#juneathon Day 5: Jubilee weekend round-up

What a weekend, a four day weekend is clearly the way forward. The recipe for success seems to be 3 days of activities, visiting family and friends, followed by one day of rest and relaxation rounded off with a lovely run. Now if only all weekends were four days I think we would all be much happier!
As planned, week 4 of the beginners group went ahead this week, runners turning up were low as expected, maybe due to the rain and maybe due to other Jubilee based activities but myself and fellow coach Mike were very pleased that it wasn't a complete washout despite the rain and those runners that did come along had a great opportunity for some 1:1 coaching!
During the session, rain had eased to a drizzle and then finally subsided by the time we were stretching and PWRs were gathering ready for group runs to begin. As with previous weeks I was umming and ahhing whether to head home or stay out for a group run. I decided on the latter. Numbers were low this evening and I went with group 3 in an all ladies group with only 4 of us. We trotted along very happily and at a comfortable pace, after some fairly uncomfortable runs of late I was really pleased I had steeled myself to go out with the club as I really enjoyed myself. Nice run to round out the weekend.

#juneathon Day 4: at Seaford Head

The Seaford Half Marathon seemed to have passed over me yesterday without me noticing but I had other plans. However as a little tribute I decided on my run this morning to run the last few miles of the course up along Seaford Head and down to the seafront. A very very windy run but lots of friendly faces, some clearly suffering the after effects of jubilee parties over the past couple of days! My Garmin was playing up towards the end which meant I had to keep stopping and starting it, this meant that when I loaded up my stats I was able to perform a sort of dot-to-dot puzzle to determine my final distance (or thereabouts!).

#juneathon Day 3: Double hard bike ride

Down in Seaford to stay with my friend and celebrate the Jubilee I had brought along my bike so at least we could prepare our metabolisms for the upcoming garden party food fest that was to come later in the day.

We started off along the seafront and made our way inland and onto the South Downs and up a horrendous hill, it was touch, I made it some of the way but there was no way without a real big run up I could have done any more. Lexi on the other hand did make it further than me but still not to the top... but you must understand that looking up the hill it was one of those that makes you think if you don't concentrate you will just fall off the hill as it is so sheer like a cliff face! (or maybe that's just me). On route up the hill we started to chatting to a local weather worn old boy who was very helpful with directions and must have pretty strong legs having walked up and down that hill for years!

Next step we went off road, over hills, through brambles, over stiles, we were in fact double hard b@stards and especially Lexi who was able to lift both bikes above her head single handedly whilst negotiating nettles and climbing a stile. soon we were back on my terrain, a road! 

This didn't last long as we were soon off-roading again, I was enjoying myself although found this tougher than my usual rides, we have been going for about 9 miles and with less than a mile to go I went careering off the path and into a farmers field, miraculously I stayed on the bike but not all the crops faired so well. 

A good fun ride but definitely hard work having to climb stiles with a bike.

#juneathon Day 2: walking already, oh dear!

Today's activity was originally going to be a bike ride with my mum. This soon became a distant dream when I arrived to find that the fridge door needed to be removed and replaced so it opened in the other direction... a simple task it should have been. A simple task it was not!

Enough of fridge chatter though, this is a running blog or at least an activity blog. So in a fridge maintenance break we set off for a walk to the lovely grounds of East Court in East Grinstead, through the woods and fields we made our way to the memorial gardens, splendidly in bloom and lots of bee's and birds around. 

#juneathon Day 1: Pinch, Punch, First of the Month!

So today a reminder flashed up in my calendar.... it said don't forget to enter the Juneathon. The Juneathon is a sporting challenge whereby you commit to run (or exercise) every day of the month and blog about it. I first heard about this from a running club friend who had registered for the Janathon - essentially the same challnege in a colder month! I had thought at the time it sounded like the sort of thing that would suit me as I blog frequently and exercise a fair bit too, but January offer the risk of meddling with my marathon training plan, now June seemed a much better idea... at least it did back in January!
So today is ths first day of my Juneathon challenge, there is a long road ahead... well a 30 day road ahead... so I thought I'd better get cracking.
Well, I say that, I spent the day thinking how lovely it would be to go for a run when I got home... but first the dentist, then a cuppa, then I ate my dinner which meant I have to wait a while. Finally at 9:30pm I headed out the door, I planned a nice little 5km and set off on my route. I was home, seemingly a little quicker than planned so when I looked at my watch and saw it was only just over 2 miles I was confused but I went inside. I looked again a my route... it was in km not miles, not sure how I managed that but not a mistake I will make again, doh!