NewYearathon

Hello everyone - hope you've had a good weekend. I've been to Yorkshire and back (a round trip of about 360 miles). DD and DS are spending half term with grandma and grandad (so same trip next weekend).

I wasn't feeling especially motivated this evening. I managed to persuade myself to do NMTZ on the end.

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Still KBFFing but haven't posted for a while due to hectic work schedule.
Have half term week off but we are away for a few days from tomorrow so will have to catch up later in the week. Will hopefully be getting some walks in whilst away though....
Fab cake Oubliette .

DD is fine Kanyes - it was just a routine appointment with the orthodontist.

Today I've done 30DS L3D7 & 6W6P L1D14.

Tomorrow I'll be having a rest day. I'm not sure about Sunday yet. We're travelling north to visit family this weekend, I'm not sure what time we'll get back.

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DD had a hospital appointment this afternoon, so I took half a day as holiday. Traffic was crazy, so we walked to and from her appointment. Then I walked to and from DS's school. By the time I've walked to and from choir later this evening I reckon I'll have spent 90 mins walking.

I've also done NMTZ.

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Dinner was fine, thanks. Had a thumping headache this morning even though I only had a pre-dinner cocktail and one glass of wine (I have an embarrassingly low tolerance for alcohol) but survived the day and even managed a pretty good run after work. Am exhausted now so soon to bed ...

Sorry to hear you had an unwell mini kanye. Hope he or she is on the mend now. Well done on the arm-y boot camp (see what I did there?)!

Oubliette, I continue to be awed by your Jillian dedication! And purple, your gym dedication is mighty impressive too.

'Night all.

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I've just done 30DS L3D6 & 6W6P L2D13. I'm very sweaty, so I'm off to jump in the shower.

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I've been doing the cooking interspersed with exercise thing again tonight:

30DS L3D5
(make pancakes for DC)
6W6P L1D13

Fortunately that means DH is on washing up duty.

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Mmmmm ... caaaaake. Looks fabulous, Oubliette.

Kanye, it was the buck furpees HIIT that I found. Love the name! I did it yesterday but with what they describe as "intermediate" burpees instead of the "advanced" ones that I did for my 100 burpee torture session. That was a good call, as I would surely have expired if I'd tried to do the advanced ones plus all the in between bits. As it was, I took 13:46 to get through it. I figure I'll try it once a week or so and move up to full burpees when I've gotten my time comfortably lower on the intermediate version.

No exercise today as I have a business dinner tonight. I am planning to be sensible with food and drink, but experience tells me that my intention tends to turn to "oh f*ck it, pour me a large glass and pass the bread basket" after about 15 minutes with (1) a lovely wine list and (2) a table full of clients. We shall see. I do want to get in a run tomorrow, though, so I really can't go overboard on the booze in particular.

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Dsis watched my two DC in the theatre this morning whilst I nipped to the gym. Managed to tag an extra 400 metres each run onto my run/walk/run/walk cycle which meant I was only speed walking 400metres instead of 800metres. I'm improving. I am doing 30 minutes of yoga & Pilates mix concentrating on core work at home each day.

Any of you have braved the elements over the past couple of days have my respect. It's bloody awful out there!

I stayed safely indoors for my workouts: 30DS L3D4 & 6W6P L2D12.

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P.S. The cake is very nice - although I'm not sure it counts as a healthy post-workout snack especially when served with a large dollop of extra-thick double cream

Belated birthday cake for DS.

My exercise was interspersed with baking this evening:
Make cake mix, put cake in oven - change into kit - 30DS L3D3 - take cake out of oven - 6W6P L1D12 - ice cake.

I'm looking forward to trying some cake later...

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I've been missing for the past week and sadly I have failed at doing any real exercise. I'm hoping to do another of this week because I'm away from home on a course for 3 days and I'm hoping to walk from the hotel to the training centre there and bacK. I can't wait to get back to normality.

Oops ... The 100 not the 10 burpees. Promise it didn't take me 20 some odd minutes to do 10 of them!

The 10 burpees were all in a row, but in small chunks with rest in between. Not sure I could have coped with doing squats or lunges or anything else in between! But I think I found the buzzfeed HIIT workout you did, kanye, and it does look like a good one to time and use for a benchmark monthly or so.

Was stuck indoors due to torrential rain and wind yesterday so did strength training. There is glorious sunshine today, so I went for a surprisingly nice run. Amazing the difference a blue sky makes.

Happy Sunday, all.

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It is quieter than usual here this evening. DS has gone to a sleepover at the Science Museum with school. Which means he isn't bickering with DD.

I didn't get out much as the weather was so shit. So I did another Saturday workout: NMTZ.

Hopefully back to 30DS & 6W6P tomorrow if my motivation holds up

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Well done everyone.
Missed thurs & fri so made myself get up in the dark, leave a nice warm house & bed and go to the gym in the rain before 7am. Not a big workout as DH had somewhere to be at 8:30am and Ds had athletics at 8:45am but a little is better than nothing. Trying to teach 4yr old dd yoga positions in the changing rooms at the club. We were having a giggle until she decided she would rather dance.

100 burpees sounds like torture. I'm not convinced I could manage that.

I'm looking forward to this evening - or maybe gin. Cheers!

Happy Friday everyone - it's finally the weekend (it's been a really long week for me).

I seem to have rediscovered my motivation - I've just done 30DS L3D2 & 6W6P L2D11.

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Well, I was already feeling guilty this morning that I hadn't exercised Wednesday or yesterday and only managed to walk Tuesday and this morning. Then I logged on here and read of everyone's fabulous work, with 5k PBs and 10% milestones and crazy HIIT routines and thought, right, time to step it up a bit. So I figured I'd try 100 burpees like kanye. Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln, woman! Childbirth was only marginally more unpleasant than that! I was agonizingly slow -- up to 70 I managed sets of 10 with long rests in between, then I had to drop down to sets of 5. I think it took me 20+ minutes altogether .

Anyway, well done to all you fit and committed people! If anyone needs me I will be stiffly perched at my computer, groaning softly, until the work day ends.

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