Wednesday and I wake up to the usual sound of work going on in the office. I check my messages and social media and then get up for my usual muesli breakfast. I settle into my new book from my friend. It is what I do all morning, read and wonder at another’s creativity and imagination, not to mention the skill of writing in such a clear and effective way. Its a brilliant book and if you are an adult with childhood memories this will find a place with you.
Having finished the book I have lunch with my partner before she picks up her brother and goes to see her mother. I spend time putting washing away and getting my training kit packed before I drive to the gym to train in the warm. I get to the gym and get myself on a cross trainer and set off. I have discovered that my Fitbit is able to monitor elliptical training so I am able to monitor my PAI (Personal Activity Intelligence). It is an index of fitness based on the findings of the HUNT study done by a Norwegian health Study involving 230,000 people over 35 years. It calculates a personalised Index to be able to maintain optimum fitness. As long as the PAI score is 100 calculated on a rolling weeks activity then you are at optimum fitness. As you get fitter it gets harder to earn the PAI points each day. After todays session my PAI is at 229 with my fitness age at 64. My session on the cross trainer goes okay apart from the fact that I mis-keyed 45 minutes which meant I did 54 plus a 5 minute warm down. I survived and it did not lead to me peeing blood. So another 600+ calories gone and another 6+ kilometres travelled.
With the gym session done I have a shower and a coffee. The drive home was a rush hour flog. Once home I packed away my kit and recorded the session. My partner was making tea but she presented me with a present. A Rocket present that amused me and which I set about completing there and then.
Well that was an interesting new way to spend part of an evening. I do not believe that a 6 year old could do it like the box claims. I eat tea and settle down to draft the blog and do some life admin before we do the preparations to be gas less tomorrow. Its been a day of brain and body feeding so I am now pretty spoonless. Tomorrow our gas is cut off to allow a re pipe to occur and I am to be the only one home to oversee the ins and outs of the workmen. For now its time to get my night meds down me and head off to bed so I can be up before the gas man knocketh.
