So tired. And so hungry. And another weekend juggling parenting responsibilities, social engagements, domestic necessity and Juneathon.
I seemed to spend all day grazing… picking at bits of food between meals, finding myself walking through the kitchen and absent mindedly looking in the cupboards to see what else I could devour. And today, being a rest day, meant that I needed to get out and cycle. I did toy with the idea of getting out very early and being back home by 7am but a night of fitful sleep put pay to that foolish idea. Instead I settled on a bike ride at the opposite end of the day. We were planning to go to some friends for dinner this evening and I decided that I would cycle there and back whilst the rest of the family drove. I was a little wary of getting The Look from Mrs eatingtrees again, but she didn’t seemed as horrified by the idea this time so the bike ride was on.
A little tinker mid-afternoon to tighten the headset and fit some lights and then just after 6pm, the family set off in the car and I got going on the bike. It’s about 11kms each way so a nice short distance along mostly quiet country roads. The journey there was unremarkable but pleasant.
After an enormous dinner, dessert and coffee, it was almost 10pm when we made our excuses and left. I changed and jumped back on the bike and the first thing I noticed was how much colder it felt once the sun had gone down, something that I need to remember when packing clothing for the Dunwich Dynamo in July. Once I had got going, I warmed up quite quickly and got into a rhythm. Cycling the same route in the dark is a completely different experience… quite surreal too as everything is in darkness apart from a watery pool of light about 2 metres in front of me. I carried on at a comfortable pace and just daydreamed my way home. I find it very peaceful cycling in the dark and just hope that the Zen-like calm can be summoned up when needed on our Dunwich trip. So 21.5kms on the bike fulfils my Juneathon responsibilty for today. Tomorrow is a 15km run in the Vibrams…
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Bugged Out – Eating, Eating, Eating – My Arms Are On Fire
A friend of mine texts me today and says that I cannot go and see her when I’d planned to as her daughter has had a stomach bug which now seems to be spreading as her partner has it and she is not feeling too chipper either. There are also a few Juneathoners that seem to be suffering as well and, lo and behold, this afternoon SonNumberTwo appears to have caught the same nasty little bug. I hope that I will escape unscathed as I have a number of things on the cards for next week and I doubt very much if they can be rescheduled at short notice. At the moment, I appear to be OK apart from feeling very tired and very hungry (although Fit Artist, Tom Roper and iliketocount all seem to be mentioning a Juneathon hunger too) so decided that after yesterdays late night run, I would today only do some crunches and press-ups. I have to admit that I’ve surprised myself and seem to have made pretty quick progress with the press-ups but am really beginning to struggle now – my first set today was 70 and towards the end I was really struggling, burning forearms and shoulders, a slight sense of lightheadedness – at 67 I thought I was done but gritted my teeth and finished the last three. Not sure what tomorrow holds… maybe a run, maybe a cycle (hmmm… there’s a thought, I haven’t cycled for over a week…)
Juneathon Stats: 4 sets of press ups – 70 / 60 / 50 / 50 (230 total for day), 3 sets of stomach crunches – 100 / 100 / 100 (300 total for day)
Soundtrack to this post: The Lost Rivers Of London – Coil