Poorly Pigeon
Mood:  hug me
Now Playing: Muse - Black holes and revalations
Boooooo. Ever since we installed Rupert it has rained solidly so we have had no opportunity to get out and beat him up. Bloomin' British weather :-)

We took the dogs for a bike ride this morning. Well, obviously, we rode the bikes and they ran along beside us. It's a great way of exercising them cos we can cover twice the normal distance in the same time, and it completely knackers them out for the rest of the day.

When we got back there was a pigeon sitting in our driveway looking a bit sad, and lots of feathers in the road. We think it must have been hit by a car. It seemed to have hurt a wing. We left it for a bit then went out to the gym at lunchtime and saw it was still there. Cue much flapping (on our part, poor pigeon being unable to flap at all!). Why is it that normally pigeons are horrible noisy vermin, but the minute there's an injured one on your property you start getting warm fuzzy feelings towards it and worry about whether it's going to be alright? Anyway, we chucked some bread out for it to munch on and came upstairs to look at the RSPCA website. When we went back to check on it before phoning them it had gone. No big piles of feathers either, so I'm hopeful it recovered and managed to fly, rather than getting munched by a cat :-)

Today's gym workout was weights, and more pull up attempts. I managed 4 assisted pull ups. Now don't get too excited, the bar was quite low and I had nearly all of my legs on the bench, so I was probably lifting less than half of my body weight. Still, it's a starting point, right? Once I can do some more of those I'll try moving the bench further away to lift more of my weight.

Tomorrow night I'm going out with a girlfriend for an Italian meal and much wine. I fear the food pie for tomorrow will have a large slice of alcohol and fat in it :-) I have been extra good today to try and offset the damage: with what I have planned for dinner my total is 1,222 cals; 47% carbs, 29% protein, 24% fat. Under 8 weeks to go to insane bikini photo d-day, so I'd better try and keep that sort of eating up :-) My arms are starting to look quite shapely, and I'm definitely getting stronger from the weights work. Just need to keep up the sensible eating and cardio at the same time, to shift that excess flab!