Two Down: Thrice

First Pair Down: Had the second of the pre-exam maths exams; algebra, six multiple-choice questions with no penalty for a wrong answer. There is plenty in algebra I don’t get, but I am starting to get somewhere in it. Nibbling at the edges, as it were. We’ve moved on now to partial differentiation, aka the exploration of multidimensional curves.

Second Pair Down: For the first time I’ve managed back-to-back exercise classes. These are hour-long classes designed to challenge 20-year-old sportsmen (and women). Wednesday and Friday have two classes I like, one starting immediately after the other. I was the only one to do so. Had enough time between them setting the room up to change kit (new, clean, dry stuff helped with a second wind) then headed back in. In Holland I trained in three, two-hour blocks. Here I’m training in five, one-hour blocks. The training itself is brutal; the “sports-inspired” Body Attack©®™ is particularly harsh..

Third Pair Down: Look like we lost two guys from Stow College. Maths fright. It’s a shame, one spent two years getting to this stage. Neither of them put the hours in here. They’d convinced themselves the maths was too difficult (it’s not easy, but it is certainly within their capacity) and had stopped attending lectures and tutorials.