Sunday Lunch in the Pub

It's my birthday tomorrow (sorry another mention), so I've organised a Sunday lunch at The Waterpoet. Only there is a certain World Cup game on too. England v Germany. I've had to change my booking to 1pm as the pub is not going to be serving food during the game.

I made Chris come with me to the leisure centre, so we could both go swimming. We've been meaning to go for a weekend swim for a long time.

I managed a full 20 minutes in a full sized pool , so I reckon I did well!

Anyway, have to get to the pub, so hopefully England will have a good result and ll will be right in the world (doubt it , but the football is taking over everything, this summer!

And I can I mentioned, I'm not jealous that I'm not at Glastonbury...

Stats

Activity - Swimming

Time - 20 Minutes

Distance - 14 lengths

Today I Cleaned

My activities are going to be a little stretched for next few days. The back isn't very good, so I've stopped running. This time I mean it. Yesterdays running effort made the back ache more.

Seeing as I've not used cleaning as a Juneathon activity, I figured it wasn't a bad thing. I've not done any proper cleaning in June, so I think on day 26 it's more than required! Chris had already left the house to buy someone (ie ME) a birthday present. It took me 30 minutes to do the whole house. I live in a terraced 2 bed house, so I had stairs to do too! To make it a scientific effort I attached the pedometer to my dressing gown. It clocked 67 steps and 0.03miles. Brilliant! That's a rubbish set of stats. I had an appointment in Hampstead Heath, so I had to get ready to leave.

On the way home, I wondered through Stratford Shopping City. We have a great collection of cheapo shops like Poundland, 99p stores, Wilkinson and Poundstretcher. Next year is gonna be great. Westfield is opening!! yay!

Chris was cooking, when I got home. We have ratatouille for lunch and a Spanish tortilla for dinner. He also whipped up a meringue! That guy is a good, when he gets the energy!

I had a think about what my next activity would be. I have a few celeb exercise DVD's at home as well as the Lateral Thigh Trainer. I know they might be a bit much. I remembered that I had recently bought a Pilates book that came with a DVD. I did 30 minutes. It was quite hard, but luckily I knew the exercises. I don't think a person new to it would have been able to understand. Anyway it meant I have an activity completed for day 26.

Stats
Activity1 - Cleaning
Time - 30 minutes
WW Activity points - 1

Activity2 - Pilates DVD
Time 30 minutes
WW Activity Points - 1

A Calm Juneathon Day

Since I've been struggling with the old back ( I gonna be 32 in 4 days!) today is a Pilates only day.

To increase my activity today I walked to Stratford which is a mammoth 0.7 miles and then walked to work from Liverpool Street Station via the Millennium Bridge. I passed a very long line outside the London Wall branch of o2. Crazy people wanting their iPhone on the first day. I don't understand why, but I do own alot of Apple products.

I had my lunch Pilates class today. I told my Mel about my back and she kept an eye on me throughout the class. It wasn't too bad and I managed to do all the exercises. It's always rubbish going back to work after Pilates, I always want to have a siesta!

Chris met me after work and we both walked to Liverpool Street. The route we walk totals 1.7 miles.

It's gonna be a hot night, so I hope the crazy rasta across the road doesn't spend all night shouting and drinking his can of red stripe! I called the nuisance neighbours line last night, they said he is know to them and that they will follow up my complaint. Result!

Stats
Activity1 - Pilates
Time - 60 Minutes
WW Activity Points - 2.5

Activity2 - Commuting Walking
Total Time - 1 hour and 10 minutes
Distance - 6.89 km
WW Activity Points - 3

Football Crazy Football Mad

Todays Activity was swimming. My back is too painful, for me to go running. I don't want to be left with bad back, so I think it's best to stick to swimming. I like swimming and I've not been able to swim for long until recently, my fitness has improved immensely because I've been running

It's a lovely morning and we walked to Stratford to get the train. I headed left to the gym and Chris went right towards Southwark. I like the mornings, when we can chat and catch up.

The pool wasn't too busy and I shared the lane with 2 other people. I managed 20 minutes and 21 lengths of the pool. I felt sweaty and hot, so I knew I had done enough.

Because of the England V Slovenia game being at 3pm UK time. We were told we could watch the game, if our work was done. Everyone was exited and a few people had brought in wine to drink while watching the game. It was like the last day of school, nobody was doing any work.

This is my office during the final minutes of the game.

I had my appointment with the Osteopath, straight after the game so I hobbled off down the road to London Bridge. My Osteopath, Robin Kirk is good. I explained the hurty back and he went to work. He's brilliant. I think I counted 6 places, where he cracked by back! It felt good straight away. He told me I may need to go back, but I should see how it get on.

When I got home, Chris was in the garden putting the clothes on the line. I had a look at the veg we have growing and noticed the berries along the back. They've grown loads. I picked a load and ate a few, delicious!

Stats
Activity - Swimming
Distance - 21 Lengths
Time - 20 mins
WW Activity Points - 1

Sunny Saturday Morning Run

This morning, we decided that I would run in the local park and Chris would go swimming, because the local pool was near the park Chris, could walk me there. I've not lived in Stratford that long and I wasn't sure where the park was. I wanted to try running outside and I'm not very confident to walk around outside in my running gear on my own. Just before we headed out, Chris decided he wanted to run with me. He as a achy ankle, so wanted to test it out.

We walked in a fast pace to West Ham Park to warm up. I was already feeling the morning heat. It's gonna be a scorcher today! Chris handed me his Android phone, which has a GPS running app and we were off. Chris is not much of a runner, but is still faster than me. I told him to carry on and I would follow his route. I didn't start off fast, but I already felt out of my comfort zone of the gym. Chris noticed a running track at the park and headed over to the grass. I was starting to really feel the heat, the track didn't have any shady areas either. I managed 2 laps and indicated to Chris I wanted to stop. He had done an extra lap, but we were both happy with our first little run together and headed home.

We're heading to the westend, this afternoon to spot more elephants, which are part of the Elephant Parade. I have already managed to photograph 60 and have been saving the big cluster near Carnaby Street. I'll get Chris to GPS the walk, so I can add my stats later. I may even start to add pictures to my blog...

Stats
Activity1 - Running
Time - 11mins
Distance - 1.75km
WW Activity Points - 1.5