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Showing posts with label Djanogly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Djanogly. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Pull The Plug



We go to Forest Rec parkrun. L to run, me for the breakfast. Then she goes to Pilates at John Carroll. Then she goes to Aqua Aerobics at Djanogly. Busy girl.

I go home to try and give the lawn one final cut before the council pull the plug on the garden waste collections. It rains naturally, so chance missed. I can rearrange the lawn cut but they won't rearrange the collection.

And so to bed.

Then I have to raid the local Co-Op for something to make a decent pasta meal with as the builder has prevented me getting to the shops this week. We stay in as it’s the Leicester Half tomorrow.

(Saturday 22nd October)

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Djanogly Untamed


It's almost like skiing weather today, nice crispy snow and bright sunshine, except this is Nottingham not the Alps. The forecast is a bit disappointing as well; don’t think we’ll get much more.

As I walk to the bus I’m passed by a lad doing his paper round on our estate by chauffeur driven car. His mother I assume. Pampered child or what.

Despite already have done my regulation two gym sessions this month, I might to do a third due to all this ice and snow. L proposes yet another different leisure centre, this time Djanogly.

Djanogly? Hmmm, radical. She’s trying to unsettle my delicate equilibrium and Doggo’s. At least it’ll give him some different people to boot stare at. I also can’t recall if the equipment faces to or from the walls there? These things matter but I’ll give it a go.

In the end doing Djanogly isn’t as easy to do as you would think. The entry gate is locked and only the exit gate, clearly labelled with a big red ‘no entry’ sign, is open. So we go in that way, as must have everyone else because despite being so unwelcoming, it's packed.

I do 10k on the bike, which seems harder than at the other places, either their settings are different or my legs are. Then I do a 2k row, followed by a 2k run. Where again I think their settings are different, as 14kph feels nothing like 14kph. It must be my legs again.

At least no one takes issue with my Four Villages Half Marathon t-shirt, accusing me of not running it, as it was snowed off. The girl in the Rushcliffe 10k t-shirt better not say anything. At least I didn't run further than she did run.

(Tuesday 22nd January)