Day 7: excuses excuses

'Cause what would Janathon be without an excuses day!. I feel there are always a few days where you just can't face a full on exercise session and need to think up a really good excuse...

I'm not sure if its good but quite frankly my brain is as non-compliant as my body today. Basically my body hurts. A lot. So a combination of DOMS from Monday, cramps and truely disgusting weather meant no running and the return of knee twinges led me to limit myself to some physio exercises. To help me feel like I had made a bit more of an effort, I also did a few crunches, a pitiful 10 second plank and a few upper body exercises with my resistance bands.

I had planned to do my dressing gown dash today but there was no way I was going out again into the rain and high winds once I had got home from work. So folk will just have to wait for that delightful sight ;)

So, there you go. A bit of a crap one. But tomorrow is another day!

stats!
distance: 0
time: 15mins
leg raises: 30 (in various forms)
plank: 10 seconds
mini pressups: 10
crunches: 10

Day 6: more running with an extra helping of cycling

Yesterday it was evil gym lady making me do things I didn't like and today it was Ian's turn. After a day at work with my Janathon lunchtime run, I came home to the usual greeting of 'What we going to have for dinner?'  This usually also ends with us needing to go to the shops for ingredients that aren't in the already not-too-badly-stocked fridge.

I didn't want to take the car as it was rush hour and its only less than  2miles away and as Ian had been doing not very much I reckoned he could easily have managed to go to the supermarket on his own. But no...I get bullied into going out into the cold dark night to do an extra helping of exercise.

It's was actually ok though it was hard not to buy hunger-induced junk food. And we rewarded ourselves with a lovely bottle of (rather expensive, for us) wine. I know! Drinking again, but we are celebrating a quiet night to ourselves while my folks are away for a few days to give us some space. For those who don't know, our flat got flooded just before Christmas leaving us without a bathroom and a new kitchen that now needs to be ripped out and dried out. So, yeah, justifying all the wine drinking on that!.

Stats!
distance: 2.8miles running. 2.7miles cycling.
Total: 5.5miles
Total time: 47 mins

Day 5: My gym instructor is EVIL!!!

Evil I tell you!!! I mean, who, on the first Monday back to the horrific regime of getting up in the dark for work and coming home in the dark to exercise, makes you do 10 WHOLE MINUTES of abs?!?! My evil fitness instructor or 'Mel' as she's known.

Yeah, the first Monday back to work after Xmas is never easy - I may have cried a little when I had to get up this morning. And it didn't get much better.

Body pump on Monday is always the hardest one. Evil Mel is one of those instructors that shouts at you if you come up out of a swat too fast. Don't get me wrong, its usually a good workout but I have never liked the military style of instructing. And anyone who does 10 mins of abs at the end of the torture is just plan mean.

So, I will be hurting tomorrow. I may try to go to a circuits class but I may take the 'easy' option of a lunch time run with only the voices in my head shouting at me...

distance: 0 - it was a body pump class
time: 50 mins (ten of which were nasty abs)
evil instructors: 1

day 4: (Maybe) the last hungover run of the month...

Well...I'll at least try. While everyone, so we are led to believe, is starting their detox/whatever-the-latest-fad-dietey kind of thing, me and Ian were out getting drunk...again. Well, it was 2  birthdays and a leaving do, it would be rude not to :)

The place we were in is a Geek's paradise, with Star Wars, Doctor Who and Marvel comics memorabilia everywhere - Ian was dissuaded from stealing one of the cushions.





So today saw me miss all the lovely sunshine as I put off going for my run until I could put it off no more. Here is my cat Dylan taunting me with her cosy sleeping pose while I get my gear on.

I managed a slow 2.4 miles round the estate. Its back to the horror of normal working life tomorrow and the gym. I'm guessing it will be overrun by new year nubies out for their annual week of disciplined exercise.

stats:
distance 2.4 miles
time: 23 mins 50 secs
hangovers: 1
cushions not stolen: 1

day 3: doing it proper like

Well, I finally did it properly. I admit my first couple of days have been rather slacker like - though not nearly as bad as Cathy who thinks sitting up in bed is a form of exercise (! though I think I'll be using that one at some point myself hehe) but today I have gone out and done proper exercise.

In desperate need of exercise themselves my folks came out for a walk in the Pentlands while I ran up and met them back on the way down.. It was a beautifully sunny day but egads it was cold! For most of the run my torso was numb.

 Didn't do right up to Logan Lea as there was a rather slippery hill to go up which I could easily see me falling rather than running done on the way back.

Overall a good run and as the holiday period isn 't properly over I awarded myself with a beer on my return home.

distance: 5 miles
time: 51mins

Day 2: running in sub-zero temeratures is not a cure for a headache

It was probably a delayed hangover but I've had a headache for most of the day. The plan was a long walk in the Pentlands this morning but as my mum and me got our boots on it started blizzarding  so we stayed in and opened a bottle of cava instead. And as usual, after top up no. 1, the sun came out!

After more wine, too much mashed potato and the watching of a film, it was dark and getting colder so there was no more putting it off - I donned my running gear for a circuit of the estate. Not far but I was actually running (as slow as it was).

I got to the end of it with headache still in place and a stitch. But then, noone said it was going to be easy. I'm now going to have a lie down on my cute cushion that Ian gave me for xmas - its huge, and has horns!!

distance: 1.2 miles
time: a rather tortoise like 12mins

Day 1: The traditional start to Janathon

Well, it was inevitable. There's was a Hogmanay party and lots of wine and I find myself staggering home at 3pm in the afternoon.  There was never a good chance that any kind of proper exercise would take place today.

However, after consulting with the Janathon leader I'm told that my 2mile walk home from my party qualifies as my Janathon effort,so I'm happy with that. There's was extra effort needed due to windy conditions and a heavy rucksack to carry.

I'm also pretty sure I spent some of the early hours of the days dancing so I'm going to let that' be my contribution for my first day.

I Will make more of an effort tomorrow,promise!,

Stats:
Distance:2 miles, roughly
Time: 30mins
Hangovers expected tomorrow:1 very large one