I am English. I have a GBR passport. This is roughly the same as an EU passport, with a few differences. But I am good to enter all countries as a visitor, and residency should prove easier than someone from the US.

I am an IT consultant, specialising in Disaster Recovery planning. (Yes, I put together worst case plans for a living.) From this I have skills in planning, prioritising, delegation and organisation. I am also a qualified Divemaster. Leadership, teaching, first-aid and rescue are the skills I bring from this.

All the plans I make are multi-purpose. Since the expenditure on a BOL fortress is quite a significant amount, it must be useful even if Z-Day (or other insert-disaster-here scenario) doesn't happen. So the BOL main house will be a combination holiday home and DR site for my main business. The dive boat will be rented out to a dive resort in the Caribbean. The smaller homes will be rented out to workers who will tend the farmland, selling the produce (break-even or small loss) and keeping the place running ready for when the worst happens.

Personal Fitness

Whilst I am in shape enough for the UK Dive medical, I am not in as good a shape as I want. My current score on the APFT is 174 (32PU, 55SU, 17:00R at 4th September). I would like to be up to the Ranger Standard (217) by the end of December (49PU, 59SU, 6CU, 16:00R). Yes, the Ranger run is 5 miles not 2, but it averages out to 8 minutes a mile, which is how I got that time.

Thanks to all the swimming, I have a good abdominal section, so I am not far off that goal. However, I am used to operating with most of my weight supported by the water, which is why my arms and cardio suck a fat one. But I am going to keep at it. Weirdly, I can blitz the chin-up requirement. I guess different arm muscles are used in that one.

I am moving again, and starting a new contract. This means lots of disruption, so my workout is going to be pushed back.

Workout Plan

Week No	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
37-40	30 x3 PU, 3 min intervals Rest 10 min 30 x2 PU Rest 45 x3 SU Rest 45 x2 SU Rest 2 mile run (18:00)	35 x3 PU, 5 min intervals Rest 15 min 50 x3 SU Rest 2 mile run (18:00)	30 x5 PU, 3 min intervals Rest 10 min 45 x5 SU Rest 2 mile run (18:00)	35 x5 PU, 5 min intervals Rest 15 min 50 x5 SU Rest 2 mile run (18:00)	Max x3 PU, 3 min intervals Rest 10 min Max x3 SU Rest 2 mile run (17:00)	30 x3 PU, 3 min intervals Rest 10 min 30 x2 PU Rest 45 x3 SU Rest 45 x2 SU Rest 2 mile run (18:00)	Rest
36	Test Day 32 PU 55 SU 2 mile run (17:00)				All sets of all exercises completed (0d9903)	At least one set of all exercises completed (f7e920)	No sets of one or more exercises completed (b80d0d)

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