Good and Bad Days

So yesterday was a good day. Had a really REALLY good work out at the gym felt like I could have gone on and on forever and this was after a full day shopping. One of my fellow gym buddies came over and gave me some help with my 'form' and I have to say it made all the difference.

Got up this morning after a really bad night's sleep - just toooooo hot and I couldn't do my run. I set of as usual at 5am, did my five minute warm and started a slow jog and I just couldn't do it. I felt tired, my butt cheeks (sorry, glutes :-)) hurt so much from the gym and I generally felt blurgh so I walked my route instead and as a reward for being so sensible I saw 2 beautiful herons in my local park - fabulous - if I'd been jogging I wouldn't have gone that route and I would have missed them.

I have to say, I feel a bit rubbish that I haven't done my usual exercise this morning, I like to do somethng everyday, and that has to be more than a walk! I think I will try again tomorrow after, hopefully, a better night.

Trainer Terry and Twenty Two Minutes

Gym

I bit the bullet and have booked in a coaching session at the gym next Tuesday. Josh, my original coach has handed me over to Terry who, apparently, is a lot more knowledgeable about weight training. I'm really looking forward to it even though he did say 'so whose arse do you want to kick' - I hope he hasn't got the wrong idea bout me :-) He also went on and on about eating more protein and taking 'creatine' (must find out what this is). Had a good session at the gym on my current, and soon to be old, routine. Really built up a sweat and lifted heavier weights than last time - though now I know, according to Terry, not heavy enough!!

Running

Really, really happy this morning. I ran for 22 minutes without stopping. I mapped it on Map My Run and it was 2.1 miles. This is a massive achievement for me and I really felt like a 'runner' this morning. I could have gone on as well but my 45 minutes were up and I had to get readly for work (boo hiss). My schedule this morning was:

5 minute warm up walk
5 minute jog
1 minute walk
5 minute jog
1 minute walk
5 minute jog
1 minute walk
22 minute jog

Total : 45 minutes.