One week to the Santa Dash. Under 75kg but the 72 target is seemingly out of my reach. Can it be done in a week? Unlikely. Lacking willpower. Getting insanely strong if recent pump classes are anything to go by. (Lots of barbell work in time to music.) Last time I was 72 I don’t think I was carrying anywhere near as much muscle. Treadmill work is also going well with a recent PB. Getting reasonably good times for my local 5km running route.
So that’s a positive.
Friday night: WeRoad, adventure company, ran a meetup in Freight Island in which they’d cordoned off an area for attendees. Good group of people, some familiar faces, some new.
Saturday was not so successful. I ran a meetup to Oldham St in the Northern Quarter but people were seemingly not enamoured with the idea, and the few attendees listed reversed their RSVPs at the last minute. I of course didn’t realise this til I got to Rewind, the meeting point. Plus Peter Kay was in town so the traffic was horrendous. I now consider him to be even less funny than I originally did. More of a Jimmy Carr man myself. Anyway, it seems Oldham St isn't the most appealing area, and to be fair, from the street, it's a shithole. It's only once you step inside the bars that the visuals improve. Anyway, a friend of mine was in at the Manchester Socialising and Language Exchange Meetup, over in the Ape and Apple just off Deansgate. I should have walked, but I decided to fight through traffic to get there, which was made more complicated due to traffic lights being stuck on red near the Town Hall. By the time I got to Ape, they’d gone. I was in no mood for wandering around so made it home. Which of course also took aeons.
