Run 45:00 [2]
I spent about half of Tuesday and a good half of today doing mega-gardening in the back yard of my flat (you live in flats to avoid gardening, don't you) - but ours is quite large. I dug out the clothes-line (with big concrete blocks attached) and repositioned it. I pruned (result - a huge pile of creepers) and dug and landscaped. However, midway through yesterday I realised that, similarly to other exercise, you shouldn't really go from doing nothing to doing 5 hours worth (2 days in a row) all at once - and pulled something in my shoulder (trying to lever out a big clump of giant agapanthus). I spent the rest of the day massaging it (it will be OK). The garden bed is almost ready for mulching and planting and I have a plan for a winding brick pathway. I find it odd that none of the other owners, a number of whom don't work, have never bothered to do anything in the garden - whilst I, unemployed for only 3 days, have managed to do more in that time than they have in years.
In the evening I went to street-O at Bellbird Dell. It was very, very wet and all the bush tracks quite perilous. The creek was also flowing strongly. I felt quite tired (from gardening) and heavy (and not recovered from my recent ailment) and walked up the hills. It was a score event (I didn't realise this until the start) and C course only got 45 mins worth. I also forgot to turn on my Garmin and wont event guess the distance (which wasn't far). Odd sight for the evening was Phil Torode doing a Zola Budd (and discovering that bare feet dont have much grip on slippery concrete).