January 2016 – Page 2

January 5, 2016

Worms!

I took delivery today of 100g of tiger worms, bought on ebay from Yorkshire Worms (£6.75) for my compost heap.

My heap had a few worms in it, but not as many as I had in my Shepton pile, so hopefully this little batch will boost their numbers and speed up the composting of all the green waste we produce – I’m sure they’ll love the bucket of potato peelings and other veg scraps we produce at least once a week.

Happy munching, little fellas!

January 3, 2016

Knee

In completing my 100K holiday challenge yesterday I seem to have knackered my knee.

I was about 5.5K into the run, just turning right off the levels lane when I “felt” my knee go a bit. Kept on running, without too much problem, but as the day wore on it got more and more sore and immobile.

Now (next day) I have my strapping on – it is fine when in a comfy position, but hurts when I walk. No run today!

It is the left knee, hurts on the inner face. Feels particularly knobbly and hurts a bit to the touch.

Hoping a few days rest soon sees it right.

January 2, 2016

100K Holiday

When I broke up for my Christmas hols on 11 December I challenged myself to see if I could run 100Km in my four week holiday.

It was a “doable” challenge, but by no means a certainty – especially with Christmas and other festivities getting in the way.

However, today, Saturday 2 Jan 2016, I completed the challenge, notching up my 100th Kilometer as I completed my morning run, 3 weeks and a day since my first “challenge” run on Saturday 12th December.

Some stats:

Distance ran: 100.49 Km
Time taken: 8 hours 28 mins 27 secs
Average Pace per Km: 5 min 5 secs
15 runs, either my 6K or 7K route

Chuffed!

January 1, 2016

Goals, Aims and Targets

I don’t do New Year resolutions, but these are my goals, aims and targets for the coming year. In no particular order:

Run 700Km, by no means a given. Running 500K is a minimum target, 800K – 500 miles – would be excellent but I don’t think I will have the time to complete this challenge, but 700K will be an achievement if I can do it.
Swim the channel. OK – so not all in one go, or in the freezing sea, but in the calm warmth of Strode swimming pool. The Channel Swimming Association gives the distance as 32 Km which, by my calculations, is 960 lengths. France, here we come!
For the past couple of years I have been in a football predictor league. This year, I find myself top of the table as the new year dawns. I would dearly love to win the league this year. Failing that, I would be content with a top four finish. Oh, and this year, I so want to beat my good pal Marc Radford – aka Menaggio Myla – but he has an uncanny knack of coming from behind to pip me at the post. (I’m Senor Cuerpo Guisante (use Google Translate) sitting pretty at the top of the table in the pic above)
It was 1996 that I first qualified as a football referee, so long ago that my level of qualification no longer exists. This year, I have three goals, in ascending order: re-qualify & re-register as a official FA referee; referee a non-school game; get paid to referee a game.
Weight – I’m a stone and half down on my long term weight of last year. I’m claiming a weight of 13 st 7 for the start of 2016. Two goals: 1) establish 13 st 6 as my new long term weight or 2) (better) get to sub 13 stone.
Write at least twice a month in my maths blog – A Maths Teacher Writes. I feel I’ve begun to neglect it a little of late and I need to rectify that.

Well that little lot should keep me busy for the next twelve months – come December I’ll do a review of how I did.

Happy New Year!