A light-hearted look at running, cycling and general fitness
Well, the first week of painkillers and resting is over and my knee is definitely feeling better, the icing’s helping too (thanks Joggerblogger). That’s icing as in coldness, not icing as in icing on a cake or icing sugar or any kind of icing based confectionary, even if the compress is living next to the Haagen Dazs in the freezer.
Knee is still quite stiff though, so let’s see how it is in a week.
Anyway, it’s Friday and it’s wine o’clock, yah!
Bought one of these today on the recommendation of Joggerblogger. According to Boots’ website you use it cold for sports-type injuries. Woo, I’ve got a sports-type injury, does that make me a proper runner? 😉
It’s in the freezer getting cold nestled amongst the Quorn burgers and Belgian Chocolate Haagen Dazs at the mo, will give it a go later. Hopefully with the compress, the tablets and the resting (oh, hang on a minute, haven’t done much resting, oops) I’ll be back on my feet soon. I’m just looking forward to being able to walk properly at the mo and what I’m going to do is I think is when my knee feels better, walk the two miles to work from Liverpool Street station for a few days instead of going straight back to running. Heh heh, famous last words probably – the moment my knee feels better I’ll probably be heading straight for the park.
Wonder how much fitness I’ve lost? I reckon even a mile’s going to be optimistic 🙁
Ho hum.
Aw, I just tidied away my trainers from under the coffee table where they’ve been living since I bought them nearly six months ago to under the stairs. They lived there to motivate me to put them on and go out running but I thought I’d tidy up as I’m under doctor’s orders to rest for another two or three weeks 🙁
But I think my knee’s getting better, or is it just that the pain’s been numbed with 1200mg daily of ibuprofen? I think I’m walking a bit better, anyway, hurrah! 🙂
Mark came over yesterday lunchtime in his campervan so I asked him to take me to B&Q and they had tons of purple slate, hurrah, so I got another 8 bags and have finished the borders now. Here’s the obligatory before pic
and here’s the obligatory after pic
Got some more plants in B&Q and very nice they are too, here’s what the front half of the garden looks like at the mo
Just about presentable, I think 🙂 More presentable than the pic below, anyway!
I’m going to get a new fence and also I think I’m going to get a quote for the shed to be taken away and a lawn to be put down at the back, or maybe half lawn, half decking. Hmm, yes, that sounds good!
Right, think I’m going to go and enjoy a glass of wine in my nice tidyish garden 😉
Oh and the ibuprofen is definitely helping my leg, well it was yesterday until I decided to walk about 3 miles, oops, the nurse did tell me not to do too much walking. I will rest from now.
Damn, have changed back to this template as I just wrote a post and it disappeared and the CSS went funny so might not have been the template’s fault but just to be careful have switched back. Wasn’t so keen on the new one, anyway. I might even design my own one day…
Anyway, not everyone’s idea of rest but I worked on the garden a bit this morning. Here’s the bit I worked on. This is a before pic
And here’s what it looks like now
’tis coming along, huh? I put some weed control fabric down, so hopefully that’ll help stop more weeds coming through. And yes, the dead flowers have come back from the dead. They woke up about 10:30, must just be late risers I suppose. Here they are, bright eyed and bushy tailed 🙂
I need some more gravel but I’ll have to wait for Ben & Sheila to take me to Homebase again as Homebase don’t deliver gravel and neither do B&Q. I also need some more compost so I can plant some more seeds and flowers. Think I’ll take a trip down to B&Q. Don’t think I’ll wait for the bus though, I will rest tomorrow 🙂
Aw, and as I write this I keep seeing people jogging down the road, aarrgghh, not fair!
…and sometimes they grow. Sometimes you buy them from B&Q and they’re dead within a week. Like these ones
I haven’t seen them awake for ages now, think they’re dead. Oh dear. But the lillies are ok, but not growing any lillies yet. How long will it be?
The purple flowers are ok too but I forgot to take a pic of them. My nice plant isn’t so nice anymore, think I killed it because I didn’t support it and the long bits fell over and fell apart. Oops.
My salad stuff’s growing though, here’s some spinach
and here’s some spring onions
and here’s some radishes
Yum. Who’s coming round for dinner then? 🙂
But bestest of all, the sunflowers are growing, hurrah! Hope the sunflower flower bit comes out.
I would thin them out into separate pots although it might be a bit late now but I ran out of compost. Maybe a trip to B&Q again? Ooh, I’m turning into one of these sad people who spend their weekends in DIY Centres. Again.
Hmm, not sure why I’m posting this, seeing as I’ve been out of action for 3 weeks 🙁 but here goes anyway
Stats for June:
Miles: 7.92
Time: 1:33:14
Average pace: 11:46 minute/mile
Calories burnt: 723
Pathetic! That’s seriooooooooooooooooooously slow! Aah, as soon as my leg’s better, I’m going to sort this running malarky out and put some serious effort in, maybe ice after each run like Mr Joggerblogger, he seems to have it sussed 🙂
Well, what an amazing difference from those f***wits in the Walk-In Centre in Liverpool Street. Nursey at Barts was brill. She did a lot of prodding (ouch!) and said a lot of technical things I didn’t understand about muscle wasting and cartileges and stuff but said it was definitely caused by the running but nothing serious and just to rest for about two to three weeks and take ibuprofen three times a day, so yay, should be ok soonish! She said not to walk on it too much so my boss is going to have to come and see me instead of buzzing me 30 times a day asking me to go to his office and I’ll have to get the bus to B&Q to buy more plants instead of walking there and back 2 miles. Oh dear, I hope I don’t get fat with all this lack of exercise. Nursey already said the muscle on my bad leg had reduced or something because I haven’t been walking on it properly and it was a lot less strong than the other leg. So I didn’t need an x-ray or crutches like those idiots at the Walk-In Centre said just to scare me purely for their own entertainment.
Speaking of plants, they’re all doing ok except for the sleeping flowers which has got loads of woodlice crawling all over the soil and I haven’t seen them (the plant not the woodlice) awake for ages but I don’t know what time they wake up so I’ll have to check on them tomorrow. Surely they get up at the weekend at some point? Blimey, they’re worse than a teenage girl. Although Ben did point out to me today that I’m supposed to water them every day. I did know that though.
Anyway, it’s Friday which means it’s (joggerblogger, you’d better look away now! scrap that, I just read your blog :-)) wine o’clock, hurrah!
Aarrgghh, what a waste of time that was. Went to the walk-in centre, waited 40 minutes, just to be told by the 15 year old nurse that they couldn’t do anything and I’d have to go to Barts’ minor injury clinic. She did call her colleague for a second opinion and they stared at my knee for a while and said I might need crutches – eek! The nurse also said I was very brave for not taking any painkillers. “Brave”? Am I five years old?! I should have asked for a lollipop.
Ah well, I’ll go to Barts after work tomorrow then, that’ll be fun.
My little vegetable patch is growing, hurrah – the radishes, spring onions and spinach have all started growing and more importantly, so have the sunflowers, woo! My nice plant has died though, or mostly dead anyway so that was a waste of £7.99 and the sleeping flowers are looking a bit dead too, but I just gave them some water so maybe they’ll perk up a bit. The purple ones are ok though.
If anything’s still alive by Saturday, I’ll post some pics.
Quick update on leg situation, it’s still bad, no better and no worse so I’m still limping about at 2 miles an hour although this seems to be quicker than some people on the street, how can people walk so slowly?
Trying to motivate myself to get to the medical centre tonight, can’t keep putting it off, or my knee’s never going to get better and I’ll be limping forever!
Radishes are growing though, so will post a pic soon 🙂