Grumpy Cow

I was seriously grumpy yesterday and spent all afternoon in bed sulking because I was grumpy. No reason for it, no-one had pissed me off, I had enjoyed my gym session and both my teens were out!! Anyhow I cracked a smile some time in the late afternoon whilst reading Jogblogs blog (thanks Cathy) and another one later whilst chatting with mydodgyfeet on twitter who suggested I opened wine and then write a blog post. Now I am a viper when I drink and try to avoid talking to anybody because all the nasty snide comments most people think, I say. So whilst imagining writing a blog under the influence, I really cheered up. I went to sleep in a good mood, looking forward to todays spin and aquajog.

Bleurgh, first off I woke up aching all over with a banging head and my foot throbbing, not a good start to the day.  Dropped my coffee pot on the nice tiled kitchen floor, where it shattered into a zillion pieces, then spent ages trying to clear it up. Realised that broken coffee pot, meant I had to resort to instant coffee only to find my ruddy mother had supped all that over christmas.

I stomped to my car to find the side window open and a pool of water in the back, my gym bag soaked and my I-pod frosted over full of condensation.

By the time I had calmed down, routed round for fresh kit for the gym and screamed at my I-pod to work I had missed my spin class. Arrived at the gym to find at least fifteen kids in the changing room, now I chose this gym because kids are not allowed. Dont get me wrong I have kids of my own, but I have never inflicted them on anyone else in areas that I consider to be  for adults; pubs,restaraunts and GYMS. Apparantley on a Saturday members are allowed to bring their offspring in to use the pool FFS, that screwed my plans, there was no way I was getting in a pool full of kids.

So lets sum this up, I ache all over so have no intention of using weights, my foot is sore so cant use the treadmill, the spin class is already in full swing and someone off the reserve list is in my seat and now the pool is full of screaming rugrats!!!!!

Time to go home and get back into bed and sulk all day, only today I think I have bloody good reason to be a GRUMPY COW.  As for Janathon today that consists of a dog drag walk of about a mile because by now I really feel ill and pissed off.

quick blog

I forget how much Janothon takes over your life, so this is a quick blog so I can claw back some relaxation time.

Dogs were walked 2 miles
spin class 45 minutes
I-train treadmill endurance session 40 minutes 2.79 miles

Back to bed with a book :)

Its a dogs life

I have been up since 3am listening to the wind screeching and shaking my house, seriously wind piss off I need sleep. Anyhow at 5am I could lie in bed no longer so I got up with the intention of taking the pooches on another early morning speed walk, fat chance. They both opened their eyes looked at me in disgust and refused to get off their beds,



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so I found myself outside the gym at 5.45 waiting for it to open.

I comleted a run walk with 5 minute warm up, 7 intervals of run 60 second, walk 2 minutes and a five minute cool down and covered 2.09 miles and I felt bloody good.  I had a quick swim/ jog and was out of there by 7.30.

Got home and the dogs looked at me again grumbled turned over and went back to sleep again, problem now is, I want to go back to bed and I have a full day of placement/uni work to do. It really is a dogs life!!!

headtorch required

Had a busy day planned so got my janothing in at 6am this morning, armed with my headtorch two greyhounds and my rape alarm(you can never be too careful). The poor dogs were not impressed with being dragged off their beds in the dark and speed walked for half hour in the pouring rain and gales. Quick visit to the gym for a spin/sprint and lovely aquajog and day four is completed, foot is feeling ok today so maybe I havent done to much damage over the last couple of days. Thats it for today's blog, I forgot how hard it is to fit in exercise, logging, blogging, washing and drying kit, plus working and family.

Byee see you tomorrow

1st day back at placement

As I had to be at placement this morning, I went to the gym at 6.30 am. Although I said yesterday that I was going to give my foot a rest and aquajog instead of the run/walk programme that I am following; I ran. I also span and aquajogged and now I am feeling pretty damn stupid because my foot hurts. So tomorrow will just be swimming and spinning, I am not even going to put my running shoes in the bag.

Other than that today has been a really good day, I presented the piece of work I have been doing to my supervisor and mentor and got excellent feedback for it. My supervisor also told me that I am doing excellent with my Individual led practice ( I thought I was making a complete hash of it) so that really made my day. Plus a client I am working with really let me in today, which is the start of building real trust between myself and him which will increase our empathic relationship.

So I reckon I get a gold star for my nursing skills and a big fat booby prize for my  11/2 hr janathoning


Today in numbers:

30 mins, spin
30 mins, run/walk
30 min, aqua jog
24 hours, pain
1 week, big fat grin because maybe I am cut out for this nursing lark

dinner was a disaster

Well I finally got the ruddy pork defrosted, rushed round the shops like a loony because I had no veg cooked it all and then promptly dropped the pork on the kitchen floor. Hubby was well impressed, NOT!!

I have decided to leave the cooking to him as I have better talents, like drinking alcohol and swearing like a trooper.

Today the gym was practically heaving with sweaty people who must have decided exercise was their new years resolution, (I had forgottoen that this happens every bloody year). Hurry up and realise that you do not belong in the gym, you are better suited to exerting yourselves pushing trollies round aldi stuffed with biscuits and chocolate!!

I had to wait fifteen minutes to get on a treadmill FFS, so I attempted to use that stair climbey thing thats a bit like an escalator. Wont make that mistake again, my knees are killing me now.

Finally managed to do a walk/run session where I did 5 sets of walk 2 min run 90seconds plus a five minute warm up either side and managed 1.56 miles, still no excess pain in my foot yippee.

I then joined the spin class with probably the loudest instructer I have ever come across and cried my way through 45 minutes of sheer torture (my arse is on fire from yesterdays audiofuel session).

I went to have a swim but on glancing down on the way to the pool realised my lady garden needed some attention, covered myself and sloped back into the changing room.

The exercise is definetly giving me a mental boost as I came home, finished my reflective piece of writing, tidied up my client files and researched forensics units in preperation for first day back at placement tomorrow.

I think it is now time to get the shears out, as I really need to aqua jog tomorrow, dont want to push my foot too far too soon.

Audiofuel and Janathon go hand in hand

Made the decision to only drink one bottle of wine last night to ensure that I could complete at least one day of Janathon. So at 8am this morning I was stood outside the gym waiting for them to open the doors (lazy sods its usually open at 6am).

Straight on the treadmill for my walk/run comeback with Audiofuels shoot the breeze blasting my eardrums. today consisted of a five minute warm up with 5 intervals of 60 second run and two min walk then a five minute cooldown. As my foot is still dodgy I kept my speed low to lessen the impact and managed a cool 1.12 miles with no pain.

There was not one other person in the gym, which was suprisingly creepy and I nearly fell off the treadmill twice craning my neck to peer round corners looking for signs of life.

I then hopped on a spin bike and decided to give audiofuels powerblast turbo training a go, (downloaded it months ago and never even unpacked it). Oh my giddy aunt!!! I love it, I love it, I bloody love it. Didnt realise it was a full hour though until I tried to peel my arse of the seat and actually screamed as the muscles tensed up, good job there was still nobody else in the gym.

As I was huffing and puffing my way across the room towards the changing room, the token poser/tosser waltzed in covered in water to make it look like he had been working out for hours! He is probably still flouncing about tensing his muscles and staring in the mirror, I dont actually think he does any exercise but he sure as hell loves hiself.

I am now in the process of trying to defrost the pork joint I forgot to take out last night, for todays dinner with my hairdryer on a cool setting. It wouldnt normally matter but my hubby is a chef and I told him I could cook a better roast dinner than him, I should not be allowed to talk after alcohol!

Oh yeah the dogs are joining in again they had a 2 mile walk at 6am

walk/run: 1.12 miles (30 minutes)
dogwalk:  2 miles     (45 minutes)
Spinning: god knows how many miles (1 hour)