August 2006
Monthly Archive
Song Walk, Day 23, Thursday 8/17/06
Posted by Administrator on 18 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
7:58 – 8:18 – 19.12 minutes
Red pedometer right hip .91 miles 2655 steps
Blue Pedometer, left hip 2506
3.06 Is it any Wonder – Keane (Under the Iron Tree)
4.22 Indian Summer Sky – U2 (The Unforgettable fire)
4.03 Ball room Blitz – Sweet (Billboard Top 100 – 1975)
3.41 Warning – Green Day (International Superhits)
3.59 Hey Ya – Outkast (Single)
Right out of my street, onto G, down to the next side street, round in a loop, back out to G street, right, to the next side street, round the first side of the horseshoe, across that street, and back around the other side of the horseshoe. Left onto G, back to 10th, around in a small loop to the right on G, and back to my street, and house.
I felt like this was a faster walk, or more steps. Have to check my previous days and see.
Song Walk Day 22, Wednesday 8/16/06
Posted by Administrator on 16 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Exercise, Song Walk
7:19 – 8.35PM
Walked at night, because PT started at 8;30, and I needed the sleep more than the morning walk. Walked after getting a quote on filling our pool. $2K. What I’m happy about is that we can actually afford that with only a little moving around of bills. That’s not something we could always say/do.
Blue pedometer on right hip. 2814 steps.
Red pedometer on left hip. Didn’t work, even 10 minutes in. Moved it to a pocket, and now it shows 3988 steps, or 1.38 miles. Need a better measurement device!!
Walked out of our street, to the right, over to Glasstown Road, up around the circle at Wheaton Village, through the carpark past the Paperwaiter, around to the left onto a small portion of Wade Boulevard (past a tour bus decked out for the U16 Babe Ruth world series girl’s softball thingy), around into the new (like a couple of years ago now new) pre-school adapted from an office building-building, down to the end of the street that joins onto Glasstown, around onto Whittaker (quick chat with a friend who stopped her truck when she saw us to say hi; lives a little further up), back onto 10th street, round onto G and then home.
It’s nice to walk longer when we have the time. I did notice that my left knee was a little twingy. Not quite stretched, or too stretched by walking? Left leg has the glass-shards feeling in the back of my heel when I stretch my left foot in a hamstring stretch, and my left ankle is a little dodgy, has been known to feel like it’s about to make me fall.
When I finish the PT, and the basic GP bloodwork, I’m booking a gynae appointment (cause it’s been a while, plus I have to get a base-level mammogram) and maybe talk to the arthritis Dr who prescribed the shoulder PT about my left leg, see if he deals with that too.
Odd thing; they give prescriptions here for mammograms and PT. I think I’m used to maybe a referral? Or perhaps I never got to that stage of anything in Oz. I’ll have to ask my Mum what her specialists do.
Song Walk Day 16, Thursday August 10, 2006
Posted by Administrator on 10 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: 10,000 Steps, Exercise, Song Walk
19.59 minutes 8:55 – 9:13AM
Red Pedometer – Left Hip – .88 miles/2565 steps
Blue Pedometer – Right Hip – 2579 steps
3.35 One Way or Another – Blondie (Parallell Lines)
4.28 Hell on Wheelz (Thrill Kill Kult vs no Doubt) – dinbot.com
2.21 Mutha Fukka on a Motor Cycle – Machine Gun Fellatio (Triple JJJ Hottest 100)
2.58 In God’s Country – U2 (the Joshua Tree)
5.21 Discotheque – U2 (Pop)
1.16 Prolouge – ELO (Time)
Walked out left to the end of my street, right on G, down to the next street, up and around that in a loop, right on G, down to the next street, up and around the whole horseshoe street to G, and then looping back on the horseshoe street back to G, left onto G, past my street to 10th and G, looped round on G, back to my street, back to my back gate, and to the door.
I tried to pay attention to how I walk, and move my hips evenly, and stride the same distance, the same pace, and swing my arms evenly. I also paid close attention to where on my hips the pedomters each were.
Within 20 or so steps, that’s back to a normal result. I’ll keep testing it, alternating the pedomters, see if I get those out of whack results again.
Monday 8/7/06 Food
Posted by Administrator on 07 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Food Intake
oatmeal bar
two hard boiled eggs
small box of raisins
small box of dried apricots
banana
wholemeal spaghetti with pesto
bite of Jeff’s bagel
Lindt Lindor stracchiatella truffles (about 6); about 600 calories!
small spinach salad at Old Oarhouse; bacon, half hardboiled egg, pear, spinach, half of the dressing, romano cheese
bread roll, butter
1/3 of a huge Flying Fish beer.
2 iceblocks
Song Walk Day 13, Monday 8/7/06
Posted by Administrator on 07 Aug 2006 | Tagged as: Song Walk
9:50PM – 10:15PM
walked at night, cause I got up too late, and I worked late.
Out into the thunder and lightning storm, far enough away
Walked out to G, left onto 10th, right onto G again, up to 8th street
Up 8th street, to Broad, scaring a cat, a dog, and a shirtless guy on his cordless phone, walking from his car back to his house.
I felt sure he’d seen us, or heard us, as we were talking a little as we walked along. Not too loud, it was after 10PM after all, and we didn’t want to be *those* people. We were walking at a good clip, and underestimated just how slowly he was ambling back to his house.
Imagine the person on the other end of his call. “Yeah, just closed up the car, and I’m heading back to the hou- SHIT SHIT , oh shit, you scared the shit out of me!”.
Really? We hardly ever get that reaction on that walk.
Up to Broad street, left onto Broad, up to the corner, and left back onto 10th street. The lightning is brighter here, and it’s starting to rain. Two women run past, pushing a pram, with a now screaming baby. We wonder why they’re out in this weather? We’re out, admittedly, but we have no baby.
A yellow cab comes screaming up behind us, as we walk through the closed-down petrol station. Leading me to think we’re about to be run down by a clueless cabbie on a cut-throught, and nervously jumping around looking for which way to jump.
Turns out he’s just chucking a fairly loud u-ey, and stopping to pick up the women and the baby.
We keep walking on down 10th street, and happily feel the sudden burst of the cool change. Right onto G street, right onto our street, and back home, scooping up Mud, outside and freaked out by the storm and we head inside, for the whole house fan cooling down the house and iceblocks for an immediate cool us down.