Juneathon 2012 Days 26, 27, 28 - Excuses there were none

Juneathon 2012 Days 26, 27, 28 - Excuses there were none

Gym 30min, Walk 3.5 miles, Cycle 14.8 miles

I didn't post any Juneathon stats with my last post for the simple reason that there were none. I failed! I let a day go by without exercise and what is more there was no good reason apart from an enormous weariness. So I let it slide. It says something about my self discipline that I could not force myself out for even a token dash but I could not overcome my inertia.

"Listen to your body!" is the fundamental advice for all runners and I could summon that up as a justification. Perhaps ... but I'm not sure it is within the rules. Nevertheless I tried to make amends by doing two sessions the following day so that if you screwed your eyes up and didn't look too closely all you would see is 30 days, 30 sessions. Result: Juneathon completed. 

The photo, as you will undoubtably have guessed comes from the cycle ride and is a complete accident. Scrabbling round to get my camera out I obviously pressed the button. I like happy accidents, they show me things I would never have considered - and sunlight through wheel spokes is definitely a subject worth considering (even if I am less convinced by the floating shoe).

P.S. There is however a totally unconscious link to yesterdays blogpost where I talked about a Weight Watchers survey that was designed to show that we are all lazy. One of the questions was  "Do you tend to duck out of regular exercise sessions when you’d rather do something else’ e.g. catch up with friends, relax on the sofa?". I wrote about the survey on the same day as ducking out of exercise and at the time I just did not make the connection.

      

Sometimes There Are Valid Excuses

This would have not been acceptable for Janathon but it is now February so it doesn’t matter so much. But even so there was  no exercise for two days!  How could this be?

So let me make my excuses - there were far more important things to be done.

Over the weekend we were babysitting and so did not have time to do anything else than mess about and rediscover my stacking-beaker skills (amongst other things).

There is no reason to write about this on a running blog except to show my lack of dedication. I do not call myself a soft-core runner for nothing!  Someone serious would have packed their kit and taken advantage of an odd half hour to ensure they kept up their regime. I didn’t even think about it.