Mudface

Less than the sawdust percentage.

Achterberg must be starting to work his magic... I liked the Walker Tweet, thought it was pretty funny.

Bizarre-aside from the Bayern games, we're not back on until Burnley in March. Ahh, does he mean the pundits? Christ, who listens to them?

Fucking Denly's in the team. Jesus.

Just had a quick flick through there. Quite a few seem genuinely offended about Keown's 'financial doping' comment. Where exactly do they think all the extra money's come from? They're surely not that naive to believe it's just increased revenue? I mean, they rarely even sell out the stadium.

The financial doping comment was great, although he did then ask if he could say that and Darke said 'no', the prick.

Watched that a while back and really enjoyed it. Cracking little film, clever, dark, funny and violent, bit like a really, really good episode of Black Mirror.

Not enough brackets for Tomkins...

Can I join? I'm an MVP on an online Excel forum. A few of us hipsters used to chat together over ICQ on Friday nights.

Oh fuck.

It was lovely to watch last night, for sure.

To be fair, he's managing a mid-table club.

Might rain tomorrow apparently- be a shame if it did, I'd like to see Rashid and Anderson win the game in the last over.

Same, I don't really like exercising in doors. Rowing's a good cardio work out, but it's boring sitting there in the same spot rather than running through the countryside.

Bit of an oldie- I was going to re-watch Buffy with my youngest- he's 13 and we thought it'd be nice to do something that didn't involve him sitting in his room constantly playing GTA, Fortnite or Rainbow 6 with his mates. Sadly, he didn't get into it, and went back to sitting in his room constantly playing GTA, Fortnite or Rainbow 6 with his mates. Surprisingly though, I'm really enjoying it and I've carried on watching it. It's still smart and funny and Buffy and Cordelia are hot as fuck. The angsty bits with Angel are a bit dull, but the story arcs are done well, and the monster of the week episodes are often great fun. Solid 8/10 so far, but I remember it disappearing up its arse in later series, so I'll watch up to Hush with the creepy Gentlemen (which freaked my missus out when we first watched it about 15-20 years ago), then maybe switch to Angel for some more Charisma Carpenter goodness.

Oh hang on- do you have to run with your phone? I use a Garmin watch, so it'd be good if I could just upload runs from that to it.

Cheers, I'll give that a whirl when I start up again, probably towards the end of February- the weather here can be a bitch over winter, so I usually leave it for a while save getting interrupted with snow and ice and just do weights and rowing in the meantime. Previously, I've always found 'off the shelf' schedules to either be completely noddy or far too intense, and I've ended up pissing about taking bits from one and bits from another, which isn't ideal. If the app can tailor itself to me then that'd be great.

I haven't run a half marathon distance before, 10KM is my limit after damaging my knee, but are you able to run more frequently, say 4-5 times a week? You could spread about half the distance over 3-4 of those, and do a longer weekend run, pushing that one out over 8-10 weeks until you hit the 15-20K mark. Also, is there a local running club you could join up with? You'd get tailored advice from the coaches there.

Yes, definitely, the Nike+ stuff is very good. I used the 5 and 10K training programmes (5K one is attached) before and they're great. nike-run-club-5k-en_LU.pdf

That's intervals, and yes, they're a bit of a bastard. Fartlek is unstructured running- you just do what you feel like at variable pace and distance. This explains the difference between them. If you're doing a half marathon, I'd concentrate on getting your distance up first and not worry about your pace until you're doing at least 25-30 km per week. Increase your runs steadily, say by about 10- 20% per week, until you hit that, and then start adding in intervals, tempo runs and the like and your running should come on leaps and bounds. You should still be looking to do 80% of your runs at a steady pace though.

Nah, you get more time to smoke on the longer runs.

18 wickets yesterday, possibly none at all today. Very strange Test, mainly because of England being shite.

Burns and Jennings steadily chipping away. With both averaging in the mid 20s, we should only need about 580 from the rest of the team.

538 runs behind now, WI still with 4 wickets in hand. Anything over 600 and we could be struggling here.