Tuesday, October 25, 2005
"I hate myself and want to die"
This is the upbeat title of a book my friend gave me for my birthday*. Unfortunately, the sentiment is totally wasted on me at the moment, as I have just got back from my first proper run in a week, and feel fantastic. The hammie held up admirably, and the tightness actually decreased as the run went on. Had originally planned on going for 5km, but felt so good that I ran an easy 8km in 34:34. Preceeded it with 30 minutes of stretching, and did an abdominal strength session this morning, so nearly all my training boxes have been ticked for the day (highly unlikely that I will make it to the gym). This makes a dramatic change from yesterday (supposedly day 1 of the new training regime), where 11.5 hours straight at work, followed by 1.5 hours at the physio left no time for anything more than some icing and a few hamstring stretches.
Hopefully a fairly normal week's training after the disurption of the last 3 weeks. Will stay away from the really quick stuff till next Monday, which probably rules at Interclub on Saturday.
* it's actually a very funny look at the 52 most depressing songs of all time
Non-running aside
Computer dramas have dominated the weekend, and I have actually been brought unstuck by outstanding customer service. My laptop hard drive went AWOL last week, and like the good IT professional I am, my backups were way out of date. A fairly sleepless night last Thursday as I sweated on being able to recover my client files (rewriting the lost work would cost me in the order of $20,000), but fortunately Friday I was able to recover everything, and the good folk at Dell came and picked it up Friday afternoon, citing a 7-10 day turnaround time. This is way too long to for me to be without a machine, so the rest of the weekend was spent trying to cobble together a replacement machine from spare parts lying round. This proved unsuccessful, so I bit the bullet Monday, and bought a cheap replacement machine, which I spent the next 24 hours restoring with all my software. Sure enough, an hour later, Dell knock on my door with my fixed laptop! Which is wonderful, except now I have to repeat the process over again on the returned laptop. So 5 days later I am back to the exact same position I was, with a new $1300 computer sitting idle and not a billable hour to show for it. Gotta love technology. On the upside, I now have a system in place that I can be up and running from a similar disaster in about 20 minutes, so probably worth it in the long run.
Hopefully a fairly normal week's training after the disurption of the last 3 weeks. Will stay away from the really quick stuff till next Monday, which probably rules at Interclub on Saturday.
* it's actually a very funny look at the 52 most depressing songs of all time
Non-running aside
Computer dramas have dominated the weekend, and I have actually been brought unstuck by outstanding customer service. My laptop hard drive went AWOL last week, and like the good IT professional I am, my backups were way out of date. A fairly sleepless night last Thursday as I sweated on being able to recover my client files (rewriting the lost work would cost me in the order of $20,000), but fortunately Friday I was able to recover everything, and the good folk at Dell came and picked it up Friday afternoon, citing a 7-10 day turnaround time. This is way too long to for me to be without a machine, so the rest of the weekend was spent trying to cobble together a replacement machine from spare parts lying round. This proved unsuccessful, so I bit the bullet Monday, and bought a cheap replacement machine, which I spent the next 24 hours restoring with all my software. Sure enough, an hour later, Dell knock on my door with my fixed laptop! Which is wonderful, except now I have to repeat the process over again on the returned laptop. So 5 days later I am back to the exact same position I was, with a new $1300 computer sitting idle and not a billable hour to show for it. Gotta love technology. On the upside, I now have a system in place that I can be up and running from a similar disaster in about 20 minutes, so probably worth it in the long run.
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That post title is really not you. Still, it did give me quite a shock.
My experience with Dell has been quite the opposite. They say they will return it in 7-10 days and 2 weeks later I'm was still waiting!
Glad you are feeling fantastic and the run went well.
Colin Firth is overrated I think.
Most depressing songs...Joy Division Love will tear us apart has got to be up there surely?
My experience with Dell has been quite the opposite. They say they will return it in 7-10 days and 2 weeks later I'm was still waiting!
Glad you are feeling fantastic and the run went well.
Colin Firth is overrated I think.
Most depressing songs...Joy Division Love will tear us apart has got to be up there surely?
Had a laugh at you finding computer bits to rebuild. In our house we have only 4 working computers at the moment! and lotsa bits and I have no idea about any of them. Guess that's another good reason to be married to gnome. Good news about the hammie. Will we see you at CR 5k?
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