According to some, 'It's all about the bike'

Well, it must be said that I am a bike tart! Although I'm er....... maturing (!) in years, I can't resist a good bike. They just make me smile.

The earliest of my dim memories has me on a self-made BMX in our local town recreation ground looning around with my friends doing jumps and tricks (I have the scars to prove it). I'd blag and buy parts to build up or improve my ride into something worth. I can't for the life of me think why I ever get rid of a bike - especially my early BMX!!

After years without a bike, I fell into the Mountain Bike thing when my family started Camping Holidays. It was only intended to be a bit of a Family rider.

I started to use it more when I first got into the Keep Fit thing. Living near East Midlands Airport at the time, I used to ride around the Airport perimeter trail of an evening with a friend. Fun cycling under planes while they were landing.

Moving back down South, I stayed with the MTB for a while and went over the local woods, then on to the local Forestry Commission trail (Bedgebury) where I still go now. Single-track looning is the best. Usually go there nice and early in the day to miss the crowds. All weather. Not fussed. I'll post some Video soon.

Bedgebury Insomnia MTB Race from 2013 - 12 hours, at night :)

The 'before' shot 

 

 

It was being friends with the mud that sort of encouraged the entry into my first encounter with the Tri Club - the annual Kingswood Duathlon (2.5Km run, 13Km ride, 2.5Km run). The first time was my first public 'event'. I hadn't a clue about how I'd do (read 'if I'd finish'). To my surprise, I came off the first run in something like 14th. This quickly faded during the bike and second run, but even so, HAPPY!!

Joining the Tri Club after this meant the move in to the Road.

As I wasn't sure if I'd last any significant time with the Tri Club, I bought a road bike for 40 quid off Ebay. Figured I'd not waste too much if it went wrong. Needless to say, this lasted about a year before I plunged into CARBON bikes :D

As I used to love building bikes up, I opted to build a Road Bike instead of heading down to the local dealer. I also decided to take the risk of importing a Carbon Frame and wheels. It was a risk, but I think it paid off (and I almost stuck to the budget!)

 

 

I think I've probably done over 3000 miles on this bike so far, and it's still going strong......

However, it's a general Road bike. For those real keen, there is the out and out Time-Trial bike that is much more focussed on allowing speed to be built-up and maintained.

The riding position is a lot more aggressive, with the aim to reduce the overall cross-sectional area of bike / rider (mainly rider!!). This is achieved by shifting the riders weight forward over the crank / pedals and lowering the handlebar contact points, thus lowering your shoulders.

With this new position comes a compromise in comfort over long distances, so it is an acquired skill, so plenty of practice needed!

This is where Priorclave have kindly stepped in to support me by supplying a TT bike. How cool!

I’ve gone about this in the same manner as my Road Bike, by buying out of China with an un-branded frame, forks and wheels, and then sourced the remaining components on the Web to keep costs down.

Made In China .... you have to throw things together the second you receive them just to see what it looks like - its a Boy thing!

 

 

Mid-Spray...

 

 

Nearly there - in the Priorclave Yellow and White ... Nice!

 

Completed bike pics to follow in the next Blog :)

W.



 

Running update

So I did the next ParkRun this morning - foot felt OK during the event but a little sore this afternoon.  Based on recent levels of 'sorness' and hopefully a good ride tomorrow, it'll be good as new again by Tuesday.  Progress.

Time this morning was 21:02, so a little slower than last week, but still happy with this.  Felt good over the first lap and faded a little earlier than last week.  Think I was chasing club mate Chris Sardo a little.  Not intended, but he is a good runner and always good to push yourself a little.

November is here

November training has brought more of the same really, so nothing very 'inspiring', but I've definitely noticed that I'm feeling a lot more comfortable and stronger in some areas.

Running has been the typical problem for me. The Left Knee is now completely pain-free but somehow feels a little 'loose'. Maybe it’s down to the lack of strength there / subconscious bias towards the RHS knee / paranoia .... I don't know. I will be treating it very carefully through the next couple of months though before training really starts to ramp up.

This of course means that I needed another injury to scupper the running plans. Stand up Mr Sore Right Foot. Take a bow!

No idea how / why, but the arch over the top of the foot felt 'burnt'. Walking was OK, but the running stride was a problem. After a couple of weeks 'man-suffering' .... you know the type (Real serious stuff), I have finally got round to seeing a Physio. Nothing serious found to be wrong, but a bit of hitting with a Hammer and attaching with a Blow-Torch means that, within days, the foot is completely pain free and I'm thinking about that fast-walking stuff again. Again, will be starting real gently before planning an attack on pace / endurance though.

I've done a club evening run which was OK. Nice and COLD. Just love the cold :)

The one run that I have done (when I though the foot was cool) was the Park Run in Ashford. Park Runs are free organized events run by volunteers. They are held in towns across the country. Google 'ParkRun' and find your local one. No pressure, no expectations, nice and short. Just register, receive a Bar Code and go run :)

Ours is organized by a Tri Club member and real gent, Mr Jim Hawkins, so easy for me to decide to do it (Jim organizes the Club X-country events - MTB Duathlon and 666 Runs - Again, check out the web site).

So, the Park Run went much better than expected. PB of 20:48 for the 5K distance. Cool. Now, this only creates the question 'should I target sub-20 before , or should I stick to the plan and concentrate on form and technique through to Feb / March??' What do you think?

Cycling has been a little better split between Gym bike and road.

Out a couple of times with Allan (Clubbie again) who's a bit of an animal and kills me every time. I think this is good as it will hopefully drag some improvement out of me from somewhere. Probably an unmentionable part!!

You could never guess that cycling on Marsh roads brings constant head-winds, but it done. Be warned!

The gym bike work has been varied. Hotel gyms are SHIT! equipment is almost always knackered. Had the pleasure of a trip to USA for a week, so at least the Jet Lag meant that I could get in the gym in the early hours and not suffer sweaty Americans :)

The gym bike at the Julie Rose Stadium in Ashford (normal haunt) has very new equipment, is clean (and well vented) and quiet, just don’t tell everyone. I know that gym bikes are not ideal (riding position is more 'shopper' than road), but you have a regular point of reference from your last / typical work-out, and I complete a session and go straight to the Club Fitness session with Orange Hayley.

Swimming has just been the regular mornings. I've certainly concentrated on the 'drills' that were discussed following the coaching session. I’m feeling a lot stronger in the 'catch / pull phase. A little more balanced and fluid (pardon the pun). Will definitely remain focussed on this.

The Physio (note to self - do not type 'Psycho' - easy done!) was better than expected. Although I did need to get 'things' sorted, I'll also continue to go as regularly as I can afford. The more help my old pins can get, the better I think.

Plan for the next couple of weeks:

1 Certainly FINISH THE TRI BIKE :D

Sneak Preview:

Should be fun!

2 Get on the bike in the Shed - will provide pictures

2a Get on the bike in the woods- where's my MTB Buddy? ... must also buy a jet wash

2b Get on the bike on the road - don't get dropped so regularly

3 Slowly build the running

4 Another trip to the Physio.

.......... 'til next time.

Will.



  

October Training

So October has come and gone in a flash.  Training is going OK.

The Tri Club fitness sessions have re-started for the winter period and are great fun.  The first session is always a beep-test together with some other basic fitness 'markers'.  I didn't get to my PB with the beeptest because of the knee issue, but never mind.  I'll try and get to these as much as possible (didn't manage many last year).


Running has been light only.  The knee has fully recovered (as i write in early Nov), but will continue for another couple of weeks to build it up slowly.  All runs have been at a steady pace while trying to concentrate on foot-strike position, a nice tall posture, rotated hips (forward to promote foot strike position) and relaxed shoulders.

Swimming has been the fun one.  For my Birthday I received a session at a local Swim Analysis center, TheTriLife.  Its an endless pool (not been in one before) where you are video'd from four positions to allow you / the coach to fully review the stroke.  From this, you can develop your stroke as required.  Fun seeing yorself swimming in the Steanless Steal plates on the floor of the pool. 
If you've not been in one, there is quite a current running down the center of the pool to swim against, and I found it awkward to remain in the current flow.  Look at the vid below and I don;t think i'm quite as stable as I am in a notmal pool.

I'd not had a one-to-one coaching session before, so was facinated to see how it turned out. 

Basically, every phase of the stroke I thought I was poor at was actually not too bad (hip rotation / streamline position), but those area that I throught were OK need attention (initial catch and arm position on the right hand side).

Below is one of the short clips that show a slow catch-up drill that will promote the catch correction.

 

The experience was fun, and I'll do another one early in the new year to hopefully show some improvement.

Pool swimming has been good.  Again, not really been doing any distances, just drill work mainly.
I've been using the watch that I've mentioned recently for a bit of analysis, but I can;t really see any benefit for it.  The data is not as comprehensive as I had hoped.  Ebay it soon! 

Cycling has been limited to MTB stuff (no recent crashes to report - bonus!), and hotel gym sessions.  I try to concentrate on either Interval sessions or Randon cycles just to change things up a bit, but I do go to the gym before (!) the ATC fitness sessions to get in a 10-mile TT.  These have been improving - down to 26m 20s at the moment with a typical power output of 230W during this time.  I know its only on a static bike (no wind resistance or hills), but its a measure of improvement if you do the same test on the same gym bike. Unlike the Swim watch, stats are really useful here - geek time!

More soon.

W.

Sept training then!

Well, I suppose that, with all of the euphoria of entering, the bike and setting up the post, I should really get down to the important stuff like training!!

With my last race way back in the early part of August, I had pretty much the rest of the month to take a vacation and do the odd little bit of excersise, but nothing too strenuous. 
Early Sept took me into thinking about the long-term plan and how it can fit into every-day family life.

For the 'technique' based period through until Feb / March time I should have early morning, a couple of evenings and one time slot for Sat / Sunday training available.

Early mornings will be split between Swim (on the way to work), Run (before work) or Core Excersises (at home).  Again, nothing too taxing, but enough to keep me rolling on.  They will only be 30 minute (ish) sessions.
Evening sessions will be limited to one or two times a week and will be a general mixture of Club Circuit Training (Wednesday evenings at the Julie Rose Athletics Stadium),  the gym,  Run (again at the Staduium on the track) or on the bike Rollers in the shed.  I aim to do about 1 - 1.5 hours each session, but they'll be limited to time and family comittments.

Sept training to date has been OK.  I'm happy with the levels of enthusiasm for now, and weather has been good. 
I've got a nice little swim watch for helping analyse swim efficiency, speed, stroke rate etc. Don't really like wearing a watch at the best of times, so will be strange to get used to. It's early days with this at the moment.  Once I have some reasonable data on the software I'll screen-dump an image to show if I'm getting better ..... or worst!  I'll be doing a Swim Analysis during Oct to hopefully help me out.

Running has been disappointing as I currently suffer a sore knee after longer runs that takes three / four of days to heal itself.  This means that I've only been out a few times.  I feel a trip to the physio coming on!  Fortunatelty it doesn't seem to affect the riding. 

Cycling has been FUN.  Part MTB, part road.  Some great gravel-rash on the right shoulder and back following a bit of 'over-exuberance' on a new local trail. All part of the attraction of MTB for me.
The road riding culminated in a Club Captain's Ride in the Sept sun which was great. 
The plan will be to use the roads for distance work and off-road for strength work (provided I can stay upright!).
Distance really not a problem, just speed needs to increase. 

Gym - I've not been over the Summer period (except for Hotel gyms), so getting back there was a bit strange.  Need to get used to being confined again.  I'll be doing more basic strength work through the winter which I didn't do last winter.  Hopefully this will help with the swim.

More Soon :)
 

My Tri History

The first time I came into contact with 'triathlons' came when I befriended a guy living in the same village that I did some in 2007 (Castle Donnington, Leicestershire). He invited me on an evening Mountain Bike ride. During the hill climb out of the village (within the first 5 minutes) he muttered that he really should get back in to Triathlon. I answered .... well, I was so knackered I couldn't speak, but it did start me thinking.

About a year later, my family and I moved back to our native Kent and I continued riding / running for fun. Soon after the move, I found ATC on the internet advertising one of their annual events, The Kingswood Duathlon. I entered and became hooked!

After joining the club, the plan was always to gradually build up the event distances with a view to doing Ironman at some stage. If I'm honest, I'm a year behind schedule. My first events were Sprint Triathlons (500m swim / 26km bike / 5k run) and I found these very difficult. I've come to think that I don't do 'short'! I'm not inclined to 'kill myself' by trying real hard straight away as I think others were doing during this Sprint Event. I tend to like my Lungs to remain on the inside of my body!

Having said that, the few Sprint Tri's that I have completed have been the Club Championship races held once a year at the East Grinstead Tri. The enjoyment here is that the club generally has about 30+ entrants on the day, and the East Grinstead Tri Club generously allow ATC competitors to start at around the same time, so we're able to race against each other and offer tremendous encouragement (via sarcasm usually) throughout. It really does encompass the Clubs social philosophy. I'd really recommend joining a club if you are thinking of entering the world of Tri.

East Grinstead Tri 2013

The other Sprint race that I'm real happy to take part in is the National Club Relays, held in Holme Peerpoint -Nottingham. It's basically a 4-person team where each member does the Swim leg as a relay, then the last swimmer hands to the first cyclist. Each member then completes the cycle leg as a relay, with the last cyclist handing over to the first runner. You get the idea!

It is great to race in the close proximity to others, against your fellow clubies and its real good fun. The last time I took part was 2012 (I messed up my Holiday dates, so this year I was in France! Idiot) ATC had 3 teams entered. Club Men’s Captain organised the teams so that we'd have real close times. With the event lasting something like three and a half hours, we all ended up finishing within a couple of minutes from each other. Ace!

So, short races are not quite my think, so on to slightly longer events.

I've done the Paddock Wood Half Marathon a few years on the trot. It's local, flat (for fast times) and the route passes one of my Aunty's house, so I have a great support club there. Unfortunately it's on mile 12, do I'm usually struggling by that time - not very impressive!

My best time is 1hr 34mins and 43secs which I'm real happy with.

Tri-wise, I jumped straight from Sprint to Middle-distance events (missing the popular Olympic Distance) and entered 'Helvellyn' - a 1 mile swim in Ulswater, a 38 mile ride including a hill climb called 'The Struggle' between Ambleside and the Kirkstone Pass followed by a nice run up and down Mt Helvellyn. Although not exactly half the distance of an Ironman race, it's considered one of the toughest due to the hilly nature of the course.

Now, the event (scenery) was stunning and I completed it in 6hrs 8minutes and a smile on the face, I did feel that I could do a lot better. I had a few bike mechanical issues (really disappointed about that), and the run was more of a hike! It did however confirm that I prefer the longer stuff.

Top of Mt Helvellyn

This year has followed a similar event schedule of Half Marathon, cycle sportive and other local runs, but as I mentioned earlier, I'd mentally planned for a jump straight to full Ironman distance following Helvellyn, but as I was a little disappointed with how this turned out, I decided to do a couple more long endurance events:

Bedgebury Insomnia - a 12 hour Mountain Bike race (8PM to 8AM!!)

Oh yes, right up my street. Mountain bike, off-road. It's the place I'm most comfortable.

Everything about this race went exactly to plan - training and the build-up, nutrition, energy control, pace, bike ran sweet and a nut, great weather.

Although I have no idea how I would do, I came 4th in my category which was somehow won by a Lady!! Think she robbed me of a podium there!

I completed 11 laps of a 13.4Km course. Yep, 147Kms check!

Then, on to ....

The Owler Half Distance - A proper half Ironman distance, 1.2 mile swim - 58 mile bike (Ironman is 56 miles) and a 13.1 mile run.

Coming about a month after the MTB race, this again went really well, with a finishing time of 6hrs 1 minute. The run was a little disappointing, but I'll just call it 'room for improvement'

Split times:

These last two events were a real boost to my confidence and I felt really happy to move on the Long Distance.

Bring it on!

It all starts now

So, my entry into Outlaw seems in the distant past already (3 weeks ago!!) and I have the pleasure of knowing that 5 other ATC members have entered the same event. This could work one of two ways. We could work together over the next 10 months and train long and hard, bouncing off each other and get the best out of ourselves, or I could get completely phased and demoralized by the constant progression of the others and by my seeming inability to keep to a training schedule / progress in any way etc , etc.

Hopefully it will be the former.

Training Plan

In any case, I think that I'll have to stick largely with my own training schedule that will look something like this:
For the period up to early Feb I'll be concentrating on Technique work, especially with running. Hopefully it will promote efficiency.

This will lead in to Speed work between Feb and April, then start to lengthen the work and incorporate long-duration Endurance building brick sessions (swim into run, cycle to run sessions).

I've compiles a training Calendar that will help me stick to some kind of schedule. For these early stages I'm not too fussed about mixing up the scheduled tasks, so long as I keep the spread of work similar on a week by week basis.

It will mainly be based on two / three early morning swims each week before work, two / three evening runs or bike sessions (rollers in my shed - I'll get some pictures of this), then a long session over the weekend, probably mountain bike or road bike.

Using the weekly plan, there will then be a further training rotation where week one to three will get increasingly harder sessions, with week four then being a relatively gentle 'recovery' week (if that makes any sense).

My training schedule will also be hampered by the fact that I sometimes need to stay away from home during the week for work. I'll just have to make sure I get a hotel with a gym or pool, and take my trainers! Sometimes that is the best way to pass the time when you're away from home ... go exploring on a run!

I'll try and track these activities on my internet training page and see if I can work out how exactly to link them to the Blog site. It may need to be linked to my Google+ account.

There are numerous types of web-based training log sites available. It’s difficult to know exactly which one is best. I've an account on STRAVA which is a great cycling based tool that logs maps of any routes completed (via the data from a GPS enabled computer thing link my Garmin 301) and then automatically compares any hills climbed on this route to all other members, then creates a league table. You can compare times against friends / rivals or previous rides and assess your increase (or otherwise) in performance. Now, this is a little competitive for me, but it can be quite interesting!! Strava has recently introduces a running section too so it is a little more able to cope with the range of Ironman training, but I have difficulty in that I have a Blackberry, and Strava doesn't support this device. Loathed to get an alternative just to cope with this!

The alternative is MapMyTri, which by its very name, caters for all training formats, but is not quite so specific as to place rides / runs on a league table. May be much more appropriate for me as Ironman is more a competition with yourself (at my level anyway!).
MapMyTri page: http://www.mapmyfitness.com/my_home/

Again, hope my blagging makes sense. Let me know if there are any specific details of my training that you'd like to hear about.

Will.

History of Ironman

So, introduction to my Blog over, now to hopefully explain a little about the creation of Ironman .......

History of Ironman:

It was on the West Coast of the USA during the mid 70's that multi-discipline sports endurance first kicked off with locally organised short-distance triathlons and single discipline endurance events. Keen athletes would naturally seek out fresh new challenges.

The idea for the original Ironman Triathlon arose during the awards ceremony for the 1977 Oʻahu Perimeter Relay (a running race for 5-person teams). Among the participants were numerous representatives of both the Mid-Pacific Road Runners and the Waikiki Swim Club, whose members had long been debating which athletes were more fit, runners or swimmers. On this occasion, U.S. Navy Commander John Collins pointed out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that Eddy Merckx, the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded "oxygen uptake" of any athlete ever measured, so perhaps cyclists were more fit than anyone. CDR Collins and his wife Judy Collins had taken part in the triathlons staged in 1974 and 1975 by the San Diego Track Club in and around Mission Bay, California, as well as the 1975 Optimist Sports Fiesta Triathlon in Coronado, California. A number of the other military athletes in attendance were also familiar with the San Diego races, so they understood the concept when Collins suggested that the debate should be settled through a race combining the three existing long-distance competitions already on the island: the Waikiki Roughwater Swim (2.4 mi./3.86 km), the Around-Oahu Bike Race (115 mi./185.07 km; originally a two-day event) and the Honolulu Marathon (26.219 mi./42.195 km).

From this initial discussion, John Collins and his wife organised the first event, held in Feb 1978.

Until that point, no one present had ever done the bike race. Collins calculated that by shaving 3 miles (4.8 km) off the course and riding counter-clockwise around the island, the bike leg could start at the finish of the Waikiki Rough Water and end at the Aloha Tower, the traditional start of the Honolulu Marathon. Prior to racing, each athlete received three sheets of paper listing a few rules and a course description. Handwritten on the last page was this exhortation: "Swim 2.4 miles! Bike 112 miles! Run 26.2 miles! Brag for the rest of your life", now a registered trademark.

With a nod to a local runner who was notorious for his demanding workouts, Collins said, "Whoever finishes first, we'll call him the Iron Man."

The first years event attracted only 15 entrants by word-of-mouth alone. Of the 15, only 12 were to finish on the day. Year two brought 50 entrants, but due to poor weather on the day, only 15 started.
By chance, there was a reporter from the US based Sports Illustrated magazine in the Island covering a local Golf tournament that had been hit by the weather. He was instructed to cover this low-key event for the next month edition. The reported became engrossed with the magnitude of the endeavours of the athletes and filed a 10-page report, the publishing of which drew hundreds of enquired to Collins for the next year.

The event grew over the couple of years and the organisational responsibilities passed to Valerie Silk. It was she who moved the event to the less urbanised Hawaii Island and the now iconic location of Kona. In 1982, she also moved the staging of the event from Feb to October (hence record books show two sets of results for 1982).

Since the early days, the event has become so popular that strict entry criteria for these 'World Championships' in Kona have been introduced and the world series of M-dot events have been used as 'qualifiers'.

Now, the M-dot is now a trade-mark much as F1 or McDonalds is nowadays (someone holds the rights to the mark and typically wishes to reap the rewards of the marketing) so other Long Distance triathlons such as OUTLAW cannot call themselves 'Ironman', but in my opinion, if we are being picky about calling a Long Distance triathlete finisher 'Ironman', then it should be pointed out that it was only the single winner of the yearly Hawaii event that could be held as 'Ironman' by his peers. A discussion point for some I suppose!

Time to show your cards kid!

So, the time has come to actually take the step and enter my first Long-Distance Triathlon.

Blogging my way through the near future, you will find a complete catalogue of the Trials and Tribulations of an Amatur Athlete for your entertainment, hopefully providing one with a little inspiration to have a go themselves.

Over the next 11 months I'll be posting my various exploits during the build-up to the race known as .... Outlaw.  2.4km Swim, 180Km bike ride and 40.2Km run - identical distances are the commonly known Ironman.

Intro Post:

So this is me, Will Farrell.  just tipped over the 40 barrier and currently ploughing well into the 'mid-life crisis' phase of life - Licra and all. (neither the sense of humor or cash flow as the famous US actor)

 

 

I've been a member of Ashford Tri Club, hereby now to be known as ATC (www.ashfordtriclub.co.uk) for about 4 years now - can't remember exactly ..... something to do with age apparently!  Having moved back to Kent I somehow stumbled across the ATC annual Mountain Bike Duathlon at Kingswood.  I entered before considering what I was doing and not knowing what I was up against.  Really supprised that I finished it actually!  More than that, off-road was really good fun and I needed more!
I joined the club and went along to a few evening training sessions and gradually caught the bug. 

I suppose that initially I was not really motivated by the idea of competing it Triathlon events, but I did really like the comeradary of the training (especially the evening Circuits that were initially really hard), and secretly I had been aware of this word IRONMAN for years and always wondered 'what-if', quite amazed at the scale of the endurance feet of these madmen.

The enjoyment has only grown, and I became a Level One Triathlon Coach for the club in October 2010, and I've competed in a hand-full of events each year since - Running races, Mountain Bike races, cycle Sportifs and of course, triathlons.
All of this is now leading towards the ultimate goal of the full-on Iron distance to be run next year at Holme Perre-point in Nottingham.

 

http://www.onestepbeyond.org.uk/the-outlaw-triathlon.php.

I have the great privalage of being supported by my employer, Priorclave LTD (need an Autoclave?  Give us a call :)) and will be flashing around on a bike resplendant in the Company colours for the duration.  It's currently 'in-build' at the moment, but I'll post pics once it is completed, and of course it'll be the weapon of choice as much as possible during the forthcoming winter training and early '14 season events.

www.priorclave.co.uk

Expectations:

Now, I've always been a keen competitor, but never set the world alight at any sport, so a reality check here - I'm not going to be breaking records.  My main goal for the event is to be able to race it with a smile and complete it with my head held high.

I am going to nail my colours to the mast nice and early, and I think that a sub-13hour race is on the cards.  That'll consist of about 1hr 30 swim, 6hrs 30 bike ride and sub 5hr marathon.  The run maybe a little conservative, but thats just fine with me at the moment!
I'll be re-assessing these targets regularly throughout the next year and try to add links to my 'Strava' training page to help monitor my progress.  Please feel free to add any (constructive) comments.

I'll keep updating the Blog as much as I can so that you can follow my plan, schedules, training and performances (improvements hopefully).  I may well jump around different topics over various posts.  It's not intended to confuse, just an insight into me limited attention span ;D


TTFN.

Will