Saturday, September 15, 2007
What have I been up to?
I've been meaning to put an update up here for a while and that's just what I'll do now.
Picture of the Week: This little game is on hiatus while I pull some stuff together. The last picture (Aug 15) is Larry (on left), Tara (on right), and Stef (holding the camera) in July of 2006, in their backyard in East Boston during their wedding.
What have I been up to?
It seems that after I broke my rib (that's my official diagnosis - no doctor required to make that call) work picked up considerably, as did how much I was reading but the rest of the time was just a big piss up (drunk fest). There was a lot of going out to the pubs, staying out till 4 in the morning on the weekends, sitting in front of the tv watching the footy or rugby. I wasn't able to concentrate on anything productive outside of work. But the weather has improved greatly, the rib feels better, and I'm caught up with work so I have been able to do more outside of work such as running, working out, hiking.
The injury:
The rib feels great and only hurts at times, otherwise, it feels weird - not the rib itself but something internal, especially when I run. This has been a very long recovery where I couldn't run more than 0.5 mile, sleep through the night, or lift anything heavy for 5 weeks. I thought it was a bit excessive for one little rib.. maybe I'm getting old. But I ran all of last week, including doing some nasty hills in the Dandenongs but the downhills did give me that weird feeling sort of below and right behind my ribcage.. any suggestions? Have that organ removed? Suck it up? That sort of thing?
The marathon:
Yeah, right. I did 5 miles the other day.. add 21 to that and I'll be lying dead on the side of the road or walking the last 15. The race is in 3 weeks and, just to taunt me, I got my number in the mail the other day. I can change my event to the half-marathon but I have to decide by Sept 21. Suggestions welcome.
Rugby World Cup:
The rugby world cup is being played in France right now and is being shown nonstop down here - Australia has a good chance. I'm in a pool with 10 people and the set up is that we all pick 2 teams out of a hat (if we got to choose a team then everyone would pick New Zealand) and I picked Argentina (who unexpectedly won their first two games) and Canada (yeah, they're not that good). So now I'm fully behind Canada and have been going around singing the Canadian national anthem... of course, I only know the first two words so it goes something like: "Oh Caaa-nada da da da daaa dada." Everyone's very impressed and I'm sure it will give the backing the Canucks (that's their team name) are looking for to pull off the upset. They're playing Fiji tonight.
What's coming up:
I have quite a few trips coming up so stay up to date by coming back to the blog to check out what's going on. I'll also be spending some time up in the mountains and down on the beach. Should be cool. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
The Grampians:
Last weekend a few of us went to the Grampians, which is a mountain range about 3 hours west of Melbourne. They're not vey big but they have some good hikes and it looks as if they exploded out of the ground, which makes the rocks jagged and a lot of fun to do some free-climbing on. The way that the mountains were formed reminds me of Tasmania and makes me want to take another trip down to the island.
Looking east you can see how the range just ends and 
Dark but you can still see the Tassie quality in the surrounding mountains
I don't think it would be very difficult to convince someone
Picture of the Week: This little game is on hiatus while I pull some stuff together. The last picture (Aug 15) is Larry (on left), Tara (on right), and Stef (holding the camera) in July of 2006, in their backyard in East Boston during their wedding.
What have I been up to?
It seems that after I broke my rib (that's my official diagnosis - no doctor required to make that call) work picked up considerably, as did how much I was reading but the rest of the time was just a big piss up (drunk fest). There was a lot of going out to the pubs, staying out till 4 in the morning on the weekends, sitting in front of the tv watching the footy or rugby. I wasn't able to concentrate on anything productive outside of work. But the weather has improved greatly, the rib feels better, and I'm caught up with work so I have been able to do more outside of work such as running, working out, hiking.
The injury:
The rib feels great and only hurts at times, otherwise, it feels weird - not the rib itself but something internal, especially when I run. This has been a very long recovery where I couldn't run more than 0.5 mile, sleep through the night, or lift anything heavy for 5 weeks. I thought it was a bit excessive for one little rib.. maybe I'm getting old. But I ran all of last week, including doing some nasty hills in the Dandenongs but the downhills did give me that weird feeling sort of below and right behind my ribcage.. any suggestions? Have that organ removed? Suck it up? That sort of thing?
The marathon:
Yeah, right. I did 5 miles the other day.. add 21 to that and I'll be lying dead on the side of the road or walking the last 15. The race is in 3 weeks and, just to taunt me, I got my number in the mail the other day. I can change my event to the half-marathon but I have to decide by Sept 21. Suggestions welcome.
Rugby World Cup:
The rugby world cup is being played in France right now and is being shown nonstop down here - Australia has a good chance. I'm in a pool with 10 people and the set up is that we all pick 2 teams out of a hat (if we got to choose a team then everyone would pick New Zealand) and I picked Argentina (who unexpectedly won their first two games) and Canada (yeah, they're not that good). So now I'm fully behind Canada and have been going around singing the Canadian national anthem... of course, I only know the first two words so it goes something like: "Oh Caaa-nada da da da daaa dada." Everyone's very impressed and I'm sure it will give the backing the Canucks (that's their team name) are looking for to pull off the upset. They're playing Fiji tonight.
What's coming up:
I have quite a few trips coming up so stay up to date by coming back to the blog to check out what's going on. I'll also be spending some time up in the mountains and down on the beach. Should be cool. Hope to hear from everyone soon.
The Grampians:
Last weekend a few of us went to the Grampians, which is a mountain range about 3 hours west of Melbourne. They're not vey big but they have some good hikes and it looks as if they exploded out of the ground, which makes the rocks jagged and a lot of fun to do some free-climbing on. The way that the mountains were formed reminds me of Tasmania and makes me want to take another trip down to the island.
Looking east you can see how the range just ends and the landscape turns into flat farmland
Dark but you can still see the Tassie quality in the surrounding mountains
I don't think it would be very difficult to convince someone
that this is Tassie even if they've been to both places
# posted by Keith @ 10:14 PM 
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Very cool pics, I'm sure they don't do it justice.
Injury suggestion...rub some dirt on it, and walk it off.
Marathon suggestion...didn't you have to painfully walk a race due to injury in the past? Do you wanna do it again? There will be other races, as long as you don't give up the training. Without a goal, you'll never get there.
Injury suggestion...rub some dirt on it, and walk it off.
Marathon suggestion...didn't you have to painfully walk a race due to injury in the past? Do you wanna do it again? There will be other races, as long as you don't give up the training. Without a goal, you'll never get there.
Don't worry, I can have you singing that tune in no time. As for the race - do the half. Never good to push recovery time. I knew a guy who broke one and pushed himself til he had to get it removed entirely because it became a risk of fragments puncturing a lung.
And like Hober says - nice pics!
Doogie
And like Hober says - nice pics!
Doogie
# posted by 
: 9/18/2007 9:25 AM
: 9/18/2007 9:25 AM
I agree with Dougie and Hober. Plus, you're no good to me if you're dead.
Your ever loving boss, CARDSTER
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Your ever loving boss, CARDSTER
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