Sooner than I thought... that's another basket of balls blasted into a field!
Quite pleased, the 7 iron is now going regularly between 100 and 130 yards, usually quite straight and onlt the occasional complete 'fluffed' shot. On the other hand, I took the 3 iron, I was useless!! Only managed about 80 yards and noware close to straight, so I switched back to the 7...
My hands and wrist were quite sore by the time I finished, so I will leave it a few days before I go back again.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Monday, July 25, 2005
My first visit to ...
... A driving range.
I swung my way thro' a basket of balls this evening at the local Driving Range. Under the expert eye of "Nigel from Work" a complete Golf fanatic, my 7 Iron improved from 30 yards, no elevation and a directional accuracy of +/- 45 degrees to about 100 yards, waaaay up in the air with an accuracy of about +/- 5 degrees.
That's not to say every shot was good, but there is a definate improvment. I now need to work on the consistency before moving up to a bigger club. As Arnie may well have said.... "I'll be back"
I swung my way thro' a basket of balls this evening at the local Driving Range. Under the expert eye of "Nigel from Work" a complete Golf fanatic, my 7 Iron improved from 30 yards, no elevation and a directional accuracy of +/- 45 degrees to about 100 yards, waaaay up in the air with an accuracy of about +/- 5 degrees.
That's not to say every shot was good, but there is a definate improvment. I now need to work on the consistency before moving up to a bigger club. As Arnie may well have said.... "I'll be back"
Bandit's First Service Today
... having done about 700 mile, it was time for it's first service - mainly oil change and check valve clearances, chain etc. All OK and it cost the princely sum of £40
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Finished!
I have just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince... Started to count down the months to the final book!
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
June's Site Hit counts
In the calendar month of June, my redbreva domain recieved over 11,000 hits!
The Breakdown is as follows:
Unique Visitors : 6,369
Most Popular page : http://rockboxvideo.redbreva.co.uk/ : 3,501 hits
Browser Technology Breakdown:
IE (all versions) : 75%
IE (version 6) : 65%
Mozilla Based : 20%
Operating System Breakdown:
Windows (All versions) : 97%
Windows (XP) : 77.5%
Windows (2000) : 9%
Windows (98) : 8%
Mac's : 2%
Linux : 1%
Both the http://rockboxvideo.redbreva.co.uk/ and http://startfromhere.redbreva.co.uk sites have a Google 'Page Rank' of 4/10
The Breakdown is as follows:
Unique Visitors : 6,369
Most Popular page : http://rockboxvideo.redbreva.co.uk/ : 3,501 hits
Browser Technology Breakdown:
IE (all versions) : 75%
IE (version 6) : 65%
Mozilla Based : 20%
Operating System Breakdown:
Windows (All versions) : 97%
Windows (XP) : 77.5%
Windows (2000) : 9%
Windows (98) : 8%
Mac's : 2%
Linux : 1%
Both the http://rockboxvideo.redbreva.co.uk/ and http://startfromhere.redbreva.co.uk sites have a Google 'Page Rank' of 4/10
New version of Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 has been released. This latest update contains several security fixes and improvements to stability.
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Grab Firefox 1.0.5 from the Firefox product page and check out the Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 Release Notes for more information.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Good end to a quiet week
Not much on the local news front this week, but yesterday we got the School Reports for Amy and Alex...
Amy got a complete set of 5's in her SAT's... 4 is the expected score for an 11 year old, so all results were above average, well done Amy
Alex got a mixture of 2B and 2C's with one 1... 2B is the expected score for a 7 year old, so results were almost there, considering he was so far behind at the start of the year he has done really well.
The diet is still going well (I think!!) and the strength training is really hard work - I have had permanently aching legs, shoulders and back since last week!! The leg press machine was out of order on Thursday, so I was told to do Squats with free weights - damn my quads ache!!
Why is it so difficult to avoid large amounts of Carbs?? I have even started to drink Diet Coke!!
Amy got a complete set of 5's in her SAT's... 4 is the expected score for an 11 year old, so all results were above average, well done Amy
Alex got a mixture of 2B and 2C's with one 1... 2B is the expected score for a 7 year old, so results were almost there, considering he was so far behind at the start of the year he has done really well.
The diet is still going well (I think!!) and the strength training is really hard work - I have had permanently aching legs, shoulders and back since last week!! The leg press machine was out of order on Thursday, so I was told to do Squats with free weights - damn my quads ache!!
Why is it so difficult to avoid large amounts of Carbs?? I have even started to drink Diet Coke!!
Monday, July 04, 2005
BTP - First Training Session
On Saturday I spent an hour in the Gym with Liz. After initial measurements were taken, she worked me rather hard on the weights. The system used is the "Single Rep Max" method. This involved determining the maximum weight to you can manage to perform just one rep of. Once this figure is established, you set the weight to 80% of this max figure and do a set of 8 reps, if you get the initial figure correct the 8th rep is *very* difficult!
The aim is to do this program three times a week, normallt this would be Monday, Wednesday and Friday as you should leave a day between (to allow muscles chance to recover), but as today is a ROTA day, I need to leave it an extra day this week... Mind you, given the pain in my chest, legs and back I think I need it!!
The tail of The Tape:
Chest 42"
Waist 41"
Hips 42"
Upper Arm 12.5"
Upper Thigh 21"
My Program for Weeks 1 & 2
Warm up : Rowing Machine, Level 10, Rate 30, 5 minutes
Leg Press : 150 x 8
Single Leg Press : 60 x 8 (each leg)
Chest Press : 125 x 8
Upper Back : 145 x 8
Biceps : 125 x 8
Dips : 9 x 8
Abs : 3 sets of 10
Plank : 30 seconds x 2
Stretches
The aim is to do this program three times a week, normallt this would be Monday, Wednesday and Friday as you should leave a day between (to allow muscles chance to recover), but as today is a ROTA day, I need to leave it an extra day this week... Mind you, given the pain in my chest, legs and back I think I need it!!
The tail of The Tape:
Chest 42"
Waist 41"
Hips 42"
Upper Arm 12.5"
Upper Thigh 21"
My Program for Weeks 1 & 2
Warm up : Rowing Machine, Level 10, Rate 30, 5 minutes
Leg Press : 150 x 8
Single Leg Press : 60 x 8 (each leg)
Chest Press : 125 x 8
Upper Back : 145 x 8
Biceps : 125 x 8
Dips : 9 x 8
Abs : 3 sets of 10
Plank : 30 seconds x 2
Stretches
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