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Hi everyone else, still pretty busy but my house completed yesterday at last. Off to the bank this lunchtime to check the moneys gone in.
Ta Ta til later
This state school lark is a bargin !!!
I have just bought an entire uniform for less than one of her old cardies would cost :-)
And they get snacks provided for free !!!
The good news is that her new school dress is PINK :-)
I'm having a pasty for lunch then it back to healthy low fat for me :-)
Hi all.
Enjoy summer, while we've got it.
Went with the 2 lads I'm helping towards there first Tri
Ended up doing 3 x 500m with 60 secs in about 30mins
These things always start with "just out of curiousity" next thing you know you've entered!
My step children did GCSEs in the late 80s
Ofcourse there is only a FEW years between me and them (now creeping early 30s)...
O levels WEREN'T harder were they?
It's just that now there is huge opportunity for vastly increased knowledge ... so more students pass
but they've changed the grading, was A-E + O now just A, B, C that count for "pass" (only it's not PC to say that) so my "B" in Human Bio and my "A" in Eng Lit are both "A"s now!!
dont worry it's the only "A" I got
Not sure about the Pure Maths though - apparantly they dont do GEOMETRY anymore
Hmmm. If I could get even reasonably good at swimming....
I've toyed with the idea of the Arran half, although the bike leg is hilly. The attraction is that its a pool swim. Just a dream really, I doubt I'll ever be fit enough.
They keep reclassifying things but when I did mine whilst you were graded A - E, only grades A - C were counted as passes.
Swimming is 75% technique - get yorself along to a few improvers or masters lessons
Go for it
Live the dream
I think O'levels became GCSE's the year after I left secondary school 1988 - correct me if I'm wrong someone (lots of teachers lurking in the corners here)
The Great Welsh Tri is on BBC on Saturday lunch time
Then again I allways was rubbish at names but I never forget a face....not much call for that here!
A, B, C, D, E, O, = PASS
F, G, H, = FAIL
'A' Levels were the same - except if you only got the 'O' it was = to an 'O' level pass
Best tri swim: 750m - 23mins, so 1.9k = 1 hour-ish
Average speed on training cycles: 15mph, so 56 miles = 4 hours ish
Best half marathon = 2hours22mins
That totals around 7.5 hours, without taking into account the fact I'd be starting the bike and run leg knackered from the last bit.
Need a good few months injury free, consistent training before thinking about it seriously.
Happy birthday Smitch. Mwah Mwah
Thats it really. Sorting out some courses
to do (painfully expensive ones), so that
I can finish this unemployed lark sooner
rather than later.
Off now, to make lunch.
er, definite help needed poolside on technique
WW - your swim was over TWICE as fast as my little 25m pace - see it's hopeless
I should manage the run after the bike as I try and do that on a long session every month or so (session total 5 hrs plus - run bike run) haven't done it since March though cos of series of 4 marathons just completed, and 2:03 in the Plymouth Half a few wks ago