And so it starts…
Things have been moving along quite nicely here. Am back at work 
but I do love my job and my clients are great so that makes me 
. Summer has finally arrived – hooray! -and the weather is fantastic, I even have the cooler on at the moment as it’s a touch on the hot side. And I’m not as hopeless a cook as I think of myself to be, the mushroom and chorizo risotto I made earlier this week was awesome! It was a big hit in the household but will not be a regular meal as it took so damn long to make. Who has half an hour to sit there constantly stirring I ask you?! And if you stop stirring for longer than a second it starts sticking to the bottom of the saucepan.
Made it to the gym on Monday and Wednesday yay. Monday was on the rower for 15mins then treadmill for 15mins, I didn’t want to run for too long as I hadn’t ran two days in a row for ages. I think I tweaked a muscle in my shoulder using the rower, the lev scap attachment at the shoulder blade was a bit tender after and I had a bit of referral pain going into my upper arm, but it was nothing bad and I soldiered on. Wednesday I did a 40min run on the treadmill and it felt pretty darn good. I did wear the SI belt for Wednesday’s run as I felt my pelvis wasn’t 100% stable, it was pretty comfortable to run in and I pulled up well after with no hip/back/quad pain so it did the trick. I’m finding the belt is a fantastic tool to use when I am symptomatic as it seems to help realign everything a little and definitely prevents pain. I don’t want to use it all the time though, or start getting too dependent on it, but I’ll give it 8 weeks of good usage to allow everything to settle (and hopefully for ligaments around right SI to shorten to normal length).
The planned run for Tuesday didn’t eventuate as time got away from me but I had already walked the dogs up some hills in the morning so all wasn’t lost. Today I started clinical pilates again after a two week hiatus (they shut over christmas), she didn’t kill me but she sure made me work hard. I discovered that supermans on a reformer using first arm then leg to move the body are damn hard, but the hardest bit is actually keeping the opposite arm and leg up and steady! I think it re-tweaked my lev scap in the shoulder too as its a bit achey right now
So things are going well. I’m getting excited about choosing my next new meal to cook, will keep you posted. Ciao!
