Not a bad week last week, bit tired but managed to get myself out there. Took a rest day on Monday, more to let me arse have a chance to recover than anything else.
Busy day on Tuesday. Went for walk/jog during lunch. I keep surprising myself that I can jog as far as I can now – I’m still up only up to just over 1km but I’m happy. As I was so anti Jogging before all this, I’m now embarrassed to say that when I do go out, my body is looking for me to start jogging! So maybe I might become a jogger!!! Time will tell!
I have been jogging on a quite private road with no traffic, so I have been listening to music as I jog. It is a safety rule for all our events that you cannot listen to MP3s, ipods etc, so I need to wean myself off my music and get used to my struggling breathing.
Went to Zumba and Bodytoning class that evening. Really enjoying both of the classes still. Can really feel all the areas that the body toning classes are working on. No more love handles in a few weeks – here’s hoping!!!
On Wednesday, I decided that it was time to get wet and take on some of the bog. I set out at the back of the Centre across the bog to the Western Way. This is actually the start section of the course, and the first bit of a bog work I had done so it was good to get out there.
It was an absolutely crap day and lashing down rain. The rest of the girls in the office took the easy option and stayed in, but knowing that you never know what the weather can be like on race day, I braved the wind and rain and got out there! It was quite different to be on wet boggy ground. No jogging to be had here but I tried to fast walk across it. It took a lot more out of me than I expected and by the time I reach the Western Way I was out of breath. So I would advice everyone to find a nice wet field, hill to get training on if possible.
I made it down to the road again. By this stage I was back to normal and decided to try and jog back to the centre. The one think I struggle with when it comes to training, is people seeing me jogging. This is why I like jogging on the nice quiet road. But this day I made it to the main road, were normally I would just walk back to the centre, I felt good and continued to jog – People even drove past me without pointing and laughing!!! I nearly made it all the way back to the centre jogging which surprised me.
In total I had only did about 2km with about a kilometre of jogging, but I have to say as I came back in the centre completely drenched, I felt quite proud of myself that I had got out there and done it! I had taken the harder option where a few weeks ago I would have taken the easier and sat down and drank tea!
Thursday just did about a 4km walk/jog and took Friday off.
Went for a cycle on Saturday morning. It was only a short cycle but struggled with it. Need to get my bike serviced as gears & brakes seem to be playing up. Which reminds me I must get someone to teach me how to change a tyre or fix a puncture.
Have also decided to take part in the Run with Ray in Westport in March. I have walked a number of 10kms for charities but have never ran, so this will be my first jogging event. There are about 7 of us doing it from work so I will have lots of support.
Stupid busy this week so struggling to get out there.
