Friday check-in (2 week holiday commences!)

In the spirit of Christmas here is a pic of our Christmas tree (and me if you look hard enough). Fellow bloggers - I want to see your trees too!

No exercise to report yet but I am thinking about doing some soon. Honest....

Today I could hardly feel any soreness in my right lower leg while walking and although I can still find a sore spot I am thinking I may try a bit of a "quasi" run tomorrow afternoon. I'm thinking I will dust of the rollerblades and go for a little roll. Now I can almost hear you lot out there saying "what sort of injuries will poor Wobbly sustain on this folly" but let me assure you, I am better equipped than a medieval knight when it comes to my rollerblading exploits. Hands, wrists, elbows, head and knees are all plastic body armour protected.

In fact somewhat amazingly, the only injury I can think of that hs been sustained from my rollerblading was when I took Anna (then apr 6 month old) for a "roll" in the pram and I managed to get some sort of weird "power-wobble" thing happening and the pram and I wobbled over spilling poor Anna onto the pavement while an aghast Mrs W looked on in abject horror. I remember the look on the faces of the onlookers, what an irresponsible parent! Somehow the only injury sustained (thank you again to the patrol saint of injury prevention - whoever you are) was a minor scrape on Anna's hand. Needless to say I was never allowed to wheel any children along while wearing roller blades ever again. Oh, and I never did raise the possibility of using the backpack and kiddie helmet which I think would have been much safer....

So I am thinking of a small bike ride in the morning - to buy some new fangled cantilever brakes followed by the inevitable string of jobs around the house preparing for Christmas lunch with my parents. Then, if time permits, a roller blade in the late afternoon - I may ask Anna to follow me on her bike if she doesn't get too freaked out at the thought of me being nearby on rollerblades! Once finished I will partake in afternoonsies while trying to retrofit said brakes to the treddlie.

I may try either a soft trail run or a sand run on boxing day to try out my running legs again.

No running now since my December 11th 10k race, weight gain since then nearly 2kgs (now a smidge under 78kg)