Kate Writes: surgery

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I am getting ready for Ironman. Well its a year away, so its those jobs I have put off. I am seeing a nice physio in Parnell who specialises in sports injury's. The Achilles seems better and I did a good run the other day. I have just got to remember to stretch. The other job I needed to do is have a mole removed. The Dr said last year that it did not need urgently removing so on Friday I had it removed. I kept my eyes closed the whole time, only opening them once to see this huge hole in my arm. I have the arm strapped up and huge bandages holding it all together. It does not hurt! but I think the strapping does. Anyway it has put my plan of an ocean swim off, the wetsuit can  be put away for a few months.

I woke up this morning thinking I would go for a run but the rain was pouring down, and I cannot get the bandage wet! So I went off for a good walk on West Coast Beach with Rach and the dogs. I wore my arm warmers to protect my arm, but the sun came out and we had a lovely walk. The sea was rough and big surges. Its a great place to walk. I'm looking at the sun shine and thinking I might go for a run later.
My new ipod is now working, it had nothing to do with the fact that I had not plugged it in properly! But my Nike sports band is not downloading on to the computer so I will give it one last go and then take it back tomorrow. So I will have to go for a run to see if it works.

Stitches out in 10 days results on Tuesday!  Will be back to normal next week, well what ever normal is.

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