Ouch

Both ends of my body are aching (or at least they were…… one end is now just feeling sorry for itself !)

My ankle/ Achilles still hurts, well, more nags really and is going to get the ice treatment tonight, as soon as I get back from the pool !  I’m supposed to be cycling 70k tomorrow night at Yas (although yesterday we were in the middle of a huge sandstorm and today the wind hasn’t been a lot of fun !) in preparation for the big one in a couple of weeks.  I have to get my legs turning at least three or four times in the next couple of weeks before winding down ready to wind up on Friday 30^th.

I’m sure most of you are more interested in just how drunk I was on Friday than in how fit I have to be in two Fridays’ time (the answer is, I have absolutely no clue whatsoever……. And neither have most of the people I was with – but I can tell you that I think I was in bed at about 5……. in the afternoon…….).

I was well enough to go shopping on Saturday though, then go to a BBQ with some new friends (and jolly nice it was too !).  It always feels like I spend a fortune in Dubai – which I do, but to be fair, it’s once a month generally and I have a whole list of things I can’t get out here in the desert.  I need a few bike bits ready for next weeks’ (30^th) 12 hour endurance race, and a few foody things (as some of you may be aware, I can’t do milk and butter, so if I want to make flapjacks then I have to get Flora, or Diet Flora does just as good a job and is healthier still, and they have no such thing in my little collection of shops – I can get it in Abu Dhabi when I go there but I don’t always get time………  I’ve found a receipt for maltloaf that I fancy having a go at, but I can’t seem to get malt extract out here anywhere (not even in Waitrose on Saturday !) and malt extract is a bit of a critical ingredient for malt loaf !  Hey ho – we’ll keep trying and you never know, there will probably be a specialist store somewhere that will willingly amputate a limb so that I can pay for it !

Briefly, and I mean briefly, last weekend went in a drunken flash – I hadn’t meant to drink too much on Thursday night but got a last minute invite to meet someone and go and meet some of his new friends (he’s just got here a couple of months ago).  I had already had a bottle of wine at this point and Julian had gone out for dinner, so it seemed like the right thing to do……… it could have been worse I suppose.

Friday started slowly but by about 1 it was in full swing – trouble was it was probably all over by about 5 (nobody seems to know very much about anything after about 4.42 (there was a Facebook post then), except for one guy who has a full statement from the police to assist him with his enquiries !

Saturday was breakfast, second breakfast, shopping and then a BBQ in AD on the way back to the desert – I got home about 10 and am only just recovering now.  I had to go to AD for a meeting yesterday (and tomorrow) and I struggled to get out of bed this morning !

On that note I’m going to leave you before I find any more excuses to not do any exercise !  I’ll try and find something interesting to tell you towards the end of the week – I am going back to Dubai this weekend but to meet a mate coming out of KSA for the weekend and have dinner with some friends (we have vouchers for a restaurant with no license so it should be safe enough !  Plus I need to get my legs turning over before this bloody race !