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Author: jogblog
Halo Non Bio Sports Wash
Yeah, smelly kit, we all love smelly kit don’t we? No? Not even the kit that stays smelly no matter how many times you wash it? Oh.
Well then, here’s something to cheer you up – a washing detergent specially formulated for sportswear.
According to the bottle, it:
- Removes sweat and odours
- Works as low as 30C
- Is tough on stains; and is
- Antifungal and antibacterial
It’s not just for sportswear, you can use it as a normal detergent as I did today and although there’s not a lot I can say about a laundry detergent, it left my clothes and kit clean and smelling fresh (which, let’s face it, is all you want from a laundry detergent).
You don’t need me to remind you that Juneathon starts in a month, so you might want to get yourself some of this.
Halo Non Bio Sports Wash costs £33.60 for 6 x 1ltr. For single purchases, visit www.wiggle.co.uk.
More blog bling
I’m going to get a big head if I get any more bling to display on my blog, but Julia Buckley nominated me as one of her Top Ten Best British Fitness Blogging Birds (IMO). (I’m not keen on the ‘bird’ bit, but I like the IMO bit as it sounds like emo and therefore pleases my inner goth.)
She gave me a badge and everything – look:
I was delighted to see one of my best friends – Helen, who blogs at HelsBels – on there, along with Angela who blogs at Warriorwomen which has been one of my favourite blogs since I started blogging back in 2006. Angela has a dry sense of humour, doesn’t take herself seriously, likes a drink and sticks to a training schedule as well as I do. Really not sure why I like her blog…
Thanks, Julia!
That’s me in the spotlight
Amsterdam was fab, thanks for asking. I came back with a cold that still hasn’t gone but, let’s face it, there are worse things I could have come back with from Amsterdam – herpes or a crack addiction, for example.
Anyway, the other day, I got a tweet from Tamar saying I was no. 3 in their Fitness Spotlight. I wanted to brag at the time but then the Boston Marathon explosions happened and while I don’t get involved in all that collective grief bandwaggoning (public RIPing makes me want to punch people but, as someone who doesn’t like violence, I just unfollowed a load of people instead), I didn’t really think it was appropriate to say ‘yeah yeah yeah, whatever, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE’, but after a few hours everyone on Twitter had moved on from Boston and were talking about what they’d had for breakfast again and then I saw someone else on the list had blogged about her Fitness Spotlighting and so I assumed a reasonable mourning period had passed and I could do the whole LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE thing again.
I still haven’t done any fitness-y things though. One day I’ll be found out for the fraud I am.
Plan A, Plan B, Plan… oh forget it…
I’m off to Amsterdam on Friday and haven’t done a thing about it yet apart from buy the plane tickets and book a hotel (which is very grown up for me – I usually just turn up there then look for somewhere to stay). For some reason, I like to buy new clothes if I’m going away, even if it’s only for a couple of days.
So, today I had planned to sod the exercise and go into town and do stuff like take back some books to the library, get my hair cut, buy some clothes, toiletries and make-up and get some Euros from the Post Office (grown up holiday thing no. 2).
But it was raining. I got up at about 7:30am and it was still raining at 9:30am and so I thought sod it, I’ll go into town tomorrow instead and today I’ll do some exercise at home then crack on with my playwriting essay.
Hmm. That was the plan, anyway. What actually happened was that yes, I did start exercising at home along to Erin O’Brien’s Strong Body Fit Body DVD that I enjoyed last week or the week before or whenever it was I used it but today, I really couldn’t be bothered with it and so I sacked it off after thirty minutes.
Back upstairs to work really hard on my essay then. Yeah, right. What actually happened was that I decided to do two lots of washing, make a red bean, cashew and spinach curry for dinner and then it was lunchtime so I made some mushroom and lentil soup. After logging my meals into myfitnesspal, I was over calories for the day so after lunch (okay… two hours after finishing my lunch and finishing dicking around on the internet and not doing my essay) I did a rare thing – I got changed and went to the gym. Yeah, in the afternoon and everything.
Ouch, that was hard. I was bloated from lunch and it took forty minutes of exercise to stop feeling like a lead balloon. After I’d finished, I had a look at the classes on offer. As it’s a tiny gym, they don’t have many and the only thing I’d possibly do is circuit training but then I thought, maybe in Juneathon, I’ll force myself to do some of these classes. But not Zumba. There is NOTHING in this world that would make me do Zumba. Just the thought of it terrifies me.
Speaking of Juneathon – it’s only a couple of months away – yippee!
Cision Fitness and Exercise Blogs UK Top 10
Cision interviewed fitness guru Julia Buckley last week and in that interview, Julia said my blog was one of her favourites – thanks, Julia, I’m honoured and delighted! This led to Cision ranking me at number four in the Fitness and Exercise Blogs UK Top 10 which obviously further honoured and delighted me.
You’d think that as the UK’s number four fitness and exercise blogger, I’d actually do some fitness and exercise stuff, especially as I’m still on my Operation Stop Being A Fat Lazy Cow thing. So, yes, I have been to the gym over the last few days but I haven’t done any running though. I haven’t run for a month or more – anyone got any tips on how I can get back out there?
AWDis Girlie Cool T-Shirt
I only did half an hour of weights yesterday, but I’m aching today. That’s what you get for not doing any exercise for a month, I suppose.
Today I went to the gym and not just because I had a new AWDis Girlie Cool T-shirt from Qtag.com I wanted to try out.
I like this t-shirt. It fits well, it’s red (I like red), it’s got wickability, it’s comfortable and, best of all, it doesn’t cost much over six quid. Yeah, six quid for a proper technical wicking t-shirt without having to go into that well known high street shop that does cheapy sportswear but has a layout like a van backed into the shop, ejected its contents and left it there in a muddled heap.
You don’t have to get a red one; you can get a black one, a yellow one, a purple one, a white one, a one-of-their-three-different-shades-of-blue one, a fluorescent pink one and even a kelly green one (whatever that is).
By the way, ‘AWDis’ stands for All We Do Is. I’m not sure what it is they only do. Make decent cheap t-shirts, maybe.
I got to the gym and as I got there a girl was going in and she held the door open for me and then there she was in the changing room and it’s only a small room and there was only two of us in there and so I thought I should probably make conversation or something but all I could think of to say was ‘cold, innit?’ and I’d already had the ‘cold, innit?’ conversation with the girl on reception, so I just smiled at her, hung up my coat and went out and did some gym stuff.
After being on the rowing machine and cross-trainer, I wanted to do an Audiofuel Thru the Gears session on the treadmill but I hadn’t run for nearly four weeks when I did three miles with a running group. Yes, a running group. Me, out running with other people on purpose and not just accidentally because I got caught up in a bunch of schoolkids running for the bus. Get me, Miss Social Runner.
Anyway, I managed a whole Thru the Gears session without any walking bits and felt knackered but great after.
I’m quite enjoying this Operation Stop Being a Fat Lazy Cow. I’ve still got university assignments to do though, bah.
Operation Stop Being a Fat Lazy Cow day 3
Rowing machine: 20 minutes
Cross-trainer: 20 minutes
Treadmill: 15 minutes
New t-shirts: 1
‘Cold, innit?’ dilemmas: 1
Operation Stop Being A Fat Lazy Cow
‘If you drink wine tonight, you won’t go to the gym tomorrow.’ Yeah yeah yeah, whatever. Anyway, I did drink wine last night – today is the start of the Easter break after all, so it was compulsory wasn’t it? But I couldn’t let Shaun come home and say ‘told you so’, so I went to the gym. I hadn’t been for about a month but it was right where I’d left it, just a few minutes’ walk down the road and so Operation Stop Being A Fat Lazy Cow had begun.
We all know that exercise alone doesn’t shift the fat so I’m going to have to cut down on the crisps and stuff too and, in a timely fashion, the mini-Nutribox I’d been sent to review came through the door this morning (well, sort of through the door, the postie isn’t very good at putting the post all the way through).
The mini-Nutribox contains nine healthy snacks. All vegetarian, mostly vegan and, from what I can tell from the contents of this month’s box, raw too. I am a firm believer that raw food is the best food and today out of the box I had an ‘Energise’ goji, flax and maca superfood raw ‘fruit cookie’ and, as well as being stupidly healthy, it was flipping delicious too. I’m going to blog more about the Nutribox on my veggie blog soon.
I’m tracking my food and exercise on myfitnesspal, so if anyone’s on there and wants to friend me or follow me or whatever they call it on there, my username is jogblog.
Operation Stop Being A Fat Lazy Cow Day 1
Rowing machine: 20 minutes
Cross-trainer: 20 minutes
Crisps and stuff: 0
Winner of the Vibram FiveFingers KSO giveaway announced!
The random number generator has spoken and the winner of the Vibram FiveFingers KSO giveaway is:
Frances Green
Well done, Frances!
I’ve got a favour to ask…
See this cow?
Cute, isn’t it?
It’s soooooooooooooo cute, I’ve entered it into a ‘Cute Cow’ competition and what I’d like/need/really really really really would love you to do for me is to vote for it so I win the competition and get given lots of money.
If I win, I’ll spend £100 of the prize money on a giveaway on my blog.
You can vote for my cow here: http://cowoftheyear.com/view_the_contstants/cathy-white-3/# (you can vote once every day).
Please vote for my cow!