Starting with running as usual. Got a new PB for one lap of The Tan, and just missed a Lilydale Lake parkrun PB by two seconds, that it was for short distance. Also had two races for the month, Sandy Point 10km was an early start at Brighton, I took a cautious approach since it was a new course and there was some wind off the beach, but managed to come in just under 38 minutes which is possibly a new 10km race PB.
A couple of weeks later had the Harvest Run again. This is a lot harder to prepare for due to the hills, and it was also a unusually warm and windy day. I ran by myself in 9th for most of the race and gradually moved up a couple of places to finish 7th, a bit disappointing to be only slightly better than last year although I had a more consistent race. I was really dehydrated and dizzy after the race which hasn't happened before, possibly because I had been sick and not getting much sleep during the week.
Finished off the month with one new parkrun in Lancefield and probably a final hard session of training for the half marathon, but my legs have been really sore since so may have worked a bit too hard.
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| Lancefield parkrun. |
No biking.
Nothing happening with shares again, just had the option to participate in two discounted capital raising and chose one of them.
A disappointing 4th place finish in the FIBA world championships for Australia, at least did better than USA though. I went to three AFL games during the finals series - week one Collingwood vs Geelong, week two Geelong vs West Coast, and the grand final GWS vs Richmond. I was happy that Richmond won but it was over early in the third quarter.
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| AFL grand final, the first time on level two. |
I want to try and work back and compile a list of grand finals I've been to. I have a collection of posters - I've ordered the last few laminated instead of just paper - but there's a few that I didn't actually go to in there too.
The to do list:
- Car
- I think I have saved enough money between my two bank accounts
- But I still need to choose a good car - manual transmission ruled out unfortunately
- Holiday
- Seems like another downgrade to a Cup Day weekend at best
- And another three day weekend perhaps
Finished another project at work. A fun two months but long hours and never enough time to do everything. The next project already feels like it might be the same. The only issue with this issue is trying to fit my running it since it's at a client office.
That's it for this month.
- Books
- None
- Movies
- None
- Music
- Apocalyptica at Hamer Hall
- The first half was the original instrumental album, most good songs
- The second half included drums, was much better
- 7 out of 10
- Metallica
- Supposed to be coming in October but have cancelled - or postponed
- TV
- 13 Reasons Why season 3
- Getting a bit worse each season, just drags out the story
- 5 out of 10
- Hard Knocks 2019 - Oakland Raiders
- Did not seem to get a lot of access this year, seemed a bit rushed through
- 6 out of 10
- Rosehaven season 3
- Another good season, although the episodes are a bit too unrealistic
- 8 out of 10
- Veronica Mars season 4
- Seemed like the original again, very good for a short season
- 8 out of 10
- Video Games
- Xbox 360
- Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns
- Crawling to the finish line
- Xbox One
- Bought a cheap TV stand so I was able to plug it in, but haven't played anything
- Bought a dual controller recharger - but only have one controller
- Only tried the TV remote and media player app, useless
- Forza 6
- Got a few download code with the console so completed the install
- 45 GB took forever, only have 750 GB disk space
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| Apocalyptica |
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| The controller even needed an update ! |
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