My Journey

Today has been a wonderful and unexpected day. And a very long day. It started off with the now regular Saturday morning walk around Sydney with Mary and Cath. I would have thought a 7.30am start on a weekend would be hard to do but it is surprisingly easy and the absolute best time to do it - before it gets really crowded. As I was packing a little extra weight today (courtesy of Oscar in a backpack) we avoided the particularly stairy area of the Rocks and headed into the Botanical Gardens for a wander around Mrs Macquaries Chair. It was spectacular. Walking along the water is so peaceful, and beautiful with all the trees. I walked as fast as I could but felt that I was slowing the pace of the morning down. Carrying the extra 12+kgs put a lot of pressure on my knees - especially when climbing stairs - and I felt that I had more difficulty in breathing and talking during a steady climb. I was never more happy than when I could sit down and unstrap the weight and just walk away from it. Wish I could do it with the rest but I know I will have to work for that :D

I made it home with 45 minutes to spare to shower and frock up for a day at the races. Mark had been invited to Royal Randwick for what I thought was just an industry affair. It turned out to be a major event to raise money for The Shepherd Centre which works with children who are deaf or hearing impaired with an aim of helping them to learn to speak and to communicate in a hearing world. It was a great day. We were on a table with some really interesting people, had great conversation, great food, and watched some fantastic horseflesh go thundering past. A win on the ponies would have been nice, but our table did OK by winning a bottle of champagne per person. Got to be happy with that! So adding to the 14,568 steps for the walk this morning, I probably walked around for 3 of the 5 hours we were there so I am sure if I had worked out a way to wear my pedometre I would have clicked over the 20,000.

My plan for this evening (once the boys were in bed) was to post and finally catch up on last weeks news and posts from around the grounds, but after just having hung up on a 4 hour phone call I am not sure I will last another 5 minutes. I will remember to stretch, to minimise the expected soreness tomorrow, then I will fall happily onto my nice, soft, pillow and ..... z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z


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Points: 22
SP: 2
Exercise: 2hr walk around Sydney (hard), 3 hours of general walking - in 3 inch heels! (easy)

Posted by Margaret on Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 11:41:00 pm | Permalink