Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: House Purchase

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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

Tuesday, 28 September 2010

House Purchase

People have said that buying a house is one of the most stressful things you can do. Well at this moment in time I will disagree. We saw a house we really liked, we put an offer in, the offer has been accepted, and now the legal stuff is going on. To be honest, when we made the decision to buy a house we honestly thought it would take some time to find the right place and get things moving. Whether it's the fact that neither the seller nor ourselves are in a chain but things seem to be galloping along, and we are delighted by this progress. I suspect things will slow down a tad now but that's fine by us. I am confident the house will be ours by Christmas.

The plus side of buying a house is that we get to furnish it. Kitchen, living room, bedrooms blah, blah, blah. What I'm really interested in is the turbo dungeon. The house has a cellar and this will become Turbo Man's domain. I will store a bike there and will set up a turbo trainer complete with sound system, TV and DVD player. I'm seriously considering getting a virtual reality trainer as well; may as well do the job properly!

All that, of course, is in the future. More immediately I have Challenge Barcelona just 5 days away. I had my last hard session today, a really tough interval session that saw me get within 2 beats of my max HR on one occasion and above 95% of MHR on 5 of the 6 intervals! Tomorrow is an easier day and then I will be up at the crack of dawn on Thursday to head for Gatwick airport. I'm hoping that any fallout from the General Strike that is taking place in Spain on Wednesday will have sorted itself out by the time I fly around lunchtime.

All the best.