January challenge log

Lullabelle said:
It wouldn't be fair to leave a puppy all alone for over 8 hours.
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Oh, right. Yeah, I keep forgetting other people have normal jobs that take them out of the house for most of the day.
 
Sadly only 1.42 miles, my walk home. Thus morning was far too icy underfoot, the weather now I'd dreadful, icy cold wind and rain. No walk this evening.
 
Lullabelle said:
Sadly only 1.42 miles, my walk home. Thus morning was far too icy underfoot, the weather now I'd dreadful, icy cold wind and rain. No walk this evening.
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Are you a diver too? I think I remember TVC saying he was trying to get fit for diving?

It's cold here, too. I have to pick up a curbside grocery order but that's it. Actually hubby offered to go pick it up for me, so I don't have to go anywhere after all. The high here today is 25F (about -4C), brrrr!
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Are you a diver too? I think I remember TVC saying he was trying to get fit for diving?

It's cold here, too. I have to pick up a curbside grocery order but that's it. Actually hubby offered to go pick it up for me, so I don't have to go anywhere after all. The high here today is 25F (about -4C), brrrr!
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I am not a diver due to an ear issue, the ENT specialist advised against it.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
Are you a diver too? I think I remember TVC saying he was trying to get fit for diving?

It's cold here, too. I have to pick up a curbside grocery order but that's it. Actually hubby offered to go pick it up for me, so I don't have to go anywhere after all. The high here today is 25F (about -4C), brrrr!
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It is cold here, too. There is also a moderate, but cutting wind. It was not a good day to be outside.

That's the problem with walking in North Texas. It is either too hot, or too cold most of the year. Spring and Fall last a matter of weeks.

CD
 
caseydog said:
It is cold here, too. There is also a moderate, but cutting wind. It was not a good day to be outside.

That's the problem with walking in North Texas. It is either too hot, or too cold most of the year. Spring and Fall last a matter of weeks.

CD
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My sister in Austin had been complaining about the 80 degree weather for most of the fall. She hasn't said much lately, LOL.
 
Hoping the weather calms down this afternoon because I want to get some miles in, this morning was dreadful so fingers crossed.
 
Another day where it currently feels like 0F/-18C, but maybe a little warmup later on, so I'm determined to get at least a little walk in.
 
Well my goal is just to get walking again... We have been walking prior and during Christmas slowly extending from 1km to 2km walking in the farm or occasionally on the road if hubby was in work that day (he'd just drop me off and I'd walk home). Over Christmas we set a goal of extending walks and trying new places as my mobility and stamina has improved. I'm usually knackered after the walks and the 2 longer ones had me sleep for 24 hrs after them but I managed them and for someone who used to be as active as me, this is important.

I'm also using Strava to keep track of my walks.

Since the New Year I've done

DateDistanceElevation
1st Jan1st walk1.92km26m
2nd walk2.12km42m
3rd Janhike7.47km272m
5th JanHike8.17km87m
7th Jan1st hike2.78km135m
2nd hike3.24km81m

New Year's day saw us get up early to get out to a special nature reserve south west of Canberra in time for it to open. We wanted to see platypus in the wild, so took brekkie with us. We got to see 4 separate platypus in 2 ponds. A case of 'hubby look this way, its over there...' And we're both looking at separate platypus. This happened twice in different ponds so we know we saw at least 4 individual platypuses. We also got to see some koala (we think 6 but it was hard to tell because they were all hugging each other and it was only an excess of ear tufts and limbs that really have the game away.

The 3rd of January saw us venture to a national park north of us, to see the views from the lookouts. We planned a much longer walk than previously but with many points to bale and one or both of us return to the car. As it was I didn't complete the walk, but the walk distance was given as 6.8km. What they didn't include was visiting the actual lookouts in that distance and one of them was 400m each way off the track. I did make it back to the car with the assistance of morphine (given I need it just to sleep this is not really a big deal in my book but a normal everyday event). There was a look of climbing and uneven ground on this route so I was really pleased to have managed what I did.

Jan 5 th saw us visit another nature reserve but neither of us were that impressed. There was nowhere to stop, little cover or shade, and the bird life must have been asleep because we've more in or back garden... It was further than I was comfortable with and I struggled and there was no baled out option. I had to get myself back to the car. I actually feel asleep on the way home I was that exhausted. Morphine was also needed.

Yesterday (7th) was 2 shorter walks and a much more comfortable distance even though the first hike and it was very much a hike not a walk, was much harder underfoot. I went with both crutches which helped enormously although at one time I actually had to given them to hubby for him to pass them down after I'd negotiated a short rock face and another along the creek bed. It was enjoyable. The second walk was further than planned because of a locked gate but I managed it with ease. Resting and having lunch between the walks helped.
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Well my goal is just to get walking again... We have been walking prior and during Christmas slowly extending from 1km to 2km walking in the farm or occasionally on the road if hubby was in work that day (he'd just drop me off and I'd walk home). Over Christmas we set a goal of extending walks and trying new places as my mobility and stamina has improved. I'm usually knackered after the walks and the 2 longer ones had me sleep for 24 hrs after them but I managed them and for someone who used to be as active as me, this is important.

I'm also using Strava to keep track of my walks.

Since the New Year I've done

DateDistanceElevation
1st Jan1st walk1.92km26m
2nd walk2.12km42m
3rd Janhike7.47km272m
5th JanHike8.17km87m
7th Jan1st hike2.78km135m
2nd hike3.24km81m

New Year's day saw us get up early to get out to a special nature reserve south west of Canberra in time for it to open. We wanted to see platypus in the wild, so took brekkie with us. We got to see 4 separate platypus in 2 ponds. A case of 'hubby look this way, its over there...' And we're both looking at separate platypus. This happened twice in different ponds so we know we saw at least 4 individual platypuses. We also got to see some koala (we think 6 but it was hard to tell because they were all hugging each other and it was only an excess of ear tufts and limbs that really have the game away.

The 3rd of January saw us venture to a national park north of us, to see the views from the lookouts. We planned a much longer walk than previously but with many points to bale and one or both of us return to the car. As it was I didn't complete the walk, but the walk distance was given as 6.8km. What they didn't include was visiting the actual lookouts in that distance and one of them was 400m each way off the track. I did make it back to the car with the assistance of morphine (given I need it just to sleep this is not really a big deal in my book but a normal everyday event). There was a look of climbing and uneven ground on this route so I was really pleased to have managed what I did.

Jan 5 th saw us visit another nature reserve but neither of us were that impressed. There was nowhere to stop, little cover or shade, and the bird life must have been asleep because we've more in or back garden... It was further than I was comfortable with and I struggled and there was no baled out option. I had to get myself back to the car. I actually feel asleep on the way home I was that exhausted. Morphine was also needed.

Yesterday (7th) was 2 shorter walks and a much more comfortable distance even though the first hike and it was very much a hike not a walk, was much harder underfoot. I went with both crutches which helped enormously although at one time I actually had to given them to hubby for him to pass them down after I'd negotiated a short rock face and another along the creek bed. It was enjoyable. The second walk was further than planned because of a locked gate but I managed it with ease. Resting and having lunch between the walks helped.
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You are lucky to live where you do, I cannot wait to go back.
 
Lullabelle said:
You are lucky to live where you do, I cannot wait to go back.
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28°C is too warm to do much walking is my current conclusion. (It's very humid at the moment. A cyclone off the southern Queensland coast is affecting the weather system for all of Eastern Australia at present. I'm not sure what the excuse at Christmas was but it was also very hot, stormy and with freak weather hail, and electrical storms)

I know I cycled in much hotter temperatures but I was fitter and younger... after 7 years of not being able to do much walking, I'll just keep trying first thing in the morning.

As for the location, had the job offer (seondment) been anywhere else in Australia (except Tasmania) we would not have considered it. Many people though don't stay because they can't adapt. We've seen several of his colleagues come out from the UK and not even fulfill the 3 years of the secondment.

But living where we do, means long drives to these places. Typically 75-90 minutes each way currently. But that's the choice we made living rurally. (We lived rurally in the UK as well and just accepted the longer commuting times then as now.)
 
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