The diary of Mark Emery. Look after your body. You wont be given another
I’d like to say a MASSIVE THANKS! to the many Doctors, Nurses and Specialists who have helped me get over my illness and it’s side effects, getting me fit for my return to work. There were a few I never got to know by name, but to those I did:
Christopher, Paul, Hamid, Phil, Andrew, Karin, Belinda, David, Jeremy and Daniel. Thank you so very much.
An equally MASSIVE THANKS! to all the friends and family who helped me through the past six months.
In the words of Faithless, “This is my church. This is where I heal my hurts”
For the last month and a bit I’ve done an hours walking first thing in the morning, 4 days a week. Come rain or shine I’m out there powering around my seven laps, listening to tracks such as The Chemical Brothers: Galvanize, The Boxer and Believe. Doing the walking 06:00-07:00 is also a great way to see the sun rise and day starting, cloud cover permitting. Using Google Maps and a ruler it looks like I do ~ 1.5Km including the walk to the park from our house. It’s been a great help getting me back into a routine ready for my return to the office.
I’ll be back from Monday 20th August, part time at first to prove I’m okay.
The walking has had a positive effect on my waist. I’ve had to dig out some old jeans as I’ve gone from a 38inch waist down to 33 inches. I’ve also dropped from 14 stone down to 13 stone 10.5
A good steady beat helps keep up the momentum. I’m going to have to resurrect one of my old HP Jornada’s for power walking music as my TyTN phone was declared dead on Friday morning after I’d spent hours trying to get it back to life. It’s been handed over to Vodafone for repair.
While shopping in Bromley at the Glades today I walked past a Bungee Trampoline and couldn’t resist parting with the £5 to prove to myself how much fitter I am these days. Not only could I do a 360 flip over, I managed a double-flip several times and attracted a small crowd. 
Half were probably thinking “What’s that old git up to?” 
I don’t want to know what the other half were thinking..
That’s it for this post. Lets see how Mark 2.0 does back at the office!