There’s a massive heat wave in Europe at the moment and the Netherlands has not been excluded from the fun. I’m over it. I love summer but I hate humidity. It makes everything more difficult.
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The plan this week was:
- Monday – gym, walking
- Tuesday – walking
- Wednesday – walking
- Thursday – walking
- Friday – gym, walking
- Saturday – parkrunday! + walking
- Sunday – walking
Gym
Happy to report that we made it twice to the gym this week, as planned. Ron didn’t want to go Friday because of the heat and I reminded him we trained for a marathon not once, but twice with runs in Crete in August. If w,e can do a long run in 40* C even though it was 6am, we could go to the gym in 28*C. The run there was pleasant, the run back was not LOL. But we did it.
Running
Slightly better running week:
- Monday – 2KM walk/jog
- Tuesday – 2.5KM massive fail at a run
- Friday – 4 KM running
- Saturday – new parkrun in Amersfoort, 5KM
Monday was just too soon to try to run all the way to the gym and back. Call me lame but Monday mornings I just find really tough. Anyway, I walk/ jogged there and then basically walked home. Then on Tuesday. I knew I wasn’t going to manage the training in the evening because of the heat so I tried to go out in the morning for a run and to assess the situation in the park. Friday I must have been at my peak because I managed running there and back.
I was Run Director this week at my parkrun but we ended up canceling due to it just being too hot and humid to hold a responsible event. Plus our path was blocked again by another event going on in the park, so all in all canceling was the way to go. That gave me the opportunity to go to Amersfoort for the new parkrun there, called Nimmerdor. With a negative comes a positive! I also ran the entire route, though it was quite slow as I just wanted to make sure I didn’t overheat.
Walking
This week I not only reached but surpassed my 200 days of daily walking! But no big walks this week. It is just too damn hot.
- Monday – 2KM
- Tuesday – 2.5KM
- Wednesday – 2KM
- Thursday – 2.5KM
- Friday – 3km
- Saturday – 2KM
- Sunday – ** still to be done
Total: 14 without KM’s for Sunday logged
I had too much going on again this week. A last minute meeting with Arnhem Together, nail appt on Tuesday, 2nd Coaching session (of a 4 part series) Wednesday, Thursday another meeting with an AT colleague and by Friday I was completely done with everything. The heat, work, parkrun discussions. All of it.
This coming week is another one of those, but hopefully more fun… It’s end of the month which is not so fun, but Thursday I have a wood-stamp workshop (I just wanted to do something creative and that’s what I found available), on Saturday a pottery workshop and then later we are going on a Bever Watching Tour in the Biesbosch.
I hope it cools down soon because to be perfectly honest this is making me aggravated!
In other news:
I picked up my Spanish lessons again this week (well I restarted) and I joined Duolingo again as a supplement. I also managed to do some furniture painting as well and ordered a few bits and bobs for my hobby room drawers. So at least a few nice things going on as well/
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