A Hebridean Diary

Thanks Mate . Last session at 1.00 today. If I can get a touch with 195 I'll be where I want to be. I like the Slingshot. It gives me about 50% of the carryover I get from the shirt and approximates the feel of an equipped bench quite well. I can't use the Ram because it slides up my arms, but the Slingshot stays in place. It does tend to fold though, which is a bit of a pain but it still works.

hmm i could well invest in on of these slingshots

Pretty disappointing bench session today. First the numbers

Bar for 20
70 for 8
90 for 5
110 for 3
130 for 2

Competition shirt on

150 for 2 - miles high
180 for 1 - about 3 inches high
195 - just about touched but didn't get it up
Finish

Well today was about seeing if I could touch 195. Steve reckoned it touched but I didn't feel it, so there or thereabout. I felt really fatigued today, shoulder hurt on the 195, and the 180 from 3 inches felt harder than the 200 from 2 inches on Saturday. So now I rest up for the next 4 days and hit the Vitamin i. Next time I get under a bar will be Friday afternoon in Luxembourg. Fresh, buzzing, and ready to throw up a 195 opener with any luck...

good luck mate

equipped benching seems such a knife edge these days!

Rest up and some tennis ball work on the shoulder. Good luck with the comp

Good luck for the comp mate.

Thanks guys. Just crossing fingers that I go! Ferry sailings disrupted today. Need to be in Inverness for the 20.46 tomorrow!

the joys of living on an island

Looking better. They reckon the boat will sail an hour or so late. That should get me into Inverness no later than 7.30 and train is 8.46. Fingers crossed.

how long is the boat journey? its to ulapool?

Just under three hours to Ullapool and another hour and a bit to Inverness on the bus. If we sail at 3 I should be in Inverness by 7.15, train goes 8.46.

Good luck with the travelling.

I'll say good luck with the lifting once we know whether or not you make it to Luxembourg!

Cheers Luke. After noonish I'll be incommunicado till this time next week.

3 hour boat man i wish we had a 3 hour sail from shetland. logest i have been on those boat trying to get to aberdeen was 28hours

congratulations on getting 1 on the board