Apple muncher's number crunching

muddywhitechicken

Owie

Is the ice working?

MWCx

apple_muncher

Getting the ice on it immediately prevented plenty of swelling, in my opinion. There is some swelling and bruising - I'm expecting it to kick in more tomorrow. I'm sitting sideways at the dining table with both feet up (hey, why not?!) and am applying an ice cube every 30/40mins. And taking ibuprofen. And pottering on with my marking!! So at least I can earn some pennies still.

I must be the only person in the UK to have gotten cold today!

earthgirl

Sorry to hear about your injury, hope some rest improves it quickly.

apple_muncher

I slept better than I'd expected, so the toe wasn't painful during the night.

It is now pretty swollen and a good shade of purple, but could have been much worse.

Dh will take dd to dance - again, she ain't impressed - and I'll meet up with them later for a promised lunch out and charity shop meander. Plus a peek in sainz for sch clothes. I reckon I can only wear my 'trekking' sandals, and it is already raining and thundery. Fun! Anyhow, in the meantime, I shall potter on with marking...

smallholdingsister

Get well soon apple. x

greent

Hope the toe improves soon xx

apple_muncher

A day off church today (although dh has gone already as he is doing the pa) as when I went to bed, I went all dizzy and nauseous unless I was laying on my left hand side. Sigh. Pesky ears. My tum was also unhappy, and my toes joined in with some aches...

Enough of the pity party though!

As I reckon I'll need to give my toe joint 6 weeks to recover fully, I was mulling over what exercise I can still do, rather than what I cannot do (walk, run, cycle,anything involving jumping or balancing on my toes (lunge, press up...)). This is my list thus far:
- squats (front/back/sumo/goblet/air/overhead/pistol(?))
- bulgarian split squat
- V-ups, exercise ball pike, Russian twist
- deadlift, clean and press
- dancing crab, glute bridges
- kneeling push up (feet elevated ones too, but that's probably pushing it a tad too far!)
- most arm + shoulder exercises
- kettlebell swing

I need a plan!

June may have to be a squat month challenge... Off to mooch through my Zuzana workout notebook for inspiration.

PS If I get my act together, I could maybe finish all my moderating admin today... Now, that would be worth doing...

Workout mooching first though. Gotta prioritise, eh?

smallholdingsister

My team leader is driving me bonkers. She keeps claiming I haven't sent her stuff when I have.
She did exactly the same last year.

apple_muncher

I get a different TL every year for each component. This year I blithely emailed about a pesky centre - to the wrong TL and for the wrong component! I did get a lovely reply though!

apple_muncher

We have had a lovely day down in Brighton, seeing step ds + gf. Tesc0 paid for our train tickets - yay.

Although I am still extremely limited in my walking speed (who knew that hobbling took up so much energy!) I have done over 11k steps. We ate in a fantastic place for lunch - £40 for 4 big people + drinks, and dd just had a massive smoothie - they didn't bat en eyelid at her eating her own food, which was generous of them. And we also got to see step ds + gf's flat, and chat about their wedding plans for next year. All v good.

Now I am sat with the tennis and have done some more marking - 13 more scripts to go... The aim is to complete it tomorrow and get it sent off. Then I can start on the bunnies :j.

Am working on an NST June challenge, as well as considering my own exercise limitations/challenges for the month.

We are off to bham Weds-Sat. Mum, banks, house sorting... I put some items from mum's on gumt for free and have about 40 replies so far! Yikes! But that is a job to sort through tomorrow...