DA CHANGES AT WORK?
Ok firstly i may be on holiday in June for about a week. Despite the fact that normally you can't claim paid leave in your first year of working at post i have been told that i can take a week if i want to... so i am lol. just need to apply for it now.
in other news i mite be changing runs...... again. this is fresh of da press today lol. i was pretty surprised when i heard it as i haven't even properly started this other run yet. Ok just to avoid confusion i will refer to da runs by their number. I was trained on run 42 (prince regent) and have been on there since i started (about 8 months). Recently though they have been moving me over to run 23 (Abafeldy... near highland park). This entire week i've been delivering 23 but have been sorting the mail on 42. 23 is shorter, quicker but hillier than 42 so it requires a change of tactic for me. with 42 i chill quite a bit as its quiet and peaceful but with 23 im after speed.... da hills tend to pump me up and the mail is mostly light too on this run so if you blast it you can finish real early. Anyway today i heard that i may be going onto run 31.... which is a big run, lots of mail but mostly flat. btw i've been told that da 4 kingpin runs (ie da hardest ones) are 35, 45, 53 and 54.
time of year also matters too... of course i don't really have much say as to where they put me but naturally differeent runs have different pros and cons and being an outdoors job and also taking into account my kitesurfing each run suits a different time of year. 23 being a short run with lots of hills certainly suits winter... the early finish means i can have ample kiting time in da short days and da hills warm me up..... um ok lets rephrase that.... the cold air keeps me cool lol. 42 suited summer perfectly and on dis run i made it through da summer no worries. 54.... da run that everyone sez is da hardest seems to suit spring..... the big factor here being eastern beach... i tend not to like crowds so summer here would obviously be an issue.... the other factor of course is that EB is a kitebeach.... riding along watching kitesurfing would be pretty torturous in da NE days and as spring has less NE systems than any other time of the year... it suits this run perfectly.
in other news i mite be changing runs...... again. this is fresh of da press today lol. i was pretty surprised when i heard it as i haven't even properly started this other run yet. Ok just to avoid confusion i will refer to da runs by their number. I was trained on run 42 (prince regent) and have been on there since i started (about 8 months). Recently though they have been moving me over to run 23 (Abafeldy... near highland park). This entire week i've been delivering 23 but have been sorting the mail on 42. 23 is shorter, quicker but hillier than 42 so it requires a change of tactic for me. with 42 i chill quite a bit as its quiet and peaceful but with 23 im after speed.... da hills tend to pump me up and the mail is mostly light too on this run so if you blast it you can finish real early. Anyway today i heard that i may be going onto run 31.... which is a big run, lots of mail but mostly flat. btw i've been told that da 4 kingpin runs (ie da hardest ones) are 35, 45, 53 and 54.
time of year also matters too... of course i don't really have much say as to where they put me but naturally differeent runs have different pros and cons and being an outdoors job and also taking into account my kitesurfing each run suits a different time of year. 23 being a short run with lots of hills certainly suits winter... the early finish means i can have ample kiting time in da short days and da hills warm me up..... um ok lets rephrase that.... the cold air keeps me cool lol. 42 suited summer perfectly and on dis run i made it through da summer no worries. 54.... da run that everyone sez is da hardest seems to suit spring..... the big factor here being eastern beach... i tend not to like crowds so summer here would obviously be an issue.... the other factor of course is that EB is a kitebeach.... riding along watching kitesurfing would be pretty torturous in da NE days and as spring has less NE systems than any other time of the year... it suits this run perfectly.
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