duration: 1:30, feeling: great, effort 4/5
Full of allergy grumps, but also feeling pretty fit and healthy, muscle-wise.
Category Archives: fitness
fitness: 30 min run
calories: 389, effort 5/5, feeling good, distance 4.4 km, duration 00:30, pace 06:49
I really thought, when I started running, that I was going to have to stop part way through, because I’ve been having so little energy lately. But I didn’t.
Running twice a week really doesn’t quite keep my running fitness up. But I don’t really have time for another day anywhere else…
But it was a nice run – a cool, breezy day. I felt fine til the last quarter. I’m convinced my lack of running stamina is actually psychological.
weather: cloudy, windy
fitness: swimming
duration: .30, distance: 1000m, feeling: good, calories: 271, effort 5/5
Still feeling tired. In fact, kind of struggled the last couple of laps. In that I kind of swam slowly and without enthusiasm.
Also: too much sun.
Weather: sunny
fitness: dance work
duration: 2.00, effort 3/5
Feeling a bit tired and less than awesome. It’s either allergies or left over tiredness from the weekend. But managed to keep chugging along at a regular (but not very fast) pace.
fitness: SSF social dancing
feeling: alright, duration: 03:00
Dancing every now and then in a very hot room over the course of 3 hours. So much heat over the weekend just made it impossible to bring it.
hot and humid
fitness: SSF social dancing
feeling: great, duration: 02:00
Lots of social dancing over the course of the evening (8pm-1.30am). Felt much better the next day because I’d drunk more during the day before dancing and because the venues weren’t as hot. Eating properly also helped. Noticed that my higher intensity dancing (facilitated by my higher fitness), my reduced body weight and my generally higher fitness are making eating well before dancing at an exchange more important. By eating well I mean eating carbs for dinner and eating good veggies and some protein. I’m surprised by this because I’m so stocky I usually don’t have this issue. Must be something to do with being older and actually exercising more intensely every day.
hot, humid
fitness: dance comp
duration: 4.00, feeling good,
Brief spurts of intense exercise over four hours. High tempos, very hot hall, not enough water.
fitness: a nice walk in the evening
distance: 4km, calories 27, effort 2/5, feeling great
A nice walk in the cooler evening.
fitness: dance work
duration: 01:35 effort 4/5, feeling good
Lots of good, hard work. Surprised I felt so good and it went so well after such a shitty run yesterday. But we’ll see how the joints feel tomorrow.
Also: HUMID. Hot cloudy humid.
fitness: a very poor showing
distance: 5km, calories: 584, effort 5/5, duration: 0.45, pace: 8.59, feeling: alright.
Started running and felt pretty ordinary. Tired. Sore knee. Snot everywhere. Ran. Ran for about fifteen minutes then had to stop because of my hamstrings. Didn’t ever get the proper running rhythm back. So walked with brief spurts of ‘sprinting’ (ie running as fast as I could, but only just getting above walking speed).
It’s very humid, I’ve had shocking allergies for the last few days, I’m still recovering from the weekend (in the knees) and… well, I don’t know. Soon this semester will be over and I’ll have more energy again.