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I’m running a Marathon

James — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:07:34 +0000

Well a half Marathon really. And let me tell you that’s pretty damn amazing for me. I have to be the least likely to run person you are bound to meet anywhere. Seriously! I used to skip every gym class possible, with as many exotic excuses as I could think of. “The cat ran off with my PE kit miss.” “My mum says I’m allergic to the air miss!” Jumpers for goal posts were never my thing.

I am about as fast as an Asthmatic Ant, with some heavy shopping. (thank you Blackadder).

Also I haven’t run ANY distance since I was knee high to a grasshopper.

I managed to run 10k on Sunday which was actually much easier than I was expecting.

You might be wondering what on earth made me want to do such a thing. Well it’s for a very good cause; The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, raising money to treat and cure Cancer. Pretty much everyone I know has been touched by Cancer in some way, so it’s very nice to be able to something to help. Also my girl is a Mentor this year. She has done the event before and they have invited her back to help others. Wow she’s pretty good.

It’s on May 3rd, which is very nearly my birthday. So please this year rather than get a pipe and slippers set from the Woolworth’s closing down sale, donate something on my page.

Here is my donation page.

Anyway I’ll report back my progress here with some photos when I get some.

Shooting range

James — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:46:14 +0000

I’ve recently done my Possessions and Acquisitions License (PAL) for firearms here in Canada.

Yes and I’ve done this before I’ve got my Canadian driving license. Why? Well it’s more fun of course

It takes a while for it to go through with me being new to the country. They need to do loads of background check to make sure you’re not a nutter.

Well anyway a good friend of both Manus and myself, Mark took us to the shooting range for the day last weekend. I can’t tell you how much fun it was…

I was quite nervous at first as I’ve never even fired a gun before. (well only an air rifle, but that doesn’t count.)

Mark brought along:

9mm Smith and Western
9mm Glock
AR15 Rifle
Remmington 12 guage pump action shotgun

Manu went first. He didn’t enjoy it

I was really accurate with the pistols. Mark even called me a natural, but I think he was just being kind on a beginner. 7 out of 9 were bull-eyes.

Surprisingly there was very little recoil and any of the weapons , with the exception of the shotgun, which would leave a bruise.

I was immediately hooked. I can’t begin to tell you how much fun this was.

A Brilliant way of relieving stress. I’d never thought I’d say this, but I’m thinking of buying one now

Mountain Biking pain!

James — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:18:36 +0000

This post is a little old as I’ve had to wait until the latest release of the flickr plugin, so I could add the images….

My good friends Manu and Jesse felt it was time to me “real” mountain biking this weekend. Actually is was Friday as work gave us the day off being leap year and all. Typically this being our day off it rained like a bastard.

Before heading to meet the guys I went via the bike shop, where the blokes there thought it was quite funny that I was taking to the mountains.

In contrast here’s Manus bike. Not short of a about $2500 for this baby.

Hmm, I should have listened to those nagging doubts in my mind. We went to Burnaby mountain which was considered intermediate.

Here’s me laughing at the sign for “most difficult” trail.

I ended up going down a black mountain bike run and going over the handle bars. I busted both my wrists the left one quite badly and bruised some ribs.

This is after a couple of days… nice

Moral of the story:

Buy better bike. Believe the sign when it says ‘most difficult’.