A poor attempt to erase the guilt

So Monday night, forgot the job application form I was going to complete this eve so decided to watch a couple of films and tidy my room...which I couldn't be bothered doing so I did a bit of conditioning instead:

30 Crunchies x 5
30 Back lifts x 5
30 Side Crunchies x 2
30 Tricep dips x 2
50 lat pulls x 1
50 pec/lat reps x 2
50 x bicep pulls x 1

Cycled to work too! 20mins (uphill) 2 miles

Was supposed to be swimming this afternoon but I'm heading back to the Shire for malky's leaving party so can't be done :-( Can't go on Sun either as will be away.

My weekends seems to be following a pattern!

People need to remind me that drinking out of a bottle (esp at a wedding) is not ladylike even if I am wearing a pretty dress! Friday night was a bit of a rightoff, Johnny T and Amy got married in Creiff, really beautiful evening.

The it was Claire's B'day on Sat pm so headed out for that, then up early to get the bus to Prestonpans for their half marathon, it was a really good event with every weather condition! A bit of a lack of



briefing for the Marshalls and the paper work provided didn't even include a route map which I think could definitely be an idea for next year, then dinner with the girls in the flat, Chloe is finally moving out so it was a farewell dinner, very tasty too and quite drunken, at 2 we were still sipping the Courvoisier and taking silly pics! I love dinner parties...need to make up for the lack of anything active this week?! xxx

The pain is ongoing!!!

Swimming again this morning:

5 min cycle to the pool (downhill)

800yds FC
3 x 200yds IM (Pull, Kick & Full (fogot my float...boo!))
200yds FC swim down

1600yds = 1463m = 30mins (got up late)

10 min cycle home (uphill)

20 min walk to work (uphill)

Just got email about swimming comps and I'm having an internal battle as to wether to enter any or not...why are decisions so difficult?

A weekend of excess

After a massively indulgent weekend (pissed in Fri pm (2pm - 12midnight) nachos lunch & beer (sat am), £16 cheese dinner (sat pm),

night on the boozy, cheese b'fast (Sun am) then more food and dvd's on Sun pm) I guilted myself into cycling to work, flat tyre and seat way too low later a very disgruntled and frustrated Lucy arrived at work, will repair for journey home.

15min cycle (2 miles - up a very steep hill!)

but at least it's down hill on the way home :-)

Uneventful week

So after a week of folding envelopes, listening to the half blood prince and some evening conditioning I managed to get to the pool again this morning!

10 min cycle to the pool,

800yds fc
6 x 200yds IM (2 x Pull/Kick/Full)
200yds swim down

2200yds = 2011.68m in 45mins

10min cycle to the flat uphill
20min power walk up hill to work

legs aren't working anymore, feel very sorry for myself and have already eaten my lunch!

Sept 11th - the effort continues

Sept 10th
Conditioning set
6 x 50 reps on the smartgym
3 x 30 crunchies
lots of stretching

Sept 11th
Felt a little stiff this morning but fought through it and went Swimming! before work and everything! First time in the water for quite a while so just took it easy...got in and couldn't remember any sets to do so kind made it up!
400yds fc
200yds bk
200yds br
400yds fly/fc (25yds fc/25yds fly/25yds fc/25yds fly...)
200yds fc
100yds IM
100yds fc
100yds bk

40 mins = 1700yds = 1554m

Turning over a new leaf

The Fringe is over and something has gotta change. No pool action since May, no running action since March and no bike action since August last year...so I mean to make an effort.

Monday Sept 10
Walk - Pentlands
40 mins up (very very steep incline)/15 mins down (a bit like fell running although less control)


Felt absolutely knacked on the way up, had to stop for quite a few breathers...tres unfit :-(

Then home to recover and bask in the sun!

My Hols... abridged!

So after a mega hectic August I managed a week away! We visited Home for Hanny's B'day, Cumbria for a michelin star lunch at sharrow bay and camping in pooley bridge,



a visit to a quarry, a stone circle and dinner and drinks in Cockermouth (whilst also tasting some beer brewed in the smallest brewery in Cumbria (At The Bitter End)), Edinburgh to drop off camping stuff as the car's MOT was just about to run out, Kinross for sunbathing, cycling, adventure playgrounding and a big dinner party with friends,then down to Middlesbrough for a night then back to the burgh via Newcastle to see my mum and one of her primary school Friends!





Then had a solitary day yesterday, and managed to climb a hill, shop, return the hire car, then spent a couple of hours in the back garden soaking up the rays and reading my book! So much done in so little time!