This is crazy. I can barely walk. My feet are killing me. Tuesday and Wednesday I walked around 18km each day in that one damn store. You may not think thats much, but when you’re constantly on your feet for the whole 18 hours, thats a lot.

I was fully intending to post daily stories about whats going on at the store, but to be honest, that place really depresses me and is really just somewhere I’d rather forget about when I don’t have to be there. Its bad enough that I have to put up with the store, its worse that I’d post about it here. ;-)

Its really hard to post on the site at the moment. I get home from work and I’m exhausted. I’m sure you would be too if you were standing continuously for nearly 11 hours a day. I’m averaging around 25000 steps a day the past two days, and that has been light because I’ve spent most of that time on the door. Not much walking to be done when you’re standing at the door.

I should have taken my pedometer a lot earlier than Tuesday. It was definitely a necessary tool to have. I really regret not having it sooner. Still, given I didn’t think of it till the weekend, only to discover my pedometer had a flat battery… Not much that could be done I guess. Still, its got a new battery now and its rocking away to every step I take ;-)

I’ve already lost nearly 1kg in the 2 weeks I’ve been at this store. And that is surprising because I’ve been eating like crap still. ;-) I think the big difference is the nearly 4 litres of water a day and the 18km of walking. I’m also figuring that the weight loss isn’t faster because I’ve been building muscles again. When you sit around doing nothing for 3+ years, suddenly your muscles are very happy when you start using them again and they tend to rebuild themselves up quickly. :-)

Now, I should point out that while I am walking long distances, its all on a flat even surface in an air conditioned building spread out over 11 hours. :-P I can guarantee there would be no chance of me repeating those kinds of distances out in the real Auckland with all the hills and so on. Still, give it time and we’ll see. Right now I just want to be able to walk again first. After the past 3 days, I’m in significant pain and while I can walk now, I’m hobbling and have a pretty significant limp at the moment. Yesterday my left foot hurt the most, today its the right foot. Go figure.

Its hard. Its tiring. Its given me a whole new respect for those guys standing at banks or in stores in general. Mainly because now I am one. Manual labour doesn’t come anywhere close to this. I’d much prefer to be digging, lifting, pushing and pulling heavy stuff on a building site than standing around all day on solid concrete. At least as a labourer you’re doing more than just standing or walking now and then.

I need to get in shape I think. I need to lose weight a lot faster than I am right now because if I keep this up, I’ll be using a walking stick before I’m 40. That’s not acceptable. I refuse to take that. So I’m thinking of going back to judo. To hell with the knees. I figure the better way to get the strength back in my knees is to start doing judo again anyway. The problem is mostly an issue of hours. I can’t get from the North Shore, all the way back to the eastern suburbs before 8pm. Then by the time I am back, I’m usually exhausted after an 11 hour long day at work.

So the mornings become the only time I can possibly do it. But the hassle with that is that I don’t get home till 8, earliest I can get to bed is 9, so getting up at 4 to go to the gym or whatever is going to be a little tough. I have to be on the road by 7am to make it to the north shore in time for the 8am start.

ARGH!!!! HELP! :-P Decisions!

God help me when I start doing the 12.5 hour nights.

Anyway, time to bugger off. Going to go put my feet in a foot spa and let them get a nice wee massage for a while. :-)

Talk to ya later folks.