Yes, it has again been some time since my last blog, but between Chinese New Year and a dose of man flu afterwards, I have had nothing really to report…

I was all geared up for a good session on Saturday, as I hadn’t trained for three days… Unfortunately, it was filming day, so we all had a training session on how to be famous… Topless pictures, interview videos and running when Alexis shouted “NOW” so the Vanda chaps had videos to show how hard our training sessions are.

We started off with an orderly queue being formed at the bottom of a huge staircase by a HDB apartment block – a spot that in the UK would be populated with spotty teenagers drinking cider. Admittedly, we did look like a bunch of idiots, but at least we were famous idiots in some weird shape or form. We had to run up the stairs, two at a time (people, not steps) and the video had to be done on widescreen to get Bruce’s head in the frame. I had my springy trainers on again, so bounced most of the way…. Jim and Bruce had a race, and it was similar to the Hare and the Tortoise, except that it was just two tortoises, neither with any hair.

This is Bruce relaxing after his training.

We did this stair run three times as the cameraman kept ballsing it up, so it did end up being a good workout really – plus I love running up stairs for some bizarre reason.

Next we went to a hill that we had to run up twice for the camera. Bruce also balls’d this up because he ran faster than the group rather than staying in a lovely orderly formation. This is clearly never going to happen in real-life, as shifting that oversized frame anywhere fast requires a crane or an aeroplane.

Then we went down onto Zion Road, where we collectively ran along the road pretending we were training hard. Unfortunately, as we all started to run following Alexis’ “NOW” an old lady was walking towards us and we accidentally scared the bejesus out of the poor old love…. So, we had to do that again as well – this time without trying to scare the poor old’un.

We went back to the gym after this for photos and video interviews, and a few of us splintered off to hit the heavy bag, and do a bit of light sparring.

Thomas and I did a bit of light sparring, and he was a bit rubbish, so I won every round. He asked me to go gentle on him, as he didn’t want his face getting damaged. Thomas also wears foot powder, which everyone should find weird. And it smells so wrong.

After Thomas went off to carry on practising his autograph, I did the same with Steve, who halfway through decided to headbutt me in the nose – a tactic which i’m not sure is allowed….

Between the two, I managed about 8 rounds, and it was good stuff and felt good…

Not a very productive day, although the training gained from all the sodding around with the camera made for a few good runs…. I also made a complete hash of my video which I blame on being headbutted in the nose.