I'VE BEEN SELECTED - VLOG #013

1.Friday five: books, quotes, podcasts

Video - in case you fall and kill yourself it's just proof or you didn't push it you ready no jeez prissy something that I've been doing an email for a while that's proved very popular it's five bullet point Friday where I give you a five around them tanks that have been up to this week so some artists often clothes what books on reading quote I'm pondering where my focus is podcasts and listening to film some watchin so I'll take you to a fight right now so I'm gonna start off with what books I've been reading this week I'm gonna give you a one cycling book it's from Mike Barry shuttles on the road I'm one non-cycling book it's Robin Sharma before they envelope Mike burry he's an old friend of mine an old trainer partner you have a super interesting career Micro for some of the biggest names in the world from Team Sky t-mobile Columbia would carve US postal he had a career that was punctuated with doping where he gave in to dope and early in his career a postal and then had to live on in a race on in a world for a dope was just absolutely prolific and he was a Canadian writer commented grips would race a clan but also fighting with the demon that one day his dog passed would probably be exposed it's a really interesting book if you love cycling box it's a great read written by Mike Barry as well not ghost the way anyone extremely interesting book book number two I'm on this week I normally trying to get true about one book a week but this week for whatever reason I have two books on the go this one's called Robin Sharma it's called a 5:00 a.m. club and it's boy Robin Sharma and the idea of this book it's advocating for getting up at 5:00 a.m. and it says that the error is from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. to find the success you're gonna have in your life and he goes on to give a pretty compelling argument that's why you should go before they a.m. talks about the importance of morning rituals which I'm big on talks about the mental clarity to concert getting operating and written it's not exceptionally well written but the message in it is quite a nice message I have a point started getting up before a.m. yeah I'm gonna reserve judgment have this finished big chunk of my focus for the last week has been on these vlogs I'm actually deploying with the idea of actually you know I'm gonna scratch that I'm gonna commit to do instead of time with the idea and I see as positive language here I'm not commit to get in the vlog every day at 3 p.m. so I kind of have it like in TV program a buoyant when I was few TV programs I followed her since Netflix was opened remember back in the day watching the Pilar safe with a bell or whatever and I'd know exactly what time it's narrator so that's gonna look a golfer with the vlog now so 3 p.m. every day of the vlog uploaded on YouTube and you guys are going to evolve me to kill door for us to each Turk homes in a lifetime a special moment when they're figuratively tapped on the shoulder and asked to do something unique to them and fit to their talents what a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared Robin willing to do that which could be in their greatest moment that was a Winston Churchill quote and that's a quote that's on my mind a lot this week it's a quote that's on my mind because I'm happy to announce I'll be heading away with the Irish squad to Canada this Sunday to compete in the World Championships it's always such an amazing honor when you get a chance to pull on a green jersey anyone who's had a chance to do and it's one of the moments that will live on long long after your cycling career ends so I'm humbled and honored to pull on your austerity again for the World Championships and Milton on the tandem with my good buddy Peter Ryan race is gonna take place to follow on Friday but you're gonna be hearing a lot more about that in the meantime that quote from Winston Churchill sums up my mood this week we're at home and you're here in the background it's a set of air relaxed compression boots and people send in products and points of time and I love them walking around and playing with them air relax boots on finding them brilliance the main thing is that slowed me down I was getting me off my feet force me to put my legs up is it as good as a massage no definitely not in my opinion are at a great tool to have in your arsenal if you can afford them definitely get a set although I would say they're in the carnet nice to have rather than half the half bracket I've used these for the last week and I've used Norma tech in the past which is the brand leader the big difference is I'm gonna say the Norma tech are around 980 euro these are around 670 euro big price difference they seem identical to me the one difference is the Norma tech doesn't need to be plugged in when the air relaxed those for me it's not a biggie because I'm normally sitting at home using the but if you're using them introns that on a team boss or whatever the norm affects the one to go for if you're early looking for a set of these I'm gonna put a link in the description down below full disclosure I'm not a brand ambassador I'm not affiliated anyway with air relax but if you use the link below I will get a small kickback when you get in this set definitely worth checking out if you're looking to tear cycling gadgets a nice way to slow you down and just pull solos waste products elderly legs TV program I've been watching a lot of this week it's called world war two in color Netflix series it's absolutely fascinating I wouldn't have been a big military historian I wouldn't have massive interest normally in a but started watching I got absolutely hooked on some of the stories from World War two they're just brilliant and at the end of a day especially if you've had a difficult day and you're getting sort of stressed on some of the trivialities to go with anyone's life and you throw on a movie like this and you see the crazy sacrifice that people made it has a way of putting things into context