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Good Pixie! Bad Pixie!

Plan: 40 mins run 5:2
Run: Nowt!

Got up and spent an hour or so sorting gnome's stuff out as he is of on holiday for the week with his Gran and Grandad on their canal boat. Walked the 10 mins each way to the paper shop then off we went.

Got home had lunch and the tready arrived!!! Oh yes!
So I spent the next 4hrs (less 30 mins to sit down and drink a cuppa tea!) clearing the garage and making my tready! After which time I had had a good workout and was knackered! Hubby then decided we would go out for tea! I drove so no booze but vey nice and large dinner was consumed!

So it's here! 99% finished, just need to tighten some bolts and earth the plug then organise the garage again! Problem is do I do my 40min run from today or the intervals? Monday is my next long run (so I don't have a long run next weekend when Gnome is back as I would have missed him as it is!)

Oh and I passed the last section of the Fit2Run course and have the final bit to do!
Also I have enrolled on the free Get Fit For Life course with Loughborough college which is all about diet healthy living stress managment etc. Wednesday I am going for an assesment in a Bod Pod which accurately gives lean body mass, fat and total mass (or something like that!) also they will take blood pressure etc and then this will be repeated at the end of the course! The kick up the butt I needed to get this diet on the road! New Tready and this course - sorted!

Comments

XFR Bear said…
So - no running!

[wags finger scoldingly!]

think I'd do the intervals today Pix - and that is TODAY!!!

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