Simo - The Red Shoe Diaries (Part 2)

Training Logs
2027

Super excited to be picking up my oldest daughter from school on Saturday.
That 10 weeks has at times felt like an age but now seems like it has gone quick. Drove up on Friday afternoon and am staying the night off the mountain and will drive up in the morning. Not loving a 4 hour drive after going to the gym earlier. Body feels like it has been beaten.

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2028

Canā€™t even imagine 10 weeks apart form one of my little ones, hope you enjoy it when sheā€™s back.

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2029

Lots of work in here!! Looking strong!!

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2030

I Damn Well hope youre enjoying your time off, Simpson!

Haha! 8 Weeks to go for us!

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2031

I am having a great time mate. At Movie World today getting my adrenaline hit on the rides. Havenā€™t really given training a second thought, which is great but itā€™s going to hurt when I come back.
Got a good cheap compliment at Sea World yesterday. Was walking past one of those stalls where you throw a ball and knock down some cans to win a prize. Guy calls out ā€˜have a go mate, with Nukes like that you are certain to winā€™ I know he was trying hard to get me to play but my son thought it was great and kept talking about my nukes all day. Cheap compliment but Iā€™ll still take it.

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2032

Chalk it up!

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2033

Nice. What body part does a nuke refer to?

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2034

Wait, havenā€™t you seen @simo74ā€™s guns lately?

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2035

Oh Iā€™ve seen them. Never heard guns called nukes though. Sounds like a cool label though, I gotta start using it.

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2036

Iā€™m going to use it for sure. BIG guns.

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2037

OK so quick holiday update. Went with the family to the Gold Coast in Queensland. Popular holiday area in Australia with beautiful surf beaches, big hotels and a bunch of theme parks. I guess itā€™s kinda like our version of LA / VEGAS. We spent the week visiting some theme parks and relaxing on the beach, and of course eating lots of good food. Had a great break and honestly didnā€™t really think about training for the entire time I was there (which is a first for a long time for me).

It wasnā€™t all great for my Wife who ended up getting some sort of infection or cyst which swelled up really quickly on her chest and was painful. She went to see a doctor and he sent her to hospital. They immediately admitted her and gave her antibiotics intravenously. Doctor said they may have to operate but after some scans decided that the swelling from the infection was too bad for them to do anything. She stayed in hospital overnight and will have antibiotics for the next 2 weeks before another scan. They doctor will then decide if she still needs any surgery. It was pretty worrying having her go into hospital and the kids were very scarred and didnā€™t really understand what was going on. Was good to pick her up the next day and all breathe a sigh of relief.

Back at work now with lots of stuff to catch up on. I will get back into the gym later this week for a easy session and plan a primer week next week before starting a new block the week after. Plan is still to focus on overhead for the end of this year whilst keeping the squat and deadlift ticking over, also going to up the conditioning intensity and get some fitness back. Body feels well rested and looking forward to some hard sessions.

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2038

Glad to hear the holiday itself was decent, sorry to hear about your wife, wishing her a speedy recovery!

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2039

Thanks mate. She is bloody tough so no doubt she will be ok but it was a bit weird that is flared up so quickly. I think she was more worried about why than anything else, which of course the doctor couldnā€™t tell her.

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2040

Good to hear, makes the world of difference in this sort of situation - had my grans funeral last week, she was 95, and the list of stuff she survived is amazing, cancer multiple times, heart attack, stroke, amongst other things, she never batted an eye lid, tough old northern Irish woman, stoical. Canā€™t imagine what our kids generation will be like when they face real hardship!

Ah that sucks, hopefully itā€™s a one and done type of thing!

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2041

Hope everything turns out ok mate. Not a nice time for you or the family.

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2042

Hope Mrs. Simo feels better soon!

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2043

Give your wife a big hug from me and tell her Iā€™m sending her lots of prayers!

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2044

Hope the missus recovers quickly man

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2045

Hope everything goes well with the wife.

And for the record, pretty sure nukes is testicles. Dude was admiring your balls, mate.

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2046

I did have those 1980ā€™s football shorts on so you could be right.