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...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
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.
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.
Friday, October 11, 2019
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...
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...
Thursday, September 19, 2019
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...
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...
Friday, September 6, 2019
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:
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.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
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.
What would be your choice? What will be mine...
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I could eat better, move more, then move more again, then again...
What would be your choice? What will be mine...
Friday, August 30, 2019
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.
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.
Week 23rd - 29th August
Well it's Friday again...Am I fitter than last week? Who knows, not me. I presume I must be because I am doing more than I was but I just don't feel fit, healthy and raring to go...And though I am sometimes getting on the stepper I am not doing anything else and I am eating way too much crap. As I do... Maybe I need to start recording the food I eat as well, we'll see how that goes.
I will keep writing down what steps I do on the stepper and any other stuff I do, like walking, bushwalks, bike ride,
Friday 23rd - 110, 110, 110 so 3 times up until 12:10. 100 steps at 5pm.
Saturday - No steps at all today but...did go out with daughter T so got some walking in. It wasn't a set walk though because the walk along a lake that I "knew" was there...wasn't. Who would have guessed that!! We ended up out at Myalup, did some walking, running, playing with the 3 year old there then drove to the caravan where we did the 500 metre walk down to the beach, ran/walked along the beach a tiny way then the walk up the hill to the caravan. I ended up pushing the 3 year old in the pram up the steepest bits while T carried the little light baby.
Sunday - 100. Walked for 25 min pushing the pram, not fast but I'm taking it.
Monday - Hmm, I really have to fill this in daily otherwise I forget. Hopefully I did do something.
Tuesday - Can't remember, some steps so I will claim 100!
Wednesday - 50 steps then later on another 110.
Thursday - Husband was still in bed at 6 so instead of stepper I walked on the spot for 7 minutes, then an hour later when I didn't much care if the squeaking stepper annoyed him I did 120 steps.
Not a lot this week, no bike rides but a short bushwalk and a walk pushing the pram...it all counts I suppose. The stepper isn't getting easier but maybe I am not using it often enough...
I will keep writing down what steps I do on the stepper and any other stuff I do, like walking, bushwalks, bike ride,
Friday 23rd - 110, 110, 110 so 3 times up until 12:10. 100 steps at 5pm.
Saturday - No steps at all today but...did go out with daughter T so got some walking in. It wasn't a set walk though because the walk along a lake that I "knew" was there...wasn't. Who would have guessed that!! We ended up out at Myalup, did some walking, running, playing with the 3 year old there then drove to the caravan where we did the 500 metre walk down to the beach, ran/walked along the beach a tiny way then the walk up the hill to the caravan. I ended up pushing the 3 year old in the pram up the steepest bits while T carried the little light baby.
Sunday - 100. Walked for 25 min pushing the pram, not fast but I'm taking it.
Monday - Hmm, I really have to fill this in daily otherwise I forget. Hopefully I did do something.
Tuesday - Can't remember, some steps so I will claim 100!
Wednesday - 50 steps then later on another 110.
Thursday - Husband was still in bed at 6 so instead of stepper I walked on the spot for 7 minutes, then an hour later when I didn't much care if the squeaking stepper annoyed him I did 120 steps.
Not a lot this week, no bike rides but a short bushwalk and a walk pushing the pram...it all counts I suppose. The stepper isn't getting easier but maybe I am not using it often enough...
Sunday, August 18, 2019
Crooked Brook Forest Walk August 2019
I was feeling too lazy to do steps today but daughter T rang and asked if I was interested in going for a drive...And maybe a walk...so yeah, why not. One of our stops was Crooked Brook Forest where we planned on going for a walk.
But which one? How fit were we feeling? How much time did we have? How far could the 3 year old walk? How far could the 30 year old walk while carrying a 6 week old baby? So many questions...We chose not to walk10km...
Lots of wildflowers in the surrounding bush, white ones and yellow ones...
So, the bridge or the fallen down tree? OK, tree bridge it is.
We had a decent walk, got up a bit of sweat, had fun, no yowies were seen, we had fun. We will be back and one day maybe we will do the 10 km walk. We'll see.
But which one? How fit were we feeling? How much time did we have? How far could the 3 year old walk? How far could the 30 year old walk while carrying a 6 week old baby? So many questions...We chose not to walk10km...
We had a decent walk, got up a bit of sweat, had fun, no yowies were seen, we had fun. We will be back and one day maybe we will do the 10 km walk. We'll see.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Friday 16th - 22nd August.
Friday 16th Was going to aim for 150 as a minimum this week but my legs hurt and I'm a sook so that didn't happen this morning. I did 100 and then 100 more 10 minutes later and will try for another 100 later on this morning. I will also take the Magnesium.
Saturday - I did a basic 100 after my morning coffee but nothing else that day. Should have, didn't...
Sunday - 9 oclock already and nothing so far. Husband is home, it's cold, I can't be fagged...daughter rang and we went on an adventure, short bush walk at Crooked Brook Forest. Good fun. But no steps.
Monday - No steps again, until 9pm when I finally did 100.
Tuesday - Feeling pretty good today but the stepper was stiff, managed 110 then 100 10 minutes later. It's nearly 5pm, tried again but only got to 50 before I gave up.
Wednesday - 110 after coffee but wow, legs hurt! I thought it would get easier but it hasn't, maybe I need to do it more often...
Thursday - 110 this morning but felt blah all day and nothing else.
AM / PM
Friday - 100, 100 / 100
Saturday - 100
Sunday - Bushwalk, no stepping.
Monday - / 100
Tuesday - 100,100 / 50
Wednesday - 100, 100
Thursday - 100
I thought I'd be feeling better and fitter by now but it's all too much effort and very little fun. Daughter has suggested that we do more regular bushwalks and I think that would be good so we will get a list of some walks not too far from home and see what we can do.
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