Day 104 – Week 15 – 15 mins
Up nice and early this morning, before heading off to the airport for a week in Spain. I am, of course, not packed and so have a mountain of things to do before setting off
at about 10.00am. So, got through my strength routine as painlessly as possible, and then got on with the far more serious job of trying to fit a week’s worth of clothes and books into the 15kg luggage allowance allowed by the very annoying cheap airlines we are forced to fly. Now, that gets your heart rate up, believe me….
Suzi
Day 100 – Week 15 – 15 mins
Well, things went slightly better this morning, though I was still a little tentative as I went through my strength routine. But the main thing is – the 15 mins were done – and I can celebrate 100 consecutive days of exercise, something I can quite categorically state I have never before done in my life!
Of course….that was the easy 100 days…the next lot will be a lot tougher. But I am steeling myself for it….
Suzi
Day 98 – Week 14 – 14 mins
Today I broke my rule and didn’t exercise first thing after getting up. I know- it’s outrageous!
I had pretty much decided the night before that it wouldn’t happen. We had a party, it finished at one in the morning, the house looked like a bomb had gone through it, and I had four visitors. I knew that the likelihood of me crawling into the daylight out of the cellar, ignoring the state of the kitchen and going for a run was nigh on impossible. I decided that on this occasion, my minutes were going to have to wait until after a clean up and everyone had left – then I could do my strength workout at my leisure.
I have to admit to a glorious feeling of relief on waking up and knowing that I didn’t have to exercise first thing (the first time in 97 days!!) and enjoyed a cup of tea out in the garden with the visitors…we had some breakfast, cleaned up, went for a nice walk, had some lunch and then we waved them off.
Then my fella and I sat down and watched a DVD….
And then it was 6.00pm and I suddenly remembered I had exercise to do! I tell you – I was very close to forgetting all together, and that would of course mean no future slacking off from morning workouts!
But all’s well that ends well, my fourteen minutes were done, and I am collapsing into bed for an early night after what has been a thoroughly enjoyable, but rather exhausting weekend….
Suzi
Day 94 – Week 14 – 14 mins
I think today might have been the hardest day so far. I woke up with a headache – not sure if it was just general tension (which I suspect you shouldn’t be waking up with!), dehydration, or a reaction to the glass of wine I had last night. But despite that – I didn’t think I had any excuse to not get outside and at least do my warm up walk, even if I couldn’t manage a run.
It took quite a bit of convincing myself, but finally got out there – and while I did the full routine – it was pretty tough. I definitely wasn’t quite my usual self. I had hoped gettting outside in the fresh air would cure the headache, but it didn’t, and I eventually had to sucumb to painkillers. But at least, the exercise got done…in a fashion.
Suzi
Day 93 – Week 14 – 14 mins
It was a struggle again this morning – mainly because I got to bed too late and didn’t wake up with my usual energy.
But , I eventually managed to get myself up and did my 14 mins of strength work – an extra minute on my legs for this week.
It was all pretty half-hearted, but I like to think it is better than nothing. Hopefully at least it maintains the muscle for an extra day, instead of letting it go backwards for a day. I reckon there’s been a fair bit of forward movement over the last week, so one day of ‘maintenance’ won’t do any harm.
Suzi
