Cathal and the Amazing Monocoloured Dreamcoat

Happy brain injury awareness month! I failed in my new year's resolution, to submit an article each week. This necessitates two actions. Firstly, and most importantly, I need to urge you to submit a guest article, as I've said, in any language, declan.treanor@gmail.com -- we have google translate, so it's not too much to expect readers of this blog to use it -- and, secondly, I mean to compensate for a weak February, with a busier-than-usual March. We might even break our current record of 8 in a single month. This month is perfectly primed for a record, given that it started with a weekend and has 31 days.

 Last weekend, I enjoyed a visit from my friends Cathal and Stephen.




As you can see Cathal introduced sophistication to Bergedorf with his coat.

 It even got its own seat on the plane, both ways. This was helped by the corona virus, but who'd expect a coat like that to have to stay crumpled in a ball in the overhead luggage compartment?




As you will see in the 'Records' section we tried to break my 400m record in the Billtal Stadion. We failed, but only just, and it certainly had nothing to do with that jacket, distracting and all, as it definitely was. Unfortunately, I don't have the exact times for my new records.

Records


 As I mentioned, we failed to set a new record on the track, but this was a solid, record-breaking week.
*400 meter lap 400m    38 minutes
biking         10k     28:xx
rowing         3k      19:xx
*skierg        1370m   11 minutes

* No change

My Tree



 There is no level change this week, but the rehabilitation of my Harm (hand & arm) is progressing and has seen a new goal introduced, namely, I plan to successfully click the fingers of my left hand. My work is cut out for me though.

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