Crossing the finishing line - #Juneathon Day 30

I started the last day of Juneathon having clocked up a little over 192 miles - so the question was could I make it over 200. A difference of 8 miles was more exercise than I would usually do on a Sunday, even with the newly introduced cycle to and back from the swimming pool.

S came into our room around 7 this morning and woke Sarah and I up slowly by being extremely cute. This meant that I was all sorted and ready to head out to the pool in plenty of time. The only available option for extra exercise today was going to be to/from my aunt's house, where we were due to have lunch as I have too much to carry not to go to/from church in the car and Sarah was going to be zauberflöting with her band this afternoon.

So, on me bike and off to the pool. I was actually early today and was first into the pool. I got into the fast lane and set off. It felt really good today and I completed 100 lengths in just under an hour. 98 were on front crawl and 2 were on breast stroke (they would all have been on front crawl, but the lifeguards started swapping the lane designations around and I wanted to see what they were playing at). In the end, I had the lane to myself for the whole hour as the pool was quieter than usual.

After church, it was a quick change into some cycling gear and headed off to lunch with the family. All was going well until I hit the three mile mark, at which point, I had to contend with some serious elevation change and even changing down the gears, I wasn't able to pedal all the way up the path from the Birmingham Main Line towpath to the road and had to get off and push the final bit. Even then, there was still more climbing to be done, however just about managed to cope with that.

On the bright side, this meant that the return journey would be downhill, although to compensate, I did choose a longer route that took me back to the Walsall canal.

And so that's my Juneathon done - to finish, I'll leave you with Rocket Ron's photo of me crossing the finishing line at yesterday's Walsall Arboretum Park Run. 


Cycling: 11.58 miles in 1h 09m 54 (4 rides)
Swimming: 1.55 miles (2.5km)  in 57m

Stop the clock!

Juneathon totals:
 

Running:
Distance - 29.99 miles
Time - 4h 19m 05
 
Swimming:
Distance - 8.06 miles
Time - 4h 47m 38

Cycling:
Distance - 138.23 miles
Time - 9h 55m 57

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 - 205.82 miles
Total Time - 25h 20m 56
Total Weight loss during June - 2lb

Total Distance this year - 1101.21 miles (94.71 miles ahead of target).