I’m quite aware that there’s a big chunk of time missing from the blog at the moment… in fact, there’s been a total absence of running going on and precious little other exercise too, on account of our having been AWAY!
After a couple of weeks with temperatures in the 70’s and 80’s in sunny Florida, [...]
A few weeks ago I pondered why everyone else seemed able to swim faster than me, before realising I could actually keep up with them if I crawled, like them. Tonight there was a guy that I don’t think I could have kept up with even if I had been running.
Towards the end of [...]
You may have gathered from my post earlier this week that we disappeared off to Holland last weekend to see our friends Adam & Sandra, celebrate their son Thomas’s second birthday and deliberately surprise Thomas’s grandparents, Tim & Anna, who were also visiting.
The outgoing leg was really straightforward, with great roads right up til about [...]
After a hard afternoons work lobbing snowballs at the energetic kids in the close yesterday, I had to go swimming tonight to stretch my shoulders backout. 35 minutes including about 8 or 9 crawlies, I think… I REALLY don’t seem to be able to count straight in the pool!
It was a bit of a rush to get to the pool last night and by the time the we were allowed in, the session was only 35 minutes long. The shorter window of time focuses the mind though, so I actually had a better workout that normal.
Still lots of breast stroke lengths, but [...]
Another visit to the public baths tonight, this time for about 55 minutes. It would have been longer but they don’t start selling tickets until a nanosecond before the session starts.
I discovered that the others don’t swim as fast as they make out, only terrorising me when I’m cruising with my unusual breast stroke. If [...]
After listening to President Obama’s inauguration speech earlier, I whizzed down to the pool and spent 40 minutes chasing the toes of other swimmers up and down the lane. If ever there was a lesson in futility, this was it.
How come everyone else can swim faster than me?!
Here we are, mid-way through January and I am only just putting fingers to keyboard. Here’s a quick photographic catch-up on the first couple of weeks of 2009:
And just in case you are intreagued by the splash that I’m making above, here is the video that Kristin (www.planetkrikri.blogspot.com) took - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhkg4RU5xR0
More than two weeks have passed sans run, yet I am unrepentant… I have all my excuses neatly lined up.
I thought that I would add a little more to these pages before the closing of the year, but now I’m actually here, I can only report that Christmas went in a blur.
Along with 2008.
May [...]
And both Kim and I agree that, even after only one week of doing the chi-kung exercises each day, we really do feel great. I doubly recommend it!