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I had a lovely long update for you but Blogger ate it!

Anyway here is the short version!

Saturday ... plan was 10k wasn't it? Yes well NO that just didn't happen. Everything went wrong! 201 wouldn't charge, ate too little, drank too little, PF niggled during morning, Timex batteries died after 1m and tightness in lower leg muscle made me walk then finally change the 10k run into a 5k walk. Not happy.

For the medical ones out there .... left leg (one with PF) outside of calf gets really tight. Can feel like a bruise when I get home. Tight for 20-25mins then will go. Makes me walk and want to stretch as it feels so tight but hurts to stretch. Doesn't seem to happen when walking. Have had sports massage (3wks ago) and that doesn't seem to have made any difference. Ideas? Shoes? Surface? Too much too soon? Faster running and body not used to it after mainly walking for months? Weight? Warm up? Stretching?

Sunday I hoped to go out and try again. 1hr of ironing and 2hrs of stripping wall paper and PF was very unhappy so no run.

Monday I ran ... much better than Saturday but still the same tightness but 2.4m in 31mins.

Today I've been on a "new starter workshop" which included lovely hot meal and err Danish pastry with my morning tea!!! Got back to my desk and was told that I will be doing a Unix course in err 3wks! Oracle course in Jan and if all goes well SAS in Feb!! How cool is that!

On the down side as such my ex-work mates got told yesterday that they may not have a job by Christmas. How glad am I that I left?!?!

Comments

b-z said…
Job sounds great and stimulating




You know what i think about your shoes-------
8:14 AM, October 04, 2006
fraggle said…
you sound like you're having a great time work-wise Pix - *so* glad you got out of the oldplace :o)


(glad it's not just me that's having blogger problems!)
11:50 AM, October 04, 2006
Cath Delaney said…
Pix, just an observation... tell me to feck off if you want to... but... in a new job it's brilliant and we do what we can to push our role forwards... more importantly we don't mind when people (superiors) ask us to do stuff and then give us thanks for it - because it's rewarding. It's that I want you to watch. It's normal to get asked to do stuff and it's normal to say 'yes, fine, I can do that'. But make sure that it's not an ongoing thing where you end up being the person who gets asked to do everything because they know you'll get it done!

You know how I know this!

But it does sound like you're having a great time. Very pleased for you.
12:57 PM, October 05, 2006
Evil Pixie said…
>beams<
fanks folks!
Caff at this moment in time I am loving it! So much to learn and see and do!
UNIX course is now 2 wks later (in London!) and that will be hard work but fun and scary 'cos London frightens me!!
7:48 PM, October 05, 2006
XFR Bear said…
Pix - I think it's good to say yes to stuff like that - it's not just about taking on extra work, these are skills that should things go wrong at this job you can take on for the rest of your career. They gain, you gain.

It should also help you to negotiate a higher salary as you have more skills

and they're paying for you to do it!
9:05 AM, October 07, 2006
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