Updates

V02 up to 41!!

Exercising pretty much everyday, however im in the office for the rest of the year, so my daily steps are down a fair bit. Weights happening a bit, but mostly treadmill or walks down the river. Been a massive year on the fitness front, i feel ive done really well and have lost a decent amount of weight, keen to keep going next year, work on running and weights.

Brocollis are all done, so ive put the rest of the chillis in, grabbed a trinidad scorpian and a carolina reaper to see how they go in the garden instead of pots this year, flower garden is going well, ive added a few more plants to it, i think in a few weeks its going to look amazing.

Lawn has been scarified 3 weeks ago, and have started on it with the reel mower this last week mowing every second day, will need a fert again soon, weather is starting to heat up so will sort watering program soon.

3 more days of work before holidays, ive only had 3 days off in the last month, as we have been super busy and running during weekends. at the same time we have had quite a big reshuffle, so have had a few job interviews happening, nothing changed yet.

Ive got a home brew kit coming for christmas, going to take a bit to set up, as will need to sort a cupbard, filtered water etc to get it right first time, ill have to do a chunk of research before the first batch.

A few pictures of the garden progress

Massive fire down the road the other day at a boat manufacturer, not far from my work, we got the stay inside alert message at home, was alot of smoke

Nobody hurt, but not much left of the building, was a power cut just before the fire, so possibly a cause.

We have had a blackbird making heaps of noise over the last week, our cat may have caught his partner? We have named him scott, he is pretty annoying and starts chirping from 5am right through to 8pm

Chillis and beer day happening this week, so i should get some content from that day !!

Recovery

Just getting back into it this last week, due to getting the flu early in the month and it taking a good two weeks to feel good enough to get back into exercise, hurt my ankle too, so that didnt help progress either. Thankfully my weight remained pretty constant through it all.

Feeling much better now but don’t want to overdo it straight away, so currently the plan for the next two weeks is to do alternate days on the treadmill, walking and running for 30-45mins. Looking at around 6kph walking and 9kph jogging for the moment, just on a .5 incline. All treadmill workouts for the moment. Trying to take it a bit easy really.

Kinda disapointing that id only just added weights back into the routine, but will put them back in once ive done this two week cycle. I think i will have two rest days a week instead of one moving forward, but we shall see.

It’s spring here, nearly summer, so I’ve set up all the outside furniture, sails etc. It’s Very windy today but all seems to be holding up well. It will be a nice quiet area to spend hot days over the summer with the family.

Chillis are growing well, Ive got full gardens now, so untill the brocolli is ready i cant do too much beyond weeding and squishing white butterfly caterpillars. Ive put in five jalapenos as last year we didnt end up with any, hopefully the are ready for the chilli and beer day. Made a full flower garden, cant wait to see what it looks like in a few months.

Designed cut and partially assembled a new sim rig for one of the guys in the sim racing group yesterday, cant wait to see the final result as was looking really good the work we had done, managed to bend a saw blade, so that part wasnt much fun and an unexpected cost.

We have a hotlap challenge currently going in the racing group. Bathurst in V8 supercars, which is looking pretty popular, with 15 members having times so far, ranging from 2.07-2.14 ish, so fairly close.

Getting ready for spring

Wow, what a month, nonstop. The average steps per day for the month was 18000, 145km of running, and 65km of walking, 28 days of the 30 I managed to get some exercise happening, so pretty good. This month I’ve upped my step goal to 15000 a day and started weights again this week. 3 times a week, the big 5, 4 sets of 12. I’ve managed to run 10km on the treadmill in a few minutes over an hour. V02 is still at 40, but I think the increase in activity will have it moving in no time.

Planted some chillis for this season, just the 3 plants so far, Rocoto, Jalwa, and a bird’s eye, I have a few habanero seedlings popping up too. I’ll post pictures of the progress. First spray on the lawn this week, foreign grass was sprayed on Saturday and weeds today, will need a follow-up in a few weeks, maybe after scarifying.

Designed up and made a small button box for one of the sim racing guys, pretty simple but thats all that was needed

I’ve put a few videos up on youtube, mostly testing the camera so far, I’ve got loads of work to do out in the gardens before summer, so I might get some timelapses of that. Head over to the youtube channel : whatnz