Happy Julianuary

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I didn't watch "Merry Madagascar", but I was in the room whilst the kids were watching it and my brain must have taken some of it in as for some reason today, I'm confusing Janathon with Julianuary.

The first thing to say about today is I ache. Particularly in my arms and my sides. I suspect that's because I used the rowing machine yesterday and (a) I haven't used it in ages and (b) I assume my technique was terrible. I thought it best to leave that particular piece of equipment alone today.

Usually I wouldn't go to the gym two days in a row (although equally, I wouldn't be looking to do some kind of exercise every day of a month in quite this way). However, whilst looking for something to do for the kids in November half term, Stellian found that the local leisure centre was offering tennis lessons and the kids took to them. After half term, one of the sessions the kids could attend was between 10am and 11am on a Saturday morning, so whilst the next Andy Murray and Laura Robson are whacking tennis balls on the court, Stellian and I can use the gym on the other side of the corridor (well there's not enough time to do anything else!).

Before I got to the gym, I thought I'd take it a little easier given I was quite tired and I had less than an hour available. However, when I was doing my warm up, I decided to just have a play and enjoy myself. My first kilometre on the treadmill after the warm up was at 12kph and after a short break I did another one at 9kph. I also did a couple of 'sprints' at 13kph (lasting 30 and 45 seconds) during my warm down, just to see whether I could.

The time spent on the exercise bike was nothing special, so I moved onto the cross trainer. Previously I'd used either no resistance or 5 resistance, so I pushed it up to 10 today (max is 25 apparently). Feels like I'm getting fitter, but I want this to be confirmed on the scales next Thursday as well.

Weather looks to be OK this weekend, so hopefully I'll be able to do day 6 outdoors.

Running:
Distance - 2.24 miles
Time - 25m 40

Exercise Bike:
Distance - 4.37 miles
Time - 14m 40

Cross trainer (Elliptical):
Distance - 0.79 miles
Time - 8m 30

Total today:
Distance - 7.4 miles
Time - 48m 50

Janathon:
Total Distance - 34.14 miles
Total Time - 6h 11m 29
Miles remaining - 75.86