May 2023 – it’s happening
Welcome to this week’s Fit Five Friday – it’s the first Friday of the month and you know what that means…
ULTIMATE COFFEE DATE! *cue celebrations*
WELOME to Fit Five Friday with with your FIVE amazing hosts – me, My First 5K and More, Running With Attitude, Runs with Pugs, Zenaida ! Feel free to join in on the fun! And head over here to join the Ultimate Coffee Date with other amazing, supportive and friendly bloggers.
I’m going to have a straight up double espresso, what are you having?
If we were having coffee
I’d check in with you how your past month went – did you have any races? did you reach any short-term or long-term goals?
I’m pretty happy with my stats in April. I knew I wouldn’t have as much walking mileage as I did in in March, but still averaged 2.8KM per day which is, obviously more than 1KM per day (goal) and more than I averaged in January and February.
Also running is getting slightly better, each time shaving off a few seconds here and there and I am trying to increase my intervals each week. My goal is 52 5K’s this year and I’m at 18 now (I had one run of 6KM and am just counting 5KM’s) so basically on schedule, even though I missed about 7 weeks thanks to The Cough.
I also had a tiny bit of biking but mostly commute/ errands so nothing to write home about.
If we were having coffee
I would also mention that I got back on my spin bike again for RPM and I officially rejoined a different gym (my third time there as a member!). I did not actually MAKE it to the gym however in April, but this month will see some improvement on that.
If we were having coffee
I’d ask you if you ever signed up for and received meal boxes? Ron and I have been a bit in a rut with cooking and we’ve talked endless times about eating less meat and making more vegetarian meals. We both are pretty not-in-the-mood at the end of the work day to 1) decide what we are going to eat for dinner, 2) go and shop for that dinner and 3) cook that meal once items are procured.
Also? Grocery prices are not only through the roof here, but there’s been strikes in the distribution centres which means the shelves are BARE.
I asked around and got a few suggestions for meal box delivery and decided to go with Green Chef. There are a lot of vegetarian options, low-carb, high-protein and less packaging. We’ve had our first box this week and so far so good! I think we were both pleasantly surprised. I will probably also try one or two more – there is one that is super local ingredients and one that is also pre-made dinners that are apparently super nice.
If we were having coffee
I would ask you if you are seeing any concerts in the near future? I’m getting really excited to see Depeche Mode again – on the 6th of June in Düsseldorf and on the 24th of June in Paris, which will actually be a reunion of sorts with some friends of ours that met up the first time in Paris agessssss ago – in fact almost exactly 10 years. These are also stadium concerts which are just amazing. And you know your girl is in the golden circle up front and center, baby!!! YEAH!
I am also going to see Harry Styles with one of my girlfriends on the 4th of June. Yes. I admit it. I heart Harry!
If we were having coffee
I’d ask y’all Brooks people what you’ve done to me??? I saw these bad boys today and had to buy them after a quick google search to find out what the toe box was like. Ok, I blame parkrun too, now that they are the official sponsor of parkrun Netherlands!
So how was your April? What’s in the works for May? Summer plans? Concerts? Travel?
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Here are the guidelines:
- Your link should center around some kind of fitness (exercise, wellness, mental health, nutrition… the possibilities are endless!)
- Please link back to your hosts! It’s the right thing to do!
- Share the link-up love by visiting and commenting on your hosts and at least two other Fit Five Friday bloggers!
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