Juneathon III – Day 20 – a bit of a break :-)

So, I slacked off, as usual…

Not that I haven’t been keeping active, just not in an organised way.

So since my day 4 update I’ve done a 3km run around Chasewater (obviously not all the way around!) and a free weight session in the garden, from a cheapo weights pack from Argos.

Today, the sun was shining, so I decided a 5km run was required, particularly as I’ve now cancelled my gym membership – what was the point I have to ask myself as I was hardly going.

Another run around Chasewater and getting better, didn’t make my target, only managed 4.6km boo and slow pace of 6.16 per km double boo, but at least it’s improving.

Activity:

• 3km run
• 30 minute weights circuit
• 5km run

Weight:

• Haven’t got a clue, but feel lighter

Juneathon III – Day 4 Update

Popped to the gym for the first time in about 3 weeks (thanks Claire!!) and just went for the cardio.

Had a quick weigh-in and not good, but Juneathon should sort that out – going to target to lose 5 kg across the month.

Activity:

• Treadmill 2.5 km (pace pretty slow 6min/km – need to build back up)
• Bike 3km
• Cross Trainer 1km (speed interval training just to kill my legs)
• Rower 0.5km (hate it!!)

Weight: 100kg (tut tut – was 94 last November)

Juneathon III – Why not??

Ok, after doing nothing for three weeks except playing tennis once, I’m going to have a crack at Juneathon III.

For those that don’t know, you have to do some kind of exercise or go for a run every day in June to get fit, then blog about it, if you don’t have a blog then join the Juneathon Facebook Group and post your activity there. Just make sure you do 26.2 miles by the end of the month.

Thanks to Cathy over at Jog Blog for giving me another kick up the butt.

Ok, so activity to date has included:

• Monday 1st June – 1 mile walk around Cannon Hill Park.
• Tuesday and Wednesday – NOTHING!!
• Today – off to gym – will blog about it later.

Feeling Guilty for not posting?

Yep, well I guess I do feel guilty for not posting, not that anyone is gonna read this stuff, but more because I told Shiny I would start bloggin my progress. Well progress has been made, it’s just that none of it has been blogged. Sorry Shiny. God, reading that blog is such a good read it makes me consider giving up, but I figure what the hell, it will at least be like diary I can pass onto my World of Warcraft playing obese grand children who will have never seen a park, let alone gone for a run.

Anyway, this is 2 posts in one day, so it’s at least a good sign that I have actually started blogging my half-marathon training, just gotta start the training part and all will be well.

Get Fit Activity

• KM Run: 0
• KM Rowed: 0
• Gym Circuits: 0
• Gym Weight Sessions: 0
• Calories Burnt: 0
• Current Weight: 96kg

Not running, but currently listening to:

• Pendulum
• Kings of Leon
• Dizzee Rascal’s cover of the Ting Ting’s ‘That’s not my name’

From July to December – or why I haven’t really got this blog going!

So, I had the grand ideal of recording my plans to get fit, but life kind of got in the way.

So since my last post I have made a purchase of a new iPod Nano with Nike+ kit (very nice and when I use it it motivates me!). I signed up to the Nike+ site after my first run with the kit and it’s great, it records distance, pace, calories etc. It works with a sensor that sits in your Nike+ trainers, or a trainer pouch, if, like me you don’t have Nike+ trainers. The sensor communicates with a small sensor that connects to your ipod Nano. When you are ready to run you set the distance you wish to go for, choose your music and away you go. Every 1km (you can set it up for miles but kms work for me) a voice tells you your distance, calories burned and, if you press the middle button on your ipod, your pace. As you get towards the end of a run the voice counts out your decreasing distance in smaller increments (e.g. 500 metres to go, 400 metres to go etc) – this actually works as a motivator to push yourself for the final sprint.

Once back home, you plug your ipod into your computer and you can send your run info to the Nike+ website where your runs are stored. The site is great and records all your run information as well as allowing you to set goals and challenge other runners.

Once logged in you can view your historic runs:

Nike+ Runs Chart

You can also delve into the detail of the run by clicking on one of the green bars above.

Nike+ Run Detail

You can the name the run so you remember where you failed to meet your goals!

Overall the Nike+ kit has been worth it as it has pushed me to actually set goals for my runs. Since using the kit my pace has gone from 6′18″ per km to 5′27″ per km.

So what has that done for me? Well I started out my training (which includes the gym – I’ll blog this later) at 104 kg (fat b*****d) and got down to 94 kg (not so fat b*****d) and, due to slacking off and Christmas am up to about 96kg.

I’ve got 2 goals over the next 3 months – get down to less than 90kg and be ready for the Reading Half Marathon. Bring it on!!

My fifth jog around cannon hill park

I started the blog today after having a great run around Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham. Having lived in the city for about 18 months I have never bothered to go to Canon Hill Park until two weeks ago when I decided to start my jogging activity for real.

I have been working out in the gym for quite a while, on the treadmill and cross trainer, but found the whole process both tedious and psychologically difficult to run any distance. So looking around on good old Google Maps I found Cannon Hill in nearby Edgbaston, opposite the cricket ground.

My first attempt around the park was just 1.6km, that was last Sunday and it was pretty good.

cannon hill jog route number 1

The next day I added on a little more to the route and went around twice.