31 Photos in 31 Days (Day 19) Back at Work

Back at work today. Fortunately I have 2 days of PD – feeding. Which means I don’t have to see clients. It does mean I have all my workmates who I haven’t seen in awhile for various reasons just checking that I’m well and telling me I look terrible. Thanks :p

I went for a much needed gym session today. More for my sanity, than my body. Needed. Still didn’t stop me staring at the meat at Woolies for 10 mins in a blank world of choice… meh.

Got a couple of cool parcels today:

A couple of Muesli4Me samples, including the yet to be released Gluten Free base with some of my fave fruits and a sample of the go crunchy base. I’ll let you know how they go!

And my parcel for hitting Queanbeyan school this Saturday to hand out how to votes for the Australian Sex Party. Say hi if you see me there… or later in the day back on my home turf supporting GetUp! at Chapman School!

Step Up

I’m sure we all have things that are just that much trickier than others, for me, when it comes to the gym, it’s the stepper. Something about the stepper than makes my heart race (score one for the heart rate monitor!) and make me want to quit. (not as soon as the treadmills though – I run much better when i’m covering REAL ground than the treadmill).

Sadly, blurry. Too cold and windy for my poor lil camera!

Other challenges – when dogs growl and you decide to walk the long way instead… but you see purrty flowers!

Oh and deciding whether it’s a good idea to sign up to a bootcamp run at 6.45 Monday morning. Opinions?

How was your Sunday?

Woke up to the news that the kettle was dead…. so went down to the local shops, but no luck in woolies, The Reject Shop, Aldi or Homeart. There were some in Target, but they started at $60. Uh, no thanks!

Headed into the Canberra Centre around lunch time, and success at Big W – Kettle for $8, radiant heater (which Rish is pretty much sitting on now!) for $18. Score! And a vanilla air freshener for the car for $2.

Made a mess of the rice paper rolls I got from Sushi World for lunch. I don’t think they were packed tight enough. Their fault, right not mine? :p
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Mothers Day Classic 2010

What a way to spend a mothers day morning – in the Crisp Canberra air, running around the lake in the sunshine.

Today was my third Mother’s Day Classic… and it went well :) My time was 31:10 according to my watch, 31:20 according to my official time that was just smsed through to me.

Last year’s wasn’t that great, mostly because I was sick.. The one two years ago was the first time I ran 5km, I think? I did it then in 31:55… haven’t improved much in that time, sooo many stop starts.

Ran into Jen there – her first (of many more to come, I’m sure) go at the race. She got a good time too!

I’ll have to admit the showbag at the end wasn’t as good as the last couple of years, problem with no longer having Tupperware as a sponsor (no more breast-looking bottles!). Got a small thing of hairspray, some panty liners, a pen, a discount voucher for vitamins and a Belconnen Markets drink bottle. And a banana, which I scoffed down.

Okies, back to work. Apparently I have a weights session with Rish at 3!

Hope you had a good mothers day! Apparently, Australia is one of the best places to be a mother. Second best, in fact. Enjoy.

“Family and Community” Day

So, in Canberra, in order to give us Melbourne cup day off, they concocted some sort of family day where we’re either meant to be getting drunk at the races or sitting in the park with babies.

I nearly got all community on you – I bought a Lion’s Club sasage sizzle in Glebe park… then promptly exited before I got caught up in all the “family” excitment going on.

I made it to the gym – sweated sooo much. Going to start running around Lake Burlery Griffin again. Warmed up with a 15 min and a 10 min jog in my cardio today. Helped get that sausage in all its fatty goodness burned off!

What did you get up to for Melbourne Cup day?

Noice! (And not so)

Good:
- I just won a $50 ezibuy voucher from That’s Noice! :) Thanks girls! I’m sure I will buy lingerie as promised… but no, you may not get an action shot :p
- I came very close to catching up on my reports today for assessment clinic. Still one report behind, but it’s a bit hard to get the report done before teh end of the day when you finish the assessment at 5:30pm… cold and dark out there!
- Awesome gym session.

Not so Good:
- At the end of the gym session, I had my drink botting in my mouth for some reason (it’s one of those tupperware ones) and bend down to grab my jumper. Misjudged. Hit drink bottle on footplate of the elliptical trainer I was half-on at the time. Smooshed lip. It’s a little fat and cracked right now.

Who’s unco? :p

Sore but not sorry

Body starting to not feel as sore after Sunday’s run and gym sessions with Rish.

Started with the 5k loop. 33:33, not a great time, but that included a part of it being walked ahead of a “pitstop” about 3/4 through. Nice and fast at the end though, coming down off the Commonwealth Ave bridge. Inhaled a few bugs when I went through a bug cloud.

The to the gym – first “weights” session in quite awhile. a little bit on arms, but also with lunges, dead lifts and lots of ab / core work. My body was not moving too well last night! I think the killer was the medicine ball work right at the end!

Going to try to slip in a quick cardio session tonight before heading to Hugs Breath for a birthday dinner. Hopefully my late group won’t end too late and I’ll make it there!

March is a good month to

• Wear a new perfume – My Vanilla from the Body Shop just about ran out. SO I bought a new bottle of Vanilla, but also got “Neroli Jasmine” to see how that made me feel.
• Drink on the weekend – as in not drink through
  the week ;)
• Water. AS in I’m going to drink it. Not swim in it, because of algae and cryptospiridum reports left right and centre. I’m not going to water the garden though, Canberra is depressingly dry… except the golf course
• Visit Newcastle. It looks like I’ll be up next weekend for the Canberra long weekend, and at the end of the month for an engagement party
• Work hard, play hard. At the gym and at work. Try to get my 5k down to 30 minutes, get my weight back under 70kg. Get my stats up at work. Get some results with my kids. Implement new communication systems with some of them.
• Smile. Take photos of things that make me smile. Like the little twittering birds I keep seeing. I just don’t like to scare them with my camera.
• Listen to new music. What month’s NOT good for new music? What are you liking right now, and do you think that I’d like it? (my Last.fm profile might help you out)

What are you going to do with the month?

mmm purtiful

Yes, new layout. I like this one, more readable than the last :) But, still needs a bit of a beat around, so if you notice anything odd, please point it out to me :)

Today was.. well.. mixed. attempted my performance evaluation. Gave up. Got notes done.

Went to the gym though, and Killed myself on the adaptive motion trainer, which was GREAT :) Sweated so much, and earned my dinner, which is currently simmering on the stove…

Minestrone-ish.

Hot hot hot!

Went up for sprints up on the oval next to work with Rish this morning – almost killed myself with the jog up the hill to get there! I could have almost done that a few times instead (and perhaps I should start doing that – go for a jog up the hill to work in the morning, walk back down and then set down for breakfast? Sounds a good way to start the day!)…

But instead of that, we do 10 one-minute sprints, followed by a 90second walk/rest, and then back into it. Felt so good and yet so bad when I got home! Very hard to eat my cereal this morning.

I feel great for it, though. And it’s especially good to have done, since it hit 37 today and I’m skipping gym! I’ll head in in the morning to make up for it, when it’s much much cooler.

(Cocky on the way to work this morning)