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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Eek! Where has the time gone?

Hard to believe it's almost 3 weeks since I blogged, but there's a very good reason. I have been doing hardly any training. On the plus side, my Litespeed frameset is back from Bob Jackson Cycles in Leeds after its respray. It looks fab (there are a couple of blemishes that would have failed my quality control but overall I am very happy). and I can't wait to buld it up over the Christmas break. I do have pictures of the frameset and will post them as soon as I can be bothered to download from my phone.

I am on leave this week so why am I not training? To be honest, I have been earning domestic brownie points and clearing out some clutter and feel really good about it. The house is looking much better and I can actually find things!

Hopefully I will get back in to a proper routine (including some decent cycling) next week. I'll ket you know.

3 comments:

jc said...

How much was the respray mate? I'm looking to send my Trek to Argos in Bristol and I think they charge around 150

Mark "Frank" Whittle said...

I bet you're doing some secret training and not letting on! ;-)

Turbo Man said...

JC - I paid £160 including courier delivery to and from Leeds. They also removed a seized bolt for the bottom bracket cable guide and retapped the hole. I had single colour pearl white metallic (their most expensive colour) with the Litespeed logo on the downtube only.

Frank - I've been doing maintenance in the gym up to this week but having this week completely off.