I actually like the flavour, even though it is very artificial tasting - it just makes me very jumpy, like I've had too much coffee - which is probably ideal for running.

Sarah your scramble sounds like a good idea. I'm in the flattest part of Yorks - the Vale of York. I think the mole hills are the only gradients here. Great for cycling, but I'd like to try a bit of hill running. It's 20 miles to the Wolds which are the nearest hilly bits!

Hello everyone!

I have been for a morning fat-burning run! Getting up at 6am to go for a run in the rain I must be I'm turning into one of those people I used to make fun of! I even have my gym kit with me for weight training at lunch time, then it's teaching small children to beat out of each other tonight!

Official weigh in after France - I'm up quarter of a pound! I think it'll be gone tomorrow!

I feel very today. I'm still narked about PG's blue belt though, but in a more determined way now! I will be practising what I need tonight as well as teaching!

I bet the rest of you were doing very energetic things over the weekend!

Well, I was too (sort of). Walking all over Windsor and Ealing broadway looking for a suitable party dress. I am knackered! And dressless.

Really it was too hot to try anything on. The Sales assistants would have to wring it out after I had tried it on! I saw some lovely things in Monsoon but had no energy and was too sweaty to do a try on.

Next had nothing much. I tried some other shops but when the dress looked nice the material was of the 'boil in the bag' type. NOt good.

I will have to get something soon as the shops will be full of Autumn fashions!

Can someone tell me where the place is that you can get Monsoon stuff cheaply and how to get to it. It might come to that!.

I might also brave Oxford Street next weekend (gulp!).

Morning all,

Well most of you seem to have been very active over the weekend - I've just been for a couple of walks with the dogs so I feel very lazy in comparison. I also didn't go for my run this morning , mostly because I was very tired after a late night (v bad ), but also because I am nervous about doing damage to my knees which I hurt running over rough ground last wednesday. I've been very unsure about whether I should just keep going unless the pain gets worse, or stop running until they are completely better. I have almost convinced myself to go out this evening and have a go... but I think that will take a lot of willpower!

Frus, it would be really cool to do one of those martial arts flippy things. I have always wanted to get into martial arts, but I live in the middle of nowhere . I'd have to drive for at least 40 minutes to go to a class, and they all seem to be at a time where I would have to go straight from work with no dinner, and come home at about 9.45 by which time I will be starving! I'm hoping to go back to uni in a couple of years though, so I should have more access to martial arts clubs and things then.

Anyway, have a good day everyone

My martial arts class is 25 miles away, it takes a nice hour on the M25 and M4 straight from work - 1 or 2 hours in the dojo, a quick snack and about 40 minutes / 17 miles home again! Getting in at about 9pm I did start out when it was just a 15 minute cycle ride from my house though!!! Unfortunately we moved further away from kickboxing to be nearer to work! Damn that work stuff!

My god that is dedication!

Yuh huh, Student of the year - that's me!

It's not just the class that I enjoy, it's the people, I have made some great friends there and the travelling's not that bad.

OMG - I just found a new meaning for agony!

This afternoon was the 'Movement to Music' class - aka 'Push Yourself to the Absolute Limit and Beyond' class. The golden oldies refuse to accept that the first 30 mins of what they are doing is aerobics - but it is! As with last week, the second 30mins was salsacise and the last 30 mins was resistance mostly with those resistance strip thingies. Anita, the trainer, is so funny - she said seeing as last week we all moaning about the fast resistance work, that this week she'd 'let' us do it all nice and slowly..... Among other things she had us doing body weight sumo squats - you wouldn't think that would be a problem because I normally do sumo squats with weights - except she had us doing them sooooooo slowly and then they got slower. I was at the front so I couldn't see what everyone else was doing but she started off with sets of 3 at a slow count of 6 going down, hold for 2 (in a slight hover) and 6 coming back up, then went to 8 down, hold for 4 and 8 up, then 10, etc, etc, etc, I gave up at 20 and she carried on until the last of us gave up at 22! It sounds so easy when you read it written down but my thighs and are on FIRE! I have a feeling I won't be doing any running tomorrow.

OWWWWWWWWWW!

Oh! Meant to say, my neighbour was in the local pub the other day and the Scroungers walked in (the ones being investigated by the DSS). She was a bit tipsy and just as they were about to take their first sip, she walked across and told them what had been going on and suggested that they clean up their act before they end up in prison from benefit fraud and that the entire village knows whats going on. Apparently they left fairly very quickly looking shaken. Good ol' Laura - you can rely on her to say what she thinks when she's had a few!

Nice one Laura!

I'm all excited about some developments in kickboxing. I'm not sure that I'll say quite what, spies might be out! Anyways, so I rang DF all excited and he is really skeptical and all not at all excited for me or anything like that. I'll show him! HUMPH!

I've done 2 out of 3 exercisey things so far today, 20 minute run, light weights at lunch and I'm on my way to *cough* MY *cough* *cough* kickboxing class in a few minutes.

Hello everyone

I had a very healthy weekend went to the gym Friday and Saturday,did
some dancing whilst out Saturday night. Saturday morning I found I am
10 stone three pounds and a bit. Work seems to be the biggest temptation
we have so much rubbish around. I must make sure I am prepared and have
snacks.

My nine and half target is in sight so I am going to cop on as my father
would say and get going. Two people today said I had lost even more weight
and I was called tiny twice!!!

I am off to the gym shortly and intend having a good old run on the treadmill.

However I am a bag of wind so I don't know if I dare if you get my drift!!!

Anyway have a lovely evening. I've read all your posts you lot do make me
smile.

Enjoy the rest of your evening

Michele

Nasty cough you've got there, Jen Your own class???????? Tell us more about the 'developments'...... we promise not to tell anyone!

Good luck with the running, Michele, I'm sure that if your gym plays loud music like mine does that no one will notice your windiness

We definitely need the kickboxing gossip!

Today was my cross training day, so I just did half an hour of weights and a twenty minute swim. 4 miles tomorrow though, I haven't decided where I'm going to run yet though, round home, round the gym or on the treadmill. I'll probably see what the weather looks like when I get up.

I had to go to a meeting in Sheffield earlier, it really me off, it was an interview for a tender we've put in, and I was basically there as the token female - the council we were tendering to said that they would prefer a mixed gender team, so even though my part of the work would be relatively minor (and fairly irrelevant to the interview) I had to traipse down there to sit there in a skirt demonstrating how equal opportunities we are. grr.

Oh the joys of being female! Did you have to flutter your eyelashes too?

Sarah guessed it - I get the cash and everything Huge honor and all that It will be fun, and I'll hopefully be able to get more than the 5 regulars coming! Advertising here we come!

Yeah, so fun last night, then home to beddy! I have just got gym and kickboxing today, gym at lunch briefly.

I have a big box of strawberries that I'm going to munch on today, and some nice vitality yoghurt

I'm signing up for another 10K to go with half Marathon training - I found one in Ultra Fit so I will have to look at the details of that and work it in!

WELL DONE JEN!!!!!! Thats wonderful! Fingers crossed that the advertising works and you get more students.

I'm all aches and pains today - the post exercise class agony really caught up with me just before bedtime last night and I had to take some ibrufen so I could get some sleep. By the time I woke up this morning I could barely get out of bed I was so stiff. Never mind, I did a stretch routine and finally managed to take the dogs out for the walk/jog/run/scramble thing. (Must think of a name for it! - IS there a name for it??) I quite like the running bit but I don't enjoy the jogging.

Its my afternoon for working so I'm getting all my exercise done this morning - abs next! DH thinks its weird that the more exercise I do, the more energy I seem to have. I'm on a weight plateau at the moment but I'm not bothered, I don't want to reduce my calories any more in case I lose all this lovely energy.