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Sat, 2008-09-20 19:11 — dav3I stumbled and fell, and now I have picked myself back up again. My weightloss was going well, and when I peaked at around 12kg I simply stopped. Initially it was the walking that stopped, then it was the diet that went out the window.
But now I am back on the band wagon. Starting off simple, no carbs in the evening, bringing back my protein shakes, and riding my new bike!!!
In this map, the blue line is the walk to the Clarence St Cyclery to pickup my the bike in the previous post. The green line is the ride I went on. Without zooming in, you can't tell that the ride around centennial park consisted of 2½ laps! The whole ride was spot on 30km.
Obviously with this posting, it can be inferred that I am still alive. That IS the case, I AM! But I am soooo STUFFED!! read more »...
2008-04-06
Sun, 2008-04-06 19:55 — dav3And what a start today was. It always seems to be the way that it is much easier for me to go for one of my walks when I find a purpose to it.
Todays purpose was a computer fair at Kensington... So into my walking shoes I jump and off I go.
The fair was less than 5km away, but going on to the beaches after it and doing the coastal walk from South Coogee to Bondi. Once there, that almost made 15km, so a bus ride was required for the trip home ;-)
Day 064
Mon, 2008-03-17 13:04 — dav3The Giant Staircase
This was a pretty good day. I actually started off with a train trip to Bondi to have some breakfast, then back home to get changed and then met 2 friends at Central railway Station.
We caught the 9.55am train to Katoomba and another mate jumped on at Strathfield. The only thing wrong with the whole day was the fact the train trip was 2 hours each way. The pain of the train strip was removed with the quality of company on the day.
When we got to Katoomba we decided to have lunch at a Coffee shop we found on the way to Scenic World. We downed that and we were on our way.
Once there, although the board only lists full return prices, we found that if you ask, you can by one-way train tickets to get down the mountain. This cost us $10 neat. A bottle of water for the trip and we were on our way.
The whole walk itself wasn't too bad, quite easy and recommended for anyone. However the stairs at the end were a killer. I had to stop a few times, but once I finally got to the top it was really easy. I recovered well and started jogging to the end point (echo point). I think the stairs took about 30 minutes (for me) and the whole walk was not much more than an hour. An hour and a half tops.
The walk back to the station wasn't that hard, but it was all uphill. We didn't have long to wait for the train, and before we knew it, we were all back home.
There's another group of us planning to do a similar walk in a few weeks. This one is going to involve an area known as the ruined castle. It's visible from echo point and pretty much just involves walking in the other direction. This walk will also finish off with the Gian Staircase.
Day 063
Mon, 2008-03-03 18:42 — dav3Only a short walk today, warming up for tomorrow and getting some computer parts to build a new PC.
I walked all the way to the shop (<2km) and had originally planned to grab a cab home since I had bought a whole tower in the process. But it was a nice day, the gear wasn't that heavy and so I walked back too.
Day 054
Sat, 2008-02-23 22:05 — dav3I was to have lunch/coffee with a friend today, but unfortunately they had had a rather big night the night before and I only found out once I had started my route out today (hence the awkward shape of the altered route mid-stream), which assisted in making this walk totaling almost 20km!
Everything still worked out well though, I did the Bondi stretch (an extended 10km jaunt) in exactly 90 minutes. The first and last 30minutes were running/jogging/shuffling, with half hour of walking in the guts. As you can calculate, I do not run very fast. In fact the Ho Chi Minh shuffle (as I call it) is marginally faster than walking. I do find it much easier than running which just seems to hurt too much.
That accounts for the red part of the journey. The green was very much a slow walk and enjoying the sites. I have never done this walk before so I was just cruising having a good ole gander as I wandered the shoreline. A very pleasant walk and a beautiful day for it too.
clicking this photo takes you to a flickr photo-set of the day
The day went well, I still caught up with my friend who gave me several glasses of water - much needed. I was pretty much going to walk from there and go on home, but once I realised how close I was to Cogee and decided that if I was this close, I had to finish the walk off there. Once there, I decided my feet had certainly had enough. So I caught the bus back towards home and then did a little shopping on the last little bit of green you see in the map.
Day 052
Thu, 2008-02-21 20:01 — dav3WHAT A DAY!
Had Subway for lunch with two mates, and decided to go for a short walk to the Chinese Gardens at Tumbalong Park. After devouring a full foot-long sub I decided a longer walk was necessary. As you can see by the map, it was no short walk. All told it was over 15km, although the last few were a very slow walk - my feet were killing me.
No running today, just a walk. Although I did find a VERY good workout at a set of stairs I found along the route (picture below - click to make full size). These things nearly killed me...
109 steps from top to bottom (or since I was at the bottom, we'll say from bottom to top). And I did them, not only once, not twice... Not even three or four times. I did these stupid things FIVE times. It did near kill me and on the last lap up to the top I honestly thought my legs were about to fall off. It was VERY hard.
Every time I got to the top I said to myself, "Man, that was good, I should do it again... but I won't." And then when i got to the bottom I thought, "that wasn't so bad, let's go!" and off I'd go again.
Other than that, the walk was uneventful, but this takes the yearly total of kilometres walked to around 100... That's a fair effort, almost 2km a day!
Day 050
Wed, 2008-02-20 05:41 — dav3I had a big day planned, but it turned into a small one, due to the alcohol I had drunk last night :(
I must be a masochist at heart because as punishment for my alcoholic indiscretions last night, while most certainly not in the mood for a walk, I had cause to go to Tempe to pick up a networking component, and then I walked home. It wasn't that far, but it certainly took longer than it should have.
The walk was 7.9km and included a quarter-pounder from McDonalds. Yes, I know, but I was still suffering from the dehydration of the night before. I drank around 3 litres of water on the walk including 2 glasses of orange juice. To make the dietary intake worse, before going to Tempe, I was at Bondi for lunch and had the great ole Aussie lunch - fish and chips.
Sorry about the map, because of the diagonal walk, I could not zoom in too far. Use the link to open up google maps in a new browser window or tab.
Food wise, bad day.
Exercise wise, still a bad day, since the exercise was not really working myself read more »...
Day 049
Tue, 2008-02-19 12:19 — dav3I am 49 days into my "new years resolution" and so far it is resolving quite well. This morning's weigh-in was 94.6kg!!! ONLY 100 grams off making it a neat 11kg!
I have poker tonight, but I plan to be UNDER 94.5kg for tomorrows weigh-in, so I have to be good.
I had a plan today to grab some networking components, so I was supposed to be walking around Sydney to find where to buy them. But while on the walk one place I had left a message with contacted me back and indicated I could purchase it from them tomorrow. Their price was good, so I decided to leave it at that.
So, instead, I went for a walk involving lunch with a mate of mine, and continued a short walk as in the map on the left. The primary feature of the walk was to identify free WiFi access and a post on that will be coming soon. The teardrop pointers on the map indicate the points of test. Red means no connection, blue means a connection (if I had an account) and green was for totally free connection. Yellow (of which there were none) were going to be reserved for insecure networks that I could latch onto. There were a few I found, but none strong enough to maintain a connection. I will post more on this separately.
Day 044
Wed, 2008-02-13 21:51 — dav3My feet are much better today after last night having thrown them into a vibrating foot massager with hot water... I topped the water up (to make it hot again) twice and by the end my feet were like jelly :)
Today I went off with a vengeance again. First, off to get my hair cut (north towards the city), then east and south to Moore Park shopping center (I'm after a particular computer component - and decided specifically I was going to let my FEET do the walking, not my fingers*). I had spurts of jogging in there, nothing too great, but enough to get the heart rate up.
The better part of the journey was the trip back to work (I wasn't working, but went to the work gym to jump on the rowing machine). What I did was alternate my walking and jogging such that I started jogging for 30 seconds, walked for 30 seconds, jog 45s, walk 45s, jog 60s, walk 60s, jog 60s, walk 45s, jog 95s, walk 45s... Then continued off in some arrangement like that until I got to the gym. It was good cardio work and got me working hard.
Once at the gym, I jumped on the rower... Normally I'd do 2km in around 10 minutes. The next setting up was 5km... Hmmm... should I do it? YEP! I decidedly slowed the pace a little (from 32 strokes per minute, to around 29 spm) and that did help. I started with the resistance on 6, but soon put it up to 8 after about 1000m. I took a 30 second breather about the 2.7km mark and got back into it. For the last 1000m I thought I'd try a little harder and got the spm up to about 35, but soon died in the ass. I slowed back down again. Then with 200m to go I really put in. 39 spm and then I thought I was going to die. I didn't make it 100 metres before I had to cruise in the last 100. All in all, a GREAT workout and I completed the 5000m in around 27 minutes. I forget the exact figure, but it was well under the half hour.
Then, when I was happy with that and about to go home, the gym instructor came over and we started talking and he 'convinced' me that we should do some abdominal work. I'm sure they get off on pain, and having someone there watching you does give you that little bit of incentive to really put in and "be tough". I was tough, but not before failing some of the exercises miserably. Ahh well, I have no idea what you would call half of these, but they were good. And most of them I can do at home. So I probably won't. :-)
* There was a television commercial in the '90s that promoted the public telephone system, and the yellow pages. It's slogan was "Let your fingers do the walking, not your feet" or something similar
Day 043
Tue, 2008-02-12 20:16 — dav3After this mornings weigh-in, I was pretty happy especially after so much hydration last night... It was a good feeling. So when I knew I had a few things in town today to take care of, it was without much-a-do that I set off on another walking expedition.
I hate a specialist meeting in town and I was running late, so I caught the bus into town (otherwise I would have walked!). As can be seen from the trip, I travelled from Macquarie Street, to King Street for lunch (chicken schnitzel and gravy sandwhich - a fav of mine from a particular shop there), then onto capital square (just up from Central Railway station. They didn't have what I was after and so I decided to go for a walk out to Moore Park and see if they had it there, but a friend of mine called me and said he was on his way to Entech...
Audio, Video and flashy LEDs, who could resist. Although there weren't many scantily clad women there, there was enough to keep the inner child excited for the afternoon, before heading off to Broadway to do some final shopping.
I got to Broadway only to find the whole shopping centre was shut-down with police crime scene tape and fire brigade tape sealing off all the entrances and people lined up for miles... Apparently they had a power problem there, or something and had to evacuate the building... Whatever, I just walked on home.
I didn't hit 8 km today (which has usually been the benchmark I have noted), but 7½ is just as good. Not a hard walk today, my feet are still recovering from yesterday.
FOOD for the day: Chicken Schnitzel on brown bread, no butter - but with gravy. A curry beef pie from harris Street, 200g or so of egg and bacon pie (like a quiche without the pastry) and a protein shake. And about 3 litres of water.
