I apologize for the late/double post. I had written out the week 6 activity and thought that I posted it. It wasn't until logging in today that I realized it was still sitting in "drafts". Oops :)
Week 6
Sunday: Snuck in a 1hr hot yoga class at work, as the studio wasn't very busy over the Easter weekend and I wasn't needed :)
Monday: I had planned a run today, but boyfriend ended up getting the day off as well and wanted to go for a walk (and I couldn't convince him to run with me, as he is currently hobbling around with a sprained ankle). Despite his ankle issue, we walked for an hour and a half through High Park with a 15 minute lunch break. Our walk took us through the zoo, where a group of volunteers was encouraging donations to help save the zoo from closing in June. I paid $2 to feed the llamas :)
Tuesday: Activity failure today. This was the last day of one of my longest lectures, and I had expected that we would be let out early (figured that there was no way that the prof would be able to fill up 3 hours worth of talking, given that everything we needed to talk about was already done). So, I brought my gym clothes and shoes with me to go to the gym between class and a WW meeting in the evening. Fail. Somehow the prof not only managed to keep us the whole 3 hours, but went OVERTIME. By the time I left, I didn't have enough time to get in more than about a 10 minute workout before having to leave and walk up to the meeting. Instead, I walked for 20 minutes around the neighbourhood before landing in the meeting with my heavy gym bag. Also got another 15 minute walk in post-meeting. Sad face.
Wednesday: Planned a 5 or 6k run on the treadmill (because it was effing cold and windy outside). When I got to the condo gym, one treadmill was occupied, and the other was BROKEN :(!!! I tried fiddling around with the plugs, but to no avail. Instead of turning around and sulking back home with no activity at all (which would probably be my normal response :P), I opted to hop on the elliptical till the treadmill became available again (about 20 minutes), then jumped on the treadmill for a 3k run (about 22 minutes). By that time, unfortunately, I had to get going to get back to studying (stupid exams >:( ), but at least I got in a solid 40+ minutes of activity, plus a really good 5 minutes of stretching.
Thursday: School all day, work all night. I did walk home from work (30 minutes), so I guess I got at least a little bit of something in?
Friday: I had planned to go to the gym after class for a strength class, but it turned out that we got out of class early today. Sigh. I wasn't willing to wait around for 2 hours for the class, so I went to the gym anyway and did my own thing for an hour instead (steep incline walking on the treadmill, some weights and ab circuits)
Saturday: Another unfortunate activity fail. Worked all morning, taught a yoga class (minimal activity), and then off to my parent's house for Easter dinner part 2. Other than the small activity done in my class, and a bit of walking around at work, I didn't have much movement today :(
Week 7 -- The first week of exams. I'm afraid my activity log isn't all that exciting this week...
Sunday: planned rest day
Monday: I had an exam on Tuesday that I desperately needed to study for, so I didn't get in the run I had hoped to get. I did go out for a 30 minute walk as a break.
Tuesday: 6k post-exam #1 run :)
Wednesday: More studying, more 30 minute walk break
Thursday: More studying. Walked to and from work (30 minutes each way)
Friday: More studying, took two 30 minute walk breaks (1hr total activity)
Saturday: Exam #2 day, more walking (30 minutes)
So I've been having some challenges keeping up with my goal of getting activity every day. I had a sneaking suspicion that this would happen once exams rolled around, but I had hoped that maybe, just maybe, if I had already gotten into the habit of exercising every day well before exams started, that there would be a higher chance that I'd keep up with it during exams! Weeeelllll unfortuntely it didn't work out that way, but I've still been active almost every day, but in shorter durations than pre-exams (e.g. instead of a 1 hour gym session, I'm lucky to fit in a half hour, but it's better than the 0 hours that I probably would have done without the Spring into Action challenge!)
Tomorrow is the Toronto Yonge Street 10K! I signed up for this one instead of the Sporting Life 10K this year because, well, the Sporting Life one didn't exist yet at the time that the TYS10K registration opened. The Sporting Life is no longer a Canadian Running Series event, and actually didn't even exist until several months after I signed up for the TYS10K instead. Even stranger, they both have the exact same route, but are being held two weeks apart. Whaaat?
My fastest 10K time was 1:12:23 (2 years ago at the Sporting Life 10K). This year I've had much more training, so I am hoping to break that time if I can. But really for me, this event isn't about running fast, it's another training run for me. Because the Toronto Women's Half Marathon is only 5 weeks away .___.
How have you been active this week?
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