Tag: exercise

Week 7/2024: Theatre and walking

Content warning: Euthanasia Week of 12 February 2024 We had a public holiday on Monday, which was very welcome. I went to see the play Last Cab to Darwin on Wednesday. And on Sunday, Kramstable, Lil Sis and I went in Run the Bridge. A Wednesday night out Last...

Week 4/2024: Tracking my habits

Week of 22 January 2024 I had a full week at work. I tried to focus on moving more, getting more sleep and tracking my habits. Built to move update Last week I wrote about the three things from Built to Move I want to focus on to rebuild...

Week 3/2024: Built to move (part 2)

Week of 15 January 2024 Last week I wrote about embarking on the 10-day Built To Move Challenge, hosted by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett of The Ready State. This is part 2. Built to Move Challenge The 10 days of this challenge are based on the 10 chapters...

Week 2/2024: Built to move

Week of 8 January 2024 Built to move Back in the middle of 2023, when I was dealing with a painful back injury, I came across the book Built to Move by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett. I’d seen the book mentioned in a review and it sounded interesting...

Week 44/2023: A normal week

A normal week Week of 30 October 2023 Not much happened this week I cut back on my walking training for the Point to Pinnacle, hoping some rest might be good for my foot. I don’t know what’s going on with it. My osteopath suggested going to see a...

Week 43/2023: Onward we walk

Onward we walk . . . Week of 23 October 2023 How do the weeks go so quickly? Thursday was Hobart Show Day. I know some people have a bit of a whinge about having a public holiday on a Thursday so it’s not really a long weekend unless...

Week 41/2023: Strange days

It was a strange week Week of 9 October 2023 School holiday fun (and not so fun) moments It started off well enough. It was the second week of school holidays and Kramstable and I went to see Barbie at the wonderful State Cinema. It was a fun day....

Week 39/2023: Heartbreak

Heartbreak: The oak and the plover Week of 25 September 2023 The oak When Kramstable left primary school in 2018, his school gave each of the year 6 leavers an oak sapling descended from its oak tree as a memory of their time there. I wrote about it at...

Week 38/2023: Point to Pinnacle: One month in

Barb and the Mountain: Month one update Week of 18 September 2023 Point to Pinnacle: One month in My goal for the end of the first month of my Preparing for the Point to Pinnacle Program was to walk seven kilometres. This is about a third of the distance...

Week 37/2023: Airmail

The first airmail service from Tasmania Week of 11 September 2023 The things you find in piles of old papers Looking through some of my mother’s papers on the weekend, I discovered a letter written to my grandmother, who was living in Melbourne, from her brother, my great uncle,...