Word of mouth still the best

Cause that's how I found www.expatica.com, which would have been very useful months ago

Not dead yet


Wednesday, 2*20 pressups, 2*20 crunches (feel v rough after Tuesdays weights)
Thursday, 2*20 pressups, 2*20 crunches, 2.5 miles run (19:58), still feeling bad

Friday (today) 2*20 pressups, 2*20 crunches. Plan to repeat Tuesdays weights session, check back for progress...

Grim but worthwhile

Juan Cole has been running a series of guest editorials at his 'informed comment' blog. Since Juan is a big voice in the real world he's able to get a high quality of guest. Todays is from William Polk who " was in charge of planning American policy for most of the Islamic world until 1965 when he became professor of history at the University of Chicago and founded its Middle Eastern Studies Center."

Anyway, his piece is on torture. Yesterdays was on American Colonialism.

Keeping up the good work



Pressups 2*20
Crunches 2*20

Free weights session
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Lowerbody
Squats, 3*15
Lunges, 3*25 each leg

Arms
Pressups 3*20
Shoulderpress 15@7kg, 15@7kg, 8@7kg
Bicep curls, 3*20@7kg
Hammer curls 20@7kg, 20@7kg, 20@7kg (r) 11@7kg (l)
Tricep overheads 20@5.5kg, 15@5.5 (r) 14@5.5 (l), 12@4.5 (r) 13@4.5 (l)

Upper body
Chest press 20@8kg, 20@8kg, 20@7kg
Single arm press 18@8kg, 18@8kg, 18@7kg
Pec Flyes 15@7kg, 15@5.5kg, 15@4.5kg

Stretching, 10 mins

Activities of the housebound

My major achievement today? Getting my name read out on BBC 6 Music (they're very good them) as one of the people voting Lovely Head by Goldfrapp on the track of the day thingumy.

If you're a far right extremist

Go watch these two movies. The pain in your head is cognitive dissonance.

If I write it it will continue


Pressups, 2*20
Crunchs, 2*20
Stretching, 10 mins
Running, 2.5 miles, 18:31

Fencing

Footwork, 15 mins
Points 39
Bouts 2
Points won 15
Bouts won 1

Apologies

For the lack of recent entries. Still, if you know the tune to REM's 'End of the world as we know it' this is rather good.