On Friday I ran 7.05Km in the 45 minutes I allocated to running. It was tough and I was ready to quit at about 40 minutes but kept on pushing to meet my goal.
I stayed at a friends house on Friday night and on Saturday morning we took her dog for a walk in the wood and across some fields, so that was my second LISS session of the week. We walked for about 40 minutes.
Today I was due to squeeze quite a lot of exercise in to my schedule. A HIIT & abs session as well as a upper body weights workout and metabolic circuits, plus 2 yoga classes and a run. Yes, a crazy and unacheivable amount. It’s because I had pushed onto the weekend things I was due to do earlier in the week but didn’t have time for, and so I knew I would only get a few of these things done today.
I did some housework when I woke up and went to Yin at midday, then after lunch committed to go for a run. I did 9 and 3/4 kilometres which was a distance I have needed to do since the end of last year to award myself a Harry Potter themed medal. I purchased the virtual run medal but I never completed the distance, until now!
I found the start a bit tricky and walked a bit of it but finally found my pace and although it was slow, I did it in 1:04:00 exactly.
This week I have run 4 times totalling 23.75Km, gone to 2 yoga classes, done 3 XT sessions of walking totalling 2 hours and 2 weight training sessions.
I’m meant to do a lot more weight training than that, but it was good to just get started and I can certainly build up from there.
It’s been a good week, I like September and the cooler weather, and I feel really motivated to keep on top of my goals over the last few months of this year. I’ve managed to do a little bit of everything this week and my body feels OK with that, so I just need to keep it up.
I’ve just committed to a week long yoga retreat in July next year and I really hope that I will be able to go there feeling my absolute best.
I’m travelling a lot over the week ahead. I have back to back conference calls all day tomorrow, I’m teaching all day on Tuesday in London and then flying to Paris in the evening where I am until Thursday late afternoon. On Friday I fly to Dublin for work on Saturday but am staying there until for the rest of the weekend.
I haven’t worked out how to fit in my workouts so I’ll do that before work tomorrow or I’ll run the risk of this good week fizzling out to nothing.
my happy life project 