Things I See. And think of...

We are in a rural area so I always see cows, a couple of horses, a pony, sheep and birds of different sorts, on my ride when I head North way.   It's nice.

Today, 12 April 2020, Easter Sunday, on the way out I saw 5 or 6 x 28's, a rabbit , a willy, crows/ravens...On the way back I saw the guinea fowl in a paddock of where they used to be.  I haven't seen them since I started riding again past this property and thought that they were gone but no, just hanging out in a different area.  And probably not the same ones that we used to see all over the road all those years ago! 

Also saw a fox!  7:45am and he was on the side of the road, took off when it saw me and streaked across the road and through the paddock.  Yep, I see a fox running away and think of Ethel...
Saw more, or the same, 28's, and another willy, there's that song again...

Wondered how far it was to the corner that we used to ride to, and if I rode to there would I be able to get home again...Didn't try as I didn't have my phone with me to call for a pick up if I couldn't.  But I will eventually get there.  And back again too!

Wondered if farmers still spread super on their paddocks as there was a strong smell in some areas, not fox smell. 

Thought of my husband when I saw a dove or pigeon sitting on the powerlines...I didn't know what type it was and he would have.  Then started getting cranky with our plumber because he didn't come and finish the job we've been waiting more than 12 months for and what if husband needs to go into isolation.  Then worried about him a bit and forgot about the plumber.  And forgot about husband within minutes (seconds) as there was other things to see and wonder about! 

And coming down our road there was a bandicoot in the drain.  It also took off when it heard me...Seems I have that affect on wildlife.

I enjoy my rides, so pleased I now have a bike that I can ride and get out there again.

10/4/'20 - ...

It's Saturday 11th April 2020.  No ride again yesterday.  I eat too much crap when I don't go for the ride, seems the less I do the more I eat.

If I start doing things after my morning coffee, like dishes, cat, chooks, watering, computer, and then it gets too late/too hot I am less likely to get on the bike.   Seems I have to get this done first thing, after coffee, otherwise there are no guarantees.  But it is sometimes too windy so hard to ride in the mornings.

Sat 11th April.  8km bikeride.  Knee a tad achy on the way back but only for a bit.  OK now.  Hands same, bit tingly and still feel them now, but will shake it out and be fine.  And just like that it is nearly 8oclock and gunna be warm out there.  Spent most of the day outside so ate less crap.  And lots of grass was removed from around the orange trees and edges of gardens.  I'll feel that tomorrow.

12th Easter Sunday - 8km this morning.  Wasn't feeling it this morning so thought I'd just go to the corner and back, then thought I'd get to the old dairy, before I knew it I was at the guinea fowl curve so may as well go all the way and turn around at Whettem...  The rest of the day was a wipeout though, just wasn't up to anything.

13th  7km this evening.  Really couldn't be fagged this morning.  And husband was home and up early so that put me behind...  Late afternoon I had a message from grandaughter asking if I wanted to go for a ride so we organised it and went.  So big thanks to J for that 'cause I probably wouldn't have gone otherwise.

14th  12km.  Now that is impressive!  Grandaughter came with me again so we planned on doing the same ride as yesterday but she said she was willing to go further and see what my usual ride was. So I arranged to meet her at our meeting spot then we both rode back past our place and up the road and around the corner.  She was fine to keep going and OK to keep going still when we reached the curve.   So up to the corner then turn around for the ride home.  We did call in to our place so she could fill her water bottle then back to where we met so she could continue home.  Then I turn around and come back home.  My riding in to meet her adds an extra km each way so that's where the extra 4 came from today.

15th  Didn't do anything all day and really couldn't be fagged...But ended up riding to the corner and back so 3km.

16th  Nothing.

Fri 17th  No ride today either...Hohum...


Am I fitter than last week?   Who know, I think I need a testing kit of some sort.  I am riding further than when I started but not riding every day.  Did 12km one day this week but then had 2 days of nothing.  Will try and not do less next week.

4km Hoon

1st April 2020.   Rode 4km this morning.  That seems like such a short distance for the effort I put in though.  But the most I have done in years... so Yay for that!  I rode towards town, planning to get to the railway line where we used to cross over, before turning back to home. I hoped it was further than I thought but it wasn't so I had to continue up past our driveway, went up to the bridge and back and was nearly on the dot of 4km when I got back to our driveway. 

This morning, 2 April, I rode around the block as I was wanting to see how far it was.  I want to find a 5km route so I can set that as my basic ride.   The block this morning wasn't it.  After going around the block and back home I was still way short of 4km so kept going up to the corner then turned around and back home...nearly at the 4 so I rode down the driveway towards the shed then turned onto the grass in front of the house...and fell off.  3.97km.  So didn't even get to 4 today.  haha
Next time I will continue on past the house at the corner before turning back for home.

And all because husband was sick of my whinging and whining about not being able to ride to the corner so bought me a new bike.  haha, Not really.  He did buy me a new bike though, one that hoons so I have no excuse now...Hmmm...

3 April.  Hadn't done  ride when daughter messaged to say I had a parcel delivered to her house so I jumped on the bike and rode in to meet her at railway crossing.  Rode home and called in as plumber was there then got back on bike to complete the distance.  All up todays ride was 6.60.

4th April. No ride.  Hmmm, slackin' off already?!

5th April.  Might see how far away the old dairy is...It is around 2.3 to dairy.  So I kept riding past.  We used to ride this road years ago so I was going to try and get to the curve...did that and still kept going.  It is 4.1 to Whettam Road, the corner where Mayfield turns off. So by the time I was back home I had ridden 8.2.  That's pretty good I think.

6th.  Hmmm, nothing.  Nowhere.  Zerozilchnada.

7th  9km this morning.  Planned on doing 10 but misread the odemetre. Nine is pretty good though.

8th   I'm going with 6 this morning, so mach harder than yesterday's 9 though.  Limestone past Linda's then South, East, North, and home. Had to go just past the driveway to get just past the 6 by the time I turned around and got back to it.

9th.  No ride.  Ate too much crap.

10th.  Friday Will I be/Am I fitter?  haha, Maybe, didn't ride to see how far I could go or how great I felt afterwards.   Ate too much throughout the day again.

2020 - Will this be the year?

New year started today and I went for a bikeride, up to the corner and back so 3km.  Took 15 minutes.  The bike has been sprayed and fiddled with, tyres pumped up, so it wasn't that bad.  I hope to ride into town this week, to see if I can.  And if I can then I hope to do it a couple of times a week.  That would be good.
If I don't ride then I need to start walking again.  Or anything again.

I have printed off a chart thing with the months printed and divided into sections, the idea is to colour in a section each day I move to keep an account of what is done. 
And as of today I am on track!!  How good am I?! haha.

We'll see how I go this time...

Bikes aint bikes..

Went for a bikeride this afternoon, first one in awhile though.  I have tried though, kinda.  Sometimes.  Once or twice anyway. 

A couple of months back I was going to start riding again and on the 6th September I did.  And a couple before that and a couple after, did some stepping too and was getting the numbers up.  But then I stopped.  As I do.  Then I went and stayed with a woman and she has a bike that she rides 3 times a day, every day.  So I asked if I could borrow her bike and go for a ride around the oval.  And I did.  That bike was so easy to ride I rode for miles, every day I was there.  Then I came home and rode my bike.  Not easy, so hard I couldn't get to neighbors driveway without hurting and being puffed.  So I came home and put the bike away.  Went to womans house again and rode her bike.  For miles, it was so easy.
Husband looked at my bike, fiddled with the gears, sprayed everything, pumped the tyres up and I rode up the road and around the corner.  Hard but doable.  Next time I tried, harder.  But I felt the tyres and they seemed OK.  He comes out and tries the tyres and pumps them up and I rode around the corner to the limestone.  And today to the corner and back. 
But I think I need another bike.  What sort and where from?  And how much will it cost me?!  No idea what I need and though I have looked at KMart I am not sure if they will be any easier than the one I have now.  I may need a visit to Mandurah or Bunbury and go into a proper bike shop for advice.  In the meantime I will ride mine when I can.

Nothing!!

Well who saw that coming?!  Nothing at all, not even daily steps on the stepping machine which is RIGHT THERE!  in my face, getting kicked and tripped over on a daily basis. 

There have been a few bike rides while I had been staying at my mothers house, and a couple of walks there too, but not a lot happening here to get myself fitter. 

I wonder why I want to be so lazy and to stay so unfit...

Week 6th - 12th September

Fri 6th - Bike ride 3km, took 14 minutes.

Sat -

Sun -

Mon -

Tues -

Wed -

Thurs -

Hmmm, looks like nothing for all that time.  It is now the Thursday the 19th!!   Will I be fitter By Friday?  Ummm, no.  Lots less fitter as I just did some steps and only managed 80.  Oh dear...

I Went All The Way...

...To the corner and back.  I haven't done that in quite awhile and it showed in the sore legs and the huffing and puffing but I did it anyway. 

Learned a few more things:

• Don't spend too much time looking at the cows in the paddock or you could end up in the lake-size puddle on the side of the road.  I didn't, 'cause I'm good, but it was close.
• Ducks that suddenly fly up out of the lake-size puddle make me jump.
• I need a bigger bike seat.  Or a smaller bum.
• It's going to take awhile before I can get to the dairy and back.

The movement of something black out the corner of my eye, over in the paddock, probably wasn't a big cat/panther/puma...Probably...

Why?

Why do I eat so much crap, sit around too much doing nothing, not get outside and walk up the road, not get on the bike and ride for 5 minutes, not walk into town like I used to, not do anything to make myself fitter so that I can get out and explore and have fun?  Why?

It's Tuesday already and I have had 2 days of nothing.  Why?  What the frig is wrong with me?  Do I not really want to "wander the countryside, climb big rocks and swim in lakes and rivers"?  I'm pretty sure that I do want to do those things and I would like to not half-kill myself in the process.  I'd like it to be fun and not a strain on the ol' ticker.   I'd like for the rest of the group to not have to stop or slow down and cater to me...In no way do I ever expect to be able to run up Bluff knoll and maybe even walking it again is now beyond me but smaller rocks, paths through the bush, wide lakes and dams...That could all be fun, so why don't I get fit enough to do it all?  Or fit enough to do some of it even?  Ha, dunno.  

I know an 86 year old woman that goes for multiple rides on her bike every day, another woman only a couple of years older than me that can walk and ride for miles/hours.   Someone else started bikeriding and is now up to 50km a time, a younger person that not long ago had emergency surgery but is now walking more than me...What do these people have inside their head that I don't seem too?   Dunno.

I have a few choices. 

1. I could sit on the lounge and eat cake/crap with the husband and stay home 'cause I will be fatter and more unfit than I am now and not want to do anything and stop thinking about all the wandering, rocks, lakes and adventures that I think I want to do.
2. I could keep doing what I am doing and not see enough improvement in fitness so I will whinge about it all being too hard so not do anything and end up doing number 1 by default.
3. I could eat less crap and move more and go on a weekly adventure until the adventure is that rock, lake or whatever I want.
4. I could eat better, move more, then move more again, then again...

What would be your choice?   What will be mine...

Week 30 August - 5th September

It's Friday again.  Am I fitter than I was last week.  Lets just say yes and be done with it.
A new thing is going to be "walked on the spot" but will be put down as "wots" because I am too lazy too write out all the letters. 

Friday 30th Aug  This morning I wots while watching Youtube, 11 minutes.  Bikeride this afternoon, yay me!  haha.   Thought I'd go to the bridge and back which all up is a km but kept riding past to the first white post before turning around and then rode past our driveway up to the first white post...And then...110 steps.

Sat 31st  Something, I think...wouldn't have been anything more than steps though, maybe some minutes of wots.

Sunday - 1st Sept - Nothing  I "think" I can feel the onset of shinsplints?  Something anyway.

Monday - Nothing.  As above, sore shins.  I have had shinsplints before and it's not nice so "resting"

Tuesday - 200 steps on and off over an hour.   3 min wots.

Wed -  I did use the stepper but can't remember how many or how often...

Thurs - 11 min wots this morning.  Some whippersnippering which sent me to bed for 2 hours! 

Tomorrow is Friday.  I don't feel fitter, stronger or healthier.  But I am not moving enough, I am eating too much crap still and I am not eating enough vegetables.  Maybe next week.