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i dont get this reference, but thats okay. good luck with the busy day!!!

@J.R. i have done the full route without walking 3 times now, I'll catch up on myself over the next couple of posts ☺

Tues 21st - Run 2. i timed things better, using the lap split to time my run vs walk sections properly so that the walks were definitely going to get shorter.. i knocked about 2mins off the time from Sunday. Thurs 23rd - Error correction. i realised when i remeasured the route on google using my laptop rather than phone that my route only 2.4km one way! i was about 200m short of 5k. Many swear words were uttered, but i spotted a way to add on the missing bit, by going around a building instead of in front it on each leg. i did it in the same time as Tues. excellent.

😇 **** happens man. i once bought 3 different sets of arb bushes for a cordoba before managing to get the right ones.

Sunday 19th July 2020, 20:15hrs "Right, im going for a run, ill be back... soon?" i left the house, walked to the end of the estate, and started a stopwatch on my phone, spotify on some angry grunge in my headphones. walked another couple of hundred yards then kicked into a jog. kept it going as long as i could - about 6mins.. then reverted to walking... then back running, bit more walking. i had no set distance, i had a location i was aiming for. i had no set times, it was just get there, and get home. i got to my turning point, and lap timed it on the stop watch as about 17mins - irrelevant and meaningless, i just didnt want to end up taking way way longer on the way back. i was pretty knackered, but had no choice... i got home in about 35mins. it meant nothing, i was heaving, and only proud i made it home. later that night i roughly mapped it on my phone as being about 1.5miles to the turning point. i had accidently picked almost a perfect 5k route. i now had a distance, a route, and a target to beat - its never allowed take longer than the last time, at least until im able to run the whole thing... every second night since ive been on the same route, at around the same time of day.. stay tuned for more.

stypid question, did you check the new discs are the same diameter as the old ones?

@J.R. chip in any time i encourage sharing experience inspiration to shift my arse..... so, over the last couple of months, i started using spotify. i then went looking for a meditation podcast to help with the sleeping. found one, "mindful in minutes" m. and while i know Kelly's accent may be a bit... american.. it works, i am sleeping better. i accidentally then listened to "The Blindboy Podcast" he is one half of "The Rubberbandits" who did a lot of stuff on youtube a few yrs ago. but i found the couple of podcasts of his i listened to (expecting slightly madcap stories etc) to be very articulate etc. i went back to the start of his pod casts, and have been listening to them since - about 3 weeks at this stage. he talks a lot about mental health and stuff, and how he finds running really helps with his creativity and generally well being. he also said something i had never really heard - "running is f%&@ing horrible, for about the 1st 6 weeks until your body starts to get good at it" i dont really know what about that made me make a decision, but i decided that i was going to try this running ****e and i had a target - get past the first 6 weeks and see what happens, get to running a 5k. so, on Sunday 19th July at about 830, i left the house with an idea, and a bottle of water....

ok, so this i hope may act as encouragement for others who, like me up to a couple of weeks ago, manage to psyche themselves out of tying their laces and going for a run. But also as a way for me to track progress made. so, a quick bio.... im nearly 37, weigh about 68-70kg, im 5' 6(.5)" tall. i have always hated running with a total and complete passion. in school i would get cramps after a half lap of a track, and feel like being sick after 2. but, at 16/17 i still couldnt run, i weighed about 55-58kg and according to the funky scales in the gym i had 6% body fat. i would happily stomp my way up a mountain at at a half jog and not be out of breathe at the top, or throw me in a swimming pool id go non stop for 7km until i need a pee. then... college happened. then workin full time happened. all the gyming, martial arts training and swimming fell away. i never got fat, though i gained weight ( not much mind) eventually about 8 yrs ago i went back to the gym. i never really made mych progress, there no target that i could say i want to hit which meant i struggled. i then went HIIT circuit training, in a small group class, in a gym thats in the upstairs of a pub - rough and a bit industrial i love it, with guy who is a complete headcase of fitness. the group made the difference, i stuck it out and pushed myself in every session, could only manage 1 night a week, but it made a difference i gained muscle mass, and fitness over 3 yrs that i never managed on my own. roll on to 2019.. work was ridiculous in terms of nights - i wasnt sleeping or eating properly, i was exhausted to the point of being unwell by christmas. i had to stop training, and over christmas gave up caffeine due to withdrawals and sensitivity having developed. i was also convinced (anyone who gives up caffeine may understand the panic/paranoia) that i had a heart issue as i felt so crap. git the all clear end of Jan, just before spud jr arrived. then my wife was unwell (still is) then lock down. and now we are here. im gone awfully unfit, still not sleeping and not exercising.... a new post will explain my change shortly, have to get sorted for bed now.

who you telling... this time 5 yrs ago, i had a 6 month old. i now have a 5 5yr old, and ANOTHER 6month old!

good shout that man!

for just a moment, id forgotten this was moved out of Freedom section, and when i saw Shy's name on the notification i thought he had finally, actually followed through on what said he said to @john999boy a frw weeks/months ago joining freedom if he hit "x" number of likes/posts. but no. . tis a shame

@Wino allegedly he is leaving...

yup. same thing happened me when i changed a lock mechanism... confused the feck outa me for ages, because i thought i had counted the grooves properly...

test, test test and then test with the door open. where the end of the cable sits into the grooves on the outer grab handle, the tension needs to be slacked off just a smidge. so you click it a groove looser, then test it by closing the latch with a screw driver and opening it again with the handles (inside and outside) several times. if its right itll pop the latch, if not it will hold it closed, adjust again.

not 100% sure but wouldnt a killswitch just mean your bolero resetting to factory default everytime you cut its power completely?

white violent dots? op best be careful when changing them, in case he triggers them just lol-ing at a (possibly autocorrect) typo... if you are looking at them, bilstein b4 series shocks are available to match the various setups/loadings. b6 is the "sportier" version ie stiffer.

the outer bowden cable hasnt been put back on with the same tension. open the window, lean on the oiter skin of the door, beside the handle, just a bit, then pull the inside handle. taking a smidge of trnsion off the outer cable should let the inner one work.

EGR acting up is the most likely cause. might be a nothing brought on the hard acceleration

i thought they were mechanical? i presume youve checked all the cables for continuity, and mechanisms getting power with the fob to lock unlock?

correct,but a site i had used before worked. albeit for an insignia at the time.. vag hide tge data behind erwin, if uou have acces to the boot sticker. ..

pm'd

nope..

good day here too! sun is shining, is still warm and uncomfortably humid. just back after another Personal best 5k run. also only my 3rd, so feeling knackered but good. your journey here will bring down many rabbit holes so many you never find the way back out... 🤐

as above. if the whacking works, get the door stripped immediately and replace the unit and/or strip the harness.

im ordering some tint for the rear windows of the octy, to try and keep the sun off spud jr and sr coming into the better weather. But as ive done this previoisly, im really not sure how tinted to go.. is 35% enough, or would 20% be better? spud sr is still gona want to see out...