So far so good. No wine, being very disciplined with the intermittent fasting (it's actually very easy when you know you cannot eat anything because you don't have to decide how much or how little to eat of what) I feel a little bit lighter - the numbers aren't agreeing but if I'm feeling better in myself is the important thing.
5.11 km
6m 37s per km
Listening to Quanderhorn a very silly but quite clever sitcom on the BBC
12 May 2020
7 May 2020
Day One
I'm on a new health kick. Yesterday was Day Zero when I killed all my demons (ie I had a bacon bap for breakfast, and slobbed around the house for most of the day). It was a laying to rest of the habits that have brought me down recently.
This is a weight tracker for over the last 6 months or so:
It's obvious where this was heading. And I want to get back to where I was in November. That felt far more comfortable.
So I've put that out there with the idea it'll shame me (perhaps 'motivate' would put a more positive spin on it...) and hopefully, in a few months time, the curve will be flipped over.
Today's run was a bit of a struggle - perhaps because I ate so much yesterday.
And yet:
5.17km
6m 29s per km - which is surprisingly faster than recently.
And so: day one. This is where new habits start. I'm not going to slob around quite so much; I'm going to do those niggling little jobs that are so easy to ignore. I'm going to take care of myself better, vut right back on the wine, be confident that it's ok to make mistakes.
Watch this space...
This is a weight tracker for over the last 6 months or so:
So I've put that out there with the idea it'll shame me (perhaps 'motivate' would put a more positive spin on it...) and hopefully, in a few months time, the curve will be flipped over.
Today's run was a bit of a struggle - perhaps because I ate so much yesterday.
And yet:
5.17km
6m 29s per km - which is surprisingly faster than recently.
And so: day one. This is where new habits start. I'm not going to slob around quite so much; I'm going to do those niggling little jobs that are so easy to ignore. I'm going to take care of myself better, vut right back on the wine, be confident that it's ok to make mistakes.
Watch this space...
2 May 2020
Average
Listening to The Corrupted which is a drama told across 5 series of 10 parts - it's really good. I love the idea of following a long saga. It weaves in contemporary history as well. Recommend.
5.34 km
6m 46s/km - it's over 10m 30s a mile which is slow but I think I can accept that.
A 10 minute mile is 6m 12s per km
It's a lovely morning and I was out of the house by 0715 after a crap night's sleep. I just didn't offer myself the choice of not going. If it had been raining it would have been a different matter - I have not even gone for a walk in the past week as the weather's been so awful. But it's May now - my favourite month: everything is looking green and the days are long. And then I think the longest day is only next month and the decline into Autumn has begun. But then I get over myself and enjoy the day.
Niggles: left foot is aching, left ankle too. Everything else seems to be working pretty well.
So all in all, this was a very average run.
Well done me*
*Averagely well done me
5.34 km
6m 46s/km - it's over 10m 30s a mile which is slow but I think I can accept that.
A 10 minute mile is 6m 12s per km
It's a lovely morning and I was out of the house by 0715 after a crap night's sleep. I just didn't offer myself the choice of not going. If it had been raining it would have been a different matter - I have not even gone for a walk in the past week as the weather's been so awful. But it's May now - my favourite month: everything is looking green and the days are long. And then I think the longest day is only next month and the decline into Autumn has begun. But then I get over myself and enjoy the day.
Niggles: left foot is aching, left ankle too. Everything else seems to be working pretty well.
So all in all, this was a very average run.
Well done me*
*Averagely well done me
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