Got THE best nights sleep ever. I woke up refreshed and feeling positive, so I thought I would jazz things up with my fasted cardio and did 30 minutes on the treadmill and 20 minutes on the stairway to heaven. Whilst on the stairway heaven I notice a slight pain in my left knee but thought that maybe it was a bit of tightness and that it would go once I had stretched off. A rather unpleasant smell from the treadmills to my right soon took my mind off my pain as I tried to workout who the phantom farter was. Abs session was good today, still feeling those sneaky little muscles. Hopefully they will make an appearance soon.

Got to work and had my porridge without my salt, now this would normally set me off into a possible anger moment, but I was ok with it and continued on with my day. In fact I ended up running late with all my meals and I was not that bothered. My love affair with coffee is starting to diminish and I am now becoming obsessed with black tea which I think is a good thing especially when I start to struggle with energy as I can use coffee to pick me up. My knee pain became worse during the day and luckily someone at work had some freeze gel with them, so I slapped that on and took some ibuprofen. I think the pain maybe due to me lifting heavier than normal with my squats and I must have rolled my knee slightly. I am not squatting till Friday so hopefully the pain will have gone and I will just have to see how I get on.

I was fairly busy at work today so didn’t manage to get out for my usual walk with Gary (my lunchtime walking partner), who I would like to point out leaves the company we work for at the end of the month so I will have no lunchtime walking partner. Phil (who is 1 foot taller than me) behaved quite well today, so I had no need to tell him to die or threaten him in any other way – I am sure that will change tomorrow and he will have a bad attitude as per normal.

One exiting thing that we do at work on Tuesdays is ‘Test Tuesday’ and as I like to point out to Phil this should not be confused for ‘Testical Tuesday’, which is a completely different type of day. Today’s test determined how much of a psychopath you are. Surprisingly, Phil scored the lowest with 4 followed by Gary with a score of 5 and Helen with a score of 8. If you scored between 1 and 12 you were considered ‘normal’ and there would be no need for further investigation. I initially scored 11 and was made to take a retest as Gary thought I had lied. So under the observations of Phil and Gary I took the test again, this time I scored 15 and moved to the mild to moderate psychopath bracket. This provided around 10 minutes of entertainment for Phil and Gary and then I got in a sulk as its not true as I am totally ‘normal’ and my original score of 11 is the one that counts. God only knows what test we will do next week, last week was ‘how autistic are you’. Phil scored higher than me, that’s all we need to say about that.

Tonight’s session at the gym was shoulders – my favourite workout. It was rammers at the gym but I just muscled my way through to the bench and cable machine and grunted and sweated like a pig until I was finished. I lifted the same weights as last week which I think is ok as its quite a lengthy session, just under an hour and a half on weights. I finished off my session on the stairway to heaven for 30 minutes and I struggled half way through due to back pain from doing my donkey kicks (this normally happens when I have a break from the stairway to heaven and then go back to using it). It subsided and I was able to continue with my other acrobatics.

I am still slightly stunned that I have been in a pleasant mood all day and that I haven’t panicked about my sore knee, my focus is still 100% and I am pushing to try and make improvements for the final.