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Weekend shinanigans

My weekend was fantastic!

Friday I was given a certificate for Employee of the Month and when I got home, Ryan surprised me with a present - only 5 ten MTB shoes!

5 ten mtb shoes
I have been finding the trainers I use for mountain biking really uncomfortable lately, I seem to lose circulation and my poor toes go numb - not the best when trying to concentrate on awkward downhills etc! Ryan bought himself a pair of these a few months ago and has been raving about them, the grip is supposed to be great. They were in the pipeline for me but as they are pretty pricey (£85) I thought I had better wait till next pay day. I got home from work and found a big box wrapped up for me on the bed. Bless him - he isn't one for buying gifts but he out did himself on these. Ryan definitely gets a gold star in the boyfriend category! I am so happy with them! They do feel a little chunky atm but I think I just need to get used to them! The weather was crap this weekend so I haven't had a chance to try them yet but hopefully we will be doing Whites level at Afan next week and I can give them a test drive!

Because I was sooo elated with my new shoes, I wanted to treat Ryan to food and cinema, so we thought we would go to Nandos then watch Oblivion. Unfortunately Nandos was so busy and we would have missed the film if we waited for a table so we decided we would go over to Frankie and Bennies - we have had some terrible experiences with food there in the past but we were both hungry and limited for time so thought we would give it a go. BIG MISTAKE!


We ordered chicken wing starters to share, a strawberry milkshake, Ryan had spaghetti meatballs and ordered Salmon and salad. The milkshake came out in a coke glass and I am pretty sure it was Nesquick! The chicken wings were very unimpressive  burnt and very salty. My Salmon was white and tasteless, more like mushy water and the salad was drenched in dressing and oil! Ryans pasta was furry and meatballs had like 2% meat and were blatantly from frozen. Ryan asked the waitress and both the salmon and meatballs were from frozen. All in all another nasty meal from Frankie and Bennys! I won't be going back there, and I am not one to complain about food and normally eat everything on my plate, barely touched it! Instead we had popcorn, sweets and ice cream at the cinema :)

nom nom - sweet!


I started feeling very unwell in the cinema so I can't say I thoroughly enjoyed the film, Ryan did though!
We then went home and watched my favourite ever Sparticus I am very sad that next week will be the last ever episode! And hopefully Ryan is on a role with buying gifts for his girlfriend as I made it clear I wouldn't mind the box set ;) haha 

Oh I do love these men!
To finish the weekend off I had a great gym session! 1500m run followed by a back workout - my deadlifts are at 45kg now - only up from here :) I am loving the Max rack - just not a fan of the busy gym! Got my plan sorted for the week though, going to focus on speeding up my runs and increasing my weight slightly - I need to work on making sure I am doing things correctly as Ryan says my head is too floppy when I do my push ups and my bicep curls were not flowing properly. I also need to condense my workouts down as I am spending too much time in the gym!

Correct form




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