You'd think we just had sex!

Life's been literally non-stop for the past few weeks, today is the first chance I've had to sit down and contemplate. I went to Oxford and Manchester for interviews (got an offer from Manchester but not from Oxford) and then to London with Hollie. London was absolutely amazing and definatley makes the idea of spending 4 years there for Uni more attractive! For a London write-up, see Hollie's blog here. I drew a lot from the trip, realised how far I've come and also how far I still have to go. Consistency and speed are two areas I find myself lacking in. And also my confidence has taken a hit from my accident and I need to rectify that. On the up-side, I finally got enough faith in myself to start doing standing and running fronts outside, allegedly they're quite good!

Had a fun session in the gym on tuesday, mostly just working on my frontflip technique but a bit of confidence and technical work on the bars too. My climbing continues to improve on the training board there, both in terms of strength and stamina which can only be a good thing. Afterwards, I had a tough stretching session which Hollie lead me through, resulting in me holding a head to knees hamstring stretch for the first time. I'm trying to get into the habit of stretching like this after every appropriate training session. I could be overheard walking around saying how fantastic it was afterwards, hence the title quote.

Friday and saturday were spent in Leeds, for whatever reason I wasn't at my best on either day but I tried to get something out of it anyway by doing small technical work and conditioning. It was also great watching Alex in particular, he is really becoming an amazing traceur and in such a short space of time, very impressive. We also tried out a new parkour game idea that I had in the dark on saturday, it turned out to be great fun and a good challenge. I've been getting into the habit of running the 15 minutes or so from the station uphill back to my house and then stretching.

I know my aims, time to get my head down and work for them.

Life...

Life rolls on, I've had a lazy week but then I've had a lot of school and Uni related stuff taking up my time so it's not so surprising I've slacked off a bit on the training. Played a waterpolo match against Lymm again on tuesday, at home this time, won 11-5, I wasn't happy with my personal performance but I seemed to be having an off-night for fitness. Still have more work to do anyway. Though I did get a goal by taking the ball off their keeper which was nice.

Saturday I had lifeguard retraining in the early morning, for some reason I got a sudden attack of nausea and lost my breakfast to the pool toilets. Still, I felt alright so I got back in and finished the session, managed a personal best of 37 seconds on the time-swim (swim 20m, tow casualty 20m). Then it was off to Leeds for the usual saturday training. Tim came down from Newcastle, it was a fun day and we hit some of the less popular spots in Leeds. I also got to visit the armouries for the first time since the accident. I think the path to progress for me at the moment is just more strength in every respect and a bit of technical work, fits in nicely with winter since I get to do less technical training in winter anyway.

Tim made a video of himself in Leeds which you can find here. Also, there's a very good blog post from Hollie about the mind and parkour at the moment which I agree totally with, check it out here.

A busy couple of weeks coming up for me, next weekend I have 4 days in Oxford for interviews, I'm hoping to get some training in whilst I'm there and meet the Oxtricks guys if I can. Then there's an interview at Manchester and then the weekend after I'm off to London with Hollie for two days and two nights of training. Lots to look forward to!