Wednesday, its been a hideous night. I got up at 2am to draft yesterdays blog because I could not settle despite being tired after yesterdays exertions. My partner has gone to work and leaves me to sleep as I try to catch up on my sleep. I do wake up and go through my message checks and then get dressed in my training kit. I make my way to the garage and climb aboard the rowing machine. I set off slowly with Radio 2 in my ears. I row with my eyes closed as I focus on just keeping moving. I keep my focus and keep going and feel warmer as I chose to keep a track suit jacket on. When I open my eyes I have just over 3 minutes to go, I hold my pace and finish. When I check the readout I’ve done slightly better than yesterday, so go me. Overall I’ve performed at 84.5% of my normal level when I am fit. so the first goal is to reach 6 kilometres and a 1000 strokes but todays effort is enough to get me over the 100 fitness points on my fitness tracker which is the daily goal.

I take a short rest and make a simple breakfast and then rest some more. There are some Olympics to watch before I go for a bath in an effort to ease my stiff shoulders. Radio accompanies me with documentaries on asbestos in talc and a drama about a swimmer coached by a ruthless trainer. Post bath I rest and do my vitals before having an afternoon pizza. By this time I have no spoons (energy) left so I settle down to draft the blog and ease into the evening. There is of course more Olympics to watch and another episode of Vienna Blood to take in. Tomorrow has to be a rest day from rowing as the tree folk are coming in to do work on the hedges and the trees, it will take time for them to do the work so collecting the next three cycles of my chemo drugs might have to wait. The most important thing is to get some sleep tonight.