I’m a technology mad, environmentally minded, exercise addicted machine!
Last year I ran my second London Marathon which I did not enjoy thanks to the swollen sheath of my Achilles Tendon. I’ve run plenty of Half Marathons and 10k’s and even come as good as second place in a few 5k’s.
My PB’s over various distances are :-
5000m – 18m40s
10000m – 38m41s
Half Marathon – 1hr26m
Marathon – 3hr42m
I’ve knocked the long distance running pretty much on the head now though. I’m happy to do a 10k or maybe even a Half Marathon if I put in some extra training but I’m very much of the belief that I’m happy with a good 45mins – 1hour’s worth of running fitness, the rest I’ll get from riding the Mountain Bike. Right now I’m putting on muscular size where there simply wasn’t any before and too much running burns too many Calories and sends my food requirements through the roof so when I’ve settled at a weight I’m happy with I’ll re-introduce the longer runs to my regime.
Bikes have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I’ve always loved bikes, all the way from my Raleigh Grifter, Mustang and onto the 4 figure bike that currently own which gets me into what I believe to be some of the most beautiful parts of the English Countryside through Surrey’s North Downs and parts of the Weald. Some fool let me loose on one with a motor and that landed me racing SuperSport class machinery up to National level in the UK which I honestly wish I could carry on doing , but it’s simply too expensive for an average earning chap such as I.
Music rocks my world. My music collection ranges from Arctic Monkeys to X-Dream. DJing used to be a big passion but for the time being I get by just listening to the awesome talent of some of the artists that are kicking around today.
Favourites to name a few – Youth, The Orb, Eat Static, System 7, Snow Patrol, Dzihan & Kamien, Aim, Jazzanova, Fink, Bonobo, Orbital, FSOL/Amorphous Androgynous, Terranova and so on and so on.
I’m an IT Professional and I hold quite a few IT Certifications now which line up as follows:-
MCP
MCSE 2000 : Security
MCSA 2000 : Security
MCSE 2003
MCSA 2003
VCP on VI3
CCA on PS4
CCA on XenApp5 for Windows 2008
CCNA
Cisco Firewall Specialist
Cisco IOS Security Specialist
Cisco IPS Security Specialist
Cisco Information Security Specialist
CCSP
As of Aug ‘09 I’ll be wholly centred around the world according to Cisco which is nice for me as I’ve been working towards a Network centric position since the late 90’s early 00’s and I’m glad everything has finally paid off.
That’s me in a little nutshell.
Peace and Out.
Paul x
