JUST GET 'ER' DONE!........

G'day!

Well, - it appears life has got busier!  Am working full time, trying to study, trying to maintain a fitness regime relative to my goals that I'm happy with, keeping up with housework, garden, wanting to socialise, go to events, - plus get to bed on time.  I know that is no worse than anyone else, - and I don't have a partner and/or children to add to that mix like many superheros!  But I do feel busy enough haha!

The hardest thing to get done/attended to is.......training and study.  Training a couple of times a week is done first thing in the morning, (I still really don't enjoy that torture treadmill hill started by 6am, - but it's over with in 21 mins) and that frees up the evening for not having to getting sweaty, - other than perhaps a few resistance moves.  An outdoor run generally happens on either a Sat or Sun morning and a couple of arvos a week, usually in the vicinity of 5 - 7.5km at the moment.  I don't mind so much on the weekend but after work, muscles etc just feel a little fatigued, but the sooner after work the run is started, the better.  Add to the mix.....Southland weather!  We finished our glorious spell of 10 days unfortunately. 

Tuesday was one of those ....I ....can't.....be.....arsed days! 
It was windy after work, looked like it was threatening to rain and was 13 degrees.  But I thought of my younger triathlete cousin whose home I visited a few years back in winter.  He had been on a 17k run that morning early, temp was 0 degrees celcius.  After a few jobs he was on his turbo trainer in the arvo........so I told myself f**k off outside and get that 6.2k scheduled run done!  I got a 7.45k outdoor run completed today, weather only slightly better than Tuesday!

I am still succeeding with the trend of slightly better performances, nothing to write home about but small improvements.  I notice I run faster on the concrete/footpaths than loose gravel and lots of my runs have been on lots of loose gravel!  A wind coming at me slows me down a bit still.  Managed to put a couple of 100m sprints or so into today's run, the best one at the finish line where I was really 'had it'.

My other announcement: - I've entered in the 12k Surf to City run on Sunday!  Oreti beach to middle of Invercargill city!  I certainly won't be up to my best Perth times in such the event but it will be good to see how this local event is run.  But I plan to do it and see what my best will entail!  I look forward to a skinny flat white at a cafe after the awards ceremony!  I have the 5k hilly trail run the following weekend!

Lil sis's baby shower is tomorrow!  I'm making sushi, - and look forward to the party!  My sis's husband's Mum and other daughter in law are coming down from the North Island for the weekend to attend the baby shower and catch up so I look really forward to seeing them.  I hope to be able to dedicate at least a couple of hours to study over the weekend as well!

Gotta go, think the weight loss is happening a bit slower than it used to, - will have a look tomoz morn and hope it's a couple/few hundred grams down on last Friday's 81.9.  Dietary efforts have been pretty good, lots of veg from parents garden, no bingeing, 1-2 meals out a week making a 'reasonable' choice with what's available but not being anal.  Am still having a few more carbs in the evening more regularly than what I used to when I considered myself 'on track', (ie 1 medium or 2 smallish new potatoes microwaved, boiled or similar from garden) - but have less skinny flat white coffees in the day now as I'm not in the city!  Am shooting for under 80 by start of next month.

Will catch ya soon!

Pip :-)