Long Week

My first week back running and already 2 days off. Fortunately, they were due to work commitments and not soreness. Start in the morning darkness and finishing after dark that night really doesnt help your training. That, and the fact that work is really giving me the shits at the moment.

The company I work for recently bought out a major competitor in the Tasmanian market. However, the management of that company have now become the management of ours!!! How does that work. Morale is so low at the moment its not funny. People are leaving left right and centre, and those remaining couldnt give a shit about anything. They just rock up and get paid. Us poor Reps are out their working our butts off and getting no back up from our peers. Warehouse staff are leaving things off orders and customers arent happy. Of course, when a customer has a problem who do they take it out on??????? The Rep. I rang our Warehouse Manager earlier this week about an issue I had and his first response was "So! What do you want me to do about it?" Great attitude that one. For a start you can organise for the stock to be delivered as requested and then speak to the person who f@#*ed up and make sure it doesnt happen again. Simple really.

Now that I have that off my chest, I do feel somewhat better!!!!!

Over and Out.

AW

Long Time No Blog

Yeah, I know, its been a while since i sat down to right anything on here. Reason is my Computer has been playing up and an Internet connection has been near on impossible. I now have a new Computer and things are back to normal.

Not much running again over the last 4 weeks due to a re occurance of my calf injury. I was in Hobart earlier this month for the State XC Champs and didnt even make the start line. I manage to reinjure myself the day before and as a result have had another 4 weeks off.

I went and saw a different Physio this time around (someone who is actually a runner himself) and he diagnosed the problem as being nerve related. So, after some treatment and shit loads of lower back and hamstring stretching and various exercises I am good to go.

I have started running again this week and so far so good.

Hopefully with a slow build up and some patience (something I have been known to lack) I will be in decent shape come Track Season.

I was hoping to run a quick 5km at the Tas 5km Road Champs on the 16/9 but thats now out of the question. So is breaking 32 minutes at the Burnie Ten.

As for breaking 9 minutes at Zatopek in the Steeple........... stay tuned.

Some interesting viewing at the World Champs. Can anyone tell me what Benita Johnson is thinking???? She said after her race that she was feeling "very good" when she fell. Why the hell was she at the back of the pack then? Any decent cyclist will tell you that if you want to stay out of trouble you need to be in the first 1/3 of the pack as most crashes happen towards the middle and affect those behind (I should know, I have the scars on my chin from a Broken Jaw that I received in a bike race). She is supposedly a World Class athlete yet placed herself in a position which was never going to do her any favours. Even if she hadnt fallen, when the pace picked up she would have been 20 metres behind before she even started to chase. When was the last time you saw Buster Mottram position himself like that?

Also, can someone get Youcef Abdi some training wheels please?

Cheers