…imagine the scene… Phone alarm ring tone wakes you up… Shock horror it’s only 6 a.m.!!!!

Very strangely I managed to get up and out of bed. Dressed in Lycra i headed to the hotel gym!

‘Good on me’ you might think but only 15 mins in and my heart rate at 205 BPM I realised there was a problem!! Chest infections and flu are not so easy to get over as I hoped!!!

I was getting seriously hot and looking through the curved glass to the swimming pool longingly (thankfully the curved glass meant I couldn’t see my red faced straining reflection so it was all good!). Realising that my dangerously high heart rate might kill me along with the heat I spotted the Air Con unit controller on the wall and turned it on…. ! DOH should have done that in the first place… I think I’d rather just avoid gyms in future.

I managed a 30 min session on the treadmill before giving up and getting back to my room to review the pre-course reading material for my first day of training on IBM’s recent Software acquisitions. More on that later….