It's Turbo Time

This is something I have been looking forward to these last few weeks and that was getting the go ahead off big Dunc to do a 10 minute spin on the turbo trainer.
I'm not going to write a full blog on the 10 minute workout I had, I could go on about my heart rate maybe talk about my cadence. But I know nothing about either for the workout.
As my legs were spinning and occasionally I would yell out " IT'S TURBO TIME "
For anyone who doesn't know that quote it came from the Austrian mouth of possibly the greatest action movie start of all time Arnold Schwarzenegger, from the greatest Christmas movie of all time " Jingle All The Way "

With not working and not putting any of my time and energy into my running it leaves me with a lot of time to think, whether that's wondering what Tim Henmans up to nowadays or keeping up with current affairs in th media, like the Team Sky Wiggins scandal.
This certainly had me thinking of the affect that performance enhancing drugs or TUES which is the same thing basically. PEDS is like going to a brothel and TUES is like getting a happy ending massage, although they are both different it's still cheating!
What I was thinking exactly was what affect PEDS had on Arnold Schwarzenegger and did they actually make him a better actor?!
The short answer is NO.
Although the steroids might of helped him pile on mass and get a physique your mate Darren at work is trying his hardest to get by living off whey protein and eating raw chicken.
The drugs don't make you a brilliant actor! Sure they might of helped him get the odd role as you can hardly see Tom Hanks playing the Terminator or any other Arnie roll.
So let's for now not frown at the drug abusers lets just have a think about what affect they have had on is.
For out the use of PEDS would the scene from Predator featuring Arnie and the second greatest action movie start of all time  Carl Weathers actually looked that good?
Imagine two paper thin arms embracing in a handshake, it wouldn't look half as good and for the use of PEDS for me this is probably the greatest ever scene in movie history

Although in acting the use of PEDS might be encouraged and they certainly helped in getting together the most iconic action duo of all time Arnold Schwarzenegger & Carl Weathers.

In sport it is certainly frowned upon unless your organisation is ruled in a dictator styled fashion like Vladimir Putin of the Russian athletes, Kim Jong Un of North Korea or maybe you are Dave Brailsford of Team Sky

Now although Wiggins hasn't been caught in a brothel (on PEDS) he is however getting accused of getting a  cheeky handjob on the Team Sky bus (TUES)
Like I said before cheating is cheating.
I think the message in this blog is let's not condemn all drug cheats, sure if they are involved in sport why not ban them for life and make them walk the streets naked like Cersei Lannister while  we all yell SHAME  and throw shit at them.

Let's celebrate the none sports PEDS takers.
 I will finish this blog with a simple question, a question I already know the answer too.

Name one bad movie that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been in?

None

Exactly!

Life is one big obstacle course

Normally when I have wrote a blog it has been about a fun and Interesting race or a training trip away with Nick.
However this isn't about racing or having to use bread as toilet roll ( see Kenya 2011 )

This is about how life is a obstacle course.

Sometimes when you think things are going well in life and you are well on the way to smashing through the tape at the top of the travelator like in smash hit 90's tv show Gladiators, a obstacle gets in your way, it could be the beam or maybe the hand peddle bike, you could even be one of them people you get annoyed at who climb the net badly.

My obstacle was my Bimalleolar fracture which happened in the middle of January, not only did it put a end to my running season it also affected my daily life, I can't drive and the pain from the surgery had pretty much kept me in my bedroom for the last 4 weeks.

I'm not writing this out of sympathy, it's just something else to do as I feel like I have nearly completed the life of a normal person. I have binged on tv shows, read a few books and even started to learn the guitar, I am even doing a acoustic set at Satsumas nightclub at the end of the month where I will be playing all of your favourite Hall & Oates songs

Anyway getting back to it, so I can't run at the minute and I can't even walk so my obstacle course is just getting stared at. I have had times where I have buried my head in my hands hoping it will all just go away, at times it has been pretty depressing  to say the least. It wasn't just the running it took away from me it was pretty much my livelihood, I actually enjoy my job and I'm not one to sit around so to be  confined to my bedroom was pretty shit.

But in the last few weeks through fed up of being down all the time and the realisation that eventually I will be able to walk again and then the big aim to RUN.

However it's not going to be plain sailing and it's going to take months of regular physio and daily rehab exercises. My approach to getting back to doing what I love is called " The Eunice Huthart Project" 

Why The Eunice Huthart Project you ask?! Well if I'm going to try and become the best person I can be and if I'm going to face this obstacle of overcoming this injury then why not try and become one of the greatest contenders of all time Eunice Huthart.

My positive frame of mind has made me stop dwelling on this injury and instead I'm looking forward to the challenge of being able to use my ankle properly so that I can run and then dance with middle aged women at weddings.

First thing I want to do is build my leg muscle back to its normal size as I feel like someone has replaced it with a long pepperami, now don't get me wrong I like pepperami but a pepperami certainly won't power you to the top of a mountain and it certainly won't be able to impress Janice the  64 year old divorcee at your mates wedding.

So for now Jon Anderson at the minute please don't blow your whistle because I have no fucking chance of getting over them barriers. So for now I'm going to be doing my best to ensure I tow the line of the obstacle course and will make sure I'm going on the first whistle.

I know it's not going to be a smooth path and I'm probably gonna have to tackle Jet and possibly Lightning is going to wrap her pins around me on hang tough, thrusting away trying to defeat me.

I'm looking forward to that the most.

Josh