Water Running
5 minute warm up
1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 1 minute hard with 1 minute easy between reps
5 minute cool down
Again, tired and starving hungry by the time I got out of the pool.
Positive Signs
As Lennon and McCartney said “I’ve got to admit it’s getting better”, yes, today was very close to being a 0/5 day, that is on Em’s Stress Fracture pain scale where 5 is generally pretty shitty and achy and sharp painy and 0 is nary a hint of a twinge.
Barely any of the deep achy pain, no hot spot pains and actually forgetting from time to time that I am even injured, in fact I had to stop myself from bounding up some stairs today.
Work was madly hectic this afternoon, system outages and all sorts of annoying “always happens on a Friday afternoon” occurrences. If anyone was trying to contact the call centre of one of Australia’s “big 4″ banks this afternoon and all sorts of weird things were happening I am really sorry, my fingers were flying across the keyboard trying to re-route calls, but I can only program so fast 
Fortunately I have been doing what I do for a while and can manage a disaster with my eyes shut.
In the middle of all this my boss asked me to come up to Sydney for a couple of days next week, Tuesday to Thursday. So between shifting a couple of thousand calls about the place I also managed to book flights and accommodation, of course ensuring I found a hotel with a pool. You don’t think a business trip is an excuse to slack off now do you! Unfortunately this does mean I will have to cancel my Thursday massage appointment, and I now probably won’t be able to see the Sports Doc until the following week. At least if I don’t get to see the Doc until a week later I will be closer to being told I can run again.
I have a bit of a confession to make 
Remember the waterproof iPod cases I found? Well you can’t get the shuffle cases in Oz, they aren’t being imported anymore. So yesterday, in a fit of pique and to cheer myself up I ended up buying a Nano. We can get them a bit cheaper than RRP though work, I ordered it yesterday at about 2pm and it was delivered by 1030am today, great service. Oh, and because they were cheaper than the shops I bunged in a Nike+ sports kit as well, Awwwww come on, Em needs something to look forward to when she can run again. I picked up a little holder for it as well that let’s you lace it into your sneakers, because I don’t wear Nikes.
So tomorrow at the pool my new nano will be all tucked away in it’s waterproof case and I’ll be wired for sound, this also means I should be able to churn out a “long” run in the pool on Sunday without going insane from boredom. I figured that the waterproof case will also come in handy over winter if it starts to rain on a run.
So here I sit, wracked with middle class guilt about my rampant consumerism with a few new toys to play with
And yeah, I bought a green one 
