Saturday 6 August 2011 10 days into Maintenance phase.
Weight: 58.4kg
7am: coffee w 1/2 cup milk
8am breakfast
2 weetbix
1/2 cup milk
1 apple i think
12.00 lunch before i went to town but it wasn’t enough to get me home again
1 cup duck and split green pea soup
1 wrap with duck, mango chutney, 1 tbsp ricotta cheese, 1/2 cup french vegie salad, some rocket and parsely
3pm Apple
6pm coffee w 1/2 cup milk - i’ve got a coffee thirst these days. I am not sure if its just that i am thirsty.
6.45pm: drink
Strawberry cocktail
whole punnet frozen strawberries
3 lids of malibu
2 lid of vodka
I was trying to test my blender to see if it can take ice cubes. It can’t. I found one in town today that says it can do icecubes as well as some other stuff i need it to do.
7.00pm: dinner -
1/2 glass of red wine
cheddar on 1 ryvita
2 cups white bean soup w 1 tbsp yoghurt and a fistful of coriander
Now i have to try to remember how i made this recipe
1 cup white beans soaked overnight
1 large potato diced
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
2 tsp beef stock - meat stock bones would be better
1 can diced tomato
tomato paste - quite a bit but i am not sure how much i used.
water
1 bay leaf
thyme
2tsp sugar
In a large saucepan add beans, onion, garlic, herbs and cook for some time, maybe even until the beans are soft. Then add all the tomato and beef stock and sugar. *The sugar takes the edge of the acid in the tomatos and is necessary. - The soup is nicer if its a tiny bit sweet and not nice at all if its not got sugar added). Make sure it cooks until the beans are very soft. If the beans seem to stop cooking and you’ve added the tomato, add more water.
Exercise & activity:
No exercise and not much activity today. I went shopping and spent too much money on clothes.
Sleep:
Bed last night: 9.30pm
Get up:6.30am
My routine is breaking up isn’t it. Before i went away, i was trying to stick to 3 meals a day and i think i could do it because i was sitting on my bum most of the time. Now i am busier and i think i may need to try scheduling morning and afternoon tea breaks because i am feeling hungry between meals. But on the other hand, my lunch wasn’t huge and my breakfast was deliberately smaller than usual.
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Date 28 May 2011 Saturday
Destination: Edith River to Katherine, Cocos Hostel and camping
Distance: 50km
8am Breakfast at Edith River campsite
Porridge made with 1 cup oats
1 cup milk
coffee
I got up at 7am again but it was raining in my tent from the condensation. I think I will keep my tent fly afterall. Meanwhile the fly did a good job of keeping my breakfast wood dry and I was able to make porridge but it was a lot - too much.
I found my glasses along the road but the case was completely crushed and the glasses broken. I didn’t find my knife.
Out on the highway, I met two Argentinian cyclists. They were loaded up with gear. One guy carried a guitar - estabahn and Frank/francisco carried a drum and a didgeridoo. They were uncommon sort of cyclists. Frank had dreadlocks. Estabahn cycled barefoot. His bike was second hand too. I liked how they had common stuff and not the latest and greatest but being guys its easier for them to carry so much gear. They were headed to darwin from Alice Springs. Then they will continue on to asia and split up there. Frank is going to japan and then alaska to cycle down the americas, while est, wants to go to india and europe. Sweet guys.
11am: Lunch by the side of the road
Spaghetti
Cheese
1 spoon Olive oil
The road in the afternoon was quite uninteresting but the cycling was a little easier. I don’t know if it was because there was less wind or fewer hills or my bags were lighter.
5pm: snack while shopping
Some cashews I pinched from the cashew box and
Some fried snack thing from the nut shelf
[i'm sure i weighed myself here but i seem not to have written it down. I vaguly think i was about 62]
8pm: Dinner at Katherine, Cocos kitchen hostel
A Feast
Rocket salad -half a packet - no dressing
Half a baguette
1 medium potato fried in 1 spoon olive oil
Prawns, carrot and mushrooms fried in garlic and oil -recipe below
Fruit salad and 1 cup yoghurt
1 large apple
1 orange
Some grapes
6 cherries
Prawn recipe
6 green banana prawns, peeled
2 cloves garlic
1 small carrot, sliced
3 good sized button mushrooms, halved and sliced
2 spoons olive oil
In a pan on low eat cook garlic, oil, carrot and mushrooms. When the vegies are about half done, add the whole prawns. Continue sauteeing. Add a lid if the mix is starting to burn and to make the carrots cook faster.
In town I found Cocos easy enough. I was tempted to keep going because it wasn’t so attractive but there were other cyclists here so I thought I might as well. Also I hoped that coco would be agreeable about leaving stuff here and I didint’ think the other place would be so good about it. However, when I asked he had a bit of a reaction. Its seems to have been a problem before because later he was telling me stories about women leaving diamonds, someone left a car and so on. At first he wanted to charge me $10 but I said ok no I won’t do it. But then he gave in. So I can leave my stuff here.
I got changed and went shopping at the supermarket where it was hard to resist all the yummy sweet and creamy things in the shop. I just wanted to eat everything in sight. But thinking about the yummy healthy dinner I would cook later enabled me to resist indulging.
My skins getting dry so I bought some expensive stuff to help with that.
Back at Cocos hostel, I had a lovely hot shower, did my washing, put up my tent and got on with cooking my feast.
There’s a young dutch cycilst here who is friendly and was going to help me fix my bike stand. There’s a taiwanese guy who’s only got a foldable bike and he’s come all the way from Melbourne. But he’s not particularly talkative. Seems not to want to talk or maybe he doesn’t understsand too well. The other guests are quite friendly too.
At the supermarket, the aborigines outside begged me, literally, to take my trolley back for me so they could get the dollar coin. I let one of them do it. Even though they will probably spend the money on grog.
I am not having a particularly exciting evening. And I forgot to buy socks in the supermarket. I couldn’t buy a fork and I decided that electrolytes were too expensive. I forgot to bring a fork from home and forgot to buy one in Darwin. Here in the supermarket I could only buy a packet of four.
Pictures later
uck soup with toast
