Work messed up my exercise again today! After last night's situation I had to give up my usual Friday off, including school run, grocery shopping and metafit, to go into work and scrape all the sh*t off the fan. So I resorted to hula-hooping as fast as I could in front of the TV this evening.
On the plus side, I arrived in the office to find that a kind member of my fitness challenge team had heard I was coming in and left a bowl of fresh fruit salad on my desk for me <3
Waah! Have been in work hell all evening, I didn't even make it out for my scheduled training run! Finally finished working at 11pm, so skipping it was again. Boo!
Gutted! My hula hoop teacher was back from her hols, so I was supposed to go to my class tonight. But due to a series of crises, I was 2 and a half hours late finishing work and didn't make it back in time. So I had to rely on my fallback, skipping... this time I skipped backwards, and I even managed to avoid treading on the vast number of snails which had appeared on the lawn!
Jay was out climbing until 10pm so once again, I only managed to complete the skipping challenge I'd set myself and my colleague.
I also customised my running vest with the details of my just giving page! An evening well spent.
It's Sunday, which means long run day. I did a nice 5.3 miles around country lanes and footpaths past Hewenden viaduct on a warm evening. It's a slightly hilly circuit in places so I did walk a couple of sections, but I was happy with my overall pace and feel like I'm getting back into it again.
Also of note - a record day on the pedometer! The run combined with a sunny afternoon walk with my kids notched up a whacking 21871 steps!
I'm afraid I've not had time to run today. What with kids' swimming lessons, chores, going in to the office for a few hours, and driving to Durham and back for a family bbq it's just not been possible. So I've done something I've not done for many many years... I got a rope and skipped in the garden!
Bloody hell, it's much harder than I remembered!!!
