Hi, guys! How was your weekend? If you saw my post yesterday, you’ll know that my weekend was one of two distinct halves: a stormy Saturday and a glorious Sunday. We had a rare quiet weekend at home with no plans, and it was bliss.
I rounded up week three of my training plan nicely with a gorgeous walk, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I’m pleased to say that my training is firmly back on track, with three solid and consistent weeks of sticking to the plan 😀 Happy, happy!
Here’s how last week went, with the scheduled sessions on the left compared to my actual training on the right:
This week is the midway point of my ‘get back to it’ plan, and the mileage ramps up a little this week. We’ll see how it goes 😉
To get me started, here’s something I”ll be focussing on this week:
Have a brilliant week, lovelies!
Oooops!
I almost forgot to post my regular Monday blog post! But, I did remember 😉
How’s your January doing? I’m a little ahead of myself – my spring cleaning is well under way. I spent Saturday clearing out, cleaning and organising: I now have four large bags for the charity shop, a bag of extra rubbish and a whole lot of tidiness 🙂
On Sunday, I spent a lot of the day shred, shred. shredding. I’ve already gone as paperless as possible in work, and so that’s me now virtually paper-free at home, too. Any important documents are all scanned as they arrive, and saved on both the hard drive and cloud. It’s a great feeling!
As for running, well, meh. Tomorrow. I’ll get back to it tomorrow. Promise!
Today I’ve taken a dose of my own Monday Motivation advice, and I’ve started the week as I mean to go on.
Yes, I’ve been reunited with my trainers, and I have run! 😀 Hurrah!
I ran an easy mile on the treadmill, and followed that with 5k on the exercise bike. Now I feel fabulous!
And – more importantly – pain free 😉
How was your Hallowe’en on Friday? We had a family party at my brother and sister-in-laws, and it was loads of fun! The theme was ’80s, and we had usic and snacks from the 1980s, and most costumes were 80s themed too. @TheWelshWookie and I went as Kylie and Jason (he was Kylie, I was Jason!), my brother was also dressed as Jason, so our very own Kylie had two to choose from! We also had a couple of Madonnas,Marge Simpson, a clown, Mrs Incredible, a zombie, and many more. Janice’s costume was fab: she was Freddie Mercury, from the video for I Want to Break Free, complete with vacuum! Andrew won best costume, as  he’d come as Mr Staypuft from Ghostbusters!
The boys all had fun dooking for apples, and reaching for doughnuts, which was great.
Next, it’s Bonfire Night on Wednesday: are you having fireworks?
Here’s some to keep you going, until then 😉
Well, it’s all over, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow have drawn to a close.
Hopefully, I’ll post very soon to fill you in on all of our antics: we had a real blast!
But, it’s back to work, and time to get cracking:
Are you planning on rolling up your sleeves this week and getting stuck in? What do you want to achieve?
Oh, my goodness. What a weekend!
Glasgow is absolutely buzzing with activity, fun, entertainment, visitors, Clydesiders, athletes and all sorts! Have you managed to catch any of the Commonwealth Games this weekend?
We were at the concert on Friday, judo on Saturday morning, the 2014 Festival at Glasgow Green in the afternoon, dinner at Brown’s in the evening followed by the marathon on the Sunday, where we met Allison, The Running Princess and her hubby Steve.
I’ll share my pics from the weekend later in the week.
For now, here’s some inspiration courtesy of Team Scotland:
And, here’s Usain Bolt meeting Clyde!
Here’s to another fabulous week of sport!
Welcome to another week: I hope the sun has been shining brightly on you today.
I’ve had a wonderful weekend: we’ve had visitors and it’s been wonderful spending time with my bestie Pauline, her other better half Gavin, Olivia and Christopher. We took a trip to Portavadie, visited the abandoned village Polphail, and did lots of talking, eating and walking. And a little drinking of vino and champagne, of course! 😉
As always, talk turned to books, and we ended up discussing the books of Jon Ronson: they recommended reading Them and The Psychopath Test. I downloaded both, and read Them last night, finishing it at lunchtime today. I’m now almost half way through The Psychopath Test and I’m really enjoying it too. They’re fascinating!
So, here’s a little something to think about: not so much Monday Motivation, more like a Monday Mental Check, I suppose!
I reckon mine is showing quite clearly….. is yours? 😛
Why, hello there, stranger!
Did you miss me?
I know that I had said I’d do a couple of posts while I was in Tenerife, but it didn’t happen. I didn’t have much access to WiFi, and I used up my phone data quite quickly! Ooops! 😉
And, on top of that, my web domain expired while I was away – I had completely forgotten about it! Ooops again! 😮
So, I’m very sorry for the accidental blogging break. But, I’m back, and I’m really looking forward to catching up on your blogs over the next couple of weeks, and seeing what I have missed.
Here’s a little something that sums up the past couple of weeks for me:
So, what big news have I missed?
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