Day 200 – Week 29 – 29 mins (5)
It was a bit of a non event for day 200 I am afraid. I had to be out of the house at 6.00am, so it was a cursory five minutes with the medicine ball and the resistance band, and that was it. I mean, we have to be realistic here. I am not going to be getting up at 4.30am just to prove I can do this!
Suzi
Day 149 – Week 22 – 22 mins
Much better this morning! Did a full 22 minutes of strength and stretching, and even had time to do the dishes and make the bed before heading out into the current confusion of the Berlin transport system.
I now have the full story about the trains – which is that the train company apparently decided to hold off on a load of maintenance, as they were about to float the company and wanted to make the books look good. But then the safety gurus discovered this little tactic and 75 percent of the trains have now been taken out of service to fix some possible fault with the brakes! Or something like that anyway. All I know is that every time I try to go somewhere, there is no train for it! I mean this really isn’t fair – whoever head of coming to Germany to find the trains not working on time!
Anyway – I have to keep up the good work and do my full blast of cardio tomorrow, which means getting up, going down my floor flights of stairs and going to a tiny little park down the block. I may have to run around it several times to do my 22 minutes – it really IS a little park.
Suzi
Day 144 – Week 21 – 21 mins (10)
Well, I did better than my last cardio day – but still not up to the full quota. 10 minutes this morning, instead of five.
I am realising that when I feel overwhelmed with things to do, that is when I feel like I don’t have time to exercise. It’s not true of course, but in my head, that is what I’m feeling.
For the last few days I have felt that I am not on top of things, and that is immediately reflected in an increased resistance to doing the exercise. It feels like a waste of time to exercising, instead of getting on with all these millions of things I feel like I need to do. That’s not the reality of course. The reality is that I then lie in bed for an hour arguing with myself that I can’t get up and do the exercise, because I have too many things to do, and then of course, I have wasted that hour. Ridiculous.
There’s only two possible solutions to this. I either get on top of my life (which only ever happens for two or three consecutive days at the most!) or I get over thinking I have to be on top of everything to make it a ‘good day’ for exercise. And that’s not as easy as you might think…..
Suzi
Day 140 – Week 21 – 21 mins
It was my last chance to run amongst the sunflowers this morning, as I added one more minute to my jogging routine. There really is nothing quite like jogging along in the French countryside, with a ‘Bonjour’ here and there to the little old man wandering into the village, and the elegant woman opening up her cottage windows for the day. But tomorrow – back to reality. Strength exercises in the London flat, and an hour and a bit’s commute to work.
But the main thing is, I managed to get through another holiday, albeit a mini-one, without abandoning the exercise, and this is something to be celebrated. I really think I’m getting the hang of this now – I am pretty convinced I can find some way to exercise every day, regardless of the millions of reason not to.
Suzi
Day 132 – Week 19 – 19 mins (10ish)
Well – mission accomplished in that I DID exercise this morning, but I only accomplished about 10 mins instead of the planned 19.
But if you could only imagine the circumstances – a tiny hotel room, boyfriend fast asleep in the bed, and me doing my strengthing and stretching in the narrow space between the bathroom door and the wall to the next room. There was JUST enough room to do a few squats and crunches, but seriously, only just.
And given we had a very late night and a breakfast date at 0745, I think ten minutes was pretty impressive.
Suzi
