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I am back from doing my fitness test of running and power walking around an oval two and half times to measure how fast I could cover the distance of 1 kilometer.  I was trying to better my best previous time of 8.9 minutes, which is not great given that I can walk 1 kilometer in ten minutes.

Anyhow, it was a warm afternoon and I had my water bottle ready to take a sip out of every time I reached the point where Reg was waiting timing me.  Now Reg quite sensibly went and stood under a tree in the shade and let Indigo out on her very long lead, so she could play.  So as I am approaching Reg after the first 400 meters, feeling my lungs will burst I was pushing so hard, knowing I would have trouble bettering my previous best, I indicate to Reg that I need a drink,, so he holds out the bottle to me, but from four meters back behind the railing. 

I should quickly, explain here, that while my husband, is well most of the time, he has frontal lobe dementia. I am officially the carer and there in the middle of my time trial he was not able to work out that I needed the water at the oval barrier. I had to slip into carer mode, 2/5ths into my timed trial and yell instructions about how it was necessary to walk over to me so I could drink the water. 

Now Indigo takes all this, as in invitation to play with mum and as i drink the water, and am about to take off again, I fins Indigo’s long extension lead has now wound itself around my lags twice. Lol J, so I untangle myself and take off again. 

Coming into the 800 mark, now at a power walk pace, (I ran out of run puff, a long way back), I start giving lots of hand signals for the water a good 50 meters in advance of needing it.  Reg understood this time and I gratefully drank and Indigo kept clear. 

I power walked the final 200 meters at the hardest pace I could do and as soon as it was over, checked my heart beat...miles too fast. I am thinking that these fitness time trials are NOT a good idea for me. Here I am refusing to think invalid anymore but I am not a spring chicken and I do need to make some allowance. I need to check that these fitness trials are safe with me and complete them within a healthy heart rate range, for me, even if that gives me lower results. I do not want to be thinking about my life insurance quotes, before doing them. I will be sensible and one I get home next week I will get a check up which I am due for anyhow and one of my questions will be, what is the, maximum safe heart rate, in a fitness trials, that is OK for me. 

The age assessed maximum heart rate for a woman is, 225 - age and this would be 162 maximum heart rate for me and I must have been pumping away at over 240 beats per minute, which might be perfectly OK, I just want to ask an expert to be sure before I push that hard again.

Reg said I came in at one second under four minutes for my 1 kilometer run/walk and I’ve deducted the time it took to untangle the dog and yell at Reg to walk several meters towards me, and so I have come up with an estimated time trial of 4.8 minutes as my time.

Earlier I did my push up test and I managed 29 push-ups in one minute where as 4 weeks ago I only managed 15. I was pleased with that. 

I just did my stretch and reach test and I got a -4.5, hugely better than the previous -14 cm.  Next time I want my stretch to exceed my toes next time, as a positive, not a minus, measurement.

I have a couple of other tests to complete and I might try to repeat my time trial on Saturday morning before leaving Halls  Gap, try to do it earlier in the day when I will not need to call in for a water stop and the confusion and tangle that resulted. 
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