Bowing out

Only managed a 20 min walk/run today and have decided it is time to bow out of Janathon, much as I  love it I have no time to blog.

I am going to carry on with my exercise and every couple of days I will read through others blogs and offer encouragement . 

Good luck everyone, keep up the hard work, signing out Lottabottle AKA michelle

Grinning lottabottle

I promised a longer blog today, but I am really tired, I think Janothon has finally caught up with me!!
So very sorry but this is it, got up at 5am and walked my dogs, aqua jogged 10 lengths in the pool and did some core work on a stability ball.

I have spent the rest of the day shadowing a community nurse, which was the best day of my nursing career, so I now want to be a community nurse. Highlight of the day, week, year and nursing journey was being told by such an experienced and respected nurse that I was going to make an excellent nurse and it had been a pleasure for her to work with me.  I seriously look like I have got  a coathanger in my mouth because my smile is that wide, at such amazing praise.

busy,busy, busy

No time to blog today, lots of client visits and paperwork to catch up with so.......
Spin class 45 min
Walk/run 30 min 2 miles

promise to blog better tomorrow

Invisible Instructers

Got up nice and early today to give myself time to defrost my rust bucket car. Only to be sat on my spin bike with 20 other women, (not all on my bike, they had their own) with no bloody instructer. Now I understand that sometimes things happen out of peoples control and I accept that. But I do not accept that the gym knew yesterday that they had no instructer for todays classes and did not have the sense to let us know. So I rallied all the ladies to fill in complaint forms as this has happened before and demand that we get some form of compensation, especially as it seems the gym has lost two instructers this week so there are limited classes available. There was also no pump as that instructer is still off sick, but we had to ask to recieve this information!!!!! I am sure they would have let us traispe up the ruddy stairs and set our stations out if we had not asked.

Anyway after my mini revolt, I couldnt go on the treadmill as my foot is a bit sore after yesterdays outside walk/run so I got in the pool and did 20 lengths.

Then I came home and moaned about it to everyone who would listen.

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.

9:31 AM - Saturday, 14 Jan 2012 3.0 miles, 0:46:28

Avg/Max Speed: 3.9 / 11.2 (3.9) Avg/Min Pace: 0:15:26 / 0:05:21 (0:15:26)

Had to copy and paste it because for some reason my garmin wont upload it, but het who cares I ran OUTSIDE :)

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.

http://www.runningfreeonline.com/Default.aspx?TabId=63&subView=Share&StartDate=15%20Oct%202011&UserId=9610&UseKm=0&MaxD=621.37119




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.