Slowly but surely...

Thursday 21/06/07:

Well its been a week since my last post and I have managed 3 runs since then. Heres the details...

Sun 17/6: Out at 9.15am, round the streets for an easy 7kms in 31mins. (Giving me 17kms for the week - yeeha.) Seems the footpod of my Polar has gone out in sympathy with my leg... thought it was just a flat battery at first, but putting in a new one has not fixed it. Might have to send it off for repair, but will have a closer look at it first...

Mon 18/6: No running but had an acupuncture appt at 8.30am. This time she not only put 6 needles in my leg, but also 4 in my lower back to try to sort out the hip niggle. Have to say, it was an extremely unpleasant experience - worse than the first time, and I am really not at all keen on repeating it. My calf where I had two of the needles was really sore for two days afterwards.

Tue 19/6: Out into the cold at 6am - our temps have suddenly dropped this week. Did a 5km flat loop and hoped this would loosen off my left calf where it was sore. It felt ok to run on, but sore again afterwards. Apart from that, my injury area was pretty good, not quite 100% yet, but getting closer. Trouble is, as soon as I start to cooldown, even during the walk, I feel it again...

Thu 21/6: Tonight, despite it being cold, gusty winds and showers, I decided to run while Courtney was at gymnastics. Did a 5km loop at 6pm and despite the weather (very strong headwinds in parts) I finished in 26mins. Not pushing the pace at all, but my physio has told me not to force myself to slow down too much either, as this will deflect from my natural gait.

So I guess running every second day again just lately is more progress. With things feeling better, it is tempting to wanna go further, faster and more frequently - but I know better... would I do that????? Nah!!!!!!! Patience, patience, patience...

Its a Godsend to be able to run at least a little bit at the moment... Work has been incredibly stressful for me lately, particularly over the last week or so, and I am becoming more and more despondent about it and questioning why I am there... Its not that I am afraid of hard work or mind working under pressure... I'm used to that and in fact prefer it that way. Provided I feel valued and appreciated I really don't mind and thrive on being busy and stimulated... But when office politics and stupid management decisions constantly come into it, and I feel as though I've been left out in the cold all of a sudden thru no fault of my own, I start to think that it may be time to move on... 10.9 yrs is a long time to be with the same company and under the same M.D. even tho I have had several different roles in that time. Watch this space...

Another dilemma - what do you do with a cat that is afraid of heights???!!!!???? Both of our cats are outdoor cats, altho they always have access to the garage via a catflap and when we are home, full access to the house. However Bungie loves to be outside at night, constantly walks round on the roof of our two-storey house and often uses upstairs windows to enter and exit! She loves to jump from our 6ft fences onto the lower storey roof and back down again and is often seen walking around the neighbours rooftops too! Baxter on the other hand, despite being almost fully grown now, won't even jump onto the bonnet of my car! He will sit on the ground and look longingly up at Bungie sitting there, but I've never seen him jump on anything higher than a couch or bed... Trouble is, the catflap only gives the cats access to the rear of our yard, unless they jump over the 6ft fence. The back of our yard is fully paved and gardened, with pebbles in the gardens, no soil or grass in site. There is plenty of this out the front, but Baxter is rather fearful of going out there and can only do so if we let him out the front door of if the garage doors are up, due to the fact that he won't jump the fences. I'm sure you can see the direction in which I am heading... He has got too big for his litter tray, trust me, when it keeps going over the side, you know hes too big! Ewwwww! We keep putting him up on the fence and encouraging him to follow Bungie, etc, but he just looks extremely nervous and jumps straight down. He seems to have no idea how to climb or jump up!! We now feel like we own a dog, as he has taken to leaving deposits outside the bedroom window on the concrete.... Double ewwwwww! Any suggestions??????

Speaking of tragedies.... as if the flooding in Sydney the other week wasn't bad enough, our news was full of the shootings in Melbourne this week. Glad to see he has now given himself up, but of course that won't undo what has been done and a poor, innocent person has lost their life.
I haven't had time to catch up on other blogs this week, but I certainly hope all of you are doing ok and were not affected by these events.

Take care out there...