Back home, and it snowed overnight – harbinger of what we’re told will be a long hard winter, the second in succession. But how beautiful (at this early stage) it looks! Thursday I was up a little late and had to take a short, 20-length pre-breakfast swim at the Y, but could feel in me the stirrings of a 1-mile swim, and Friday morning I achieved it, and for the first time in 6 months accomplished what I previously – pre-arthritis – did every morning before breakfast. 4 months exactly since I got back from the bike odyssey and the arthritis-enflaming fast food diet I indulged in; 4 months of carefully increasing the distance – and thanks to avocados I’m back! The body was delighted with the swim. Time forbade, but I could happily have gone on and completed 2 miles, which I used to make a point of doing (for the hell of it and despite the tedium) once a year.
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