Apologies for the radio silence. There follows even more than usual other people’s summaries of work that has caught my eye this week at Nomura. Really the main purpose of this email was to let you know I made it out east without succumbing to DVT which, being the hypochondriac that I am, I had reckoned there was a decent chance I would suffer following my marathon in Switzerland last weekend.
Oh that! Well, since you ask, it went ok. I didn’t manage to beat the 5 hour target I had set myself. To be honest, although I refer to choking in a little video clip I posted to Youtube ( search for David’s Jungfrau Marathon if you have nothing better to do this afternoon ), 5.00 hours wasn’t on the cards and I was just pleased to finish the damn thing at all. I nailed the first 15 miles in two hours, but I had underestimated quite how steep the hill was and it was hot hot hot. The next 11.2 miles took 3 hours 24 mins! Cramp set in almost as soon as I hit the hill up to Wengen and the nasty 5 hour marker man trotted past me shortly before I got into the village. Tempted as I was to trip the little so and so up I just had to let him go, put my head down and slog on for the next two and a half hours. Painful and seemingly interminable. There was absolutely nothing beautiful or exhilarating about it other than when, bizarrely, a lone bagpiper struck up the tune Flower of Scotland just as I crested the top of the hill shortly before the finish line at which point I don’t mind telling you I had to pinch my arm to stop myself from bursting into tears! I did finish with a flourish. You might even be able to pick me out as I whizz past the finishing line. http://www.migros-finisherclip.ch/en/previews/index/1006/4664/DSL/links
It’s funny how quickly you forget all the horrors though. I told my wife and daughter who were waiting for me that I would never, ever, do it again, but I find myself already planning another attempt to crack The Big 5-0 in a couple of years time, appropriately enough, sad though it is to confess, to coincide with a similarly coined anniversary in my life. Fear not....I can promise you faithfully I will not be banging on about this one! I will say this though. In a brief call home I mentioned my intentions to Sophie. One might describe the reception I got as slightly frosty.
Re-reading the above I fear my drivel is missing its normal level of zip and zest for life. I can’t quite put my finger on why that should be. Anyway, I have been in Singapore this week and visited a decent proportion of those companies with Singapore in their name.....Telecom/Exchange/Post/Genting. Riveting stuff I tell you. Remind me to tell you the one about the Russian IR lady and the iPhone. More to follow in due course.
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