Positive Encouragement Exercise Thread

[Windigo]

I must say, I admire your perseverance!

Thanks! I really love doing this so I'm going to keep doing it until I meet my end.. even if it's difficult.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I've been doing a little exercise outside for the past week.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

 

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As you can tell, the scenery was fantastic and we only needed to do short walks which is all I have the strength/stamina for currently.
This walk was from the campground around the grass trees. Grass trees are incredibly slow growing and an indication of undisturbed ancient land.

We came back via the dirt road simply because the route from the campground hasn't been repaired since the latest gales and add darkness was falling, it was easier to follow the road than pick out way back through the undergrowth and climb over fallen trees.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This was the final walk at the Coolah Tops National Park. We both wanted to get out to see the basalt columns. Just like the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, there are areas on other countries with the same rock formations.

This was quite a harder walk because it's typical Aussie bushland and that's up and down, up and down... the ups and downs are always steep and this was no different.

I've taken the info sign from the Botanic Gardens which also had Basalt columns as well.

I'm standing right at the top of the waterfall looking down at the columns.

Then we climbed to the other side of the waterfall to look back at the columns.

And after a little more scrambling over rocks...

I could finally see all of it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Our final recorded walk was in the Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens. I love walking around botanical gardens and seeing what grows in what environment and so on and this was no different, despite the weather closing in and over.

Towards the end of the day we were able to walk through original native rainforest, still within the park. We also can't across a 'coast redwood' that despite only being planted in 1936 (I think it was 1936, it was certainly in the 1930's), it was huge. Way too big to even consider trying to photograph.

This tree is a sassafras tree which when the original single trunk was cut down, a ring of new growth replaced it.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Today's activity wasn't recorded but I spent 2 hours in the garden weeding, picking pears and digging up potatoes. It's a case of it will look a lot worse before it looks tidier! Lol

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yesterday I started cutting the lawn. There are 7 sections to it... I did 2 of them and still managed to walk 3.1km.

I don't know if I'll do any today. I'm trying to get a minimum of 30 minutes dedicated exercise in each day. I might try for completing the front lawn which is always harder than other sections because it's in full sun with no shelter at all but I'm not sure because I also need to cook and I'm quite tired.

 

[Windigo]

Training has been too hard to do recently due to the joint pain, I really hope it will get better with time. Right now I am still more active than I was before though, I am generally on my feet at least 3 hours a day. But regular training is hard. I hope that my meds will stabilize it all again..

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Training has been too hard to do recently due to the joint pain, I really hope it will get better with time. Right now I am still more active than I was before though, I am generally on my feet at least 3 hours a day. But regular training is hard. I hope that my meds will stabilize it all again..

Best wishes.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I managed to walk to the postbox twice yesterday. That's 1.3km. Not huge by any means but I also did 1½ hours of gardening, mostly just weeding and pruning.

 

[Windigo]

I managed to walk to the postbox twice yesterday. That's 1.3km. Not huge by any means but I also did 1½ hours of gardening, mostly just weeding and pruning.

Every little bit counts ! You're doing great

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Every little bit counts ! You're doing great

Thanks. I think I overdid it again though. Crashed and slept most of today.

 

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So, I'm currently in bed, thinking about getting up again. We had a walk yesterday... yeah it was about 2km too long and I'm knackered.

This was a walk we've wanted to do for a while, but there's a creek crossing that's dangerous after rain. It's been dry for a while, so we decided that despite the length we'd give it a crack. We had lunch before seeing out, thankfully.

We returned via the longer, but easier fire trail. On the way out, we spotted a Superb Lyrebird. They're a cross between a pheasant and a peacock. Pheasant size but with fantastic tail feathers in the male. It walked across the track in front of us, then disappeared into the bush.

This was the view we'd set out to see. The blue haze is caused by the oils in the eucalyptus leaves evaporating in the sunshine.

And the fire trail track on the way back.