24 December 2012

No bike, I'll run then

Running to supplement cycling, while I'm doing family Xmas duties, I've been doing a morning run, in the rain. Concentrating on good aerobic workouts in short amount of time(40mins). Doing hill intervals. I feel like I've done a good club run on the bike when I return, except running is high impact and using your leg muscles in a different way to cycling. As you're running your muscles are lengthening (eccentric contraction) and opposite is true of cycling (centric contraction). Left me walking down the stairs like a crab. But I'm hoping the aerobic workout will be of benefit as well as burning Xmas calories.

14 December 2012

Christmas 1979

Has there ever been a more spirited man alive than Billy Childish? Dusted off the 'Archive from 1959' this week – a truly brilliant collection if you're missing some childish in your life. It was like a little walk down memory lane, I used to live next to the dirty water club in Tufnell Park, almost every other friday Childish in some shape or form played. I remember my dear friend Bobby supported them one evening and he was so frightened to touch any of their equipment it being all vintage plastics. Stop taking in the Christmas gift guides for every budget and take in some Childish.