saturday 1 – few things to get at staples as ever, ear phones for eve, then had short seminar on Gewaltfreie Kommunikation in the afternoon for 3 hours

sunday 2 – accompanied on one song with katie, then joseph used the guitar for a song at the end which went well

we talked about the trip in the summer and have a rough plan now

monday 3 – went for run

tuesday 4 – celebrated in the morning and then later in the evening with the presents

wednesday 5 – katie and i meet up with pete and rosalind for pete to get some new walking boots and then we go on for a meal at tarullos, followed by walking back to the main station, was a nice evening out

thursday 6 – go for swim training

friday 7 – we had booked for eve and friends at hans im gluck in westend, eve and i cycle there and with katie walking the 3 of us arrive together and were about to find the place to sit, when a swarm of bikes came along the street to greet eve and she was quite surprised at all her friends turning up, it was like a scene from emil and the detectives

we cycle away, katie and i eat somewhere else

she has a good meal and then they go to the isar

friday 14 – go for swim training

sunday 16 – karlsfeld triathlon, was pretty tired and i managed to get through somehow
swimming was terrible, plagued by negative thoughts and would have made more sense to use the wet suit
bike went ok, but you have to keep the pressure on and keep pedalling
run went ok, keep it loose and free of tension

result:
Schwimmen: 00:11:39 h
Wechsel 1: 00:02:51 h
Radfahren: 00:53:49 h
Wechsel 2: 00:02:50 h
Gesamtzeit: 01:39:00 h
Laufen: 00:27:50 h
Gesamtplatz: 303
Platz Geschlecht: 228
Altersklassenplatz: 16

monday 17 – see an interesting advert on the public transport placards:
https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/zukunftswerkstatt/

wednesday 19 – some good guardian opinion pieces coming out recently:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/05/grenfell-fire-public-inquiry-stitch-up-red-tape-regulation-policy-exchange
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/18/brexit-british-business-leaders-legatum-eu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot-disguise-democracy-james-mcgill-buchanan-totalitarian-capitalism
and going back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/02/corporate-dark-money-power-atlantic-lobbyists-brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot
http://www.monbiot.com/

monday 24 – watched the film florence fiddler joiner with merryl streep and hugh grant in it, quite amusing

tuesday 25 – captain matthew webb first channel swimmer said, “nothing great is easy”
what does it mean to jill who is planning to swim? i want to do something great
connections – to people in the club, to the location of dover where she lives
mantra – i’m strong, it feels right, i can do this, eg. part of phelps’ mantra is “i feel comfortable”

posting a comment in the forum:
“I like the way you describe your demons Jill, as I got them in an open water swim recently – and I’m talking only 500m of crawl! They gave me a moment of panic (“you haven’t trained enough for this, you’ve lost your stamina, you can’t do it” etc). and this influenced me to change to breast stroke and really struggle through the swim part of a triathlon I was taking part in.”

W. Timothy Gallwey goes some way to addressing this topic in his books on “The Inner Game of …” (work, tennis, etc).

I’m going to reflect on what she says: that when you think you’ve given you’re all, it’s really only about 40%;  also how you head off the demons in your head before you even start: you make a conscious decision, then just go for it and the demons are dead in the water as it were.

friday 28 – band practice, still at friedenskirche

saturday 29 – doing a few jobs including the lights in eve’s room

sunday 30 – cycle to church and for sunday school we take all the children to the playground for games then on to an icecream
later lounge about on the sofa, then go on a 35 minute run to complete my channel challenge at work, just passing the target when combining with the cycling I’ve been doing