I've been got at! Paul my PI at the gym has decided to up all my exercises. I had chosen correctly to go for duration rather than effort, but, he says it would be better to do an extra set of repetitions on the muscle work, as in, 3 sets of 12 rather than the 2 sets of 15, that I'm doing. He also put the weight up 10kgs on the shoulder and chest presses and 20kgs on the leg press, he lengthened the time on the cycles too. I managed to do 2,572 metres in 12 mins non stop on the rower at an average 29 strokes per minute (that's 348 strokes), at the highest resistance, which thank god he can't do anything to! The TGS Key isn't used so I can say I've done what ever I like, but I don't cheat, there's no point! I'd only be cheating myself, wouldn't I? I must admit that I am really feeling well and noticing how much easier everyday things are to do.
It's not too long now until we visit Bristol again and I'm really looking forward to it. We are staying a bit longer than we normally do so we can do a few more things/see a few more people while we are there. We have some presents for the grandchildren and we also need to take Thom out to buy his birthday present. Then when we return it'll be time to start for CHRISTMAS! Not sure yet when I'll be able to get to Bristol with those presents, hopefully a long weekend will fall on my duty around the end of November early December (or we might even get a visit around then)
Although I'm enjoying being back 'on the buses' I am finding it tiring doing different shifts every day but I suppose I'll get used to it again, it's also nice having a bit more money coming in. It would be nice if we had a better fleet of vehicles as we seem to be the dumping ground for all the other depots rubbish. Then head office moan about how much money Jesmond spends on vehicle repairs/maintenance, what else do they expect. Our duties change for the third time on 4th September since June, as we have acquired some school runs and are losing some early morning /evening Nexus sponsored services due to cuts in spending by the LPTAs
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