Hello peeps. Another realllllllly busy week but it’s been a good one so far! Tuesday I went to the gym and did another 8k (5miles) and managed to shave a few minutes off of my time down to 69 minutes! This was good for me because I think for the last 2-3 weeks I have only managed one run a week and therefore progress doesn’t really happen as it’s not enough training. However, as I said last week I am trying for three runs this week. Tuesday was the first today is the second and hopefully tomorrow (pre-pub) will be the third!
The weather is gorgeous here at the moment so I will be running round Abbey Wood later on when I finish work. Which will be soon as my email is working intermittently, the intranet won’t let me do anything and I have been given something to do with almost no detail to work from so I am a little irate today!
So, positives: (a necessity today)
Tomorrow is Friday and we’re off to the pub and then back to ours so that will be a nice change of scenery. (After a run, obviously!)
Back on my diet this week and it has been going well despite the normal bumps in the road that I hit, I have overcome them without eating chocolate! I weighed myself today (Back to 12st 8lbs- not good!) and I have decided I will not weigh myself for another 2 weeks. 2 weeks of 3 runs a week and sticking to my diet should make a nice difference!!
I booked flights this week for our friends (April and Neil) wedding in Michigan UK
Adam’s granddad is now too old to drive and is giving us his car! It’s newer than ours (W reg) which is nice and if we sell the Astra then the money will come in handy as I’ve just paid quite a lot for flights! We should be getting the car on Saturday.
Something that has made me monumentally happy this week is nothing to do with me but has made me happy anyway; my younger brother has got a place on an Access to Science course at college. He didn’t get A Levels (due to ‘can’t be arsedness’, he definitely has the academic ability) and has since been working as an apprentice electrician. After being made redundant twice in one year (I think last year) and not being able to find anyone to take him on he left the trade. This was a terrible shame as he was a month from being a fully qualified electrician. Due to the ‘economic climate’ he could not find anyone to take him on as an apprentice to finish his last month and the college would not let him finish without a placement. He has been working odd jobs when he has had offers but this has not been consistent; everything from roofing, building etc etc. He had come to the conclusion that life would be better if he had got his A-levels and went to university- being a graduate myself I have to agree. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say. However A level courses cost money which he doesn’t have so I pointed him in the direction of the Access courses which I knew allowed people to study for a year and get to the standard required for most university courses- Chris wants to study computer science at UWE and this course will make him eligible to apply. Conveniently the courses are government funded and therefore free!
He originally applied for Access to Combined Studies as there was no Access to IT type course. He had an interview and had to do some maths and English tests. He completed an hour long maths test in 4 minutes with a score of 100%!!! This was GCSE level so they kept him back and asked him to do an A Level standard test and I think he dropped only one mark in that one. I don’t think I could do that and I am an AAT qualified accounting technician (i.e. a part-qualified accountant, this wasn’t my degree by the way- I ‘studied’ Classical Civilisation at Swansea Uni. Don’t ask.) The interviewer was also very pleased with his level of English in the test that they gave him. As a result he has been offered a place, told to switch to Access to Science instead as it is worth more tariff points and already has the interviewer’s offer to be his personal tutor! He will study all three sciences plus maths I think and study skills in preparation for uni. The tutors also help students to put their university application together which will be a big help! Hopefully this is a start to bigger and better things for him as he has had a run of bad luck for quite a long time. This time next year he would have applied for university!
I hope to write again tomorrow having fitted in a third run this week and feeling really good about it!
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