Exercise

to edit.​Merril exercises.  More specifically she walks and runs.  Occasionally she uses our home gym.
Me, my exercise is table tennis, and the work I sometimes do in the yard.  I reckon I lost weight playing table tennis New Year’s Eve.   When I started my pants fitted perfectly, but by the end I was having trouble keeping them up, but you don’t need to know that.  Still I do not think what I do is enough, if the increase in size of my tummy is any indication.  They say you can tell a man is on the level if his bubble is in the middle.  In that case, I am very much on the level.
Merril has a circuit she walks/runs several times a week.  It is about 4.7 k’s.  I know this because she wears a device on her arm that says how far it is.  I admire the fact that there are certain points she runs between, and they have been steadily increasing.  I also like the fact that whether she feels like it or not, she often goes.  Her thinking is, when I don’t feel like it, it is most important I go.
It really all started last year when she agreed to go on a long walk and sought sponsors for it.  It was 30 klm.  For Brisbane people it was Shorncliffe to Southbank.  In a sense it does not matter from where to where as it was a really long way.
The thing was, I reckon she did everything right.  She built up the distance she was walking, she made sure she was comfortable, she got the right shoes and socks.  In short, I don’t reckon there was anything that should have been done differently.  Unfortunately, she suffered.  She lost a toe nail when it went black and fell off.   The podiatrist told her that happens to athletes.  That made her feel good.  Being called an athlete. 
She has agreed to do the walk again this year and may do another.  On Saturday she is going for a walk with her sister.  I suppose I should admire that, and I will, as long as my sleeping patterns are not disturbed.
Merril often relates to me things she sees on her walks.  There are a number of dog walkers out there.  Some dogs are really old and get pushed in a pram.  Merril said to a couple of workers that that was the ugliest baby she had ever seen.  That cracked them up. She has met a number of people.  It was after a walk when she told me about a tree having been poisoned.  The council worker thought it was the guy who lived nearby, who had a pool.  The council are using what remains of the tree as a breeding area, and have drilled a number of holes in the tree trunk.
I love the thought of exercise.  I could think about it all day.  For me to do it though, it has to be a consequence of what I am doing.