Knee Injury

by Wayne on 10 July, 2010 · 0 comments

Due to a knee injury I am unable to take part in the 10 mile run tomorrow that I have been sponsored for.

I have suffered with problems with both of my knees which prevented me from doing many training runs. I was not going to let this stop me but I attempted an easy jog yesterday and my right knee only lasted 8 minutes before becoming painful. Apart from this attempt I have not done any running for weeks to rest the knee because this has happened the last few times I’ve tried to run. I had hoped that after this long period of rest it would be ok but unfortunately it’s not.

As a result I have decided that it would be foolish and a waste of time to attempt a 10 mile run.

I have been doing some cycling as fitness training in preparation for the run because this does not hurt my knees. As I have received sponsorship I do need to do something so I have decided to do a bike ride instead.

I am entering a 25 mile off road route on 17th July. The ride is an Evans Cycles “Ride It” event and is designed for riders that want to challenge themselves. It is the equivalent of a 60 mile road route. The route is suitable for those with off-road experience and a reasonable level of fitness and normally takes between 3 to 5 hours.

I don’t intend to take anywhere near as long as 5 hours and my target would be to beat the 3 hours.

Tagged as: Charity, Fitness, JDRF, Mountain Biking

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House Prices Have Risen 10.5%

by Wayne on 6 May, 2010 · 0 comments

According to Nationwide house prices are up 10.5% on April last year

The UK’s largest building society claims house prices rose 1% in April pushing the annual rise into double figures for the first time since June 2007. The average house price in the UK now stands at £167,802 according to their figures.

Originally they showed a 0.7% increase for March but have since revised that figure to also be 1%.

They do still put prices at 10% below the peak though that was reached in October 2007.

The society said the three-monthly rate of growth, which gives a better guide to the underlying market trends, showed a 1.1% rise in prices, down from a 1.5% rise in March.

This contradicts figures from Land Registry who claim that prices dropped 0.6% in March following a drop of 0.3% in February. However they do agree on an annual increase if not by quite as much with a rise of 7.5%.

Tagged as: Property

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ISAs Under Fire

by Wayne 6 May 2010

Savers looking for the best interest rates on their money risk being sold unsuitable investments by banks and building societies Savers looking to get the best interest rates on savings risk being sold risky, unsuitable investments by banks and building societies offering “tied” deals. These deals offer market leading interest rates on cash deposits but [...]

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Iliotibial Band Syndrome

by Wayne 19 April 2010

I’ve been to a physio about the problem I’ve been having with the knee pain and he thinks I am probably suffering from Iliotibial Band syndrome. The Iliotibial Band is a thick band of fibrous tissue that runs down the outside of the leg. The pain is caused by this band rubbing over the outside [...]

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Mortgage Lending Up In March

by Wayne 19 April 2010

Gross mortgage lending was an estimated £11.5 billion in March, a 24% rise from £9.3 billion in February and a 3% rise from £11.2 billion in March 2009, according to data published today by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). This is in line with the typical seasonal pattern of a rise in lending volumes [...]

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My 10k Training Set Back

by Wayne 2 March 2010

I haven’t been able to do any running over the past week because I somehow managed to hurt my knee last Tuesday. I was on the treadmill and after about 18 minutes me left knee started hurting. After 20 minutes I had to stop as it was getting quite painful and I didn’t want to [...]

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Return To Monkey Island

by Wayne 2 March 2010

So, following on from my previous post about Sky, they haven’t completely done what I asked after all. A couple of days ago I received two letters. One letter saying that Sky were making some changes to contracts and that currently you could downgrade packages whenever you want as long as you had had them [...]

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People Offering SEO Services

by Wayne 20 February 2010

An post to people offering SEO services I received an unsolicited email (SPAM) this morning from someone offering me their SEO services for one of my websites. The website they were referring to was my site for Sister Act Tickets. The email said, in a nutshell, that they have looked at my site, like the [...]

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10k Training Plan

by Wayne 20 February 2010

I have been advised by a number of people not to complete my 12 week training plan for the 10 mile run early. At week 8 of the training plan I am supposed to do a 10k run so I have entered the Flitwick 10k – a 10k run in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. So what I [...]

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How Many Monkeys

by Wayne 17 February 2010

How many monkeys does it take to activate Sky+? Nearly three weeks ago now I went away on holiday for a week. I was due to leave the day that the new series of Lost started on Sky1 which was also three days before the new series of 24 started, also on Sky1. Up until [...]

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