A young man, carrying a very large box up the driveway of my house, screams, “this is too heavy. I can’t carry it any further.”
An older man is supervising the lift. He shouts back, “stop your whining!”
The young lad retorts, “its too heavy! My fingers hurt!”
I do not think he is suited to life as a delivery driver.
He is carrying a rowing machine. I ordered one a long time ago but due to a rowing machine shortage and delays caused by Brexit it had taken 6 months to arrive. Which means its unlikely I will now be able to qualify for this years UK Olympic rowing team. That’s definitely the reason that has stopped my selection….
I decided I needed a goal for my rowing so I tried to find out what is a good time and distance for a row. I came across the answer from an unlikely source, Australia’s favorite singing mutant – Wolverine or as as he prefers to be known Shug Jackman.
Shug is what people in Scotland call people called Hugh. I have no idea why.
So there’s my goal. I decided to try to get good enough to do 2000m in seven minutes. If so, i’ll be as good as Shug.
I decided to do a test row of 2000m so I’d have a benchmark time to improve on. I didn’t row too hard but I kept a good pace. I did 2000m in 6 min 45s.
Bugger! It turns out my target time was set by a man who is not very good at rowing.
Oh well – I’m now off to check if any of the other X-Men have set a better time that I can aim for.
Twin brothers swimming, cycling and running in Scotland 