It can be done

2 weeks away from home, for work, and sticking to a slightly stretching run schedule can be done.  Even in stupid heat and humidity.  I'm really pleased with myself.

Friday 3rd July to Friday 17th July; the first week in San Fransisco where it was appreciably warm and I had a week of intense work during the weekdays, getting up at 05:30 to catch a lift to work at 06:00 and run there before a shower and a delicious breakfast in the work cafes, and the second week in New York in *hilarious* heat & humidity (yeah, Wednesday 15th I ran at 7am in 26C and 90% humidity for 5.5 miles - ha ha ha!).  And I hit every single session and got loads done at work too.  And lots of walking up and down between 9th, 11th and 15th floors in the office too.

Very.

Very.

Happy with that indeed.

4 years

Longest I've stayed with one company... 4 years.  It's hard, it's exhausting, it's changed so much over the last 4 years, but... it's great, you could -never- say it's boring, what we're doing is cool and clever.  Yup.  Gonna take some cake in to celebrate the 4 years.

Too tired

Sorry. I'm not going to be around much at all for the foreseeable future (anything between a few days and a few weeks). Work has been getting busier and busier, culminating in a 73 hour week last week (plus a total of 12 hours commuting to and from work). This week has kicked off in similar vein, so I'm still very tired and have no time for much more than a little sleep, eat, commute and work. And the work is very intense.

I will have a couple of reviews when I'm back and I'm hoping to get even a little exercise in. See you all on the other side!

Tiring and long day coming up tomorrow

The busyness of work is reaching a localised peak this weekend.  Tomorrow, I'll be at work from 3pm to 6am the following morning.  This will thoroughly break my weekend, but I knew that would happen and I accept it as part of work that's been in-progress for the last 18 months.  What the huge peak this week has meant is that I've made it to the gym once so far (Tuesday) and run home from work (also on Tuesday).  However, I'm going to have quite a bit of fun cycling in to the office at around midday, then nipping to the gym at work, rather than at the morning peak and then back home again in the very early morning on Saturday.  OK, teeny tiny detail of 15 hours in the office in between.  And if things over-run, perhaps longer.

Still, it'll be very interesting to cycle well away from normal peak hours.

I just wish I was able to have a bit of fun with my new racing bike.  *cough*

Slightly frustrating, but...

If there was a good time to be injured, it's actually now.  With the massive work milestone/deadline this coming weekend, not being able to run or gym or cycle is actually a good thing.  I get the frustration of being injured and unable to exercise all over and done with at a time when, although a healthy break away from work to do something physically hard would be a healthy thing for mind and body, it's just something that has to be dropped and I'd be frustrated by that too.  Two birds with one stone.

Sadly, it has also meant that I've posted back my timing chip for the rescheduled Grim this Saturday.

In  other news, I have a new trainer.  First session scheduled for 23rd and I'm so excited about it.  I can't wait to get stuck in to a new routine and not have to get stressy about constant rescheduling at the last second due to being far too busy at work.

One of -those- weeks

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I've been a bit quiet this week. This is mostly because it's been one of -those- weeks. Up at 6am every day, cycled in and out to work Monday and Tuesday, in on Wednesday for a full day offsite meeting on Wednesday followed by not cycling home, then cycling home Thursday and in and out on Friday. Gymmed on Monday, missed the Wednesday session due to being away, no replacement session on Thursday due to a lack of towels at the gym so took a towel on Friday to get a second session in - which was fabulous!(*) Meanwhile I've been in the office/work 8am to at least 6pm every day this week. Needless to say, I'm a bit tired and I've not had much chance to do anything except commute and work.

So, food has suffered a little in the evenings. Though we've not succumbed to a takeaway so far, Thursday night's dinner was a couple of toasted bagels with poached eggs, chorizo, cream cheese and Marmite (not all on the same bagel!) because I'm a bit sick of cooking at the moment and I'd not got anything out in the morning as we'd planned to go out and changed our minds during the day.

I did have some fun with the Star Chef again this week. This week's experiment was baked potatoes...

6 hours on the "soup/stew" setting, having cut into them, stuffed the cuts with sliced garlic, rubbed the skins with olive oil and salt, and they were soft all the way through without being mushy. I do want to see if I can find a way to get the skins a bit drier though. Maybe a different setting? It'd help if I knew what temperatures the different settings related to as I'd like to try the "bake" setting but I'm not sure how hot that gets. Worth another go next week I think.  But again, it's the convenience of being able to set the timer and actually have baked potatoes that's just brilliant.  We've not had them in ages 'cause they just take too long to cook in the evening.


* - not only did I do 3 unassisted chin-ups in a row, I did 5 in total with some rest in between.  Also, my trainer was doing his training session at the same time with some of the same exercises, so we ended up doing them pretty much together.  My 3 sets of 10 each side one-arm, squat clean and jerk with 12kg, 14kg, 14kg vs. his at 24kg, 26kg, 30kg... that one was -fun-!