thought this was pretty funny :-)

has anyone watched this show? i've only just started it - i'm 3 episodes in - and finding it terribly predictable. does it get any better? thanks...

we've only just been given our away jerseys for basketball. i thought the bright orange numbers on the home shirt was bad...but that's nothing in comparison to the fluro yellow of the away shirt. have a look on RfZ.

some of you probably saw blankbadge post about this the other day. i came across the sussex obstacle dash (SOD) website the other day and it struck my fancy. though i generally don't run in november because of the cold (my asthma, i'm not just being a wuss) i thought this one looked too much fun to pass up.

since looking on the website the other day, they have removed the 2.5km race and now there's only the full 10k event or a 5k called 'the little SOD'. seeing as it's more a fun event than a serious race i would probably only do it if i was going with someone else...and so i think i've managed to rope matt into it.

my 2 decisions now are 1. do i run the individual race or pair up with matt and enter as a team? and 2. do i do the 5k or 10k? seeing as we're given the choice, i feel like i can't do the easier option and so should do the 10k...though it's unlikely matt would do this with me.

hmmmm....

i'm going to make a hat.

ally and i are going to walton (a camping weekend at walton-on-thames with my parents' club). we went a couple of years ago and had a geat time, despite my house getting emptied at the same time, and we missed last year as we weren't together. we're going again this year for a few days and i'm already looking forward to it.

when i was at home last week my dad told me about the plans for the weekend. saturday night is going to be a spit roast of some kind (behave) for dinner, so the rest of the evening will probably be spent around the fire. sunday is going to be a cream tea before the boat ride. my father said that it was originally going to be a tea party (which my brain associated with alice in wonderland, hence the hat), but now it's pretty much scones and sangria (classy eh?) either way, we're going to be slightly squiffy before getting on the boat - as was required last time i was there (we had pimms o'clock before the boat) as the old guy steering nearly crashed us into another boat (he was about 300 years old).

should be a giggle and i intend to have a large and shiny hat for the event. i've just got back from hobbycraft, having got far too excited in the shop, and i'm now going to put the kettle on and get started. pictures of my epic failure to follow.

i'm talking about this in monday's RfZ blog post but i thought i'd mention it here as well. i came across someone else's blog today and they're hosting a challenge to their [many] readers - to complete the programme at hundredpushups.com by the 31st july. i only saw it this afternoon and did the initial test today (a measly 9) so i'll be a bit late to the party, but i'm starting on monday nonetheless. the idea is that by the end of the programme you should be able to do 100 consecutive push ups (or press ups, as i actually call them) though i'd be amazed if i could!

if anyone wants to join me (scribs is doing it as well) i'm going to do the 6 week plan at http://hundredpushups.com/ and logging it at http://www.pushupslogger.com/ under the username sai93...in case you wanted to check. the pushupslogger will tweet every time i do a push ups workout (there are a 3 a week in the plan) so there's no getting away with missing a session! twitter updates for the july challenge also come under the hashtag #pushupjuly.

join me! it'll be fun!

i've just written my first guest blog post :-) one of the winners of the giveaway on my blog last week runs www.zombiecommand.com and asked me to write something small about running to put up there...and it went up last night.

http://www.zombiecommand.com/sites/running-zombies-2/

apparently my open ID (that i use on wordpress) has my website listed as my livejournal instead of my blog. so if i've commented on your blog and you've ended up here, try http://runningfromzombies.com :-)

on the topic of trailers (ie my last post) i've watched this trailer 4 times in as many days. sad, i know.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/sherlockholmes/

been looking forward to this movie since i found out about it about 5 months ago...originally titled as 'game' it now looks like it's called 'gamer'. trailer here --> http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/gamer/

the neighbours moved out yesterday (as far as i can tell) so i have decided to post in dedication to the 22 months i have had to endure them...

i moved in on the 14th july 2007...within two weeks they had pushed down the dividing wall in the back yard (still not rebuilt by the landlord i'd like to add) and had informed me that their snake had escaped and i was to let them know if i found it (yes, i would be running screaming from the house).

at the time they also had a bird and a dog. the dog never got taken for walks, i'm pretty sure the only place it went outside is the back yard. the bird would make a horrible high pitched noise constantly. the dog would bark every time someone knocked on the door (which was pretty often, i think one of the guys was dealing).

thankfully, the bird disappeared...so they got another dog.

the girl that lived there, kay, would have constant arguements with the rest of the household, though mostly with her mother. screaming, stamping and door slamming would commence at least once every other day. thankfully, these seemed to stop after the first year.

the two boys were very much into linkin park and you could guarantee that a linkin park album would be playing for at least a few hours each day. a favourite way of listening to music would be to play the first minute of the song at full volume (often so loud that i couldn't hear my music/tv/person i'm talking to and then turn the volume down for the rest of the song). this was especially fun when kay joined in with her music and they would see which one could drown out the other.

the summer of 2008 would see my neighbours be very quiet during the mornings...one would imagine they were in bed asleep as they would spend their nights sitting on the wall outside with a cd player and a crate of beer, generally having a good time until 5 or 6am...every night. the exception to their quiet mornings would be on a sunday when someone would come visit and let their toddler/small child run up and down the hallways all morning.

generally, they seemed to get better after that summer. all night parties stopped (we've had maybe one or two since then), the sitting outside stopped, the music wars stopped, the arguements stopped. kay, the teenage girl, had a baby... it's been emotional.

and now i'm curious as to who will move in next...

hot and dry summer - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8026668.stm

running is a good way to let my mind wander - fantastic when i'm actually running away from my uni work. today i was lacing up my trainers, listening to next door's baby screaming and i thought "another good reason to run - no more screaming babies" and it occurred to me to actually take note of what i think about as i run. think about thinking if you will. ideally i would have been able to write down every conscious thought as it happened but running and writing never go well together. maybe one day i'll figure out how to do it...

anyway, from what i remember it was mostly inane stuff, though it got a bit weirder as i got more tired...here's a few of them to give you an idea...

"wow, this grass really needs mowing" - about 300m in.
"huh, the road cone is still there, i wonder how long it's been there? dead duck has gone though - washed downstream no doubt" - 1.7km ish.
"hmm, my hamstring feels tight, must remember to stretch that" - 1.9km.
"i never realised just how phalic looking that chimney is. did i really just think that? must be the book on freud i'm reading" - 2.6km.
"eurgh, i really don't understand my dwd essay questions. i just want the exams to be over with" - 2.9km.
"woo! no people as far as the eye can see." - 3.7km ish.
"ha, that guy looks like lance armstrong" - 4km.
"what does that grafitti even say?" - 4.9km.
"ungrateful yobs" - 5.3km (no thanks after moving out the way for 2 guys on bikes)
"don't these anglers have jobs? then again, i only work 5 hours a week...stupid council, stupid michael" - 5.4km.
"i wonder if that homeless woman [i passed] is still there or whether she was washed downstream just like the duck...oh god, did i just compare a homeless person to a dead duck?! must be the heat" - 6.5km.
"are those geese staring at me?!!" - 7.7km.

while it may look like i've actually done loads...it's mostly a lie. i've realised that i'll never get 7000 words in and reduced the parameters of the graph so that 100% is now 6000 words.

give me yours. basically.

here's the april sponsorship update on my blog.

http://runningfromzombies.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/mid-april-sponsorship-update/

apparently posting the link on facebook and twitter wasn't enough for some people :-) yes, you know who you are... :p