Busy Busy Busy....

Poor little blog hasn't had much attention lately. Been too busy updating my website, working, doing media interviews(!) and training.

I've also been in extreme pain. Just before christmas I finally got to the dentist about an aching tooth (which had become an aching jaw), to be told it was cracked and they placed a nice stainless steel ring around it to hopefully keep it together and allow the nerves time to re-settle.
Well, they resettled....for a while..then they started aching like buggery again..and still are. Which means, no such thing as a crown will suffice..no I have to do the root canal thingy.
So..I shall be living on pain killers for the next two weeks until I get to the endodontist. It appears that because I have such massive roots in my teeth, I can't just get it done by any old dentist... no, I have to go the specialist ker ching ker ching route - $1760 thank you very much. Shame my health insurance won't cover that sort of thing! Anyhow... enough about that.

On to more exciting things, like media interviews. So far, since just before new year's eve, I have had three newspaper interviews and two radio interviews!
The first newspaper interview was with the our local Illawarra 'mockery' just on new year's resolutions and fitness - so after a half hour on the phone I did get a nice little paragraph in the overall article on what I think people need to do to maintain the rage so to speak - ie set concrete measurable goals. I want to run a 5km fun run by April... that sort of thing.
Then of course, the Council issue reared it's ugly head - and continues to rear. So after another interview with the 'mockery', I then had a call from our local radio station, i98. Now it appears that Council have issued a draft policy on outdoor fitness services, and of course, I had another radio station ringing for my opinion - so another radio interview with the ABC Illawarra the other day.
This morning, another freebie local paper called for my comments on the latest proposal as well.
Sheeeeesh.
Still, nice publicity albeit over a negative thing.
I still don't feel it's ethical that a council can just tell us to submit a quote to train on a parcel of land. I mean, how long is a piece of string?? How much will be considered enough to win us the right to train there? What if we don't want to just train in one spot? After all, that is the beauty of training outside.
The saga continues.

..and my face still aches.

Blink and it's all over for another year!

Hope everyone had a lovely christmas and new year's break. Due to the economic downturn we had to take leave from 19 dec to 5 jan! Such hardship. And, the weather was even fairly kind to us - although I wouldn't mind having another week this week given how warm it is outside. Seems such a waste to be cooped up inside on such beautiful days.

I'm now doing battle with the Council over training on their land. They are intent on playing hardball at the moment, so I've now been interviewed by our local paper and also our local radio station, i98. Story is here:http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/council-fee-plan-angers-outdoor-fitness-trainers/1401053.aspx I don't mind paying a fee, but council are proposing that we tender for a certain spot to use - so god only knows how much that will cost! It would have been a lot more fair if they'd been transparent in what they were planning, and at least engaged with the fitness trainers to come to an amicable solution. Will we have to tender $10,000 to secure a spot? or will $100 be enough?

In the meantime, they say we can't legally operate our businesses - although there's been no mention of any licence on their website area for business licences at all so far - just sounds like convenient revenue raising. Why not just charge a standard licence/permit fee?