I got 97 Strength today!! This was after quite a bit of hard work. It really is the first significant level I've obtained since I started playing again. I've done a lot of slayer recently, but it is going to be forever until I'll get the next level there. So my next plan is to finish my task and do the clue scroll, then dungeoneer for a bit to get to about level 70 I think. Then I'll probably go for 99 strength, and hopefully get 94 slayer, and hopefully 99 Constitution.

Tomorrow I have my fitness instructors level 2 assessment. I'm kinda looking forward to it, but am feeling a little nervous. This week is going to be weird. Recently I've been on an epic health kick, and have been really strict with my diet and my gym regime. This week I'll be out for a meal tomorrow, tuesday, wednesday, and I'm going to southampton to visit people on Friday, leaving no real time to either go to the gym, or eat decent/healthy food.

I hope this week work goes alright, I'm can't really look past tomorrow so I have no idea what I'm going to be doing once I've done my assessment.

I got Circus Maximus' Nine this weekend, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it. Its sort of a mix between Dream Theater and Kamelot in my opinion, and I think that it is very good. I've only listened to the full album once, but it was exciting and well structured as an album.

My time in the gym this weekend involved me trying to find my limits to what I can do now, and setting myself goals for what I want to be able to do. My weight is now down to 66.5kg, which is great for me, but I feel that theres more to loose, but I think my weight will hit a plateau soon where I'll be putting on muscle at the rate the fat is burning off. I managed to Deadlift 120kg, once, and 6 rep maxed 80kg, although the 120 was first so I think I could probably 8 rep 80kg. Now that I've lost a lot of weight too I've been working on being able to do 10 unassisted pull ups and I think my training right now is accommodating that. For the cardio and strength side of things I've been combining tabata sets, and one of the 5 that I did this weekend were Pull Ups and Press Ups, so working antagonist muscle groups to so tabata style super sets. I also, foolishly, tried to find my 6 rep max Bicep Curl and Tricep Pulldown in the same session, and super stetted 4 sets of each, which ruined my arms.

Spoilers for the German Grand Prix and UFC 149 ahead.

I've been keeping up with the F1 this year and am really enjoying the racing. It has become clear to me that Alonso really is one hell of a driver, but only half way through the season its still hard to see where the teams are going and who is actually going to be on top at the end of the season, unlike last years total domination by Vettel. The driver I'm still hoping to pull through is Webber, I feel that he's doing the right things, but was slightly unlucky this weekend. I'm also rooting for Button to find more form like he did today throughout the rest of the season. I'd like to see the end of the season end more like it started and while not be wildly unpredictable, to be exciting and thrilling all the way to the last race. This year has been a phenomenal year for F1, and I hope it continues.

As for UFC 149, I had a real concentration problem today. I didn't find many of the matches enjoyable and the commentary seemed a little lacklustre. Joe Rogan did make some excellent mentions of positioning, and the first fight on the card was probably the best one on the main card, although I feel the ending could have come earlier. Once I saw the main event start, I knew what was coming, despite wild head kick attempts from Barao at the beginning, Faber was moving well, a better strategy would have been to move quick, attack the legs from the outside, and once Faber had slowed sufficiently go for the head kick. That clearly is just my opinion, but hearing early in the fight that he'd be training with Aldo, its clear what tactics he would employ. Also there was one section of the grappling that irks me slightly, and it really is the lack of dedication of people going for submissions in dominant positions recently. Now there have been some mighty good submissions recently, but no real stunners from unexpected positions. While I absolutely adored the end of the first fight on the main card, that submission was fantastic, I want to see more of that. I saw a position during one of the fights that screamed out to me as a decent position for an arm bar set up, and the way the lower fighter was trying to sweep would lead to an easy set up.

Anyway, I could rant about the UFC and the intricacies of ground fighting/Brazilian Jiu jitsu, but I don't want to get too technical or boring.

This week in scape I'll be just trying to do my clue scroll then back to slaying for a while, hopefully getting on to dungeoneering by the end of the week. New blog schedule of thursday, as it both fits in better and allows me time to get things to write about.

Thanks for reading.

Peace -x-