A light-hearted look at running, cycling and general fitness
And I mean a bit. I cycled an extra half a mile back from the station, after popping into Tesco to buy jacket wedges and wine.
Hardcore or what?
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 33 minutes
Speed: 9.1mph
Calories: 142
Extra halfs a mile: 1
Tescos: 1
Packets of jacket wedges: 1
Little bottles of wine: 2
But as I’d been there for four months, instead of the six weeks I was originally hired for, I can’t complain. So, in six weeks, I can go back to being a full-time lady of leisure. Yay.
And after I went to work and lost my job, I cycled home and am now very saddle sore.
Stats (cycling)
Distance: 16.91 miles
Time: 1:43:57
Speed: 9.8 mph
Calories: 520
Jobs: 0
Sore bums: 1
Today I went to the gym and went on the elliptical trainer, rowing machine and weights, then I came home and had a really nice lunch of a falafel, hummous and salad wrap and then I filled in a job application for a job at the library and managed to tell them about Juneathon which must surely get me the job? and then I cycled a round trip of 7.34 miles to buy some eggs and then I came home and caught up with the blogging I haven’t done over the last few days.
Stats (gym):
Elliptical trainer: 20 minutes
Rowing machine: 20 minutes
Weights
Calories: 250
Cycling:
Distance: 7.34 miles
Time: 40:51
Speed: 10.8mph
Calories: 247
Nice lunches: 1
Job applications containing mentions of Juneathon: 1
Far away eggs: 6
Blog posts written in a bid to catch up: 5
They short-changed me. I entered in good faith a 35 mile bike ride and my Garmin only measure 33.39 miles.
Bah.
I got to the park where the start was and although it was supposed to be a ride and not a race and a family event, it was full of serious looking cyclists wearing lycra and on proper bikes, not pink ones with wicker baskets. I felt like I was in fancy dress.
Still, I cycled 33.39 miles around Kent and got a few ‘hellos’ and ‘mornings’ and one ‘OH MY GOD, LOOK AT YOUR BIKE, I WANT THAT BIKE. THAT IS AWESOME!!!s’ and got to the finish line and the man on the tannoy said ‘that’s the first proper bike I’ve seen come through so far’ and I go and buy a nice red t-shirt from the nice lady on the www.bike-events.com stall who says I’m the spitting image of her cousin and then Shaun comes to collect me and we go to Wetherspoons and I have a roast dinner containing 1,039 calories and he has burger and chips containing 1,270 calories.
That’s a lot of calories.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 33.39 miles
Time: 3:10:50
Speed: 10.5 mph
Calories: 1,099
Proper cyclists on proper bikes and wearing lycra: hundreds
Unproper cyclists on pink bikes with wicker baskets not wearing lycra: 1
Roast dinners containing 1,039 calories: 1
Burgers and chips containing 1,270 calories: 1
Sort of says it all above, really.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 5 miles
Time: 35 minutes
Speed: 8.6mph
Tescos visited: 1
I wasn’t going to blog tonight, I was going to blog tomorrow. But then I started reading the other Juneathon blogs and thought I MUST BLOG JUNEATHON. IT IS THE LAW. And stuff. And so here’s my blog for today.
I went to work on the train and took my bike with me on the train and then I did some work and then I said ‘I’m cycling home now’, and my workmates said ‘what, all the way?’ and I said ‘yes, all the way’ and they said ‘ ’ and looked at me and I got my map out and asked one of my workmates about a roundabout on the route and the other workmate said ‘don’t you even know the way?’ and I said ‘no’ and she said ‘ ’ and so I got on my bike and I cycled down the road for a bit and then I cycled down the A28 for 12.8 miles and then eventually at a grand total of 17.64 miles later, including a stoppy off bit at Tesco to get some wine I was home and that is my Juneathon for the day.
p.s. I saw a dead rabbit.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 17.64 miles
Time: 1:49:07
Speed: 9.7mph
Calories: 539
I’d arranged to meet up in Polegate with an Open University friend to go cycling. She’d found The Cuckoo Trail and printed off a map, showing a nice easy 18 mile route.
27.5 miles later we’d been through quite a few towns and villages in East Sussex, none of which having any pubs that were selling food or even open in the first place and so lunch was had at 16 miles at 6pm, sitting outside a closed pub eating sandwiches we’d bought in the petrol garage on the other side of the road.
Classy.
I got home about five hours later than intended and as the train would be getting in after the shops had shut (yes, shops shut here, it’s shocking) I asked iliketocount to buy me some wine for when I got in and so he did a special extra Juneathon trip on his bike for me and so he is my Juneathon Hero of the Day.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 31.98 miles (including cycling to and from the station)
Time: 5:10:56
Speed: 6.2mph
Calories: 1,279
Cuckoo Trails: 1
Pubs selling food: 0
Petrol garages: 1
Shops open when I got back: 0
Juneathons completed: 5/30
I didn’t want to blog tonight but the control freak Judge and Independent Adjudicator said I had to, even if it was only for a couple of seconds so here’s my couple of seconds blog post.
For today’s Juneathon, I went the .37 mile extra to the station on the way to work and on the way home, after going to Tesco for some wine and strawberry beer, I went an even longer way home, thus using up valuable drinking time and therefore hardcore Juneathoning and therefore I am declaring myself the Juneathon Hero of the Day.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 6 miles
Time: 35 minutes
Speed: 10.3 mph
Calories: 189
Extra .37 miles before work: 1
Extra 1.32 miles after work: 1
Hardcore Juneathoners: 1
I said to the Independent Adjudicator yesterday, can I count my cycling commute to the station and back as Juneathon? And he said no. So, after I’d finished sleeping through my alarm and cycled down to the station and got the train to Canterbury and went to work, I did some work, then left at my usual time and got the train back and got back on my bike and went a really really really really really long way home.
But by a really really really really really long way, I mean an extra 0.37 of a mile. So, not really that long at all, really.
Still, it counts as Juneathon as it was extra exercise. And if you want to complain to the Independent Adjudicator, feel free. Just remember who cooks his dinner for him every night.
Stats (cycling):
Distance: 4.82 miles
Time: 31:18
Speed: 9.2mph
Calories: 137
Alarms slept through: 1
Works gone to: 1
Juneathons completed: 2/30
Saturday morning I spent being a WAG, and my feet hurt so much in my new boots
And on Sunday Shaun took me on a new route on the bikes and although we went past sheeps and cows, I didn’t take my camera with me so there’s no photographic evidence of my bovine based excursion.
But today, on the penultimate Juneathon, I thought I’d go back in search of cows, this time taking my camera, and hoping I don’t get lost. I get to the bit where I think I’m supposed to turn off but there’s road signs and I don’t know what they mean and maybe they mean I can’t go down there (and I still don’t know what it means as the website I nicked the image off doesn’t say) and so I turn round and carry on going up the hill and I think no, I definitely needed to turn off where the road signs are but I decide to go a bit further to see what’s up the road but not much really so I turn round and go down the road I was supposed to go down in the first place and I get back to the village and decide not to go home yet but to cycle through the village and go a way I’ve only been in the car before and there’s a lot of traffic but I’m brave and don’t go on the pavement and then I’m on a quiet road again and there’s a road I remember Shaun saying something about that it’s a mile loop or something but I can’t remember what as I probably wasn’t listening as usual and I decide to carry on going straight ahead and little while later I get to the road I just passed and I think aah, I’ll go down there and go back that way then and I decide to stay out longer as I still haven’t seen any cows and sheep and I don’t know why as there were plenty of cows and sheep yesterday but my quest isn’t over yet and so I carry on going and I go past a field of blue flowers
and I decide to go the way I went the other day that leads me out onto the main road and just as I get round the corner I SEE COWS!!
Woo hoo. And sheep. Woo.
And one of the cows decides to demonstrate why they’re not very good at playing hide and seek
but then the cow comes out of its not very good hiding place and it’s the prettiest cow in the whole world
and it’s right up against the fence and I want to stroke its nose but I don’t know if cows bite or not and so I decide not to stroke the cow and I eventually tear myself away from the prettiest cow in the whole world and a bit further on I go past where we saw the ducks shagging in a most violent manner and there’s brown and white sheep
but they’re a bit camera shy and run away
except for one greedy fat bastard sheep who carries on eating
and then I go down a steep hill I don’t remember going down before and I get to the main road and I decide to be brave and cycle down it to home and that’s today’s Juneathon done and as tomorrow is the last Juneathon for this year, I’m going to test out my new running watch and attempt a run and as Joggerblogger has entrusted me with the responsibility of choosing this year’s Juneathon Winner, you’d all better start getting your bribes in now.
Route
Splits
Stats day 29 (cycling)
Distance: 17.30 miles
Time: 1:43:02
Speed: 10.1mph
Calories: 475
Fields of blue flowers: 1
Cows: some
Sheep: also some
Hills I don’t remember: 1
Pavements cycled on: 0
Days to get bribes to me: 2
Juneathon’s completed: 25/30