Category: Juneathon

Today’s Juneathon was cycling up to the Designer Outlet and buying a pretty red polka dot teapot/cup combo thingy. Not that I actually drink tea, but the teapot/cup combo thingy is cute.

Also in the Designer Outlet was a sign in the window of Marks & Spencer advertising their short’s and shoe’s. I didn’t have a camera with me so couldn’t get a photo of this atrocity, but Shaun’s going to send them a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. 

Stats
Cycling: 3.34 miles
Red polka dot teapot/cup combo thingies: 1
Errant apostrophes in Marks and Spencer signs: 2

For today’s Juneathon effort, I walked to Tesco to get my mum a birthday card, then I walked back home.

I also crossed the road to post the card in the letterbox and crossed the road back again.

Hardcore.

Stats
Tescos walked to: 1
Tescos walked back from: 1
Birthday cards bought: 1
Roads crossed to get to the letterbox: 1
Roads crossed back again: 1

A bit late with this blog but hey ho. I was going to count cycling home after midnight after seeing the amazing Zombie Prom (if you’re near Folkestone, you MUST see it, it’s absolutely wonderful and I don’t even like musicals) for Day 14 but thought that might be taking the piss a bit, although officially and technically it counts (especially as I make the rules, ha) but after Shaun refusing to pay £3 in the car park at the ultrasound clinic and driving a mile away to park for free, I decided that mile walk would count for Juneathon, especially as we had to walk even further after Shaun had his ultrasound (you’ll be pleased to know that his liver is in the right place) to go to the Turkish restaurant and then had to walk all the way back again and he didn’t even really save £3 as I made him buy me two bars of Green & Black’s in Waitrose (butterscotch flavour and white chocolate flavour if you must know) and that cost the £3 he would have spent in the car park.

Stats
Walking: flipping miles
Car park money saved: £3
Money spent buying chocolate in Waitrose: £3
Money saved overall: £0
Livers in the right place: 1
Turkish restaurants eaten in: 1

It was raining, so I asked Twitter if I had to cycle in the rain to my spin class and Twitter said yes. Or, more specifically, Helsbels and RunRenceRun said yes. Flipping sadists.

So, I cycled to the gym in the rain, dried my hair in the changing room, did 15 minutes on the rowing machine, did Audiofuel/Sennheiser’s Thru The Gears interval session on the treadmill (I love that interval training track so much), then did my spin class, then decided as it was still pissing down and my jeans were still soaked from the cycle in, there was no point changing my top and so I put my still soaking jeans back on and my still soaking parka back on and cycled home in the rain.

And all I have to say to Helsbels and RunRenceRun is

Stats
Cycle: 5 miles
Rowing machine: 15 minutes
Treadmill: 15 minutes
Spin class: 45 minutes
Times I had to dry my hair: 2
Pairs of soaking wet jeans put on: 1
Soaking wet Parkas put on: 1
People I want to say bah!! to: 2

Massively crap title. Soz.

Today’s Juneathon was going to be a half-hour on the rowing machine while I listened to a Radio 4 comedy podcast but it was a boring one about insurance, so after 20 minutes I gave up on both the comedy and the rowing machine.

Stats
Boring comedies about insurance: 1
Rowing machines stayed on for 30 minutes: 0
Rowing machines stayed on for 20 minutes: 1
Apologies for using the word ‘soz’: 1

I had sort of planned to do the Great Kent Bike Ride today, depending on the weather. However, the weather was irrelevant because registration closed at 10am and I didn’t get up until, um… 10am.

So I cycled to the farm shop, remembering to take my phone with me so I could take a picture of the puppy

and then we cycled around for a bit to get some Juneathon miles in.

Stats
Great Kent Bike Rides done: 0
Puppies: 1

I woke up this morning and wondered who had run me over with a steamroller, then I remembered I did body pump yesterday for the first time in ages. Then I remembered I’d promised on Facebook to runningman856 that I’d do a run today and thought oh shit. Then I remembered that I’d stayed up until the early hours watching the punk thing on BBC4 (how brilliant was that?) and drinking wine and thought oh fucking shit. Body pump aches and a hangover don’t really go with a run.

I wondered if I could get out of running by saying I didn’t want to rub Shaun’s nose in the fact that I can exercise and he can’t (he went mountain biking in Wales and came back with two broken ribs and a dislodged liver. Cassie said that out of the two of us, she didn’t think it would be Shaun that would end up with a dislodged liver. Ha bloody ha) but Shaun said no, go and run. So I did. Not very far though but IT WAS A RUN, so there.

Stats
Muscles aching from body pump: all of them
Broken ribs: 2
Dislodged livers: 1
Runs: 1

I never go to the gym in the afternoon, unless it’s on my way back from uni but today I had some work to do for uni (yes, even though the year is over but my tutor is putting together a collection of our work and I needed to edit mine) and so I thought I would go to the gym after lunch and I was all motivated and everything and even had an early lunch so it had time to go down and stuff and packed my gym bag all ready for me, but then WHAT THE FUCK? it started seriously tipping it down and hasn’t stopped since and so I decided to go on the rowing machine here instead and so that’s what I did and so at least I haven’t just sat here all day watching Party Poker TV (not that I usually do, I’m not really into gambling, except for the quiz machine in the pub that I keep winning on but quizzes aren’t gambling, are they?)

Stats
Gyms gone to: 0
Rowing machines went on: 1
Gambling done: zero
Music
Nirvana
Foo Fighters
Cardiacs
PJ Harvey