Rest day and Barrie Winterfest

I didn't swim today, decided to take a day off since I slept in.

The Barrie Winterfest is on this weekend and i went down with the family to check it out. They have all sorts of things going on down at the waterfront with Ice sculptures, midway rides, lumberjack show, helocopter rides, hourse drawn wagon rides, dog sled rides, and so on. I was difficult for me to get around but I managed slowly being carefull not to strain my calf.

Tomorrow will be the best part of the winterfest! tomorrow is the polor bear dip in the lake, I'm looking forward to it!. : )

Here are some pic's from today's journey down town Barrie.

Here i am infront of the chopper ride, I don't know how much it cost? but i'm sure it was more then I could afford!

The Chopper taking off to do a circle around the bay, maybe a 10 min ride?

The chopper comming in for a landing, really cool to watch!

Dog sleds were fun to watch. it was free, but the line up to ride was over an hour wait, they take you out on a short circle over the lake.

This guy below was cutting square chunks of ice with toy's frozen in the middle for kids to take home.

Some of the ice sculptures, in a pirate theme


This is a solid sculpted ice slide

Victoria and Krissy fooling around on the lake just off the side of where the dog sled rides are.

Like they say pics or it didn't happen

A couple of pic's of my injured calf, notice the swelling?

While I'm putting up pic's, here are some from a couple of weeks ago redoing Victoria's room.

Victoria and Joanne putting up the wall paper.

NO this one below is not a test pattern!...it's the opposite side of the room looking at the corner of the two walls that I painted

Can you see me? the shirt I'm wearing is almost the exact same green as the wall.

Swim again today!

Oh! and I swam again today, put in anouther 2500m. I had the pool all to myself today, all 8 lanes!! we're getting hit with a snow storm and the schools are closed so I guess all the mommys had to stay home with there kids.....works for me!! : )

Wait! Weight!

So I weighed myself and I'm up. I know I said I was going on my 3 S diet or was it 4S's but with all that went on this month I couldn't stick with it, and with lack of my run and biking to burn the cals I just ain't going to lose weight. I'll try again this month (Feb) : )

Only 40lbs to lose by may 18...Doh!!

Swim Focus

I checked on Mom and she is doing well, she has some pain but is manageable with her meds.

Starting today I plan on focusing on my swimming while my calf heals over the next few weeks. I think I can manage swimming with the pull buoy as long as I don't try kicking. I'll swim 2500m today to bring my monthly total to 30,000m for the month. Next month I will increase my total by 10,000m to put in 40,000m for the month of Feb. as a goal, but maybe I will do more?

This afternoon I manage to put in a good 2500m arms only with pull buoy swimming today in only 41min. My calf didn't bother me much with just letting it loose draging behind me and I pushed off the wall on each end with my good/bad left foot, but I looked silly walking across the pool deck with a cane. ..what? what happened? that was the question of the day at the pool.

Here is my monthly totals for Jan. It's pretty pathatic, my biking was neer to none, and my running was off all because of the 3 surgery's on my feet over the month, Only my swim was on target, only because I could swim with sore feet, which looks to be what is on the minue for next month with my calf pull.

I think I'll quit!

Yes that's right! I think I'll just quit all sports all together!!!

I'm out of commission untill April now, Just as my left foot was starting to get better and I was starting my run training I tear my right calf muscle!! Grrrrrrr!!!

Yes, that is right! I tore my right calf muscle today while at the rec center diving today. I was doing an inward dive. (An inward dive is where you stand at the end of the board with your back to the water looking back at the diving board, standing with your ball of your foot and toes on the end of the board, then you push off and dive inward towards the board.)

Well I did everything right for my dive, but as I went to push off something popped and snapped in my right calf as I took off, I finished the dive alright, but while in the water I knew something was wrong. I got to the side of the pool and instead of jumping up out of the water as usual, I sat up on the edge of the pool and got up slowly using my good foot to stand, then I tried to put weight on my right foot but couldn't, so I told the lifeguard I pulled my calf on the last dive so the show is over for today. lol

I got some help from her to walk across the deck to the other side, then she got me some ice to put on it. I sat on the pool deck icing for about a half hour, then decided it was time to go. I got up slowly and hobbled to the change room to change, then drove myself to the hospital.

Sitting in Emerg for 5 hours!!!.... I finally see a doctor, only to tell me, "yes i tore the calf" and "i'll be out of commission until at least April".

I then asked him how long until I can start running? He looked at me and said; April!! ... he said i will need physio and if I'm lucky I will be good to go by April. I said April?? He said Yes April!! ...Did you hit your head or something??? maybe I should take a look??. LOL....

So there you have it! ..... Looks like Disney 70.3 may not happen. :-(