All bikers will remember the first time they get their knee down. Most of us spend years going around roundabouts at 6am slowly trying to tip the damn thing low enough to feel the rough of the road on our knee sliders.

When I think back to the day I did it, I’m not filled with a fond memory of that lovely summers day, instead my mind goes about 5 hours later, as I sat in an ambulance, left wrist broken, right arm dislocated looking back my bike in bits on the side of the road.

Its interesting how 24 hours can such joy and sadness. Yesterday was such a day, I started off in the morning doing a AR7 arm and back set:

7 pull ups, 7 BB Curls

6 Pull ups 6 BB Curls

5 pull ups 5 BB Curls  

Rest 60 seconds repeat 3 times.

7 rows 7 DB Curls

6 rows 6 Curls

5 rows 5 Curls

Again rest 60 seconds then Curls

I train with Ali Cuma from the office, who is your quintessential gym person, trains right, eats right. I am slowly introducing him to the cross fit concept and its a completely different from the norm of what he is used to. We did the Cross fit baseline test, he posted a very respectful time under 4:58 minutes. I post 3:56, which is faster than I have ever done, and given that Ali is very fit, I was incredibly happy with.

This brings me back to that Summer day 3 years ago, getting that time was like getting my knee down, little did I know an ambulance a few broken bones and a shot of Morphine was on its way.

I was joined later that evening in the gym, by Nic and Abduallah who wanted to see what their times were at the cross fit base line test. Abduallah set a time 5:38, and considering his general fitness is bloody amazing, I was so impressed with the 100% effort he gave it.

Nic... as you will see from the photo’s Nic is 100kgs +, yes he is generally fit, but his rugby and power lifting days sculptured him to be big, guys with that much muscle shouldn’t be able to move quickly!

3:52, three minutes and fifty two seconds no matter how much I write it, it hurts!!

I know im competitive, I stopped hiding it a very long time ago! He beasted the row, even this morning when I went back to set a quicker row time I couldn’t get within 10 seconds.

I remember being in hospital that day, pretty drugged up, and in quite a lot of pain, the nurse said to me, “ is it worth it, putting your life a risk for cheap frills?” In the mist of all the pain, I said yes!

Losing to Nic yesterday hurts, training this morning I squatted more, dead lifted more and rowed faster, it hurts, but its worth it!