Filed under: gym, healthy eating, running | Tags: gym, healthy eating, running, spinning
No really, it is. Not a drop of alcohol has passed my lips since about 2.30am on Friday morning. Pretty impressive for a weekend. Exercise-wise, after my session at the gym on Monday, I did my five-mile Twyford/Dinton run yesterday and a spinning class plus a few weights this morning. And I’m on a bit of a health kick to get my digestive system back on track after my holiday. Not to mention trying to shift a few pounds that crept on when I wasn’t looking. :-/
Filed under: Commando Challenge, Nottingham Half Marathon, Pulse8, bottoms, gym, running | Tags: Commando Challenge, gym, healthy eating, running
My positive thinking at the beginning of the week resulted in a 5-mile/50min run on Tuesday morning, my first day back at work for two and a half weeks. And – erm – that’s it.
On Tuesday I got home a smidgen before midnight after client drinks in Londonium and went to bed without having any dinner.
Wednesday afternoon I was back on the train for a client meeting in Waterloo, followed by birthday drinks with a very old (as in long-standing, rather than ancient) friend. I was fairly restrained and left at 9.15, but it still tool me over two hours to get home again.
Thursday saw me in Newbury first thing, then back onto First Crap Western for another client event in the Capital, from which I was unable to escape until 2.30am this morning.
I’m not a very nice person without at least seven hours’ sleep per night, so I’m suffering. There’s also half a stone of Italian cheese nestling around my bottom that needs shifting, and of course I haven’t eaten properly all week.
So the Nottingham Half is an impossible quest, and I’m pulling out of an event for the first time without a proper illness/injury excuse. I’ve still got a press release to sort out before I leave the office tonight, then it’s home for a nice wholesome home-cooked meal featuring lots of vegetables before bath and bed, then to the gym in the morning. I shall repeat that process twice before I return to work on Monday.
There’s no way I’m going to be allowed to duck out of Commando Challenge on 12 October. The t-shirts are being designed, our sponsorship page goes live next week and certain members of the team are inordinately excited about our adventure in the West Country. Onwards and forwards…
An hour’s worth of exercise, five days a week. Which makes my 45 minutes of circuits at the gym this morning a bit of a waste of time on the weight-loss front. Bugger.
Filed under: X-bike, gym, healthy eating, running | Tags: healthy eating, running
Stood on the scales this morning and weighed in at 10 stone 5. Oh dear. I think that’s the heaviest I’ve ever been. At 5′4″, I probably should weigh about 9 stone 7 – I’ve got down to that a couple of times over the past couple of years, but that’s generally been when I’ve been having a bad time for some reason. I’m happy enough just under 10 stone, but definitely don’t like going over.
This is largely the reason I started running in the first place. I didn’t just wake up one morning and fancy a jog. Rather, I put on a stone in my first year at University after living on crap Hall food and snakey-b for two terms; and decided drastic action was required. I’ve been running since then for 12 years – albeit on and off, and mixed up with other types of exercise. It sure as hell beats dieting.
I’m afraid it makes me laugh inwardly to hear other people banging on about their latest diet, which involves cutting out wheat, dairy, meat, any form of carbohydrate or living on cabbage soup – but fails to suggest doing any form of exercise.
I absolutely love cooking, eating and drinking…especially with friends and family. So I run to compensate. If I burn off the same number of calories as I consume, my weight should remain roughly the same. Looks like I got my maths a bit wrong lately though – time to hit the road/treadmill/x-bike with a bit more enthusiasm…
Also requiring significantly more enthusiasm is my website project. I’ve got as far as buying www.irunbecauseilovefood.co.uk, and now need to find a hosting company. Any tips gratefully received – though you’ll probably have difficulty communicating them because my comments box won’t work since I pointed the blog at the new domain. Boo to complicated techie stuff that I don’t understand.
I like my food, but I was horrified by this story on the BBC this morning. Wrong on so many levels…
I would, however, be interested to know what was on the menu at the Arkansas Prison. After two weeks of eating virtually nothing but smoothies and soups made with fresh fruit and veg, I’ve lost only two pounds.
