So last week began pretty reasonably with some decent meal prep and even at one point some press-ups. But then towards the back end of the week, everything piled up a bit and I slipped. Which is an encouraging start, not.
Wednesday began well as I completed another 50 pressups, though my arms were still aching from Tuesday's batch so about halfway through I had to switch to doing them from the knees. My arms continued to ache all the way to the weekend, causing me to worry I'd actually sprained something, though since it's now stopped that might be an overreaction. I need to restart the pressups today.
Wednesday night's exercise was my usual Spin class thanks to the lovely Rich at Spinder - a suitably camp playlist of various divas kept things flowing nicely, though I'm as appalling as ever at the "armography" (dancing with your arms, in case you wondered). So I didn't feel quite so bad about not having yet had time to make it to the gym.
Thursday was my last day in the office before my long weekend away so it was a whirlwind of trying to get things finished up. A datacentre switchover there meant I was woken up about every 20 minutes from 5am thanks to the support phone binging away with automated notifications, so that didn't start me off in the best mood, to be honest!
Thanks to the unplanned fortnight away the previous two weeks, I was still wading through a mountain of laundry and basically spent that evening sorting out everything that was dry and putting it away. My cousin also stayed over, so I spent a while cooking some mashed potato to go with the lamb stew I'd made on Monday - luckily we both agreed the stew tasted pretty good, though the potatoes weren't the best I've ever made. I had to abandon her for a bit while I packed for my weekend's trip.
Which brings us to Friday, and an actual 5.15am alarm so I could get up and get ready to drive the 170 miles to Alton Towers for the Scarefest event. As anyone who even vaguely knows me will attest, I love my rollercoasters and theme park trips, so it's very rare that I'd miss a chance to do a Halloween event trip. The weather wasn't really in our favour, with a forecast of gales and heavy rain, so I'd packed my hiking boots, waterproof trousers and raincoat. In the end it wasn't nearly that bad, and while the boots were practical, the trousers remained unworn and the raincoat spent much of the weekend in my bag.
Exercise-wise, while I certainly didn't have the energy for pressups or the opportunity to visit a gym, walking around 12 miles a day probably makes up for some of it. Food was hit and miss - we had fried chicken for lunch on the Friday but then I had a nice chicken carbonara dish on the Friday night, and on Saturday I attempted to evade my mozzarella allergy by having a pizza with no cheese... which didn't work, but never mind. On Sunday the weather turned much worse but we had only planned to do the waterpark anyway - there's something slightly weird-feeling about sitting in an outdoor hot tub in the rain!
Anyway, Monday is a new day and a new week, so maybe I can actually get back into things properly. It's a quieter week schedule-wise so as long as I manage to actually get some sleep, perhaps things can get started!
Wednesday began well as I completed another 50 pressups, though my arms were still aching from Tuesday's batch so about halfway through I had to switch to doing them from the knees. My arms continued to ache all the way to the weekend, causing me to worry I'd actually sprained something, though since it's now stopped that might be an overreaction. I need to restart the pressups today.
Wednesday night's exercise was my usual Spin class thanks to the lovely Rich at Spinder - a suitably camp playlist of various divas kept things flowing nicely, though I'm as appalling as ever at the "armography" (dancing with your arms, in case you wondered). So I didn't feel quite so bad about not having yet had time to make it to the gym.
Thursday was my last day in the office before my long weekend away so it was a whirlwind of trying to get things finished up. A datacentre switchover there meant I was woken up about every 20 minutes from 5am thanks to the support phone binging away with automated notifications, so that didn't start me off in the best mood, to be honest!
Thanks to the unplanned fortnight away the previous two weeks, I was still wading through a mountain of laundry and basically spent that evening sorting out everything that was dry and putting it away. My cousin also stayed over, so I spent a while cooking some mashed potato to go with the lamb stew I'd made on Monday - luckily we both agreed the stew tasted pretty good, though the potatoes weren't the best I've ever made. I had to abandon her for a bit while I packed for my weekend's trip.
Which brings us to Friday, and an actual 5.15am alarm so I could get up and get ready to drive the 170 miles to Alton Towers for the Scarefest event. As anyone who even vaguely knows me will attest, I love my rollercoasters and theme park trips, so it's very rare that I'd miss a chance to do a Halloween event trip. The weather wasn't really in our favour, with a forecast of gales and heavy rain, so I'd packed my hiking boots, waterproof trousers and raincoat. In the end it wasn't nearly that bad, and while the boots were practical, the trousers remained unworn and the raincoat spent much of the weekend in my bag.
Exercise-wise, while I certainly didn't have the energy for pressups or the opportunity to visit a gym, walking around 12 miles a day probably makes up for some of it. Food was hit and miss - we had fried chicken for lunch on the Friday but then I had a nice chicken carbonara dish on the Friday night, and on Saturday I attempted to evade my mozzarella allergy by having a pizza with no cheese... which didn't work, but never mind. On Sunday the weather turned much worse but we had only planned to do the waterpark anyway - there's something slightly weird-feeling about sitting in an outdoor hot tub in the rain!
Anyway, Monday is a new day and a new week, so maybe I can actually get back into things properly. It's a quieter week schedule-wise so as long as I manage to actually get some sleep, perhaps things can get started!
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