Had a good week this week.
Didn’t get around to doing anything on Monday, which annoyed me. Was worried I wasn’t get work, life and training balance right. Which to be honest worked out well as it made me go for it for the rest of the week.

I was going to let it beat me on Tuesday, so went for a walk/jog during lunch. At the moment I am walking on part of the route that the event takes for the Cycle, and it is about 4km. I had planned to take it easy as was going to Zumba that evening but surprised myself and ended up jogging for about a 1km. I know this is not much but it is definitely the most I have jogged in one go in a very long time.

With my new found energy I was all set to go for it at Zumba that evening. Now some of you may thing Zumba is just girls dancing around the place and not much fitness gained from it in the end, but I have to say I really enjoy it. It doesn’t matter what size, shape or age you are, nobody cares and you just get stuck in. If you mess up the move, which happens to everyone, you just laugh it off and continue on. I also really enjoy it because you can either really push yourself or take it easy if you have done a walk/jog earlier in the day. It is really good fun and a great laugh!
So after an hour of dancing around to Micheal Jackson and Beyonce, I kept up the momentum and stuck around for another hour of circuits and body toning. This was the first bit of core work that I had done and I surprised myself, doing better than I expected. I did keep waiting for the pain to come over the following days and I’m happy to report that it didn’t! I really enjoyed the circuits as you are always moving on to something else keeping you interested and uses lots of different muscles!
To be honest I probably shouldn’t have done all that training in the one day but it did make me realise that I can definitely push myself further than I expected.

After walking up on Wednesday and not feeling the pain that I expected I decided that I would just go for a walk that day at lunch. I’m not sure if it my mind is playing tricks on me, if subconsciously my mind knew I had stuff to get done in work, that sometimes it feels like my legs aren’t moving fast enough for the top part of my body or maybe this jogging malarkey isn’t as bad as it first seems, but I ended up jogging!
Again not a whole heap but enough!

Woke up Thursday morning and the thoughts of going for a walk that day weren’t filling me with joy. But I had said to one of the girls in work that we would go for a walk together at lunchtime, so brought my gear in. Later discovered that she had the same thoughts earlier but it was good to have company and we just walked the 4km route. If you are struggling to motivate yourself, setting up training dates (maybe in both meanings of that word) are great to make you get out there.

I took Friday and Saturday off from training. Well maybe scrubbing your house could be classified as training – the bottle of wine I drank on Saturday night probably doesn’t or is it training for the after party?

Back to it on Sunday. I hadn’t been on the bike yet so decided to today was the day.
Did some kettle bells & sit-ups at home in the morning to get me going.
We cycled the Connemara Adventure Challenge off road section the wrong way round or in reverse. I have to admit I did think that I would find the cycling the easiest part of the training but found it a lot harder than I expected. I had been cycling a bit over the summer on sealed road and was surprised to find the off –road a lot harder. Probably would have stopped more and given up on the hills, accept for my other half (some might even say better half!) coaxing me up them. Definitely advice anyone who is taking part in the event to find a track to cycle on as it is very different to nice sealed roads!

I have said for many years that I think I have the bonyest arse in the world and yesterdays cycle has proven that to me. I had padded shorts on and a padded seated and I still can’t sit down properly today! It was only an 8km cycle!

PS. how many of ye read all that just to see what the hell I was talking about with the boniest arse!