Well hello. Long time no see.
Been going through some ... things. Didn't want any bad vibes to spill over into here.
Anyway...
What's been going on with TN recently?
Well, I ended up in a Boot. Could be quite a pleasant thing in winter. In summer, not so. That really hampered my getting out and walking, hiking, riding, and as a result, no stress relief. And I
really needed some! Hence cutting away from here to prevent toxicity leaking in. Good news was that my fracture actually seemed to heal! Yay! About two weeks after the boot came off, I went for a walk with a few brief (30 second) running intervals. That hurt. The next day, I tried again, running for slightly longer (60 second) intervals. That hurt more. The next day I had my physio appointment and told him what happened. He laughed and said he was expecting me to say that, given it hurt on the first day, on the second day I had taken it easy. Hah, surely he knows me by now! He told me it was too soon for me to do
any running yet. I am to stick to walking. And cycling.
Two weekends ago was the Canberra 2-day walk. My mum came down for it, determined to walk 12km each day. I felt I could do that too. But she was
so slow. The first day wasn't bad, my foot seemed to hold up quite well. The second day she had great difficulty, nearly didn't make it, but by leaning heavily on my arm and counting her steps (as I advised) she got there. It was a lovely day, though,
But my foot/ankle swelled up like a balloon and stayed that way for the next couple of days. So we rested until Wednesday when I took us off to Tidbinbilla. Very short and gentle walks for mum which she found difficult enough. But we saw a little brown bandicoot and a few koalas.
And it was another magnificent day:
Told mum that we could take a train to Sydney in the morning, mooch around for five or so hours and get a train back all in one day. The train trip would be just over 4 hours. So we did that on Saturday, leaving at the ungodly hour of 6:55am. On a Saturday! Mum wasn't up to doing much so I left her resting while I popped into the museum and art gallery and we both went up to St Mary's Cathedral:
And then headed off to Mrs Macquarie's chair - which wasn't a chair at all, but it was by the water and gave us a nice view. So I took an iconic photo - as one simply has to!
Mum couldn't make it back to the train station so I hailed us a taxi and then we waited for over an hour at the station and got home just after 10pm. A long day but I quite enjoyed it. Yeah, my foot swelled a little but... Mum went back home yesterday.
Apart from all this (and my physio exercises), I have been doing some weights training, doing a set of something several times throughout the day and making sure to give those muscles the next day off and work on others. It's been going quite well and I've actually noticed improvement in other things which is gratifying. My CV fitness has probably tanked, though. I have been walking (3km a day before the weekend walks) and been getting a good pace - about 6km/hour - so I'm optimistic that I'll soon be back to other things. If I can just stop this foot from swelling...
Chickens are growing nicely. I suppose I'd better post some pictures of them next time!
Been reading a lot. Not quite as much non-fiction as I said I would, but recently read Coyle's
The Talent Code and am halfway through Dutton's
The Wisdom of Psychopaths.
DuoLingo streak has been maintained, and I've even started listening to the Medito app again.
So that's me. I've not read anyone's thread for ages so I reckon it'll take me a while to get up to speed. Actually, I'll just read your most recent entries and go from there.
Then I finished off with lat pull-downs but I had to drop a plate for the final set because last time my form sucked for the last set and I didn't want to repeat that. It was a nice way to finish, anyway.
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