Exercise unplanned - #Juneathon Day 25

It was time for the usual Tuesday-night trip to the gym. The only problem is that I had felt lethargic since... the time I got up this morning. In fact, if I hadn't have been doing Juneathon, I may have taken tonight as a night off. As such, I had absolutely no plan as to what I was going to do down the gym this evening.

I didn't want too intensive a session, but I did want to push myself a little. I warmed up on the treadmill, then I ramped up the speed to 12kph. It's faster than I had been running on the treadmill recently. I completed 2k quite comfortably and then slowed the pace so I could try something else.

Moving onto the cross trainer, I selected a lower intensity than usual with a view to doing half a kilometer forwards then backwards for about 2.5km. The only problem came when my 'power track' came on. I've never really been a fan of dance music, however, for exercise, I find that the beat can motivate me. The track that seems to do the most is "Sandstorm" by Darude. The way the music builds then dies then builds again somehow manages to push me on so even if I had no interest in doing exercise at the start of the track I've caught the bug by the end. And so it was that by a couple of minutes in, I had pushed up the intensity from the light workout I had planned to somewhere close to my normal setting.

After I finished on the cross trainer, I did about 6k on the exercise bike. This time it definitely was at a slower pace regardless of the music playing. After riding my bike yesterday and the still five days of Juneathon to do, some of which may or may not involve a cycling to Birmingham and back, I wasn't sure it was wise to push it. I therefore worked out roughly what distance I would need to do on the exercise bike to hit 7 miles and called it a day there.

Running: 1.77 miles in 18m 44
Cross-Trainer: 1.55 miles in 15m 04
Cycling: 3.74 miles in 12m 40

Juneathon totals:

Running:
Distance - 26.88 miles
Time - 3h 54m 02
 
Swimming:
Distance - 5.27 miles
Time - 3h 50m 38

Cycling:
Distance - 102.62 miles
Time - 6h 15m 33

Walking:
Distance - 17.98 miles
Time - 4h 37m 18

Cross Trainer:
Distance - 10.32 miles
Time - 1h 31m 51

Rowing Machine:
Distance - 1.24 miles
Time - 09m 07

Total Distance - 165.55 miles
Total Time - 20h 18m 29