Not Dead Yet !: So slow !

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

So slow !

Sunday: We're on a trail run.

I'm now reduced to doing the shortest course, it's a bit over five km.

Deb usually runs a longer course. This week she has hurt her knee so she runs the short course. We're at Wungong.

At the start I tell Deb my race plan: I will let Deb draw a little ahead of me, then spend the rest of the run trying to keep Deb in sight.

Deb starts, I start slower. Within two minutes she is out of sight... I don't see her again till the finish.

Deb runs the course almost thirty minutes faster than me.

Some of it (excuses, excuses :-) is because I have to watch my feet, not risk falling. Mostly, though... I am unfit. Very very slow.

The trail is rough and steep. It's an exhausting run. Definitely hard work (for both of us). We enjoy it :-)

Here's another excuse: I've always had very mild asthma. I now use an asthma puffer before a run. It makes less and less difference. In hospital I was warned to practise deep breathing or else my lungs could collapse. I wonder if my lungs have (partly) collapsed? It seems possible. Oh well... I'm sitting still and have trouble getting a deep breath.

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I sent an email offering this blog to... any academic, really... if someone wants to use it as the basis for a research project. Perhaps extract a book of what to expect if you get terminal cancer. As I used to say when our kids were growing up: I don't provide an example but perhaps a warning :-)

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I'm following yet another lead in an attempt to get "my app" written. It's all map-based... Have I mentioned this before: a bit awkward since I now have a lot of trouble making sense of a map... which will make it hard to test any map-based app :-)

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And apart from being constantly tired... I'm still well enough to complain. And that's something to be glad about :-)