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After a slight hiccup from the day before the Fat C’s step out again.

Posted by Quirky | April 10, 2008 .

After a day off yesterday, three of the FCWC’s set out today to once more to pound the pavements and in doing so burn up the calories gained yesterday from our visit to a local Japanese restaurant in Melbourne called “Tori Matsu”. One of the reasons for the choice of restaurant was its consistently high quality food at reasonable prices.

Yesterday was in part a celebration and wake to compensate for a change in the work environment. As you read our entries, you will notice that despite the walking regime we treat ourselves to a well earned reward from time to time. This is necessary to maintain enthusiasm and provide us with a goal to work towards whilst maintaining our regular walking regime. During this week Dina and I have walked on three occasions over lunch and Pesky has walked on two of those.

Despite subtle attempts from the more sensible member of the FCWC’s I was unable to persuade my fellow walkers not to consume an item from the dessert menu after having eaten quite sensibly at lunch yesterday. So today I decided to extract my revenge and increase the pace of the walk.

Initially Pesky was complaining about something at the start of the walk, the subject nature escapes me now, as the complaints often come thick and fast but after easing the walkers along, we proceeded along our familiar route. We had a timeframe for the walk due to another commitment for Pesky. “Yet another lame excuse” I remarked to which Dina chuckled.

Although the route was one of our usual walks along the Yarra River in Melbourne, the changing nature of the season and the surrounds made for interesting observations. It was a mild calm day, almost breathless. The cygnets commented upon in the previous note have gown although it appears that one or two of the family members have moved hopefully to greener pastures or should that be greener waters! There was considerable river traffic which provided us with suitable distractions along the walk today including rowers and boats carrying passengers on river cruises.

Today we noted the number of ‘boot camp’ exercises taking place. One of our original members-Churchill -has become a “boot camp” devotee but the core members of the group prefer a more genteel style of exercise possibly reflective of our mature age status.

I am quite sure I spotted members of the St.Kilda Football Club running along our chosen route. It seems the nature and variety of our walks has spread through word of mouth. It is through these entries we will provide the substance for you.

Having walked according to our allotted time, we returned to our place of work, each one of us feeling extremely bouyant by the excercise itself and the encouragement from our fellow FCWC members.

Tomorrow brings yet another challenge for the FCWC.

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