Daily Waddle
Nov. 9th, 2014 05:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidgillonLovely day today, and I was awake enough early enough (i.e. before dusk, my sleeping is a mess right now), that I could get out and do my daily waddle - about 1/2 mile/800 metres - for the first time in ages. Lump in the throat moment on getting home and thinking back when I realised that the last time I'd done it properly was the day before my Dad had his stroke, when we did it together and had a really nice conversation along the way.
I need to re-establish the pattern, and the daily exercises that are supposed to go with it, but winter is a-cooming-in and that isn't going to help. I may have to resort to bribery and corruption to lure myself into a life of healthy exercise....
Also managed to catch up with my neighbour for the first time in ages, who was clearing out the guttering - mine as well as his, good neighbours are a godsend! (Also a reminder to sleep with the curtains shut!) He'd figured our something was up when I made an unscheduled trip north, and the fact he knew it was unscheduled says how predictable my life is! Feeling guilty now that the conversation was all about me and my family - he knows my dad from their visits down here, and I completely forgot to ask him about the holiday of a lifetime he and his daughter had been on way back at the end of August.
I need to re-establish the pattern, and the daily exercises that are supposed to go with it, but winter is a-cooming-in and that isn't going to help. I may have to resort to bribery and corruption to lure myself into a life of healthy exercise....
Also managed to catch up with my neighbour for the first time in ages, who was clearing out the guttering - mine as well as his, good neighbours are a godsend! (Also a reminder to sleep with the curtains shut!) He'd figured our something was up when I made an unscheduled trip north, and the fact he knew it was unscheduled says how predictable my life is! Feeling guilty now that the conversation was all about me and my family - he knows my dad from their visits down here, and I completely forgot to ask him about the holiday of a lifetime he and his daughter had been on way back at the end of August.
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Date: 2014-11-09 05:49 pm (UTC)Pool time in an hour for me.
Do you have a large public indoor space nearby? One of the few generic positives in the US ubiquity of The Mall is it's a free gym for walkers; one sees retired folks queuing up outside 2 hrs before the shops open.
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Date: 2014-11-09 06:16 pm (UTC)That's a very sensible suggestion! There is actually a local mall, but I try to avoid it - Chatham town centre is pretty soulless, and even if I had disabled tags right now, which for various reasons I don't, it often takes 1/2 hour to find a space in the disabled parking.
If I was to drive out to find somewhere for a walk, I'd far rather go over to Rochester, park next to the Norman cathedral, walk past the Norman castle, and get a coffee in my favourite coffee shop on our Dickensian High Street, even if it does mean walking outdoors. And it might be a mile further, but I can probably get parked quicker.
Guess which of our of town centres (we actually have four) I prefer!