Well I realise I have not blogged for over 3 weeks, this is due to the work I have been doing in the garden. You see, we should have been going to Germany on the 4th April and had the week booked off work. You can see from last post that I decided to keep the days booked off work and take the trees down. Well I followed this up the following week of holiday breaking up all the concrete in the garden.
At some point – possibly in the 1960’s the previous occupants of the house had decided to use concrete as their building material of choice. I dare say this was down to the ability to carve whatever shapes you wanted through building a simple mould frame. What I hadn’t realised was quite how deep the concrete was in places! Everything was reinforced with concrete.
The toughest job was breaking up the (what should have been simple) concrete blocks that the greenhouse sat on. I didn’t bank on them having 18” deep foundations in an upside-down mushroom shape under the soil. Nightmare! I can honestly say this was back breaking. I had cuts and bruises everywhere.
Now I had the problem of getting rid of the concrete – me and linda wheelbarrow loaded circa 18-20 Tonnes of concrete from the tiered garden, down the side of the house and into skips on the drive. We have now managed to fill three 8yd skips!
But sitting down here now and thinking about the past few weeks has made me realise one thing – I have not felt low or depressed. This is perhaps the toughest times with Covid-19 that the world has been through for decades. I would have thought an ideal breeding ground for feeling low, but no! nothing, I have been feeling great mentally. Even during the toughest days I have been going for my run and working in the garden until dusk. I simply have not had time to think about it. I even went for a bike ride for the first time in several years.
Also, great news in my journey – I have now lost over 3 stone! 3.5 stone actually 🙂 This is really starting to show in my training runs as well and my PT sessions are starting to get really tough. I’ve been doing them now since Christmas and virtually using Zoom for 4 weeks. On Saturday I went for a 5k run around Mickleover down the old railway track and managed to do 5k in 37:54.
Bipolar Ironman 