I only completed one baking recipe for the month, and that was the first since the end of July too. I will probably get back to doing a few more, but my recipe list is a big mess at the moment.
The month in running wasn't too bad, including the Bendigo Bank 10km where I finished 7th in 38:47, but I really died on the second lap. I got back into some interval training, one of the most strenuous types of exercise possible. I don't do it very often as I don't want to risk injuries, and it's hard to have maximum energy during a work day to complete it properly.
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| Castlemaine, on the way to Bendigo. |
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| Bendigo. |
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| Somehow 2nd place in the age categories. |
At the City2Sea 15km I tried a slightly different strategy by starting out slightly slower than usual, but it didn't really allow me to finish any stronger at the end, I was still struggling by about 13km although there was a lot of head wind that day. I ended in 67th place with 56:55, about a minute better than the previous year.
Besides that there was just a couple of park runs in between, in the final week I set a pretty surprising new best time of 18:14 for 5km, which even includes a couple of steep hills.
Another rocky ride on the sharemarket, after a big week I was all the way back to only being 3% down, then one of my companies dived to the point they're worth like 20% of what I paid for them. I picked up another company during the month which offset most of that loss though, but it seems like I'm never going to get back into positive territory...
On the way back from Bendigo during Melbourne Cup weekend we stopped in at the NBL match between Melbourne United and Sydney Kings. Once again Josh Childress was injured, but Al Harrington was a guest player on a short term contract, his input was pretty disappointing and the Kings lost badly.
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| NBL. |
The to do list didn't see much action again.
- 2016 running
- I made a rough plan for running events for next year
- Still need to determine some possible interstate or internationals
- Car repair
- I was one of those idiots driving around with one broken brake light!
- Fantasy NBA
- I ran out of time to create a team
- Probably too busy at work to follow it properly right now anyway
- PC upgrade
- Just doubled from 8gb to 16gb ram while DDR3 is still cheap and available!
That's it for the month.
- Books
- It by Stephen King
- Finally finished after 28 hours
- The story dragged on a bit and the ending wasn't the best
- Now to watch the movie again
- 5 out of 10
- Movies
- Jurassic World
- Predictable, the only possible story is that dinosaurs escape
- I gave up with half an hour to go
- 2 out of 10
- Maze Runner 2
- A waste of time
- Just wandering the desert like Mad Max Fury Road
- 3 out of 10
- Unfriended
- Interesting small budget horror (maybe) movie
- The whole movie is spent on computer screens with skype and messaging
- 6 out of 10
- Music
- The Go! Team - The Scene Between
- Not as good as previous albums, but some good tracks
- 7 out of 10
- TV
- NFL Undrafted
- Some college prospects trying to get picked in the 2015 NFL draft
- Their backgrounds were quite interesting
- Just ordinary young people without much life experience or money
- Only one made a roster, as expected
- 7 out of 10
- The Principal
- Short SBS drama
- 6 out of 10
- Video Games
- Playstation 3
- Gran Turismo 6
- Just a few endurance races, getting closer to 100%
- I'm not sure what is required, but I may get stuck on a couple
- Retro
- Got a few old Sega Master System and Genesis to play
- Xbox One
- Picked up pre-order of Fallout 4
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| Gran Turismo 6 endurance race in a car without headlights. |
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| The Xbox One still in it's box. |