Canon Balls

 I have previously mentioned breaking out the old Shot Put. It has been 50 yar since I hefted that thing. So as a kind of 70 yar old resolution I have started getting the feel for it again.  Yesterday I was searching in the old paint box for a brush and some sand paper for a small project. The box was way to heavy! There was another shot put in there.  These things are sprouting. Now I have three of them and I have no idea where this last one came from, but it is old and slightly smaller than standard, so maybe 6 kilos. 

I have had a couple more practice sessions over at the beach and have found that you can only put it from a stand and deliver position. The sand and sea grass is too unstable to try a proper glide technique. So I have been in repetition mode only, trying to maximise height with a good release. Even still, I have done no more than 20 shots at a session so far.  I believe I have found a proper concrete circle. It seems the little aths centre in Barwon Heads has moved but certain athletic equipment, like shot put circles and long jump pits have been left behind. I have not checked it out as yet other than spying them on aerial photography. 

7.2 kgs (16 pounds)  6 kgs and 4 kgs

two sticks 8 metres apart

There are three squares with a recessed circle but all seem to have grassed sectors. I remember way way back at Poplar Road and also Bren's oval (now a hockey centre) that the council were on the lookout for vandals who were cutting large divits in the grass.

Revival

 Debbie has started the long road to fitness after sitting down for 12 months (10 years) in order to get the latest Pure Bookkeeping online.  So after waiting four days I went down to the beach this morning for some water based striding.  This worked well as it is a slow process and the knee is supported by the water.  It was overcast even gloomy but no wind. PS There has been another big ship over at the navy pier, unloading for the last 5 days.  I did not do a rubbish pickup even though I could see a bit, except for a trigger spray gun that was laying in front of me. The Dell was getting more attention in the distance, which looked like some sand deliveries. We have been told our beach is next but no new sand for us.  Eg will get a scrape and clean but with the grass heaped in piles.

DVDs

 For some reason our newish gym contraption comes with DVDs as a way of demonstrating workouts.  We have a lot of old DVDs including most of our OS travel published as hard copy DVDs, but for some years now we cannot play any as the players have broken. I think you can still buy them for $50.  I found an old player in a box we never unpacked. There was also an old laptop with DVD in there as well as a TV set. I fiddled around for an hour. The laptop booted up once then died. The DVD player opens and closes, then opens and that is all you can get out of it. The TV works but has no DVD option so strike three.  

muscle mania

Correction. I just found an old Blu Ray player in a drawer and went back and dragged out the one that doesn't work as I needed the cables off it. Now I have a working system at the gym site. We only got Daniel to put power into this area the last time he was on the job.  Now we may as well get the internet and TV hard wired into here as well.  

Jogger in the Dell

 Debbie has been on a sweat inducing exercise regime for the last month or so.  The outdoor section of it is a jog along the beach to the Dell, a three times circuit there including a huge staircase, a jog back and a twice repartition of the ramp up from the beach.  I have attempted to start this myself and I think the last three times within the first five steps, I have felt a foot problem. So I just stop and go back. On this occasion no foot trouble, so I managed to do the distance except for the extra loops at each end but I was happy with that.  I don't think you could call it a jog, more like an off balance forward lean but placing your feet quickly so you don't fall over. 

almost at the top

Steep Hill You Yangs

Gymbo for adults

 This Grand parenting business requires much action close to the ground. So there is a lot of getting up and getting down, picking up and putting down, swinging up and swinging round.  We got another delivery today, Debbie has invested in a gym set that uses only your own body weight. There is an option to add a few weights but I am not convinced this will get its full use.  It is set up in the garage where there is already an exercise area and now that we have light in that spot, it is fitness central.  All we need now are sweaty bodies. 

It folds away in three clicks.

17° Beach walk

We already had our exercise today but it was very calm almost millpond conditions so we went walking to the Dell and back. We had a towel and decided to sit on the the reading rock for a while.  There was an important biddy with knowledge who informed us that sitting was not allowed and it would be over a $3000 fine and furthermore there have been patrols here from time to time to enforce it.  So does exercising also include resting? They never seem to be patrolling the seat out the front of our place where I have seen a constant stream of people using that seat all day long.  Anyway we took the hint or was it accusation and moved on.  

Corio Pond

City Scene

Exercise Garage

I needed a pandemic excuse to make a start cleaning out and reorganising the garage.  It seems to me that only two years into our lifestyle here that you shouldn't need to be cleaning out the garage already.  This is mainly to get a space for some exercising.  We already had a carpet square and a pole for weights so what else is needed. Maybe a few mirrors, a TV and a bicycle machine. We have not used any of our annual rubbish collection appointments as yet so the council will come and take away our modest pile for us.  We just need two more hooks for bicycles on the wall.

Exercise space left -  refuse pile right

Ascot Vale Swim

About 30 yar ago a large group assembled every week at the AVLC for an aerobics class. These were very physical efforts for an hour. People like Auntie Patty and Karen Ostenreid also Paul Stork drove from Warrandyte each week.  I have been for a swim and swallowed water.  The pool was reasonably empty until the watercise took over three lanes but even then there were still two slow lanes. I lasted an hour but could not string together two laps in a row. Maybe next week.

an empty pool

Overdue Massage

It must be at least 10 yar since I last had a massage. I rode past Li's Massage Clinic the other day and came back today for a one hour rub down.  There are many choices and styles but I didn't like the sound of the Acupressure so I tried to lessen the pain with the relaxation type. She said the tightness in some of my muscles did not allow for normal massage so had to launch into remedial techniques just to break through the hardness barrier.  I have signed up again in two weeks.  She expects I will be sore for two days! 



Massage 2002

Bag4Fit

Spent two days trying to wash all of the clothes we took on the trip. The washing was OK but the drying was the problem. This Winter business takes some getting used to. As well as that, the annual hard rubbish collection is on so we have dismantled a bed, removed an old table and manhandled a heavy duty indoor bike machine out to the front. We brought back numerous presents. 3 kilos of books and a 3 kilo exercise machine. One machine goes out the front and another one moves in.