The undersuit is cool too, and the two component idea leaves it all feeling less bulky somehow.
All I have to do now is try it out, but we're stuck with sod all wind here at the moment. So I've been compensating by going down the gym...
Where I met Steve last week and will be meeting him again today. Very cool guy. Told him what I wanted to do, and he's given me a bunch of free weight things to do. This is good, because I have some weights at home so I can always do them away from the gym if necessary. They include
- lunges to the front and side carrying weights, using 5kg at the moment
- "John Travolta" moves from side of opposite foot to up in the air, with weights
- What Steve calls "chopping" - pulling weights on string from down by foot across and up with both hands, rotating in followthrough like a golf swing
- Vertical rowing with a bar of weights, back slightly bent
- Dead lift from ground to hang weighs off arms
Oh yes, whilst at the windsurf shop bought some new boots, O'Neill with the split toe, seem very sensitive,
and couldn't resist that Tush 4.0 Storm I'd been looking at... Dammit, there must come a point when I can stop buying things, mustn't there?
And one more thing. Following a conversation over food one weekend, Bernie the club Chairdude has asked me to be the magazine editor, probably because I was the person sitting beside at the time. I've accepted but won't have much to do until January when the next one comes out. There's some technical stuff to sort out, the current publisher uses Quark, which Neil the present ed runs on a Mac laptop, but there's talk of a new publisher and Windows-based software. This could be useful 'cos I could put it on my laptop, handy for those long evenings working away from home. Which never seem to happen, because there's always so much to do!
With all this non-sailing activity, I'm concerned about losing focus. Must remember at all times, especially when struggling in the gym, there's only one reason for all this...
