Today was a lovely day, but having done a towpath run yesterday, I wasn't keen to just do a combination of running and walking again today. However, as we were finally having some sunny weather, I didn't want to spend all my time exercising indoors.
I therefore came up with a plan of getting Sarah to drop me at the gym and then making my own way home. Usually when I'm in the gym, I do five minutes warm up on the treadmill and see what I feel like from there, but knowing I was going to end up walking/running home, I started on the cross-trainer instead. What confuses me there is that I did 3km in just under 15 minutes. Projecting that forward, I would have completed 5km in just under 25 minutes - why can't I do that on a treadmill or what I'm at Park Run?
Having completed my time on the cross trainer, I knocked 4 seconds off my PB doing 2k on the rowing machine. For a bit of a break, I thought I'd try a little time on the leg extension and pull down weight machines. Not a serious go, but enough to remind my body where muscles are supposed to be.
After a short burst on the exercise bike, I headed home. Although I knew where I was heading to a point, I wasn't exactly sure where the trail to the towpath was or what it was like, so I walked from the gym to the towpath - just as well as there were some quite interesting obstacles that would have made life interesting to run down (low branches, mud patches and nettles - sometimes all three at the same time).
When I'd cleared this bit, I ran back towards home. I haven't run down that part of the towpath for a while and it surprised me how quickly I covered the distance. All too soon I was back at the main road, with a short walk to get home. Quite a pleasant afternoon's exercise.
Thursday is my weigh in day - doing so straight after finishing my workout probably wasn't the best idea, but even a 1/4lb loss is still a loss.
Cross Trainer 1.86 miles in 14m 57
Rowing Machine 1.24 miles in 09m 07
Weights - a bit
Exercise bike: 4.04 miles in 12m 02
Running: 1 mile in 08m 34.
Walking: 1.46 miles in 23m 53.
Weight loss: 0.25lb
Juneathon totals:
Running:
Distance - 7.22 miles
Time - 1h 02m52
Swimming:
Distance - 1.55 miles
Time - 54 m 24
Cycling:
Distance - 23.04 miles
Time - 1h 08m53
Walking:
Distance - 3.56 miles
Time - 56m 47
Cross Trainer:
Distance - 1.86 miles
Time - 14m 557
Rowing Machine:
Distance - 1.24 miles
Time - 09m 07
Total Distance - 38.47 miles
Total Time - 4h 27m 00
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