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[movement] quick note
I was in London last week and over the weekend for a hot date with the mass spec; on Monday, I managed to sneak in a trip to the gym, for the first time since... early December. (I'd hoped to manage a mid-December trip too, but then I broke my foot and was supposed to be Avoiding Weight-Bearing Exercise, grump grump.)
So that was... eleven weeks of not-gym, and in a fit of recklessness instead of doing the sensible thing and backing off a lot I... went in and did exactly what I did twelve weeks ago. Or thereabouts.
And I... appear to have got away with it, for the most part?
I'd clearly lost some strength and familiarity -- I couldn't read while I was doing the resistance work because it was now close enough to my limits that I needed to be paying attention throughout every movement in order to minimise the risks of fucking my knee up, e.g., and I was also moving faster through the reps in order to get them in rather than being able to sustain doing them slowly -- but I still... did all the things? My bad knee was still noticeably warm to the touch yesterday, but it wasn't actually hurting and it's now calmed all the way down (i.e. took less than a week to do so, i.e. is within acceptable parameters).
So hurrah for that, and now I just have to try to resist the temptation to Just Push Myself A Bit Harder more generally...
So that was... eleven weeks of not-gym, and in a fit of recklessness instead of doing the sensible thing and backing off a lot I... went in and did exactly what I did twelve weeks ago. Or thereabouts.
And I... appear to have got away with it, for the most part?
I'd clearly lost some strength and familiarity -- I couldn't read while I was doing the resistance work because it was now close enough to my limits that I needed to be paying attention throughout every movement in order to minimise the risks of fucking my knee up, e.g., and I was also moving faster through the reps in order to get them in rather than being able to sustain doing them slowly -- but I still... did all the things? My bad knee was still noticeably warm to the touch yesterday, but it wasn't actually hurting and it's now calmed all the way down (i.e. took less than a week to do so, i.e. is within acceptable parameters).
So hurrah for that, and now I just have to try to resist the temptation to Just Push Myself A Bit Harder more generally...
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I think what this looks like is I bring one set of new secateurs to Leytonstone and bring the Fiskars ones to Enfield, like some kind of corn/fox/duck puzzle ensuring that No Household Is Without Secateurs. (I am already feeling vindicated, here, about having three pairs.)
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(I did not end up winning the Felco-that-need-renovation but I am fine with that. I might well continue keeping an eye out, though...)