Bad Week for Sport

A quiet week by all accounts but the main focus has been on the performance of my teams with no wins at all, Liverpool were shocked by Southampton while Skem went down 2-0 at Buxton but they are still 3rd which is amazing considering they are a promoted team and earlier on my NFL team Washington Redskins went 0-3 by losing 27-20 to Detroit despite taking an early lead.

Gaming wise, GTA V has dominated since the release last week and as it is a wide expansive game it means achievements take a lot of time to unlock and currently I have nine and sit on 50% completion.

Fitness has levelled out after the success of recent weeks as on my weekly weight check there was no weight loss but no weight gain either and the fact that I have not walked home much this week due to people offering lifts when it was raining so dry but lost out on miles.

We now know that Wigan will face Leeds in the play off semi after Warrington picked Huddersfield, a decision that hopefully will erase the memory of last year which still haunts many fans myself included where Wigan lost 13-12 via a Sinfield penalty in the final seconds. So the chance to get revenge on them and reach my fourth Grand Final will be great so that will be a main focus in the next post as will the result of my impeding performance review in work.

The review takes place on Wednesday and I already know that they will say I have not improved enough but I and many others are sick of being told we are not trying when I am coming home each night in pain having pushed myself tot he limit to please someone who has never even done the job themselves!

Rant over and hopefully some good news next week.

Two Million Fuel Drives A Good Week

Another milestone on the fitness trail came on Wednesday as I walked past two million Nike Fuel which is an amazing achievement since I first started last June and would have never thought I would hit such an amount so quickly so next I am aiming to reach two and a half million before the end of the year.


On the sport front, for a change most of my teams had success even if Liverpool could only draw on Monday it still meant they went back to the Premier League summit and an amazing win up in Huddersfield which I was proud to be part of on Thursday night saw Wigan seal a home tie in week three of the play-offs and mean they are a win away from a second Grand Final in four years and hopefully it will be my fourth attendance in as many years.

It was amazing to be part of the crowd for my furthest away game and had inspired me to do as many as is possible in 2014 with the exceptions being London and Catalan as it's a long way to go for just a game but I will see what the future holds.

The best news was just last night as Skem defeated Chorley with a late winner to amazingly go to the top of the Northern Premier League just months after they were promoted but there was some bad news as Washington fell to 0-2 after losing 20-37 to Green Bay and with Detroit up next a win is sorely needed.

Xboxwise, Castle of Illusion brought in 11 achievements bringing me to 43 for the month and 1040 G collected so hopes are high with the release of Grand Theft Auto V this week.

Social Rises As Work Troubles

September had the perfect start as not only did Liverpool get a brilliant win over Man U but in doing so completed my betting treble winning me £80 off a £10 stake and hitting 90% in work completed an awesome day.

The week did suffer a blow though on Thursday as I was called in on my holdiay from work for my performance review which was delayed by an hour which irritated me and then when it began, I was told i was not doing well enough despite my sucesses over the last three weeks so obviously I disputed the numbers and it led to the management adjourning until next week. This means I will have to go through another mockery of a review thus causing grief in the week.

The solace I had was that Wigan hosted Leeds later that night and was delighted at collecting the special Man of Steel shirt created for the game but sadly Wigan lost and it dampened my mood going into a four-day weekend. 

Friday brought a positive as I was able to swap Monday for this Thursday and thus book the trip to Huddersfield to see Wigan in the Week One Play-off and add another new stadium to my list so happiness is on the horizon.

My X360 achievement chase has made great progress this weekend as I unlocked a total of 26 achievements and in doing hit the milestone of 75,000 G and also notched a 100% completion on Saints Row IV so thats 20 games done  and about 200 to go which I hope a few of which I can do before the Xbox One arrives in late November.

Fitness wise, I am within 20,000 NikeFuel of reaching my goal of 2 million so that should surely feature in next weeks post along with Wigan/Liverpool success against Huddersfield/Swansea hopefully.

Eight Down Four to Go

August has continued on from the success of the past couple of months on the Runkeeper front inlcuding a goal but the forced inactivity of the Fuelband meant Nike+ suffered.

Runkeeper saw 110 miles walked across the the month which is only six short of July which was a packed month so to be so close is an achievement also 14,076 calories were burned which is only 200 less than July so again a massive success but the major joy was smashing the 2012 record for 700 miles in a year which was achieved on the 26th of this month and inspired me to add a new goal of 1000 miles in 2013.

My Nike +Fuelband sadly had a problem on the 24th and had to be replaced lrading to five inactive days (four fully as the new band was tested the day it arrived.) Last month, I mentioned that the fitness rise was due to having no relationship worries from June but how ironic that the day my band broke that I recieved a request from the girlfriend of my first ex which I accepted out of curiosity and as i mentioned in the last post what a chaos it caused so let's move on.


The XBOX 360 has made good progress as  I unlocked 68 achievements across nine games and in total accrued 1551 TA points and an amazing 1075 G.

The visit to Wembley ticked off two goals  - 'See Wigan with a trophy' and 'Go to the Challenge Cup Final' and both were well worth the wait.