Thread: Running Out of Time

I hit 60 in February, and yup; it was a bit of a shock. The overiding thought is/was; where did the time go, and, how much time is left. I used to do a lot of lane swimming; usually 2kms plus 1-2 kms aqua jogging 3-4 times a week. I did it for years, and being such a solo pursuit it is really hard to keep it up. But I did for a couple of decades. Up until covid hit I was aqua jogging 2kms 3-4 times a week.

Over the last few months I've got back into it again. However I've changed it a bit. Now I do 1km (40 lengths) agua jogging 5-6 mornings a week. I've decided it's easy to do those days without rest days because really it's no difference to walking 500m to and from the bus stop etc. And many people would walk a shit ton more than that in their daily grind.

Stratord now has a new pool complex and one pool is a 33C 25m therapy pool. I've found the warmth actually helping motivation because you haven't got that cold dive followed by 4 or 5 lengths of jogging to warm up. I've been doing it consistantly over the last 3-ish months and man it's made a difference! It originally took me 32-33 mins to do the 40 lengths. Now; 23mins. Also; where I go to hunt goats there is a steepish 10min climb to the clearing. I once had to stop6 times before I got to the top. Now straight up; no dramas!

So I really rate aqua jogging for the hills. You have the buoyancy to help your joints, and the resistance which is meant to be about 2.5x that of being on the land. With the therapy pool the warmth is actually good for the joints and muscles etc. I'm not weighing myself, because I get OCD about it and weigh each day and get demoralised... The clothes are getting baggier and the other day I actually fist pumped the air because my gruts started falling down as I was using the chainsaw...

I am being carefull eating nd am eating keto or low carb; and try to do the intermittant fasting. So skip beaky and only eat between around 11 and 6. Being a Type 2 diabetic, the entire regime is helping my overall health.