Week 36 - last week of 2011

Well, first of all I hope you all had a Happy Christmas or are at least enjoying the Holidays should this time of year have any relevance to you. Second, I did the parkrun on Christmas day and got another pb!!! 35 minutes 25 seconds! It was a real struggle for the first 2 kilometres (I set off too fast), then once I had settled into my stride it got a bit easier but was still a struggle as my mind wasn't into it. I guess some days are just like that. There were loads of santa's and various costumed runners, including 2 little girls dressed as presents! It was very festive and actually a great way to start Christmas day. I opened up my stride for the last 1/2 km so I think that's where I knocked off 12 seconds from last weeks run.

I ran week 3 day 2 of the Bridge to 10k  programme yesterday with hubby. That was a real struggle too, but I did finish it all. My runkeeper gave up on me (again) after the 1st km so I turned it off and hubby used his Garmin instead. Both times recently that runkeeper hasn't worked properly is after I have turned my phone off then on again. It clearly upset the whole app so I won't do that again.

I won't even begin to tell you about my diet this week. I haven't been careful at all. This behaviour will definitley continue through to New Years Day as there are still plenty of chocolates, mince pies and wine in the house. Because of this I won't officially weigh in until January 6th so I have a week to sort it out (or not)

Week 35 - Stats

Distance covered

9.35km/5.8 miles

very poor week for running :-(

Calories burned

830

very poor week for calorie burning! 

weight loss

 - 1lb 5oz

Brilliant week for weight loss :-))

Into my 3rd stone! Yay!!!

Week 35 - Christmas is nearly upon us.

This is going to be an erratic week of exercise. Work is busy.
I should have run yesterday (Monday) but it was freezing out and raining hard, for hours, until it got dark. So I didn't. Instead I investigated the two gyms near me but still haven't joined either one.
This morning I ran to the station in record time of 14.58 minutes. Thats a 6.59 km pace over 2.14km. If I can do that on my next 5k I will smash last Saturdays record time by almost a minute.

There are mince pies everywhere. All I am thinking about at the moment is food for the Christmas holidays. I am also trying to organise the house for various visitors. I think my next run will have to be on Friday, then Christmas day. After that I do have the time to run more so I can run off the Christmas excess and continue into the new year with gusto.

I will endeavour to not stuff my face until bursting point but equally I am not going to police my eating too much so I am miserable. Now I have the running bug I know I can easily work off a few extra lbs gained. I definitely think that in the battle of the bulge exercise is the most important factor. if you can get into a routine of exercise that you enjoy then eating more healthily will just follow naturally.

Footnote. I ran the station run this morning (Thursday) and plan on a long run later today as a client has cancelled. More on that later....