Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: That's the parties over with!

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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

Friday, 10 December 2010

That's the parties over with!

Phew! What a week that was. It started last Saturday with the HMS Sultan Christmas Ball and what a Ball it was; a thoroughly enjoyable night and I got far more than my 6-monthly quota of 'Dad Dancing' in. G&Ts too! :-) And then last night was the work Christmas Party and - Wow! - another fantastic night. Well afternoon and evening actually as we started at lunchtime and I was home by 9! Another whole bunch of 'Dad Dancing' under my belt and rather than G&T I thought I would go the medicinal route and top up my iron levels by hitting the Guiness. :-)

And I've managed all this while suffering a severe case of man-flu that has prevented any training. On the positive side a couple of massive hangovers would probably have prevented training anyway but blaming man-flu is just, well, more manly! Hopefully I will shake it off in the next day or so and can get back into some sort of training next week. At least that's all the parties and heavy drinking over with for another year, just the food frenzy over Christmas itself to go. And before anyone says 'But you don't have to eat/drink too much', I know. But I enjoy it.

Enjoy the Festive Season folks, however you wish to interpret it.

2 comments:

Cavegirl said...: Aha, so man-flu stops training but not partying!

Grok would be turning in his grave :-)

Enjoy, for the pain begins 2 January, I will be your conscience sitting here ... waiting to read of training endeavour and if you trip up I'll just whisper 'you're going long again this year' LOL!; 11 December 2010 at 13:50
Turbo Man said...: :-); 11 December 2010 at 22:02