Nye's fitness blog

Wednesday I walked to Kentish Town South (right near the closed down tube station) for weigh-in, and ran back. That's 1.5 miles! I was very pleased with myself.

Thursday was work. I walked from where I work in Chingford Mount to near Walthamstow, then had a walk around Epping Forest with the lovely reddragdiva. I estimate that I walked 6 or 7 miles. My quads were really aching from the squats and lunges I'd done on Tuesday, and my left achilles tendon was giving me a bit of trouble. Otherwise I would have continued walking down to Stratford, but I had to leave that for another day.

Friday I intended to go to the gym in the morning, but I was having an anxious day. I walked part of the way to Old Street (was late, had to hop on bus) and back the long way via the Regent's Canal/Angel. Then a lovely date with reddragdiva where we walked from King's Cross, through Regent's Park, up/down Primrose hill, to Chalk Farm.

Today I ran to the gym (1.1 miles). I found that Fred had done two of the workouts he'd promised me, so I picked the 'chest and back' one to do. ( What I did at the gym )

The last couple of days my exercise has been of the useful variety. On Friday I walked to the WISH office near Old Street and back home via a drop-off near Smithfields Market. Saturday was a hide from the world day, and my ankles swelled up because of a combination of my obesity, the hot weather, and the lack of exercise that day. They didn't swell up as much as they used to when I was 20 stone though, so that's a good thing really.

Today:

• Weight-lifting at home. Insufficient warm-up followed by bent row, standing flyes, shoulder press, bicep curls, standing tricep extensions, weighted calf raises and weighted squats.


• Bit of a run to/along the canal. Didn't go far because it was really horribly sunny and hot. Ran up Pancras Road, Camley Street, Regent's Canal to Royal College Street, where I collapsed in a heap for 5 minutes. Then ran down Royal College Street, and Midland Road to St Pancras Station where I had a delicious dark cherry mocha frappuccino.
• walked to The Pembury in Hackney via the Regetnt's Canal (6 miles) and back home the direct route (4 miles).

My food has been *crap* today. I don't usually talk about it in in this journal. Have a cut.( Read more... )

Walked from Chingford Mount to Manor House tube station, which was 6.5 miles. I was having moderate amounts of angst so I didn't walk all the way to King's Cross. I do like going for walks, but when it is for *exercise* it does get a bit grinding. Running and the gym is totally different.

I need to work out when I'll exercise tomorrow. My day is packed til the evening, and Friday nights are a sucky time to be outside. If I can get up at 7.30 (and that means actually get up at 7.30, not ignore alarms for half an hour), I can do a workout before my friends come over at 11am, but I'm not sure how sensible that is. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

I had an inactive weekend where exercise was concerned. On Friday 22nd I was volunteering near Old Street, and I walked home from that. Saturday involved spodding and a little bit of non-energetic dancing, followed by a late-night walk back from Trafalgar Square (couple of miles). Sunday and Monday I was exhausted by the late night on Saturday plus socialising.

Tuesday saw me with more energy. doubtfulace and I went for a jog and a walk on Hampstead Heath. We walked from Belsize Park to the South End Green entrance of the Heath, walked up to the mixed bathing pond, then ran up beyond the mens' pond and partway to the ladies' before a hill winded me. We walked up to Kenwood House and had a coffee, walked to Kentish Town via Highgate where we parted. I walked on to Camden Town to buy some essentials from Sainsbury's. The run was 0.8 of a mile, but that included hills so I'm pleased with it. I plan on doing more jogging on Hampstead Heath, hence the new tag.

Today I was determined to go back to the gym. I ran there! I'm really pleased with that. It's only 1.1 miles away, but I get shy about running near home so it's quite an achievement. I'm breaking down some of my psychological barriers. ( Read more... )

I walked from my gym in Covent Garden/Holborn to King's Cross for a shower, then to south Kentish Town and back for my Slimming World meeting. I jogged for about half a mile of that. Lost 2.5 pounds this week, go me :-) I've discovered that we're allowed vegetable juice as part of our 'free' food. I plan on getting a carrot/beetroot/ginger/lemon juice next time I'm near a wholefood shop :-) Ooh, maybe a shot of fresh wheatgrass.

How's your fitness routine going?

Tuesday 19th May: not so much a 'rest day' as a 'hide from the world day'. At least my food was good that day. It sucked mightily though.
Wednesday 20th May: light exercise. Walked to Kentish Town and back (three miles total), including one jog slightly uphill of 0.88 miles.

Today: Walked ten miles! Chingford Mount to King's Cross. Very pleased with this. ( Walk )

I've not been good at getting to the gym to do weightlifting. Either I've been busy at the times that the gym has enough space in the free weights are, or I've been hiding in my flat feeling like pants. I'm busy from now til Sunday morning! Eep! (Not continuously, I just know how much activity I can get away with without going splat.) Sunday lunchtime should be a good time to hit the gym for some serious lifting :-)

I'm thinking of looking for a gym in London that specialises in free weights. Most gyms are full up of cardio machines and weight machines that aren't really ideal for body-building. My gym has such a tiny free weights area, and that means at peak times you can't really move for brotards ;-)

I jogged just over a mile today on my own! I am very pleased with this. I sneaked it on myself, I was dressed for a walk and wasn't expecting to jog, which probably helped me *just do it*. (Bloody good slogan, shame it's so connected to a huge global brand.) Map of the route I took. I walked 8 miles in addition to the 1 mile jog. I did a bit of a sprint too. I really like sprinting :-)

doubtfulace is really inspiring me :-)

Saturday: run with doubtfulace, disco dancing in the evening.
Sunday: rest day.

Tomorrow I have a delivery coming, so I don't know what exercise I'll be able to do. Wednesday I should be able to get to the gym.

Gym today, yay! I sucked at getting out of the flat on time, so it was a really short session.

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Instead of a 10 minute session on the cardio machines to cool down I walked to my Slimming World group in Kentish Town from my gym in Covent Garden. I was shaking. Silly me, I'd not eaten enough. Had to have an extra meal when I got home. Walked home from Kentish Town, jogged for a small portion of that (third of a mile I think). Lost 2½ pounds this week.

Walked just over 5 miles today. Walking 12 miles yesterday made my hips ache today. I'm really pleased with what I've accomplished this week. (Weigh-ins on Wednesday make my weeks feel like they start on a Thursday.)

I plan on running from Highams Park station to Chingford Mount tomorrow, which is just over a mile.

I walked 12 miles today. I am knackered!

I walked the main roads way King's Cross to Finsbury Park, crossed Finsbury Park and got on the Parkland Walk (pretty, skinny bit of wooded area with a path running through it) to Highgate. I had a well-earned rest at a café (tea and scone, how English), then walked down to Kentish Town past Highgate Cemetery and Hampstead Heath. I kept going south west til I hit Fitzrovia where I went to a pub meet for a couple of hours. Then walked Fitzrovia to King's Cross.

I'm pleasantly surprised I walked that far. Last long walk was 9.5 miles, 12 is quite an improvement.

It was sunny, which makes me :-( I wore a brimmed hat, lots of sunblock, cool shades and wore a jacket etc. No tan here tyvm!

My route on gmaps pedometer.

Today I walked home from an appointment in Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Palace Road. It was around six miles. I started off alternating speed walking with walking at a moderate pace, but my hayfever got the better of me and I had to concentrate on just getting through it. I walked through Kensington Palace Gardens/Hyde Park, where I inhaled much pollen and plane tree fluff. It was beautiful, but I couldn't really appreciate it with sneezing/wheezing/streaming eyes. I only started getting hayfever when I was 28 or so, and I keep forgetting it's going to happen. I've taken some anti-histamines now :-)

I'll be walking to and from Poland Street in Soho for Vicki's birthday this eve, which isn't far (3 mile round trip), but it'll mean quite a decent total for today.

Short walk from Chingford Mount to Highams Park via Larks Wood (which is very pretty, though quite small). I sort of speed-walked 3/4 of it until I was knackered.

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