Ross Goodman

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  • Thoughts On Getting “Old”

    Since turning 40 (unbelievable I know) I have noticed a few changes:

    We recently went shopping for a new sofa for the family room, to aid getting one the fitted I did a floor plan of the room in Visio.

    I felt compelled to then do a plan of the whole house and garden!

    I resisted!

    I get annoyed by really trivial things:

    I quite like (as an occasional treat) a Twix from the vending machine. It’s great because it’s chilled. But because it’s chilled it quite often breaks when it falls from the machine.

    This really annoys me, even though I’m just going to bite it and chew it!

  • Edinburgh Marathon 2010

    The Good

    Most would have said the weather was good, I beg to differ it was waaay too hot!
    On the plus side I’m sure that helped bring out more spectators who really helped spur me on and yes the garden hoses and sprinklers WERE appreciated!

    The Bad

    The golden rule is to have practiced everything and have no new kit on race day.
    Due to the heat in the days leading up and the forecast I decided to treat myself to a new belt with a bottle holder built in. Unfortunately this was not really up to the job and my bottle jumped out the holder in the first few yards after crossing the start line.
    Due to the excitement of the start I even forgot to start the timer on my watch so it was a few minutes after crossing the start line before my watch started. My watch gave me a time of 6:23:24 and my official time was 6:34:05. I had also made sure that my watch had a new battery but I had not double checked the settings and I ended up having to fiddle with it during the run to get it set properly. My Garmin FR50 was complaining over the last few miles of low memory, I’ll either have to buy a new watch or speed up: I’m “cheap” so I’ll have to keep up the training !

    The Ugly

    No real injuries to speak of, the plasters on my nipples fell off so I had to get some emergency vaseline from the first aiders at mile 8. I finished with a small blister on each heel, but this was due to the fact I did more walking than running in the latter stages.
    Obviously I’m stiff and sore today but I’m keeping moving to prevent complete seizure.
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  • What A Week !

    Busy Busy Busy
    It has been a very busy/eventfull week this week!
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  • 100 Pushups – Week 3 = 🙁

    One Hundred Pushups
    One Hundred Pushups

    Ended week 2 on a high ! Target was 124 pushups in the week and I managed 144, what a buzz.

    My first exhaustion test got me 6 pushups. My second one at the weekend I managed 21 but that was a real struggle. I may have undone myself, this just pushed me into the second tier of effort.

    The last set from last week was a total of 46, I managed 54.

    The first set of this week the target was 83 (20, 15, 15, 13, >20) I only managed 77 (20, 15, 15, 13, 14). Still a personal best though !

    I will persevere with the rest of the week, but I will have to repeat week three :(.

  • 100 Pushups – Week 1

    One Hundred Pushups

    That’s week one finished, OK it was a day later than planned but I was wiped out last night.

    Target for week one was 104 pushups, I managed 114. At the start of the week in my exhaustion test I managed 7 pressups, I finished this set with 15 !

    Roll on next week !

  • 100 Pushups – Take 2

    One Hundred Pushups

    OK This one really didn’t get a chance.

    The week I started, I ended up being away from home, then had a stressfull week following that.

    I’m starting this again today. Even if I just continually do week one, it will still do me good, right!

    Completed day one : Target = 28 Actual = 30 (but I’m sore already !)

  • Calf Strain

    After completing the 10K for MND I foolishly stopped my training.

    I decided to restart it during the week, I stretched just as much as I normally did. I walked 5 times further for my warm up. I went for 1 mile: jog 4 walk 2. I had a long walk to warm down.

    I still managed to pull my right calf !

    This was something I had when i was training regularly, the only thing that helped was going for a weekly massage.

    I have changed the way that I walk so that I am stretching my calfs more and I feel a twinge with every step, this is helping me slightly but not “fast” enough. I want to get back out and do more.

    Any suggestions for “better” or “more appropriate” stretches that I should do?

  • Exhaustion Is

    • Falling asleep and no one can wake you.
    • Sitting on the edge of your daughters bed and falling asleep sitting up.
    • Keeling over onto the floor and falling asleep.
    • Waking up, not knowing what day it is; and not caring.
    • Trying to do 100 pushups; getting into position and falling asleep.
    • Making a cup of tea for the caffeine hit and falling asleep before the kettle is boiled.
    • Stopping at the motorway services for a snooze on the way home from work.

  • Getting Things Done

    A happy coincidence, at the beginning of the year, I read an article, I think it may have been on LifeHacker about the concept of a “zero state” inbox. Basically, keep your inbox empty, file all e-mails as soon as they appear and create tasks for anything you can’t do there and the.

    Now I realise that this is the basic premis of Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen.

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  • 100 Pushups

    One Hundred Pushups

    I first read about this on JD’s Get Fit Slowly blog, I’m up for it !

    The target is, after 6 weeks I should be able to do 100 push-ups.

    First day is today!