frozen car

Got up with the intention of going to the gym this morning for a spim/pump/swim session, only to find my car that frozen even the inside windows were iced up. I spent 40 minutes defrosting the car and had to lower the door windows to try and clear them, but for some reason they would not come back up. There was no way I was driving anywhere with my windows down it was -7 and I was already blue from trying to defrost the bloody thing.

I had retired the dogs yesterday so they were no use to me, my bike tyres are flat so that left me with one option. Walk run outside it was, I wrapped up well and set off very tentatively always mindful of my plantar.

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and there it is 3 mile walkrun OUTSIDE :)

#janathon retirement

Got up at 5.30 am with the intentention of going for an early morning gym session, only to find myself stumbling into the wall twice as I was still drunk from the night before. So I got back in bed with a pot of extra strong coffee and finished reading Harry Potter and the secret chambers. Sad I know but I downloaded them all to my Kobo and am really enjoying them. Think it is because every thing else I read is so academic it is nice to just lose yourself in childish fantasy now and then.

Anyway back to todays Janathon effort, I took the dogs for a three mile trek on skipwith common, I enjoyed it but I thnk they have had enough of being dragged for long walks now. Blue is 15 and that is extremeley old for a greyhound and Mindy whilst much younger at 8 is proper lazy. Well today Blue started to really drag behind me at around a mile and Mindy lay down at around 2 miles and wouldnt get back up for about 15 minutes. She is now limping really badly so I think its time to accept that I cant expect them to participate in Janathon any longer. They normally only have a twenty minute amble twice a day and I have been speed walking them for 2-3 miles nearly everyday at all times of the day. So thats them retired from Janathon as of now.

I havent been to the gym today as I am still feeling a bit ropey but I did manage a 35 second plank and 20 chair dips.

Oh yeah, I had a great birthday yesterday, my Uni mates plied me with alcohol and food at lunch time and my family did it all over again later on.

quick birthday blog

I am off out soon to drink and eats lots of beer and food, so heres my Janathon effort.

6.30 am spin sprint 30 min
7.00 am 30 minute walk run 2.40 miles
7.45 am 16 lenthgs swim

Thats me for today, its time to party :)

Janathon fail

Overslept this morning so had no time to fit in my Janathon effort, so decided I would call at the gym on my way home from placement.

Went to the Gym straight after finishing placement, only to find I had left my gym bag at home.

Went home to get Gym bag only to find that gym bag was not there! Where the bloody hell is it ?

Recieved phone call to inform me that I seem to have left a Gym bag in the staff room at placement!

Went back to placement, picked up Gym bag set back off to Gym, recieved phone call whilst walking from car telling me I needed to go home because hubby had locked hiself out.

Its just not meant to be today, not to be totally defeated I joined the plankathon and planked for 28 seconds.

I'm Freezing Today

I am sat her in my fleecy jim jams with thick bed socks, plus slippers, a double fleece and gloves,  my coal fire is raging, but I cannot get warm!!  Fingers crossed it is not the start of some shitty virus.

Quick janathon update because my fingers are hurting and feel stiff, they really are that cold.

Spin/sprint Class 30 min
swim 14 lengths*thanks jogblog.
Dog walk 3 miles

All done before 8 am

Is it 5 or 10

Lengths in a swimming pool, realised today I dont actually know if you count the there and back as one length, or there as one and back as another one?

So I either did five or ten lengths this morning!!!!  I also had a really good session on the treadmill, until one of the people who only ever use a gym in January, thudded on to the one next to me. There are 20 treadmills in the bloody gym, I was on one the other 19 were free. It would not have been as much of a problem had he not stank of meat and potato pie and been swinging his sweaty hair all over me.

I had planned for 40 minute walk run today, but the smell was really that bad I had to get off at 30 minutes.  I had covered 2.26 miles in that time and had increased my running sections to 2 minutes, foot is not hurting any more than usual so I must be doing something right.

So any thoughts, did I do 5 or 10 lengths and should I have sprayed the stinking sweatmonster with deodarant?

Million dollar woman

Blew yesterdays crap day right out the window today, hubby had to be at work for 5am so at 4am we were both up drinking coffee from the new pot that he bought me yesterday afternoon in an attempt to cheer me up. He left for work and I dragged the poor suffering dogs out for an 3 mile walk, I cant imagine how mental we look with hiviz coats on, my headtorch and their flashing collars at 5am on a Sunday morning.

Got home around 6.30 and still had an 2 hours before my gym classes, so I dived into my client files updated them nicely, tidied my desk and read three Journal articles related to the empowerment module I start next week.

Next was my gym classes. spin and pump today, still going easy on my foot so stayed away from the treadmill. The usual Sunday spin instructer was off and to my horror spotted it was the really hardcore million dollar woman one, oh well I did bugger all yesterday!! 45 minutes later looking like a swollen oven baked tomato, drizzled in oil I crawled  ran up the stairs to the fitness suite.

Oh my god, that instructer was missing too and had been substituted with the million dollar woman from the spin class.  Now I have quite a few injuries that my pump instructer knows about and has given me alternative exercises so I dont make anything worse. Which meant I had to approach million dollar woman and tell her about said injuries and why I do alternatives. You will be fine she said, I will give you alternatives too, relief flooded through me and I set my station up.

Well let me tell you, the million dollar woman is as mad as a bucket of frogs, whilst others were doing nice sit ups, (which I can't do because of the bulging discs in my neck) I was forced to rest my forehead on a step bench and do some weird kind of floating plank, then because I can't  lunge/squat due to my plantar she had me balanced on weight plates doing what I can only describe as a pole dance with my weights bar.

But if I am completely honest I felt muscles working that I had forgot existed and I left the gym on an absolute high and will be booking some of her classes from now on. Must remember to place a towel under my head for the floating plank thingy though, as I have indentations on my forehead that are still there 3 hours later!!