Author: jane

Warm up for Euro 2004

BBC News have a helpful article on how to avoid getting an injury when watching football on the tv based on a factsheet provided by The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists [warning: very slow website]. It recommends “In a situation when you can reasonably anticipate a goal, prepare your body by getting up off the sofa carefully so that you are already standing and then you can jump up and down, instead of springing off the sofa”, as well as making sure food and drink are nearby to avoid incidents through “lunging”. It must be a slow news day!

Gorillas on the Piste

I’ve just seen an article on TheBoarder about a charity event happening at Castleford Xscape snow dome in June. It involves dressing up in a gorilla costume and snowboarding/skiing with the intention of completing 100 miles in an hour between all the participants. The snowboarding bit doesn’t seem so bad, but managing to get on the poma lift dressed as a gorilla sounds hard. Good luck to all those who take part.

ve been looking after

I’ve been looking after the Brighton Bloggers site, and consequently this morning got an email from someone wanting a blog added to the list of Brighton Blogs. The email said “BEACHED is a photographic Blog chronicling life on
Brighton Beach, England during British Summertime 2004.” Great concept, and so far it’s quite lovely.

Book Report

I’ve just finished reading another couple of autobiographies. The first was “Pretty good for a girl” by Tina Basich and the second was “It’s not about the bike : My journey back to life” by Lance Armstrong.

Both are about sporting personalities, Tina Basich is a snowboarder who was one of the pioneers of female snowboarding and successful too having won many events including the Big Air competition at the 1998 Winter X Games, Lance Armstrong is a very successful cyclist having won the Tour de France 5 times despite (or maybe because of) fighting through a major illness.

Both were well written, both had poignant moments, both of them are inspiring. I might add “Every Second Counts” by Lance Armstrong to my wish list.

Today was the first

Today was the first day on my c# course with Xpertise. I haven’t had an opportunity to work with .Net before so this is a great opportunity. So tonight I’ve installed the SDK. I don’t have a Visual Studio .Net license, so instead I downloaded #develop, a free development environment which so far appears to work okay. It comes with ndoc for documentation and #unit for unit testing, althought I’m probably going to use nunit instead.

My snowboard bindings arrived

My snowboard bindings arrived yesterday, and very pleased I am too. I originally ordered some special “lady” flow bindings, but despite Robin Hood Watersports saying they had them to sell, they later emailed me to say they didn’t. 🙁 So, I opted for some Pro 11 flow’s from edge2edge. I bought them when they were still at full price, but they sold them at their sale price – so I got £35 off them. Thank you edge2edge 😀

This evening we attached our bindings to our boards (with not too much difficulty)- we just need to find some snow now…