Category: Juneathon

Juneathon 2014 – Day 12 – Damn That Little Nagging Voice!

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Dammit, Juneathon! I was happy in the garden with my Kindle. Well, kind of happy but I had this little nagging voice in my head saying ‘juuunnnneathonnnnnn… juuunnnneathonnnnnn’ and I briefly wondered if I could get away with counting my earlier walk to Tesco but decided I couldn’t get away with it twice in a month. I also knew if I didn’t do something this afternoon then I wouldn’t this evening as after I’ve had my dinner, I only want to sit on the sofa and watch telly.

So, kettlebells it was, using the 10 Minute Solution DVD again – this time doing the upper body power sculpt and the thigh and buns (don’t you hate ‘buns’ being used for anything other than bakery products?) blaster.

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Right then, back to the garden. Stupid Juneathon.

Juneathon 2014 – Day 11 – Don’t be a-llama-d but I redeemed myself today

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Okay, so that title doesn’t actually work as it wasn’t llamas I went to see today, it was alpacas. Look, little cute baby ones. Aaaaaahhhhh.

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I wasn’t just poncing about the countryside looking at fluffy white things though – I’ve been commissioned to write an article about an alpaca trek I went on recently and so I cycled back to the farm today to ask the owner a few questions. But the 11 miles there and the 11 miles back was a decent Juneathon effort, I reckon.

Juneathon 2014 – Days 6 – 10

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Uh oh, I have slacked. Day 7 was okay – I was meeting a friend in town and so I walked the 2.2 miles to the station to meet him instead of getting a lift and I kept my Garmin on and by the time we got to Pizza Express it said I’d walked about 3 miles (although I’m sure it’s not almost a mile from the station to Pizza Express).

Day 8 I’m counting walking to Tesco. It’s all I’ve got, sorry.

Day 9 I’m going to have to count as a big fat fail as I didn’t leave the house at all.

Day 10 (today) I managed to force myself out of the house for a 1.6 mile walk.

Tomorrow I will redeem myself with a 20 mile round trip on my bike to see a woman about some alpacas.

I’m just not feeling motivated this year… help…

I have got some prizes for the end of Juneathon though and all participants are eligible and if you haven’t signed up yet – it’s not too late until it’s July! See the prizes on the Juneathon website.

Juneathon 2014 – Day 5 – Putting The Kettle On

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I had a great day yesterday. I spent the afternoon in Rye helping out at a book launch, where I was on meet and greet duties, plying the attendees with wine and Pimms, while safely sticking to soft drinks myself. I would mention how much the Lady Mayoress drank in the hour in which she was there but I’d better not in case that would be grounds for locking me up in Ypres Tower for eternity or something.

After the launch, I got the train to Canterbury to see Pygmalion at the Marlowe Theatre. The show was absolutely fantastic and this review in The Telegraph of a recent performance in Bath just about sums it up.

Uncharacteristically for me, I arrived home sober at a reasonable hour and sat down in front of the telly to have a sandwich (I hadn’t eaten all day), a glass of wine and a not too late night. Uh oh. Quadrophenia had just started and my sandwich turned into a sandwich, two packets of crisps and a bar of chocolate; the glass of wine turned into most of the bottle and the not too late a night turned into me going to bed around 1.30am. Oops.

Still, I didn’t feel too bad when I woke up but couldn’t really be arsed to go for a run and I feel too wobbly on my bike the day after drinking so that was out. But… you know… because it’s Juneathon that meant slacking was not an option so I decided to do some kettlebells with my 10 Minute Solution Kettlebell Ultimate Fat Burner DVD I reviewed a while back.

Although it’s slightly misleading calling it a kettlebell workout as it mostly uses dumbbells or hand weights, not kettlebells, it’s a good workout. It contains 5 x 10 minute workouts so you can either do all of them, or just choose the ones you fancy doing at the time. Today I fancied doing the maximum fat burner and the total body sculpt and now I haven’t an inch of fat and I am as sculpted as the Venus de Milo, except I still have my arms which is handy as doing kettlebells would be a tad tricky without them.

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Juneathon Day 4 – A Bit Of Body Pump

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I SWEAR I didn’t slack off on Day 3 – I went for a three mile run, which turned into a six mile walk and when I blogged about it, it turned into a 750 word (so far) essay on wearing glasses. Because it turned into a 750 word (so far) essay, I didn’t have time to finish it before making dinner, then after I’d watched Eastenders, I went back into the conservatory to finish it on the laptop but Shaun said he was going to do his exercising in the conservatory and I’d turned off my main PC upstairs and so I couldn’t finish it. ‘Aha!’ you’re thinking – it’s a laptop – you could take it into a different room (which is also what Shaun said) but if you’ve seen how I’ve got my laptop set up, you’ll see it’s not exactly ready to be picked up and taken elsewhere. It’s on a stand thingy so it’s at an angle and not lying flat and I’ve also got a keyboard and a mouse plugged into it, and the cables for that are woven through the stand thingy, so I’ve kind of unlaptopped it really.

Anyway, that’s just to let you know that I did jog, log and blog yesterday; there’s just not much evidence of it at the mo.

Because I’m off to help out at a book launch this afternoon, then out to the theatre this evening (ooh, get me Miss Culture Vulture), I didn’t have time to do much this morning so I did a bit of body pump. A bit as in everything except the laying down bits, the abs bit and the stretching bit. Yes, that does leave other bits you cheeky gits.

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Juneathon 2014 – Day 2 – Bald Sheep

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After yesterday’s pathetic effort, I knew I had to redeem myself today so I went for a walk. Okay, so a walk isn’t exactly extreme effort but if it hadn’t have been for Juneathon, I wouldn’t have bothered and that’s one of the points of Juneathon, really.

To make it more interesting though, I thought I’d get some photos of the lambs in the field a few doors away. Unfortunately, they were far away and I could only get a crap photo.

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Then I saw some cows but they were hiding behind the hedge.

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I did get a photo of a bald sheep though.

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Tomorrow, I’ll go for a run. Promise.

Juneathon Day 2

Walk: 1.5 miles
Lambs: far away
Sheep: bald
Cows: hiding in a hedge

Juneathon 2014 – Day 1–Things Can Only Get Better

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It had been discussed and decided on Facebook that if I ran home from the pub after midnight on Saturday, it’d count as Juneathon (I’m not sure everybody who commented knew just how near I live to the pub). I even did a pre-pub video:

But then I left the pub at 11pm and didn’t want to go out at midnight and then the next day (i.e. the first day of Juneathon) I got up late (please don’t ask me how late) and was safely ensconced on the sofa with the cat when I saw on Twitter Helsbels and Travelling Hopefully had set up a search party to look for me. I told them I’d failed Juneathon. They then, along with Fairweatherrunner and Run For The Quiet, told me I hadn’t failed Juneathon and I could do a dressing gown dash. I said I didn’t want to do a dressing gown dash and anyway, the cat was comfy. Apparently ‘cat is comfy’ wasn’t a valid excuse and I needed a wee anyway, so I shifted the cat and went upstairs to the bathroom. On my return, I said I’d walked up the stairs instead of using the downstairs toilet and would that count and was told no. Bah. So I did a plank. No photographic evidence, I’m afraid.

Yeah, a lame first day, I am suitably embarrassed, I promise.

Juneathon 2014 – Sign Up Now!

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Woah, look at me being all Miss Organised. This is what happens when I’m not stressing over assignment deadlines – the Juneathon website gets updated nice and early and in plenty of time, allowing me to spend a whole month pestering people to sign up.

 

In case you don’t know what a Juneathon is; it’s a month of exercise – whether it’s running, cycling, gymming, swimming, extreme sunbathing – in June (you’d probably guessed that bit). Then you need to blog about it or tweet about it or post about it on the Juneathon Facebook Page.

It’s fun, it’s free and you’ll make lots of friends.

Off you go then – pop over to the www.juneathon.com website to sign up.

Juneathon 2013 giveaway winners announced!

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I promised to give away some fantastic prizes at the end of Juneathon. The Random Number Generator has spoken, I’ve checked the blogs for eligibility and the winners are:

A year’s supply of Halo Sports Detergent
Matt Lambourne (Matt’s Juneathon)

Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith
Lucy Jiwa (Black and Tabby Runs)

GO>ID Personal Emergency ID Kit
Holley Knight (The Dog With The Broken Ear)
Kim Ivory (High Fiving Palm Trees)
Kath Jones (cogitjoggett)

Well done Matt, Lucy, Holley, Kim and Kath – you’re worthy winners indeed!

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