Food and Exercise Round-up (Week 29)

The Stats

Weight  8st 10lbs
B.M.I.  21.2
Body Fat %:  26.6%

This Week's Exercise

It's  been a quiet week this week.  I've been recovering from this!

It was grey and rainy last Saturday, and we'd decided not to go out for a walk.  So...I went out for a run.  I really wasn't feeling it, so trotted along at a very slow pace, but once I'd done the first three miles I found I didn't want to stop...so I carried on...and on...and then pure stubbornness made me do 10 miles.

It had been quite a stressful week at work, and a long, slow, steady run was just what I needed.  I felt totally blissed out when I finished - I love running!

However, you know all the training plans tell you not to increase your mileage by more than 10% per week?  Well, don't increase your mileage by more than 10% per week!  You will be resting for a long time afterwards while your body repairs all the aches and pains you caused!  I really upset my knees by running so far, and I've also now got suspicious sorenesses in the ankle I twisted, my left thigh and my hips.  I'm going to have to be very good from now on, and once I'm fit to start running again - which I'm not as yet - follow my half-marathon training plan to the letter.

At least not running has made it a lot easier to do strength training twice a week, which I resolved to do for six weeks in a row to try and bring down my body fat percentage, which I think is too high given how little I weigh.  It's very difficult to tell, as your body fat percentage fluctuates so much based on how hydrated you are, but I think a trend of being in the region of 26% is starting to emerge, as opposed to being in the region of 28%.  I'd ideally like to get it down to 24%.  Then, when the half-marathon training proper starts I'm going to swap one of the strength training sessions for Pilates.  I realised whilst warming up for circuits on Thursday that I'm horribly inflexible - we were doing sideways ballet kicks and I could only lift my leg to about 10 degrees!

Seeing as I'm not running at the moment, A and I went out for a lovely walk yesterday.  In spite of it being the Bank Holiday weekend we went up on Bowes Moor and didn't see another soul...bliss!  We had two seasons in one day.

We also did a lovely walk on Tuesday evening under a huge and beautiful Harvest Moon.

I'd been working from home and really missed my daily exercise so after I'd finished did a DIY circuits session, and we also did our lovely walk before bed.  

Food has not been particularly noteworthy this week, as I overindulged last week (chocolate, cake, ice-cream and wine!) and so have been detoxing.  The cake I had last week was, however, very noteworthy.  Made by the lovely Em it was a feast of moist, chocolatey gorgeousness with downright sinful buttercream icing.

I had a slice after my sandwiches during last Saturday's walk sitting on a moor in the sunshine looking at beautiful scenery and listening to the birds singing - perfection!