I’ll have a go.
Running, C+
Jeff managed to carry over some 2019 form despite limited training time in the early months of the year, including some fell running. Any actual training evaporated along with races and running became a gradual plod in a bid for freedom.
This then picked up in late summer with some fell running until injury struck and instead of resting decided to keep running up and down mountains. This has then led to him writing off all running activity for some time and descending to walking to avoid his increasing waistline. This is not the first time he has done this and continually fails to learn from past experience.
Navigational skills continue to be an issue, and has the ability to still get lost despite having the route on his watch and telling him which direction to continue travelling.
This accumulated nearly 1800km or distance & 27,000m of ascent during the year.
Did manage to improve photography skills to raise his mark.
Cycling, A-
Despite a poor start to the year and spending lots of time daydreaming about new bikes, Jeff then discovered he had a Wattbike in his garage and an unused Zwift subscription taking money from his bank account.
Despite technological difficulties and poor racing skills, including (but not limited to) not actually realising where courses started and finished he has shown reasonable commitment and managed to improve his cycling over the season on shorter events.
Sadly, this training generally did not translate to real outdoors cycling due to his aversion to cold and wet. This inability to MTFU is a black mark on his record this year.
Swimming, B-
2020 has been a frustrating year for Jeff while swimming. After showing some rare motivation in the early months of the year, fuelled by the fear of being eaten by a Great White Shark off the Galveston coast he soon lost interest again when the pool closed.
He then found further motivation later in the year and began to move in the right direction in late summer, including some open water swimming.
Sadly, his race performances fail to match his pool training once he dons his gimpsuit, and anything other than warm water causes problems for him.
He has since slipped back into his bad ways and merely thinks that watching people swimming at the pool will be sufficient training. Also must try harder to swim outdoors.
Triathlon, U
Despite several near misses no triathlons were actually completed this year. One race was started but his inability to deal with the cold, despite being a northerner has cost him once again.
Must learn to man up or enter warm races.
DIY, home skills
Shows absolutely no interest in this, much to the anger of fellow humans. Limits efforts to bare minimum and would be a disappointment to father.
This lack of interest is also extending to bike maintenance where he makes simple mistakes like using old kit and failing simple tasks like routing a chain correctly.
IT skills are also very limited.
Drinking, E
Jeffrey showed some early promise this year with at least one 2am lads bender and duck pond photo, and subsequently losing 36 hours of his life. And other nights at the local nitespots.
However, since March has essentially gone tea total and is now wary of being breathalysed after eating wine gums.
Tritalk, A
Has shown an unhealthy interest in this bromance web forum spending countless hours talking bollocks with similar like minded people. Really needs to meet more real human beings but has physical proof that some of them are real humans and not Russian AI bots.
