peak flow victory!

so after all the knee shenanigans i had some annual leave and decided that was the week i'd carve all the inactivity weight off and make or break my knee joint. a couple of easy roll outs and all was fine - legs were good, lungs felt fine. then i had a day making some wooden stuff for a friend of mine. nothing i haven't done before, i was working outside but no, no mask. the following day i was feeling a bit off, went out on the bike anyway and felt reasonably unwell on my return. and that was the cue for two weeks of proper chest infection. after a week i couldn't breath, my peak flow had dropped by a third and i's voluntarily gone to the doctor where it was antibiotics and inhalers. obviously the weather is lovely!

another week passes and finally my lungs feel something like themselves. i'm still coughing but i decide to get the peak flow thing out. victory! back to normal! so the first thing we do is get the canoe out for an afternoon's paddling thru perthshire. naturally i don't look at the guide properly so we go about twice the distance we'd intended but it didn't put us off. the sun shone, the water was lovely, we saw all manner of wildlife including signs of beaver! we were proper done when we got back tho and managed little more than tea then bed. a grand way to spend a day and what better to get back to a bit of recovery.