David and Katherine Goodwin

For me at least!

After finally geting to see David's podiatrist today, I have found out that I have very flat feet, which (and I'm not going into why, cos its very convoluted) explains why my legs ache when I walk. Clive the podiatrist says I could still do the moonwalk, but as my aching legs and painful feet have been curtailing my training, I should probably not bother because it will then take longer for my feet and legs to sort themselves out, and will hurt quite a lot. I'm a little disapointed, but that's what I expected, so I shall have to try again next year, when I've been training properly.

As could have been predicted, I didn't actually walk from the train station into Bromsgrove yesterday. I took the lazy (plus dry and cheaper) route of getting the bus right into the town centre.

Today though, I've done somewhat better. I spent about an hour trawling the internet trying to find some more options for gyms that have a convenient enough location for me to be able to work it into my schedule (which is finally starting to sort of stabilise). I think I'm going to opt for one in Walsall town centre (called, unappealingly "Fitbods") because they're quite cheap (£60 for three months). I'll go in there tomorrow and see what the facilities are like. If all goes well I'll be able to go in at least a couple of times a week on the way into work to get a bit of a workout in (while staying dry and warm :-))

Like my friend Liz, I got my place on the moonwalk. Having read the walk the walk site which claimed forms were going to be sent out at the beginning of february, I stopped worrying about not keeping up with my training when I thought that I hadn't got a place.
Anyway, today I got the letter that confirmed my place, so I've got to work like hell to get fit in time for the 20th of may! Which is a good challenge.

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With all of my enthusiasm last week about getting into my new exercise routine, I then came down with a nasty stomach bug last week which prevented me from exercising (well actually from doing anything much as I didn't eat for two days). By Friday though, I was feeling ok, and on Saturday we went to do some more house viewing.

On Sunday we went over to Chase Academy in Cannock, where a kind gentleman was giving away some old CRT monitors. We picked one up for Rachel (with sound, so she won't have to get speakers) and also went away with a laser printer. We managed to spend a good bit of time there (possibly a couple of hours) chatting to the kind gentleman about his school IT systems, and talking about a few bits of software / technology. It turned into a bit of a sales session, as he was asking what we could do for him as a company, and I decided that trying to do that sort of stuff feels very strange when you're in your scruffy walking gear. I'd be surprised if we get any actual work out of him, but he knows what we can do now, so you never know.