Weekly Update 29 - Fore!
Jul. 27th, 2010 06:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thousandmilesblogWeek ending: 22/07/10 AKA the week where I contemplate proposing the addition of a second Wednesday to the week
Longer Walks Completed:
Walk 43 6.37 miles
Walk 44 7.024 miles
Short Walks Completed
Other journeys:
Walk to library 2.563 miles
Walk to shops 2.808 miles
Walk to John Rylands Library for Elizabeth Gaskell Exhibition and tour 1.581 miles
Comments on this week:
A couple of nice longer walks this week, along with a visit to the Elizabeth Gaskell exhibition and to her former home at Plymouth Grove. I'm not a massive fan of her books, not having got round to reading many yet, but she was certainly a very interesting woman and she seems to have been part of a lively circle of famous friends. It was good to fit in another blue badge tour, it's been a while since my last one. Unfortunately, in deciding to swim on Wednesday (it was either Tuesday or Wednesday and the tour was Tuesday), I missed another Wednesday walk and struggled a bit in making my total for the week. I'm still adjusting to not making half the required miles walking to and from work. Hopefully next week I'll fit in more long walks.
Now that the holidays have really started, I decided to try and do a few more things to improve my fitness. I've only ever maintained a good level of fitness when I had little else I wanted to do, and I usually attack whatever I'm trying with enthusiasm for a few weeks, then get bored and fail to keep it going when things get really busy. So I always go through this cycle every year of getting really unfit over winter, and whenever I manage to get started again it feels like starting from scratch every year. I did at least keep walking over winter, but when you go to different places all the time it's harder to get bored. This week I decided to try a few different things, so there was a bit of aerobics and some swimming on top of the walking. Hopefully at least some of this will work.
While wandering through the library last week, I chanced upon a novel by Sandi Toksvig. I never knew she'd written any. It's called Whistling for the Elephants, and apart from unavoidable interruptions I didn't put it down until I'd finished it. I mention it here because it seems slightly relevant to the point of all this. Can't recommend it enough. It's lovely to read something where the female characters are sentient beings rather than window dressing.
This week's picture:
Echoes of the early Universe. The sky in microwaves, as seen by the Planck satellite.
Quote of the week: Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains. - Kathy Lette. I don't approve of brain-burning (and does it really need saying that bra-burning never happened), but then I don't approve of post-feminists either.
Total distance completed this week: 20.346 miles (On target)
Distance completed to date: 658.988 miles (Above target)
Evil Giraffe
Longer Walks Completed:
Walk 43 6.37 miles
Walk 44 7.024 miles
Short Walks Completed
Other journeys:
Walk to library 2.563 miles
Walk to shops 2.808 miles
Walk to John Rylands Library for Elizabeth Gaskell Exhibition and tour 1.581 miles
Comments on this week:
A couple of nice longer walks this week, along with a visit to the Elizabeth Gaskell exhibition and to her former home at Plymouth Grove. I'm not a massive fan of her books, not having got round to reading many yet, but she was certainly a very interesting woman and she seems to have been part of a lively circle of famous friends. It was good to fit in another blue badge tour, it's been a while since my last one. Unfortunately, in deciding to swim on Wednesday (it was either Tuesday or Wednesday and the tour was Tuesday), I missed another Wednesday walk and struggled a bit in making my total for the week. I'm still adjusting to not making half the required miles walking to and from work. Hopefully next week I'll fit in more long walks.
Now that the holidays have really started, I decided to try and do a few more things to improve my fitness. I've only ever maintained a good level of fitness when I had little else I wanted to do, and I usually attack whatever I'm trying with enthusiasm for a few weeks, then get bored and fail to keep it going when things get really busy. So I always go through this cycle every year of getting really unfit over winter, and whenever I manage to get started again it feels like starting from scratch every year. I did at least keep walking over winter, but when you go to different places all the time it's harder to get bored. This week I decided to try a few different things, so there was a bit of aerobics and some swimming on top of the walking. Hopefully at least some of this will work.
While wandering through the library last week, I chanced upon a novel by Sandi Toksvig. I never knew she'd written any. It's called Whistling for the Elephants, and apart from unavoidable interruptions I didn't put it down until I'd finished it. I mention it here because it seems slightly relevant to the point of all this. Can't recommend it enough. It's lovely to read something where the female characters are sentient beings rather than window dressing.
This week's picture:
Echoes of the early Universe. The sky in microwaves, as seen by the Planck satellite.
Quote of the week: Any woman who calls herself a post-feminist should keep her Wonderbra and burn her brains. - Kathy Lette. I don't approve of brain-burning (and does it really need saying that bra-burning never happened), but then I don't approve of post-feminists either.
Total distance completed this week: 20.346 miles (On target)
Distance completed to date: 658.988 miles (Above target)
Evil Giraffe
