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I'm back. I spent these last few days recovering from a whopper of a weekend - mainly from a lack of energy and DOMS and from doing almost too much. But my head is back to normal and ready to backblog:

FRIDAY NIGHT: I did end up going to the gym. It's a long walk from the house (around 40 minutes if I'm taking my time). Went straight up to the treadmill and was glad I brought over my $1 headphones ( I LOVE THE DOLLARAMA HERE! It's like the 99 yen shop, anything you want for $1 - plus a bit of tax, but not much. YAY!) coz as I was doing my thing on the treadmill, I decided to watch TV and scroll through the 135 channels I could watch (HEAVEN!) and opted for sport (a mild surprise for me, as I thought I would go with something girly). I didn't realise how much I missed my sport until I began watching a tennis match for the first time in what felt like years. It was Roger Federer and Andy Murray and the match was INCREDIBLE! Long rallies, a 'come from behind' battle for the player ranked 1 in the world - I didn't know who to go for. Usually I can't go past my Roger, but Andy was good. While I was deciding who to go for, I had decided to just run for 15 minutes as a warm up, but I was so engrossed with the match that I looked up and saw I had actually been on there for 45 minutes running! I KNOW! How could I not notice? Admittedly I wasn't pushing myself to my highest limit (which is usually my interval training: jog for 30 seconds, run like hell for 30 seconds, then extend it to a minute, then just keep going til the body says 'no more'! I used to be able to run like hell for 18 minutes straight, but thankfully I can always get back to that level of fitness very easily) But I did end up doing 7 minutes of intervals before switching to the cross trainer, so it wasn't a complete loss. I don't know who won though, coz by the time I did all of my cardio, weights and stretches, they STILL hadn't finished the match and I was getting tired, knowing that I had to walk an extra 40 minutes to get back to the house - I didn't want to stick around. An internet search will fix that (they played the Masters Cup at Shanghai, so it won't be difficult to track at all).
After the gym, I went across the road to the library and relaxed a bit with a good book I found before trekking it back to the house. As soon as I arrived at the door, we were picked up to go for dinner, so no time to dump anything. I've been sampling different eateries here and I am still not impressed. We went to a place called Wendy's. I was told that they had good salads, and I was looking forward to it coz I thought Wendy's was a restaurant. Turns out it's just another fast food place. I don't like getting salads at fast food places coz a) it's just wrong! and b) it's all processed shit anyway. I really don't want to go out to eat here, it's almost soul crushing - well it would be to my relos in South America and all the foodies back home in Melbs. I was starving but didn't want to eat a lot of crap (and honestly, my choices were limited) so I got the healthiest thing I could think of - which was a chicken grilled burger - and that was it. I got weird looks when I declined the meal offer and got just the burger, but like I said - I was starving, but I wasn't going to eat shit (stubborn, aren't I?!?!) Shortly after getting back to the house I went to bed, otherwise I would have been picking at food and I needed to get to bed early to get ready for 12 hours in Toronto!

I'm going to separate the posts because they are all quite long. So see ya in the next one!