juneathon - the end

Evening, just looking at yesterdays post and I  see that my ipad made it's own mind up about how to spell things!!!

I sort of ran out of time today, so the runwalk was shorter than I intended, but certainly faster than at the beginning of the month! 25 minutes for 1.8 miles. never going to break any records, but proof that intelligent training may well bring positive results. Then body pump to follow, I enjoyed it so much, and looking at my heart rate, I think next week I'm going to have to up the anti and put more weight on the bars.

Part of the reason for my forced retirment a year or so ago was due to continual injury as well as chronic tiredness. I seems, I may have cracked it. I'm getting niggles, but dealing with them.

I'm really sorry to see the back of Juneathon - I want to carry this on through July, I hope I can, but the thought of having to log and blog my activities every day through June has kept me going out there. I'm not going to blog every day now, but will pop in with a weekly summary.

Before I go, I want to share another project that I've been playing with. I've not shown off a creation of mine for a while, and I'm quite pleased with this one.

Juneau on day 29

An early spin class for me today. The instructor is a hard taqsk master trying to get the best of everyone. I kept up with most of it, just needing to ease back on the resistance toward the end of a very hot and humid class. Then a short 22 length swim before work.

I've not got anything more interesting than that to say really. Tomorrow is the finishe of Juneathon and I must say I've enjoyed the challenge aqnd will likely extend it to 2 months, possibly 3. Watch this space as they say.

Juneathon day 28

Two days to go and only one day missed, not bad. Looking at my stats, I seem to have improved fitness wise a huge amount over the past month. I actually felt like I was cruising at times tonight. There is no feeling like it, fit enough to just let the body do the running. For me it reaches something deep inside, like it's something that we are meant to be doing. I suppose it's the primal thing, we were never meant to be sitting in cars, on buses and even on escalators being carried along. At least we've not evolved into that kind of being as yet.

Anyway, enough philosophy.

I've played truant today (worked hard yesterday so I could take some time out today) and had a girly day with my daughter and her daughter. It started of not quite as we meant to as Mia (3yo) needed a trip to the hairdresser to try and remidy her DIY haircut!!!! Lots of kiddies do  that - her mother did, so now she has a fetching short style and the bald bits get covered with a headband! Then some clothes and shoes. I spent loads of money, but came home empty handed - now how did that happen?

No matter, I had a nice parcel from those nice people at Wiggle when I came home. Tired as I was, I had to try the running kit out now didn't I? Just a 2 mile walk run, but faster and feeling better than the last time I did it. It's also very hot and sticky out there and there is a lot of smoke hanging about from a rubber tyre fire that's been burning in the area for a couple of weeks.

Off to babysit now. RPM and  a swim in the morning ☺

Juneathon Day 27

I feel so much better at this stage than I did in January, then I was tired and looking forward to the last day. Now I'm not so tired and actually looking forward to my daily jaunt. I can't run every day, it would be silly to try, but I can do SOMETHING every day. I'm now in  a routine of 2 RPMs, 2 Body Pumps, 2 swims and 3 runs in a week.

With that routine and the help of Weight Watchers, today I moved categories from obese to merely overweight ☺, I was trying to work out just how much weight I've lost in my lifetime, the thought of it makes me shudder with something akin to embarrassment! I must have gained and shed weight at least 4 or 5 times in the last 30 years or so. I usually do it myself, not wanting to get involved with big corporate organisations whose main objective is to make a profit. (and weightwatchers ready meals are foul!). But this time, I've had some trouble losing the weight. I started off ok, then got stuck. I gave in and investigated several online weight loss/management sites. I must say, that weightwatchers seem to have got the balance right. No food group is eliminated (not even alcohol which is nice ☺), but it does encourage the person to aim for a health balance with the diet. I'm hoping that it'll be easier to maintain once I've lost what I need to!. Just about a stone and a half to go, which, looking around the site is hardly anything compared to some poor souls.

I think that my running will improve as I get stronger. I'll never be a racing type, I plod along and enjoy the view, but to get back to a 5(ish) hour marathon would be my dream. Maybe then I could complete the 6 nations challenge I set myself quite some time ago - only 2 left Edinburgh and a Welsh one (save the best till last ☺

juneathon day 26

It's hard to believe that we are in sight of the finish line!

Sunday, always a busy day for me. Lovely because I get to see family and eat lunch with them. There is something comforting about the fanuily sitting at table and eating together, a bit Waltonesque maybe, but nice.

It's been hothothot today, in fact, we ate outside and I now have comedy tan lines on my arms. It was too hot to stay out there for long though, and we spent a pleasant afternoon indoors watching a film and me making some jewellery.

Then off to spin class I went. Not many people were mad/brave enough to turn up. I think there were about 5 of us in the class, a struggle for the instructor, but she managed.

All in all 22 km in 55 minutes, I thought it would be slower, because this instructor goes for heavy resistance, the Wed guy does speed. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was marginally faster than last Wed. My legs did feel it though!

juneathon day 25

I have the whole day to myself, just me and the two muppets. HWMBT has gone to Cardiff to play old soldiers, he won't be home until late this evenng.

After I dropped him off to meet the other old cronies I toddled off to the Gym. I have something of a sore leg. I've always had problems with my ITB, the right one in particular. It is such that I'm almost limping, so I decided to reduce the impact on it and work on the cross trainer first. Half an hour on that, then half an hour runwalk on the dreadmill. My electronic coach is still wanting me to keep my heart rate low, so I kept it in zone 2 for most of the time.

After a good hours work, the leg felt looser, I did do lots of stretching and rolled around on the foam roller (OUCHOUCHOUCH!)

Now what to do with the rest of the day? I have to get the muppets out for their walk, then shower and maybe a trip into town, I really need some running kit.........

juneathon Day 24

Blimey this month is just zipping by! Janathon was much slower than this, but maybe I'm just a little fitter than I was back then. I'm beginning to see/feel as I was about 3 years ago. Fitter AND slimmer it must be said.

Not a bad day all told. A colleague needed some emotional support this morning, a nice chat over a coffee sorts most things out I feel. I had to do some timetabling - tricky but boring as well! and I managed to do some more work on my paper wot I'm riting.
My internet was intermittently going off again as was the interactive telly that HWMBT likes. A bit of shouting at the virgin peeps and they offered to come today between 4 and 7 to fix it. I was praying they would be here by 4 so I could get on with things and planned my day accordingly. I was going to find a problem crowbarring some exercise in, especially if they were late, so fingers crossed. Then I had a txt from HWMBT saying the man was coming early! So I hotfooted (drove) home and got here just before he did. To be fair, he seemed to know what he was doing and had us up and running pretty quickly, which gave me time to get to my scheduled exercise. Friday is swim day. Now slow is not the word for my swimming and I'd let it go for sometime and was building up again. I decided to go for the 1K all in one go, something I've not done for quite sometime. The most challenging thing about this is counting! I usually divide the swim into 100m, this meant 10 x 100m, so I doggedly swam and counted - 1of 1 2 of 1 .........all the way up to 10 of 10. I may have lost concentration at one point because suddenly  I couldn't remember if it was 2 of 8 or 4 of 8, to be sure, I made it 2 of 8. All in all 1K in 33.33 (satisfying in one way cos the numbers are so neat).

Now I'm sneezing and sniffling away, but feeling ok with myself.

I called into M+S and had a cheating tea of chicken curry, I cooked the chicken, Messrs M+S supplied the curry and the rice ☺

Juneathon Day 23

Today is my wedding anniversaries. Plural because we got married twice on the same date. We remarried on our 30th wedding anniversary, saves complications of trying to remember dates!

We don't make a huge fuss of it, in fact HWMBT has not even remembered for years. However, the universe shifted on it's axis this week - not only did he remember, he bought flowers!!!

Wedding anniversaries or not, Juneathon has to be got on with, 20 minutes run walk on the dreadmill followed by body pump for me. I'm still meant to be keeping my heart rate in a certain zone and that is not easy at all.

No matter, job done and I feel good. Not only that, the sun is shining - now the universe is really shifting ☺

Juneathon Day 22

My internet connection keeps dropping! This is so frustrating, especially as I had the man around yesterday having been without it for 3 days! It's going to take them another two days to get here and sort it! Grrrr!!!

Apart from that, not a bad day all round.

Spin class this morning - I was there early so did an extra 10 minutes. I'm still supposed to be keeping my heart rate low (I'm bored with that now), this is so hard in a spin class that is in a small room with a carpet! I did more or less manage it though and did 23k in 55 minutes followed by a nice slow swim to stretch out the muscles - 500 m in around 15 minutes.

I had a bit of a shock when I got home HWMBT (He Who Must Be Tolerated) has actually remembered that it's our wedding anniversary tomorrow and even more, has bought flowers! The Universe has shifted on it's axis ☺

Juneathon 21 the longest day

Funny thing is, it's the longest day, but I just didn't have the time for much at all. I did spend most of the morning waiting for the virgin man to come and fix my Internet which has been down since Sunday. Most frustrating - the lack of Internet rather than the wait, although I had plenty I could have got on with. However, he fixed it and it's now speedy and working well.
I had to get on with some paid work then, I'm meant to be writing a paper for publication, it's nearly ready, but I can't say I have lots of energy for it. I did get tired very easily and gave up and toddled off to the gym for a poodle on the treadmill. I have been trying to run outside on a Tuesday, but the time was getting on and I pictured all the school kids pouring out of the school gates as I would be puffing along red of face. So I took the Gorky option and went to the gym. This gave me less tome than I would have had if I'd gone out from home. The journey to and from the gym takes around 40 minutes. So just 33 minutes (thought I would do a 10% increase this week). The good news is that there is definite improvement. I ran walked, keeping my heart rate in zone 2 as per electronic coach instruction. He\she\it is demanding ANOTHER recovery week cos I cheated a bit last week! Anyway, 2.3 ish miles with heart rate low may not light up any lights, but it's an improvement for me.
It wasn't so long ago thar I would be running at 9.5 minute miling, someway to go, but I can see a return to somewhere in that sprtof region yet.

Juneathon day 20

I had intended escaping from work early and getting in a short run on the treadmill before body pump, but it was not to be. I left work later than I had intended and got caught up in a tailback caused by an accident on the Mway. On the way in to work in the morning the same thing had happened going the other way! There is something about that stretch of Mway that is a bit of a black spot.

In any event, I just did the body pump, slightly increased weights. I found some of the tracks hard, don't know whether it was because they were new tracks or whether I was just a bit tired.

Not a great deal of interest to write about really, a quiet day in work - I was on the urgent referral duty and there were no urgencies, odd for a Monday but I'm not complaining. It was also one of those sneaky days thawt started off pretending it was summer and ended wetter than November!

Run day today - I don't want to risk going out first thing in case I miss the man who is going to mend my modem, but do I go outside or in is the burning question. I'm not usually a fair weather runner, but this rain is just too much!

Juneathon 19

My world has beEn shaken to the core! My modem has broken! The nice man who can mend it can't get here until Tuesday, so here I am on my ipad which is better than nothing but not quite the same. Also I don't know how much I'll clock up on the 3G over the next few days. If I use the Internet on this, it's usually over a wifi somewhere!

So, to the business ofnthe day.

Sundays tend to be awkward to jimmy some exersize in what with family stuff and lunch to cook. But I have managed to eject the family in time for me to get to the gym for q bimble on the treadmill and a spin class.

Bimble indeed it was, remember I'm supposed to be still on ae recovery week. So half hour on the dread mill, run walking just over 2 miles. Then into the spin studio, I was early so got on with it. I tried hard to keep the heart rate down into zone and mostly succeeded only having 5 minutes or so in zone 3. I completed 30 k in just over an hour.

I can feel my fitness levels rising and it's showing when I'm on the dread mill, I can go longer with mud heart rate not climbing so high so quickly as it was. Who knows, perhaps I have another marathon in me yet.

Juneathon Day 17 and 18

Yesterday was a rest day, a real rest day not a 'do something else' day. The reasons were many, but mostly because I was very tired. I worked my work and sorted the family, cooked and flopped. I was in bed and asleep before 9:30. However, it was probably the best thing I could have done for myself if I'm honest. Juneathon notwithstanding, I felt so much better for it today that I was able to go out and enjoy my run.

Today the weather forecast was grim so I thought I would go to the gym and meander along the dreadmill. The downside of that is that the place is teaming with 'little dahlings' on a Saturday. Now, I don't mind children, after all I had three of them and I used to be one myself. But lotsandlots of them in a place that is designed to stimulate people into activity is not my idea of fun. But the fates were kind and the weather was better than forecast, so while on my way to the gym, I changed my mind and went to a local beauty spot. A lake in the middle of a huge retail park that is just over a mile around.

with lots of company

I walked ran it twice, keeping my heart rate low as per instruction. Just about half hour and something of an improvement. Having said that, I am rather slower on the dreadmill and the local run I do is much hillier! I must do that again in a few weeks just to see what (if any improvement there is).

Juneathon Day 16

The weather is blinking awful! We get better weather in the winter. I'm not usually one to complain about the weather, there is nothing can be done about it, so we just have to adapt our lives around it. But this is really stormy and very very wet at the moment It's 8:15 pm and dark! We've not had the longest day yet.

Anyway rant over, 30 minutes run walk on the dreadmill followed by body pump. I can feel I'm getting stronger which will have an impact on my overall fitness, weightloss and (hopefully) running.

Swim day tomorrow, think I'll just step outside with my waterwings ☺

Halfway day - Juneathon

I have a sore throat (mild) and felt tired and unmotivated this morning, but I thought I would go to RPM anyway as a) I'd  booked it and b) it's Juneathon and I didn't want to report "nothing doing today". I thought I would take it easy as my electronic coach is insisting and keep my heart rate low.
I got part way to the club and realised I'd left my heart rate strap behind. Well, I would go with how I feel I thought, I'm not 100% anyway so will likely take it easy.
I'd forgotten about the freedom of working to the tune of the body! I settled into the class, and found myself giving 100% on the hill tracks and going like the "pocket rocket" the instructor always called me on the speed tracks☺.  I came away feeling so much better, not tired (still have a bit of a sore throat, but some paracetamol after brekkie will settle that down I'm sure). I have no temp or cough so I shall carry on as normal.

Juneathon day 14

I can't believe how fast this is all going. It seemed much more of a slog in January. I remember the feeling of 'getting somewhere' when at the halfway point back then. Maybe it's that I have actually regained some modicum of fitness since then, or maybe it's because the warmer days and lighter evenings are more conducive to motivation for activity. Probably a combination of both.

As I said I'm supposed to be on a recovery week, so a 20 minute warm up on treadmill and bike and some challenging weights and abdominal work today. I think the weight training is important especially as one gets older. Strong muscles, especially in the legs and the core, I'm sure will help prevent injury and even help with some weight loss.

So tomorrow we hit the halfway mark!

Juneathon Day 13

My electronic coach has told me I worked too hard last week and still need a recovery week. So a slow run walk of just over 3 miles for me today.
Monday is scheduled for body pump, but I got held up with work and faffing, so didn't get to take my kit with me. As it happens it was for the best, I got home popped a chicken casserole in the oven and trotted out. It's a lovely evening, after the deluge of rain over the weekend, it was nice to have sunshine. I'm glad I was able to take advantage of it now rather than be in a stuffy studio (the aircon is not that efficient).

And I have over 3 miles under my belt in 45 minutes, I know lots of people could walk it in that time (there are some challenging hills in that route to be fair), but I don't care. I've not been right for quite sometime, and it's lovely to get out there and enjoy my training no matter what pace it is.

Tomorrow, I'll do some weights in the gym.

Juneathon Day 11 and 12

I'm combining Saturday and Sundays doings as it was the weekend and had little time to be blogging.

I should have been very tired yesterday, I got home at midnight - that's a good 2 hours past the time I'm usually asleep - and of course, it took a little while to settle. I must say I enjoyed the evening, good wine, good company (girlie friends) and good food, can't fault it. Then I was awake at just after 4. I got loads done around the house though, I kept going all day washing cleaning, cooking running the family around in the car to various places. Just a small toddle after all that.

Today it did catch up with me a bit, nevertheless, family have to be transported and fed as usual. I felt sooo tired this morning. I managed to do a little sewing - what else can you do this awful weather! And the casserole I made for lunch was flavoured with sage and thyme from my little garden. The potatoes are almost ready and the tomatoes won't be long behind them. There is something very satisfying in eating food you've grown yourself.

Up to the gym this evening and 25 minute walk run on the dreadmill followed by an hours spin.  I feel more wide awake now, funny that exersize does that and it may be the last thing you want to do.

Thankyou Juneathon, if it weren't for you I may well have been tempted to forgo it this evening.

Juneathon Day 10

Friday is a swim day. I've factored it as a rest day, so just a swim to stretch out the muscles is enough.

I was in my lecturing job today so I decided to swim in the Wales National Pool. I don't have the confidence to swim in the 50 metre pool so chose to go in the 25 metre pool. Golly, it was incredibly busy!

Now I'm a slow swimmer - and I mean slow, it takes me 15 minutes to do 20 lengths. I just can't get any faster no matter how I try. I looked at the swimmers in the various lanes and though I may be better off going in the medium swimmers lane. I tell you, I thought I was slow, some of these people were slower than slow. I ended up just doing one length at a time (I had intended doing 40 lengths 1K maybe splitting it into 2 lots of 20). I had to queue to swim for goodness sake!

I slipped into the fast lane and even then I found myself over taking people.

What was most irritating though were the people just standing at the ends and gossiping - they were there for ages. One guy didn't even move out of my way - instead he pushed me away! If you are going to stand and chat - get out of the frigging pool and let the swimmers get on with it!!

I did just 30 lengths - one at a time and focussed on technique. I actually don't do that very often and it's probably a good thing. I know that my slowness is purely down to technique and if I want to do another Tri, I really should do more of it.

Another thing, my nose is running like a tap and I've sneezed all afternoon - I know it's the chlorine and the choppiness of the water (and the fact that kiddies may well be piddling in the water). It is so irritating though.

I'm off out tonight with some lovely girlie friends so I hope this runny nose settles soon. Although the curry should see off the sniffles ☺
Run day tomorrow, so I'd better go a bit easy on the vino - or maybe not!

Day 9 done and dusted

Thursday is treadmill day followed by body pump. As I'm in a recovery week and supposed to keep my heart rate low I did just a token warm up on the dreadmill - 11 minutes of run walk covering around 3/4 of a mile. I felt good doing it and my heart rate behaved itself nicely. Then body pump, I increased the weights by 1kg on each track. It was harder work but my heart rate didn't even climb into a working zone for lots of it. I must be actually regaining some fitness. When I started back at body pump around 6 weeks ago, my heart rate would be recordable for most of the session and would climb into zone 3 on the squat track!

Juneathon Day 8

This is a recovery week according to my electronic coach, but I didn't want to miss the spin class. I've recently started back and am enjoying the buzz.
So, I went, but kept the heart rate more or less under control - ie below Zone 3!

21K in 50 minutes and only 2 minutes in Zone 3 is respectable enough. Followed by a slow 20 length swim which gave me a good stretch out.

This was all followed by a tough day in work - it's been a bit quiet for me lately so I was due a tough one.
I'm past official retirement age, but because of life circumstances I can't really afford to retire as yet - besides most of the time I still have energy and enthusiasm for the job. On days like this though I do think longingly of the reduced stress that retirement could bring.

Tomorrow may well be a good day with positive feedback and I'll be back on the 'wait a few more years' trail.

Juneathon Day 7

Whew! Caught up ☺

True to my word, out I went, it's a bit wet out there, but once into it the rain becomes quite  a pleasant coolant.

Just 2 miles today, keeping the heart rate low, so lots more walking than running, but I must say I felt strong and able today.

I've now showered and breakfasted and feel ready for the day. I love this early morning running, but it's actually getting out the door is the challenge.

I have to keep it short - work beckons.

Jueathon - Day 6

Well, I'm getting closer to blogging on the right day at least!

Sometime ago I bought a new gadget (those who know me will now be raising their eyes in a knowing way - new gadgets are a feature of my life). This was a watch, no - a heart rate monitor, no - a distance calculator, no - a calorie counter etc etc. Lots of runners have similar gadgetry we kid ourselves into thinking they will make better runners/cyclists/swimmers whatever. Deep down we know that it is regular, mind focussed training that is the only gadget we really need. It is fun though analysing the training, looking at pretty charts and trying to beat the time on the route we did before. The down side (maybe) of this particular piece of kit is that it uploads the data to a log, then feeds back on how I'm doing. Now, if I've not been well/demotivated/busy/ash cloud, or any other excuse, it cuts no dice with this coach. A lazy week is a lazy week and you can't argue/reason/make excuses to a machine! The same goes the other way if you decide to have a blast on the spin bike - "Train Less in Zone 3" is the response. This week, the "coach" has demanded a recovery week!
I'm actually going to do as I'm told just to see how well it works. I've been in the doldrums training wise for some time now - I've gone from running 2 marathons in a month, to barely being able to run for 3 miles. The reasons for this are complex, but I've been trying to get back to the level I was - or at least somewhere near it for some time. It may well be that I've tried too hard at times  and I do know that there have been times I've not tried hard enough. So a structured "do as I'm told" training is now my goal.
This rather protracted preamble brings me to the "recovery" training that started yesterday. A slow half hour on the gym bike keeping my heart rate in zone 1 followed by an hours body pump, again, keeping the heart rate low.
Today should be a running day, but I'm off out for a very slow trot/walk before work.

Juneathon Day 5

I'm almost a day late again blogging - must try harder!

Yesterday was a spin day. I was doing the spin (or RPM) on a regular basis until health and other life issues got in the way. I've recently started back to it. It is a hard session and can be endless. Yesterday the usual Sunday instructor wasn't there, the guy who took it is a hard taskmaster indeed. The room that the bikes are in are not ideal - it is small with inadequate aircon and no windows that can be opened!
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the session and came away feeling most self satisfied.

When I got back to the car I found a flat tyre!!! I managed to get it to the garage and fill it up with air though, but this morning it's gone down again. I'd better get out and get it sorted!!

I'm off to run and pump today - see you later.

I WILL try to "jogandblog" on the same day - promise ☺

Day 4

Not a great deal of success exersize wise, partly due to a long day and partly due to me getting the times wrong (again).

I went to a bead embroidery workshop in Cardiff (with a little bit of guilt as my daughter was doing a bbq for her birthday). This workshop was going to be so informative and exciting and I rarely take a day to myself. So off I went to be well in time for the 10 am start. I got to the venue at 9:45 only to discover that it was not due to start until 10:30. This meant I had lost the opportunity for a morning run.

A 2 mile walk would have to do.

I did make it back to the bbq in time to eat (after most of the clearing up had been done ☺).

And I brought with me a new creation

The colours are lovely, but it's not perfect by any means. However, I did enjoy the workshop, made new friends and learnt some new skills to practice.

Day 3

Friday is a rest day for me, so I generally just swim. I've not done a lot of swimming for a while, I started back about 3 weeks ago.

Today, I did 1 km split into two halves, the five minute interval was spent in the steam room. For some reason the second half felt easier and was very slightly faster. Overall I did the 40 lengths in 30 min and 37 seconds. Slow, but not too bad I suppose.

I though I would treat myself to lunch in the club bar afterward, Cajun chicken with fresh vegetables - hmmm delicious I thought. It took an age to serve, when it eventually came it was the most unappetising looking meal I've seen in a long time, just peas (undercooked), potatoes (over cooked) and very anaemic looking chicken with a sprinkle of red pepper. A huge disappointment. I was too hungry to leave it - besides, they charged me £7 for it! I didn't complain but will not be eating there again.

Day 2

This is going to be a short blog, just like the run! I had travelled back from Liverpool. It was a lovely day, but the train from Crewe was hot and very crowded. We were both tired not having slept well the night before.
I had gone there with a friend who had developed a cancer in her her eye last year. She had undergone treatment and this was a follow up appointment with the consultant. The very good news was that she has been discharged with a clean bill of health.
I got home at 7:30 and if it weren't for Juneathon, I would have just slumped and done little (or nothing), but off I went on a very short trot, run walk on a 2 mile loop. It actually did me good, all my aches and my niggly hip settled and I got home hot, sweaty, but very self satisfied.

I like travelling though, I love people watching and building up a story about them and where they are coming from/going to. Sitting on the station at Liverpool watching people hurry by intent on their destination, or wandering looking a little lost checking on train times. All sorts of people cross paths at railway stations or airports. Maybe I should take notes at such times because the passage of time and distance blurs everything together and the memory is fuzzy.

And now I've bumped into Day 3, today I shall swim and maybe a short session in the gym.

Juneathon has begun! I did a 3.2 walk/run this morning. I say walk/run because there is far more walking than running these days. I am trying to keep my heart rate within reasonable limits according to the polar training advice. The route I use is rather more up than down, so lots of walking. I am hoping that in 30 days time, I'll be reporting Some improvement at least. Today I took 44 min 09 sec with an average heart rate of 125.
I'm going to try to report something of interest on my daily postings, rather than a simple report of activity. It will also, I think, help to focus my mind on what is around me rather than just doing the activity because it has to be done.
I am not likely to be doing photographs though, unless it is something particularly riveting.
Today in my part of the world is refuse collection day. The local council have issued plastic bags rather than bins. They also have in the cutbacks, designated different weeks for different kinds of rubbish. Today was the "green week". The bags are a see-through green and are meant for only recyclable items like paper and cans etc. Some households had little or nothing outside and others had several bags. Some households obviously have lots of ready meals and others lots of wine bottles pr beer cans. It struck me that although this recycling has become, or has appeared to become the " done thing", we are remain a "throw away" society. When I was a child, bottles, paper, and so many other items would never find their way into the refuse. I think we have a looong way to go before we can claim to be " green"/environmentally aware.