
So the result of the race:
1st - A 40 yr old ( I kid you not) He could pass for 25 no problem
2nd - A 28 yr old
3rd - A 30 yr old
4th - A 21 yr old (not very fit due to a recent broken foot and chronic chain smoking)
5th - Me a 25 yr old (although I thought I pipped fourth)
6th - A 28 yr old
7th - Mid 30s American who had a sidebet with me that he'd win.
So anyway, I didn't come last as one of the two people I beat wasn't a keeper. It was quite funny, the other team were like, "are you serious, you're gonna race"?. Anyway, we went on to beat them 11-0 even though they scored. For some reason they took a corner when they scored so we weren't feeling that charitable considering how many goals we've been robbed lately.
1st - A 40 yr old ( I kid you not) He could pass for 25 no problem
2nd - A 28 yr old
3rd - A 30 yr old
4th - A 21 yr old (not very fit due to a recent broken foot and chronic chain smoking)
5th - Me a 25 yr old (although I thought I pipped fourth)
6th - A 28 yr old
7th - Mid 30s American who had a sidebet with me that he'd win.
So anyway, I didn't come last as one of the two people I beat wasn't a keeper. It was quite funny, the other team were like, "are you serious, you're gonna race"?. Anyway, we went on to beat them 11-0 even though they scored. For some reason they took a corner when they scored so we weren't feeling that charitable considering how many goals we've been robbed lately.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
saw the baggy panted fit girl for the first time in over a month on Tuesday. Unfortunately I froze and didn't manage to speak to her which pretty much is normal procedure for me. She was wearing office type clothes though, so I reckon she has changed jobs, thus the reason that she's not on the train anymore. It was probably a good thing I didn't talk to her as I was wearing my gym clothes and not looking too great.
My gym mission has been fairly good so far. I've lost a bit of weight and my appetite has dramatically decreased. I just had two pitta breads with a small amount of chicken in and a large OJ and I'm soooo full...it's really weird. Now I know why a certain person at my work can only eat 1/2 a sandwich a day, I guess your appetite really reduces if you don't eat much, I'm just surprised at how much it can change in 3 weeks. I've only got about 10 days until my membership runs out at the gym so I'll have to go at least 8 of those before I have to go back to the crap gym for a couple of weeks. I'm not signing up at the good gym because I'm going on holiday in late June and don't want to waste the money on a membership I can't use.
We've got football tonight. We're 1-1 and we're playing the worst team in the league. We're hoping for a double digit margin of victory, however, the whole game has been put into the shade by the prospect of The Race. I don't deny that I don't like running much and thus, the other members of the football team have latched onto this and naturally take the piss about 9 trillion times a day. This was slightly annoying me so I thought I'd challenge them to a race...a very short race mind. Originally I said if I didn't finish last not including keepers then they couldn't give me any more shit, however, the chit chat and trash talk has now somehow evolved this minor challenge into a big event. I wouldn't be surprised if we doubled last years' spectator figures for this event and got two non players watching. Subsequent visits to the pub have led to side-bets and lets face it, blatant bragging, and I think now if I don't win this race I'm gonna face a lot of agro. The problem with this is that I have an overwhelming weight disadvantage of at least 5 stone on about 6 of the seven competitors and probably about a stone on the other guy. I'm not fat I'm just very big with a bit of excess padding (currently being worked off). Anyway, I'll update you on the result tomorrow, providing all my competitors don't bottle it!
My gym mission has been fairly good so far. I've lost a bit of weight and my appetite has dramatically decreased. I just had two pitta breads with a small amount of chicken in and a large OJ and I'm soooo full...it's really weird. Now I know why a certain person at my work can only eat 1/2 a sandwich a day, I guess your appetite really reduces if you don't eat much, I'm just surprised at how much it can change in 3 weeks. I've only got about 10 days until my membership runs out at the gym so I'll have to go at least 8 of those before I have to go back to the crap gym for a couple of weeks. I'm not signing up at the good gym because I'm going on holiday in late June and don't want to waste the money on a membership I can't use.
We've got football tonight. We're 1-1 and we're playing the worst team in the league. We're hoping for a double digit margin of victory, however, the whole game has been put into the shade by the prospect of The Race. I don't deny that I don't like running much and thus, the other members of the football team have latched onto this and naturally take the piss about 9 trillion times a day. This was slightly annoying me so I thought I'd challenge them to a race...a very short race mind. Originally I said if I didn't finish last not including keepers then they couldn't give me any more shit, however, the chit chat and trash talk has now somehow evolved this minor challenge into a big event. I wouldn't be surprised if we doubled last years' spectator figures for this event and got two non players watching. Subsequent visits to the pub have led to side-bets and lets face it, blatant bragging, and I think now if I don't win this race I'm gonna face a lot of agro. The problem with this is that I have an overwhelming weight disadvantage of at least 5 stone on about 6 of the seven competitors and probably about a stone on the other guy. I'm not fat I'm just very big with a bit of excess padding (currently being worked off). Anyway, I'll update you on the result tomorrow, providing all my competitors don't bottle it!
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Grafitti is it bad? The train I got this morning had been completely "vandalised" with tags. I also noticed that in general there was a lot of fresh grafiitti around, I imagine the kids were bored over the bank holiday weekend. I don't understand this tagging culture. It's certainly more prevalent in London than up North. I gotta say I don't really appreciate it. Proper grafitti that has an iota of artisitic talent doesn't bother me, in fact I like it. One of my friends from Leeds can do this type of grafitti, he actually got busted by the cops for doing a massive piece of work, however, I bet he's never gone around destroying trains. I feel old moaning about this - our youths need to go to Copenhagen where there's some proper grafitti artwork to look at.
