Weekly Notes 42/2026

What's been happeningThe week started with Sydney amping up the grill to max — we got a taste of how our summer might be when the temperature shot up to 36 degrees out here in Western Sydney.I’m not looking forward to it. Thankfully, the rest of the week was pretty wet and cold - not great from a humidity point of view.A round of thanks to Rushabh who asked me why I haven't written the weekly notes in a while - it turns out that the www version of my site was still pointed to the older Hugo based site. D'oh. I’ve fixed this now with a redirect. The week went by pretty ok. The gym sessions were pretty decent. For the first session of the week, we had back squats and power clean thrusters while for the second session we had deadlifts. I was struggling with the deadlifts because I was trying to apply the hook grip and the resultant grip was applying a lot of pressure on my thumb. I also didn't get the grip right and ended up bruising my little finger and ended up with a sharp pain when…