Juneathon Day 4

I am tired! No Nordic Walking on for tomorrow, yesterday's hill repeats kicked my butt so taking a day off from it.  I also stepped out of my comfort zone and agreed to lead a middle paced group on our club run tonight, fortunately it was a very easy route so I didn't get lost despite a bit of confusion in the beginning (before the run started) about which way to go on the canal path.  The splits were mostly spot-on although I did have one mile slightly too fast--8:47 instead of 9 minutes.  Overall a success I think and my running gait did get compared to a metronome (a good thing I hope!).

Juneathon Day 4 totals:
*1.66 miles cycled (commute)
*3.37 miles walked (1.8 nordic walk, the remainder was just a walk back home carrying poles for Monday's class
*8ish miles running--2 miles to club, the rest with the group. I say 8ish because I forgot to restart my garmin after waiting for a light to change and didn't realise it until it started to go into stand-by mode, 7.63 showing on the watch.
*20 horrible burpees broke up into 2 sets of 10.

5th and 6th

Hmmm, looks like my Janathon blogging pattern is a post covering 2 days in a row.  Yesterday was a 7 mile muddy trail run--without Elsie the mutt this time. She was having no part in leaving the warm bed, can't say I blame her, I was wishing I'd stayed there myself in the beginning.  Parts of the path once I ventured away from the canal trails was pretty much a quagmire, there was no running through it and even walking was treacherous a time or three. I even slipped and fell once and it was on a section parallel to the M1 so yes there were witnesses.  All in all it was a good run though, my two slowest miles were on the endless uphill sections that also included the swampy bits (10:43 and 10:05, miles 3 and 4) and I kept a 9:33 pace overall.

The aftermath

Mud bath anyone? A shave wouldn't hurt either 

Today I skipped the run since our club handicap run is tomorrow night. Not sure that what I opted for will leave my legs anymore rested though.  5 minute warmup outside with the jump rope then did a full body workout with the kettlebells. Definitely time to move up past an 8kg bell for the swings and for giggles I threw in 5 burpees with every set. Yes, I am not bright at times ;-).