L-R: me, Strewth, CJ.
Saturday afternoon this pussycat headed to Canberra Zoo for a close encounter with another cute cat -
Isn't he bewdiful? And yes, I made it out of there with all my digits & limbs intact.
Sunday dawned even colder. I headed out for a run just before 7am. Despite the fact that Mt Ainsle & its trails were tantalisingly close to my hotel, I behaved myself & stuck to the flats. Headed from my hotel down to do a loop of the War Memorial, then along Anzac Parade heading towards the lake and looped back & headed for home. Finished up 7.16km in 46:42mins (aver. 6:31min/km). And at the risk of repeating myself (again), no niggles!! I am loving this 'niggle free, consistent training' thing. Who knew it was so much fun ;-) (*she says touching wood). I'm also pretty pleased to see that my 'run all day'/LSD pace seems to be picking up; mind you I've only been running flats lately....
MTD: 46.61kms
Today (Monday) it was back to the gym for another weights session with Satan. Asimilarr session to last week. I was feeling very tired before the session but woke up pretty quickly after it started -
* lunges with single arm shoulder press with 6kg dumbbell (opposite arm to front leg);
* push-ups (On. My. Toes. Baby);
* a core exercise - god knows what its called but basically starting on all fours but with the top of your feet resting on a swiss ball then rolling your legs out straight so you are in a push-up or prone hold/plank position before coming back down;
* adductor exercise using the swiss ball;
* lying side leg circles,
repeated twice with a final set of lunges/shoulder press thingys to finish. Feeling great now!
I'm moving this weekend. And given that my loungeroom looks remarkably normal, I've got a *stack* to do this week so my training (and particularly my blogging and blog reading) will be limited...
8 comments:
Cats are my favourite.
Nice run too :-)
It's great to see you back to training with no niggles.. v.v. exciting. There'll be no stopping you now.
... so it was nice you could give us a great update before the big move occurs. Love the cheetah photo - must have been trez cool :)
Chilly Canberra! Are you kidding? It's bloody beautiful today!
Glad to hear your running is niggle-free Jen. That's a lovely feeling.
It's called a prone jack-knife ;-)
Nice spots
Good luck with the move, Jen. Moving sucks - may yours be v. smooth.
Cheers,
Ben
Hope the move goes well and is stress-free Jen (if possible). Love that photo of you two pussycats - it's just gorgeous (like you)!
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