TopNotch
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Power HIIT Day 16
8 Weeks to 5K Day 8 Sneaky little Darebee people! Work you hard every seventh day, so that the next day you think, wow! this is easy!! Well, okay, so perhaps not easy, but easier. 
Just 2 x 3min runs today, with 2min walks between.
Arms of Steel (chair edition) Day 7
Challenges:
Daily Gratitude Day 28
Ab challenge Day 22
Easy Cardio Day 22
Power Grip Day 22
50 Squats Day 19
Guardian Day 16 - All Clear
Decided to have a housework day today. Oh, joy... Anyway, as usual to make it more fun, did some Home Front workouts, so they had me doing a minute each of squats, step-ups (x 2), plank (x 2 - a cat settled herself down around my shoulders for a while during one of them), punches, sit-ups, bicep curls (x 2), jumping jacks (x 2) and a wall-sit. Then I remembered that my friend is back and was due to come for tea at 2, so quickly vacuumed (does anyone ever like vacuuming? Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do I!). Then my friend arrived, we had tea, and he showed me photo of his latest trips. He has now ticked off the last of the UNESCO countries - all 193 of them.
Bit of a cooler day today. Yesterday at 4:30, it was 31°, then high winds, a brief thunder stormm and bang, at 4:55 it was suddenly only 18°! Today it started off cloudy but fairly warm, so yuk, sticky. A bit of a breeze, though, so not too bad. And this is summer, after all.
560 words and chapter 7, draft 2 complete.
This book is really great! Not very far in but if it continues as it is, I'll have to grab myself a copy for my reference shelf (this is from the library). "Reference shelf" hah! Who am I kidding! I think my reference shelf is about 15 linear metres, and yet I never seem to have the book I need! One day, perhaps, I will need to refer to the book "Mind-altering and Poisonous Plants of the World" but not right now. (Why did I get that one?!) Not sure if reading a whole actual book should count as "research" which might otherwise be just looking some little thing up (today it was about, what happens when you get hit in the peroneal nerve, and can you be hypnotised against your will? (FYI, no, but you can be mesmerised and influenced)). I'm thinking that I ought to do more reading, so perhaps I'll separate actual whole books read either for research purposes or for pleasure, from quick internet research stuff.
@CODawn I'm holding tight to the claim that, eventually, running gets easier. It just takes (a very long) time.
@TortoiseVibe I know I'll be totally bummed if I break my Duolingo streak. The longer a streak, the worse its breakage. Sometimes, I wish it would just break, but I'll certainly not do it deliberately!
@Nevetharine I like to think not.
@aku-chan eat the elephant one bite at a time.
Power HIIT Day 16 8 Weeks to 5K Day 8 Sneaky little Darebee people! Work you hard every seventh day, so that the next day you think, wow! this is easy!! Well, okay, so perhaps not easy, but easier. Just 2 x 3min runs today, with 2min walks between. Arms of Steel (chair edition) Day 7Challenges:
Daily Gratitude Day 28 Ab challenge Day 22 Easy Cardio Day 22 Power Grip Day 22 50 Squats Day 19 Guardian Day 16 - All ClearDecided to have a housework day today. Oh, joy... Anyway, as usual to make it more fun, did some Home Front workouts, so they had me doing a minute each of squats, step-ups (x 2), plank (x 2 - a cat settled herself down around my shoulders for a while during one of them), punches, sit-ups, bicep curls (x 2), jumping jacks (x 2) and a wall-sit. Then I remembered that my friend is back and was due to come for tea at 2, so quickly vacuumed (does anyone ever like vacuuming? Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do I!). Then my friend arrived, we had tea, and he showed me photo of his latest trips. He has now ticked off the last of the UNESCO countries - all 193 of them.
Bit of a cooler day today. Yesterday at 4:30, it was 31°, then high winds, a brief thunder stormm and bang, at 4:55 it was suddenly only 18°! Today it started off cloudy but fairly warm, so yuk, sticky. A bit of a breeze, though, so not too bad. And this is summer, after all.
560 words and chapter 7, draft 2 complete. This book is really great! Not very far in but if it continues as it is, I'll have to grab myself a copy for my reference shelf (this is from the library). "Reference shelf" hah! Who am I kidding! I think my reference shelf is about 15 linear metres, and yet I never seem to have the book I need! One day, perhaps, I will need to refer to the book "Mind-altering and Poisonous Plants of the World" but not right now. (Why did I get that one?!) Not sure if reading a whole actual book should count as "research" which might otherwise be just looking some little thing up (today it was about, what happens when you get hit in the peroneal nerve, and can you be hypnotised against your will? (FYI, no, but you can be mesmerised and influenced)). I'm thinking that I ought to do more reading, so perhaps I'll separate actual whole books read either for research purposes or for pleasure, from quick internet research stuff.@CODawn I'm holding tight to the claim that, eventually, running gets easier. It just takes (a very long) time.
@TortoiseVibe I know I'll be totally bummed if I break my Duolingo streak. The longer a streak, the worse its breakage. Sometimes, I wish it would just break, but I'll certainly not do it deliberately!
@Nevetharine I like to think not.
@aku-chan eat the elephant one bite at a time.
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Got to play with my bokken too.
) and I just felt I had to get through as many as I could as quickly as I could before other things claimed my time.
Change this icon too, just because I can. 