Years ago our triathlon
hero’s were all from the first group of people to make triathlon as famous as
it is today. We watched the videos showing Mark Allen in his famous battle with Dave Scott in Hawaii and of course
Julie Moss heart breakingly crawling over the finish line. That got many more signing
up for triathlon events. These days the name everybody knows is that of the
Brownlee's and they are turning thousands of young people into triathletes and
the sport is growing exponentially.
During to course of the film
making yesterday with a group of mature students who worked hard to make a
motivational documentary work for their purpose, one of their number
surprisingly, even joined us on the spare bike for the turbo session. They
seemed to want to stick it out until we were dripping sweat in a fairly
convincing manner before calling a halt to proceedings for the day.
Simon Lessing and Mark Allen at the award ceremony in Edmonton 2014
When the group finally left
our house with all their equipment, Steve though it was an excuse to relax a
little and looked through the list of movies that were showing at Cineworld in Chichester. Steve settled on John Wick 2 Having enjoyed
Keanu Reeves appearance of Graham Norton recently. I poured a bucket of cold
water on that idea because I pointed out that we had not seen the first John
Wick film and should we not check that out on TV if he still had that in mind.
So Steve checked to see if
we could catch that on Netflicks or Amazon Prime first and sure enough found
that we could get the first film without going to Chichester
and if it was good then we could catch the John Wick 2 movie in a week or so.
However Steve wanted to eat
out because he thought we had both worked well during the day and deserved a
Friday evening treat. We didn’t go further than our local, way in the lead,
best pizza house; Prezzo in Arundel. We drove straight up there before it got
too full and had a quick pizza, no starters and no dessert and with an offer of
30% off mains this week. There is always a pleasant welcoming greeting from the
manager, we were shown to our preferred table, good service, good food, good
offer and smart surroundings.
The evening did involve John
Wick on TV and it was very entertaining if I suppose a bit of a Marvel Comic
story. Keanu was great but we don’t think we need to see the mark II version in
the cinema.
Having had a very busy and
tiring day yesterday, we still went ahead with a Saturday turbo session this
morning and to strike a difference we put on a video that had plopped through
the door yesterday when I bought it due to it being a good special offer whilst
I was buying a new Mini X speaker for the iPad. This purchase was due to the
fact that Steve had dropped the old one in the bath and it had sadly died.
We are currently listening
to Val McDermids (book 3) of the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, The Last
Temptation we listen to it in the car and over dinner.
The new video that I had
added to my basket, was a quite old version made for TV I think, of Andrew
Lloyd-Webber, Really Useful company 2000 version of Jesus Christ Super Star.
Neither Steve nor I have been to see this in the theatre and shame on us for
that, I know I know, I know. But what we both know is that we would not be able
to make it through to the crucifixion. That is something that we share among so
many other thoughts between us. What a pair of softies eh?
This is a full blown rock
opera and we and we quickly got into the fabulous production and enjoyed all
the cast with an amazing variety of voice types and selection of wonderful
faces. Glen Carter made a super star Jesus and Jérôme Pradon was an
astonishingly brilliant Judas. The big production kept us pedaling along for
and hour and a half, yet also caused us to turn it off before the clouds
darkened. Yet again; its not a story that we have got so used to that it does
not affect us any more.
Earlier we had been ready to
get out on the road this morning for our Saturday ride but on checking with
Accuweather decided not to since it said it would be mainly cloudy and still
not that warm. Steve thinks that I should not get myself too cold considering
my length of tooth these days. Maybe he is right, I confess to being a little
more delicate these days but I’m not ready to be turned out to grass just yet.
I will be turned away from
my desk pretty soon to get ready to go swimming this evening. Another good week
of training in the money box. Here below is somebody who has been doing the same international races as us for about as long too. This is Geoff Gearing. I would have to check but I think he is even older that me if you can imagine that and may be in the 80-84 age group now and still turning those pedals. I'll message him on Facebook and ask.
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