This a very good article, I’ll be sharing it around. Thanks Beth.

I’ve been back in the gym for 2 months now. Normally about 10 of us in a gym built for, at a guess, 40 Even with only 10 in, it’s hard to stay even 2m apart, the free weights and squat rack are tightly packed. I’m the only mask wearer of the regulars, the rest of whom don’t even seem to care.

I found going slower really difficult after coming back from an injury and now I’m back to full strength every run is going as fast as I can.  I’ll give this a go

I’ve been running through lockdown and even a bit since the gyms reopened. One of things I do to vary where I run is to use local property listings. I find a place I want to see and I run to it. I’m lucky enough to be within a couple of miles of some really nice neighbourhoods, so I go looking at some mansions.

You weigh yourself and then you pick up the dinosaur and weigh both of you and then subtract your weight. Just like a suitcase.

It’s thinking about the waste that’s stopping me doing this.  I have some for holidays and trips but that’s about it.  

The worst piece of unsolicited advice I got was whilst squatting. Some guy started talking to me about my feet’s position.

My Mother in Law accidentally walked into the grand opening party of a Panera Bread, thinking it had opened weeks before.  She walked out with free bread for a year.

No, just a joke about how hard Rise is to get on to.

Damn, I’ve already missed out on a boarding group for Rise of the Resistance on the 15th

If they can replace the screen on my Pixel C, it may be worth me flying to the USA, doing all the necessary immigration stuff, getting a job as a first responder and then sending it in for repair.

Also worth noting that I started them when I was a kid and my mum was present when I had them fitted.  The only she remembers from that day was that the optician said not to sleep in them so I still get ‘I hope you’ve remembered to take your lenses out’ if I speak to her late at night

My worst contact related incident was when I was at Uni and was going to meet a girl I knew from back home to show her around. Obvs I had a massive crush on her and was quite nervous, I spent the first hour of the day with two lenses in one eye before I realised.

“We are all guilty of falling asleep with our contacts in”

Phew, but if I’m going to do non-gym workouts, I can’t keep avoiding burpees can I?

I don’t often get time to stretch but when I do get time to stretch I don’t.

We’ll build medicare for all and Mexico will pay for it

I’m never going to compete, I’m just deadlifting heavy for the benefits it brings to overall fitness.  That’s why I use the straps

Okay, so what if you don’t compete in any squat-centric sport? Here’s squatting’s dirty secret: then it doesn’t matter.

American Hysteria’s Monsters “this episode is less about Bigfoot and more about the idea of the monstrous, and how it has been used as a tool to demonize black folks since the first slave ships landed in America, both through folktales and famous works of fiction.”  Truly horrifying and gripping