Hello everyone, after all this time.

I've been having an awful time so far this year. Among other things, home exercise just plain stopped. I somehow kept making it to my two classes a week, but had to keep slowing down and doing less -- to an extent that was very discouraging, even upsetting.

A little over a week ago I started doing some light rowing on that defective machine. It's not what I want to do every day, and I really need to do other things. But the other things just never happen. So at least I've started doing something.

I can't really run because I get shin splints, but I went early before Monday stretching class and fast walked around the community centre track with running up and down steps a few times once a lap. Doing the steps is hard and I have to limit myself in my current condition, but it doesn't impact the legs the way flat jogging does. So I seemed to be able to do that without risking the shin splints.

I didn't get anything done today beyond walking the dog (which I have done almost without fail for something like a year, even when the SI was bad -- actually especially when the SI was bad). That walk is too easy and doesn't really do anything for my fitness, but it's important for my health -- and the dog.

I've been having sleep problems lately, and today was bad because of having to get up early. So hopefully tomorrow will be better.

It's good to see you two (Coco and starry) plugging away at your efforts. Well done and I hope you're doing okay. I saw starry feeling very low in a thread the other day.

And I hope prefab is hanging in there.