Carry on exercising - the August 2022 edition

[roonetta]

Hope this works!

Day 5 Arise ☑️

77/200

Dawnie today, going in again at lunchtime, if I can get my ducks in a row.

I have my usual BodyCombat tonight, and there is a strong chance of a triple dip afterwards, let's see!

64 days including today.

Sea swim cancelled due to sewage

gah! we have some issues locally but mainly when it has been heavy rain. I'm hoping for decent water this summer.

20 mins spin. Still melting here

🤢 bonfirebash - that sounds grim.

Well done for spinning through the heat!

Day 6 Arise ☑️

78/200

Cancelled my Friday class, nobody booked. Rest day Saturday. On Saturday boss cancelled Sunday's class as there was just 1 booking. I had a 30 minutes swim in my fancy wetsuit instead. Swam upstream for most of the time, the tide was really fighting me.
I got back in after and swam in skins for another 15 minutes.
65 days

That's frustrating about the classes, Bez. Hope the new wetsuit is comfy. I've never managed to get on with them.

I averaged 20,000 steps over the four days i was away, in 29° heat but I obviously had too many icecreams to cool myself down, since I didn't come back a waif 😆

Back to a very hard and hot gym class this evening. Instructor was mean and kept making me drop lower in all the various squats and lunges we were doing.

Days exercised 105

That's a shame Bez - I expect the heat is putting people off. Good that you got your swims in.

You have to eat ice cream on holiday Motherforkin, it's the law 😏. Sounds like your gym instructor will soon get rid of any unwanted ice cream pounds!

Day 7 Arise done ☑️

79/200

Three rest days. Would have swum today but we had some heavy rain and the water is polluted. Coincidentally had SW water phoning me up about water-saving. I managed to mention the water pollution locally, and said I'd be happy to install water butts to reduce surface runoff, since I live on high ground and the runoff is a big contributor to the overflows.

Scored a free 200l water butt. The least they can do to be fair.

Water quality is very poor here too, Bez after the torrential rain over the last few days. I got to the gym today, very hit and sweaty class.

Days exercised 106

Day 8 Arise done ✅

80/200

Bit of a bumper day for me, unexpectedly. Two hilly dog walks plus a lunchtime swim. My legs are sore.

Days exercised 107

I had a nice little swim at high tide then a big stretch and then taught my BodyCombat class. I felt good in the water after a few days off, actually. I think my shoulders needed those rest days.
I have my BC class today and probably the stretching class afterwards, then it would be about time for a nice swim!

Lunchtime class. So many performative men there today grunting and exhaling a lung at every opportunity. And one tool who abandoned his Porsche in the car park, because he was too important to wait 3 minutes for the previous class to end and the car park to clear, making it really hard for others to get out. Then he disappeared from class half way through. Muppet.

Days exercised 108

20 min country pop spin class

@Porsche guy "but do you even gym, bro?"

30 min sample that spin
It's basically he plays a song, then plays another song that uses a sample of the first one. Pretty interesting to keep me distracted from gasping

That sounds really good @bonfirebash

I swam for 20m this morning, felt really good. Flat water and a good current.

Then off to teach my class. I was off on one, had such a good time!

68 days

I was away for the weekend. We had a gorgeous sea dip on Saturday, big bouncy waves and loads of splashing and bobbing about.

I slept really badly last night so instead of pushing too hard I've done lots of walking so im counting it.

Days exercised 109

Dipped yesterday, with not too much swimming. I'm calling it an acclimatisation session (forgot my cap, and was worried about losing my expensive earplugs).

I attended bendy-stretchy class as well, so definitely counts. I've just had a look at the webcam at the yacht club, water looks very nice!

68 days.

I'm half dead after my class at the gym. I honestly wasn't sure I'd get through the conditioning session between the heat and the evil programme.

Days exercised 110

haha @MotherForkinShirtBalls I know that feeling well from when I used to do Combat as a participant. It's a hell of a class, especially if you go in hot on the first couple tracks (hands up who does that, me).

Swam yesterday and today, accounting error included, that makes 71 days.

Wow everyone is killing it!

Same can't be said for me...no excuses, just laziness.

Arise day 10 done ✅

81/200

everyone is allowed to detrain from time to time, even the Proper Athletes do it!

Never fear @roonetta you'll be back at it in no time