Juneathon day 8: an oasis in the desert (and a fun party)

Written Jun 8, 2013, tagged under post,circuits,cycling,exercise,family,foam rolling,health,juneathon,Pednor Loop,running

Okay, it's late and we have an early start in the morning, so let's hit hard and fast! Saturday, with an action-packed oasis of activity in the desert of calf woes: I salute you!

The day started well, with a Wild Training session. That was an hour of tabata, alternating between rip training and various kinds of jump lunges and burpees. This time we also finished off with a set of tabata press-ups (don't try this at home), and a short but sharp abs session.

Next, I managed to fit in a little run to try my calf out and see how it felt. In total I did 2.79 miles in 29:34 ... and the calf seemed happy enough. It was quite slow, so I'm going to still try to be careful, but it's encouraging.

The afternoon had a surprise in store, though; suddenly the diary opened up enough for me and my 11yo to head out for a little bike ride. He's been dying to do this for a while, so was very keen. So we headed round for a quick blast round the Pednor Loop - it was looking lovely in the sunny weather, and felt good. It's always nice to have a chat, too, without being bugged by little sisters..! Here's a pic taken near the end. In the end, we managed an enjoyable 5.2 miles in 33:23.

Finally, the party. Okay, this isn't really Juneathon, but it was fun so I'm going to run with it anyway! At a friend's birthday party, a group called Ashanti Strings had been hired to put on some music. They were very good! And the second half of their show was high energy; after this photo was taken, an excellent dancer soon appeared and took many of the partygoers through a dance routine a bit like a zumba class.

Anyway - bed now, we're going to Blenheim Triathlon tomorrow to support a friend...

Junethon total: 1 hour of circuits, 2.79mi running and 5.2mi cycling.

PS I'm feeling quite a lot better now on this low carb experiment. More soon!