Day 45 : "No strike for my muscles"

Quick post tonight, as only got back in from the gym at 10pm, due to delays getting home from Cardiff.  It took me 37 minutes just to get out of the NCP car park, and 50 minutes in total for my car to clock up the first mile of my journey, as there were so many shoppers all trying to leave Cardiff at 6pm.

It suddenly struck me, as I sat in my unmoving vehicle, how the public sector day off strike - was fortuitously timed for the strikers, as it landed on - for many - the last monthly pay day before Christmas.  Just a coincidence, I'm sure.  But how they can all afford to go squandering money in Cardiff when their pensions are being cut, I don't know.


So my pains from yesterday weren't too bad today, and I was always going to make it to the gym come hell or high water anyway.  However, as my shoulder is sore, I thought it was prudent not to do my usual Wednesday shoulder workout.  So I swapped it for my Thursday triceps workout, and didn't do any weights that were too strenuous and may have put pressure on my shoulder.  I then did some stomach exercises and, due to the lingering pain in my right calf, followed those with a relatively sedentary 30 minutes on the exercise bike.  All very sensible of me, I reckon, without sacrificing my workout.

My diet today has been:

- Breakfast:  An apple and a banana;
- Lunch:  A salmon and potato (first 'starchy carbs' I've had in a while - but it was only a little bit, and tasted damn good!) salad;
- Dinner:  A tin of mackerel, a tin of tuna, a few cherry tomatoes and a few chillis.

Goodnight!