July 10, 2008 by Ceolwulf.

I am now faster than some (slow) people!

Endurance is still poor, as by the end of my 25-ish minute session my form is beginning to deteriorate notably.  But, I think what I have now will be good enough to do a sprint tri, and that’s the first time in my life I’ve been able to say that.  I should go to Morden and do the swim course there, to prove this to myself.

Oh … got this credit card deal from Capital One.  It looked good, I figured I’d go for it.  Well, they have a policy that if you’ve been living at your current location for less than three years, you have to give them your previous address as well.  Fair enough.  But!  NO P.O. BOXES.  Okay … so unless you live in a city, they don’t want your business.  (Cos my previous home, that was the only address I had.  Seriously, no one’s going to look at your land number!)

I figure it was just in time.  I had an account with Capital One before and I closed it cos I didn’t like their attitude - us first, customers second.  This spared me from dealing with them again.

Posted in C'est la vie | No Comments »

July 4, 2008 by Ceolwulf.

… has been rather strange.

Haven’t been able to get into the swing of things properly at all.  Always one thing or another that knocks me out of my rhythm.  And then since I’ve mostly been swimming, and that’s mostly refining technique at this point; and the rest of my training has been mostly running, since that’s my weakest area; my cycling has suffered badly.   In fact I haven’t even taken the TT bike out at all this year.  Think I’ll do so this weekend, I miss going fast!

Speaking of little annoying disruptions, this morning I get to the pool in a great hurry as per usual, go to get my stuff out of my bag, … wait, where’s my goggles.  They’re ALWAYS in the bag.  OK, maybe the end pocket - nope.  Other end - nope.  Le sigh.  Go back to front desk, they haven’t had any turned in.  Go back home in defeat, and they’re not there either.  So, you know, stuff like that, there’s a day’s training lost, no good reason.

Posted in Velo life | No Comments »