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Month: August 2011
August 2011 – the days are getting longer!
Well, I really need to take Polly out; it is 10.30 on Sunday Evening and I am determined to get an early night but our adorable “on loan” beagle, Polly needs to go out for a walk. She has been barking at the cats who sit tantalisingly on the fence out of her reach and look down superciliously at her knowing that she can’t get at them! I am feeling a little ragged round the edges after taking part in the Tough Guy and Gal Challenge at Rotorua yesterday. I entered months ago when I optimistically thought that my shoulder would be fixed and I would have had time to at least do some training. Vain hope! Nevertheless, I decided that I would go and do it anyway; Lachlan was doing the 12km and I only needed to walk and take it easy over the
obstacles – no need to race, after all there would be lots of people in crazy costumes just out there for the hell of it. But guess what? Old “Mrs Competitive” here can’t manage to just poddle round, can she? Once she is in a race, that is it, might as well go for it! I did walk up the hills – mainly – and I only used one arm (my good one) on the climby bits but otherwise went for it as much as I could. Bloody mad, I know! But I guess that Polly-walking twice a day for the last 5 weeks, even if it has only been 20 – 30 minutes must have done me some good because I did pretty well. The conditions were a million times better than last year; it didn’t rain for a start, the lake was about a metre lower and the grassy hills were, well – grassy!; not the quagmire they were last year, so that going up you could actually go
forwards on each steps and not two steps backwards, and going down could be done on your feet and not on your backside! Not so much fun, though I hear you shout, and you would be quite right, but I don’t have a bruised coccyx and am still able to walk! Shoulder is a tad sore though, but better than I would have thought.
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