Design Wall Monday, Using the stash and days 127 to 133

The hexagon theme for August continues. This week an attempt at fussy cutting a hexagon for a quilt based on an old English one. My major problem I think is I do not pay enough attention to the finer detail but hey if you stand three feet away I think it looks pretty good.

Fabric usage is still quite modest but I am if nothing else consistent!

Fabric used 1/4 metre
Fabric used to date 16 1/4 metres

Goal for 2010 Use 100 metres - will need to get moving.
  
Tuesday morning and a great start to the day. I lost 1.7 kilos this last fortnight. Finally a decent loss. Spent the morning in the gym doing weights for 40 minutes.

Wednesday afternoon and 45 minutes on the treadmill for 4.03kms. I'm still mixing things up. First 30 minutes was at a lower heart rate and then I upped the pace into cardio mode.

Thursday and an interesting day. First up in the gym was an appointment with the nutritionist for a bio- impedance test. It tells you your body's biological age along with a whole heap of other stuff. I knew the results were not going to be great and had picked that it would say my age as 80. Not too far wrong - 85 was the test result. I'm not convinced of the science but it amused me. I will do again in 3 months and see what it says.

Then on to the treadmill for 30 minutes and 2.68kms. Was my favourite treadmill that I think is slower so will need to up the rates a bit to get  decent workout.

Friday and Saturday both weights days. Friday by myself and today with Dave. Worked hard both days and if this is what I can do with the body of an 85 year old watch out as I get fitter!

Sunday morning and I was up late so just 30 minutes on the treadmill for 2.95kms. I went back to the level I was doing before the toe injury and quite simply my toe didn't like it. Pounding away at higher speeds and steeper hills is not so good for it I have discovered.

Today I really paid for the exercise yesterday. My toe and in fact my entire foot was not in good shape. I did 10 minutes on the bike and 25 minutes on the treadmill. I didn't even get the distances - was just grateful to be finished.