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Sep. 19th, 2018 11:32 amI've been working on my new contract for a couple of weeks now, and it's going pretty well. I was a bit worried that I'd find it hard to be productive working entirely from home, but it turns out that as long as I have very clear and specific goals and deadlines I'm finding it quite easy to knuckle down.
One of the main things I'd been planning to do with the extra time freed up from not commuting is getting into a more vigorous exercise routine, but I've been slightly scuppered by a calf injury. Attentive readers may remember that I've signed up for another 10k on the same route as the last one I did, in theory to see how much better I could do if I actually trained for it. So it's a smidge frustrating to get three weeks into training, and then pull a muscle in my calf and have to stop running. I keep thinking it's better, then trying to go for a run, and realising quickly that it's still not quite right and I should stop risking making it worse.
Instead I've been going swimming at the local pool, and since once you're going at least 3 times a week it works out cheaper to get gym membership I've done that as well, and am hoping that using the cross-trainers will be similar enough to running to count as training for the race, but different enough (and specifically, impact-free enough) that it doesn't get in the way of my calf healing. I spent a little while on Sunday picking up heavy things and putting them down again, and as usual after the first time in a while I then spent the following three days creaking like an old man every time I moved...
I've also signed up for swimming lessons, as although I can potter back and forth tolerably enough, I know my technique is horribly inefficient, and I'd quite like to learn how to do fancy underwater turns without coming up spluttering with water up my nose. I was supposed to have the first on on Tuesday, but the instructor didn't show up, which was slightly annoying. (Although I suspect more annoying for the other student, who appears to be at much more of a beginner stage than me, so couldn't even use the time to swim lengths.) Hopefully it was just a one-off and I can get started properly next week.
One of the main things I'd been planning to do with the extra time freed up from not commuting is getting into a more vigorous exercise routine, but I've been slightly scuppered by a calf injury. Attentive readers may remember that I've signed up for another 10k on the same route as the last one I did, in theory to see how much better I could do if I actually trained for it. So it's a smidge frustrating to get three weeks into training, and then pull a muscle in my calf and have to stop running. I keep thinking it's better, then trying to go for a run, and realising quickly that it's still not quite right and I should stop risking making it worse.
Instead I've been going swimming at the local pool, and since once you're going at least 3 times a week it works out cheaper to get gym membership I've done that as well, and am hoping that using the cross-trainers will be similar enough to running to count as training for the race, but different enough (and specifically, impact-free enough) that it doesn't get in the way of my calf healing. I spent a little while on Sunday picking up heavy things and putting them down again, and as usual after the first time in a while I then spent the following three days creaking like an old man every time I moved...
I've also signed up for swimming lessons, as although I can potter back and forth tolerably enough, I know my technique is horribly inefficient, and I'd quite like to learn how to do fancy underwater turns without coming up spluttering with water up my nose. I was supposed to have the first on on Tuesday, but the instructor didn't show up, which was slightly annoying. (Although I suspect more annoying for the other student, who appears to be at much more of a beginner stage than me, so couldn't even use the time to swim lengths.) Hopefully it was just a one-off and I can get started properly next week.
