4 January 2019 15,292 steps 30 mins running weight 78.6kg
The weather remains stinking hot, but manfully I donned running gear and hit the treadmill for a further half hour of jogging this morning. It proved slightly easier than my last effort, but it’s still clear that I’m well short of proper running fitness. Doubtless a few more of these half hour sessions will get me quickly back on track, but there’s no doubting the difficulty of knocking these off in this weather. I did later see a couple of runners in the street when it was even hotter and they were struggling and looked very uncomfortable.
I squeezed my run in nice and early, not just because of the heat but also because today was also a ‘Walker Brothers’ walking day, Walker Brothers being the title some of my workmates and I call ourselves for our semi-regular long walks of 30km or so around the Sydney precinct. These are usually based about the harbour and finish with a boozy late lunch somewhere. With the weather being so hot today we skipped the walk and changed it to just the boozy lunch instead. Interestingly, it’s perhaps a sign of our growing wisdom (or just our increasing age) that we all began our luncheon endeavours with soft drink, a couple of us also ending the session that way, and I’m rather glad we did. Personally, being a little dehydrated from my earlier run and the heat of the day, a full-on assault of the beer would have been catastrophically stupid.
On the subject of stupidity, U.S. politics are getting interesting with the Democrats in the House of Representatives calling Trump’s bluff on the question of funding for the border wall with Mexico. Having refused to provide the US$5.6Bn Trump demands for the building of the wall, Trump will now have to make good on his declaration that he will keep the government closed for business for ‘as long as it takes’ until he gets the money!
We are most definitely living in interesting times.
January 2019 ... here we go again!
