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!!!
Hurrah! It's Friday, which means a break from running! Today was metafit at my friendly local fitness studio. We did the "chicken loop" workout, which was rock hard. It was also rather warm, so the sweat was dripping off the end of my nose while I was doing hot hands. I've not been for a month or so but although I was knackered by the end it was very satisfying.
I'm not quite done yet, as I'll be off to a ceilidh shortly...
Another late run this evening, about 3.2 miles home from the next village. Thursday night is choir practice; usually I run there and bus home, but I was too late eating dinner so my husband have me a lift out and I ran home instead. A lovely mild evening, running down into a lush green valley and then up the hairpin bends at the other side while the sun set!
And my legs still don't hurt in my old shoes!
Another evening, another run. 2 miles, pleasantly warm, no leg pain, felt great! Plus, my pace is starting to improve.
I'm doing a corporate fitness challenge in June and July - teams of eleven competing globally for the most minutes of exercise and the highest number of steps walked every day. So my colleagues and I are all walking around with pedometers on and we're getting very competitive! I'm team captain so I'm trying to think of some challenges to set the rest of the team - I'm toying with the idea of borrowing a set of hula hoops and challenging everyone to learn to hula hoop. Or to buy a skipping rope and leaving it on people's desks to challenge them to skip for 5 minutes. Any other ideas?
Well, what a difference a pair of shoes makes! Ran in my old ones and didn't have any problems with leg pain. Which is a shame, as the new ones cost a fair bit!
Went out for the first time in ages with my running group and had a lovely run in the sunshine along the great northern trail from Thornton to Queensbury and back. Just over 4 miles. Some surprisingly steep sections for a railway line!
I'm so pleased to have had an enjoyable run again.
A brief, late 2 miles tonight, after my husband got back from climbing. I think I have shoe issues; I got a new pair just before I had a running hiatus (snow plus illness) but now I'm putting the miles in again my left leg is really hurting. I may go back to my old comfortable shoes again tomorrow to see if there's any improvement...
