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.