A Love / hate relationship - Garmin

I recieved my new Garmin Forerunner 405 running GPS watch in the mail whilst we were in Europe.

I was hoping to get it before I went so I could easily track my runs, which is the main reason I got this thing. I have been pretty excited about it for the last 4 weeks (since the time of purchase) so when I had a few issues I was became extremely vexed.

The design is a little clumsy. I managed to somehow turn it off half way through a run along the Torrens over the weekend and it does feel like a wieght on my wrist. Although I am not used to wearing watches.

After reading the instruction manual, downloading some software, setting up personal profiles (I would love to know how many of these i have floating around now) and syncing it all together I now finally have what I wanted all along.

A Google maps map, some times and some other useless info that I may get into at a later date but for now is just making my running look more complex than it actually is.

This is what you get.



This is the one that turned off half way through. You will just have to trust me that I ran back to the starting point. Which was my old house at George St, Thebarton which I use now as my weekend house thanks to my kind ex housemates.


this was after a MASSIVE friday night. Ended up at Cuckoo to see Rick Wade (serious Techno). It was effort to even think straight so excuse the distance.



And this run - Cured my Jetlag from Europe. Back in the Game!

So my recent inspiration is this guy

Mr. Mod Euro - A bloke in Paris

He runs fast. I want to run fast. I need to shave 15 minutes off of my 10k to run like Goetze.

Check it out - "Hard and fast 45 minutes through the guts"

Treadmills dont get colds AHHHH!!!

So I am in Changi Airport again.

Become a Changi Millionare! the banners say. Well, I might give the gambling/promo a miss, instead opting for the "pay as you go, feel like George Clooney from Up in the Air" Ambassadors Lounge.

Plus they got a treadmill, which regrettably The Qantas club does not.  So I just did 5 Kms. 

I know I have said it before but when you are travelling for the best part of 24 hours to get home. It kind of makes sense to have a few hours of transit and get some excersise and a good shower in. 

It's Probably the one good thing our travel agent has done over the past 2 weeks.

I feel re-charged, re-set, and re-passengerarised. 

                                                        (New word - YES!)

We have came from our last show in Oslo through Frankfurt Airport. Oslo was really cool. Minus temperature cool. It would have been at least 0 the first day, and -1 the next. With temperatures reaching -6 at night. If there are any Vikings reading this I know that you will be spurting out in between gulps of your meed, that temperatures like that are nothing, and that it gets a lot cooler over the winter in Norway.
But for a pack of 'Aussies' like 'The Swiss,' its kind of cold. A little too cold to run around the streets of Oslo to get my 'me-time' away from the boys, and to get my metabolism up for the day so I don't feel so guilty eating that 711 Wienerpølser that cost me $40 Australian dollars with a 600ml Pepsi max.

$40! AHHHHHH!!!! Thats really Expensive!!

I did however do a couple of treadmill runs at the hotel gym in Oslo. The first was around 6Km and the second was 7.5Km. I also did some sit-ups and push-ups which I have recently added into my fitness regime.

Oslo was really fun though. It was great to have a day off with the guys, without having to be at an airport or to do a soundcheck, or catch a train or something like that. We had a lovely afternoon at the gallery. We saw some Picasso's, and the famous "Scream" (pictured above), we also bitched, moaned, and plotted everything 'The Swiss.' A much needed reset before we have to look at each other for the next 25 hours and put up with each others idiosyncrasies.

I love it. 

Gent - the sequel 2, then Amsterdam

So I crammed in the same route I did a few nights before in Gent just before we had to leave.

The only difference being that it wasn't at 2 in the morning, and it was super windy and really hard.

We played at Paradiso in Amsterdam last night. Thats all I want to say about that.

Going to Milano tonight. yay!

Got Ghent?

We had a big day running around buying underwear and in the studio yesterday so I didn't get much of a chance to go for a run. Instead I ate heaps of food, including waffles, cakes and hamburgers.
Couple that with a massive dinner late last night meant I needed to do something this morning.

Although it was not a long run, the surroundings where so pretty that I don't really care.

Ghent, Belgium -  the 7th most liveable city....yeah sounds about right.

NOT A LOT OF SLEEP, A LOT OF FUN

Its been a while since my last entry. I have been in Europe touring with The Swiss. It's been kind of crazy, so donty expect marathon runs with this entry.

Here is a poem about the tour I call it:

Poem about the tour

a lot of shows

not a lot of sleep 

a lot of planes

not a lot of sleep

a lot of clubs

not a lot of sleep

a lot of toxins

not a lot of sleep
a lot of winks
not a lot of sleep

Okay, so on the way over to Rome from Australia we stopped at Changi Airport with a few hours to spare at the airport. I usually moan and groan about stop overs but this one was great.

 They have a lounge there with a small gym and so Sid and I hit it up while Luke got a massage. 

It's a really good way to break up the flight and to work off crap unnecessary plane food 

Although Singapore airlines food is actually not that bad.

So yeah 6Km on the treadmill with speeds varying from 10 - 16km/hr.

I have recently been getting into running faster when on treadmills.

Then it all got a little hard. The first 3 - 4 days of the tour the schedule was pretty rammed. Stuff like leaving straight from the club at 5 in the morning to get to the airport then having to catch multiple flights  to get to the next destination. Being super excited after shows and having celebratory drinks with new and old promoters. Catching up with friends that we met on the last tour and seeing friends from home who are in Europe. Then doing it all again for 6 days in a row.

But...I did get a run in Italy. 

We played just outside of Naples in a place called Caserta. It has the 2nd largest Palace in the world built by a French King as his holiday house. So I ran around that. The gardens are mind blowingly huuuuuuge.

Nice house dude.

It was sunny too, which was lucky. I sort of got lost on the way back to the hotel, then found Luke and had an espresso. I love Italy.

CASERTA, ITALY 29/10/10  /// 6.6Km

Then more shows happened. Kind of a crazy schedule again.

We played Paris, Brussels, and Rouselare.

Great nights, short flights, a train, some nice people, some attractive people, nice gene pools, 1 swimming pool.

To see some video from Brussels check this link out

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=453461301883

So Now we are in Gent, Belgium and we have had a day off although we were so excited to be back in Gent with our friends The Glimmers and family that we went to this awesome party until the daylight hours of Monday morning.

Which meant that Yesterday was a write-off for me. I finally awoke at 7pm, had some pizza for breakfast and went for a run at 2am along the Canal near our hotel. 

I felt like I was in a thriller movie. It was quiet, there was low fog and I was running through some crazy gothic architecture. 

Surreal

Ok so thats about it.

Today we are heading into the studio with The Glimmers to work on some new stuff.

Rad!