Initially I was excited for Juneathon Day 14 as we were signed up to do The City Mile – we were going to run in the Family Wave – but due to my injured foot we decided it would be a sensible decision not to go!
So my contribution for Juneathon Day 13 was walking around my daughter’s school fete for four hours (plus the walk there and home) – and with how tender my foot still feels this was quite a good effort I feel! Especially as my hubby, in-laws and I were being dragging around by a very excited 5 year old and 3 year old! You cannot say that this wasn’t exercise!!!
The strong arm of the law!Fun, games and face painting!Pony rides!
Check out the step count for today!!!
Plus there was my toes touches, sit and reaches and sit ups/tummy crunches of which there was 13 each! (Why did I think this was a good idea!?! :-P)
Still not entirely sure what I have done to my foot and it’s very sore – so not an awful lot of activity for Juneathon Day 12.
As the Blue One was a bit better today, his temperature had come down a bit, we met with some friends in the park as it was such a beautifully warm day.
I managed to do a little bit of football with him – mainly him running around and me just kicking the ball back to him! It was nice seeing him being more his usual active and happy self.
Blue One playing football
King of the Castle
Not a bad step count either considering how much I’m hobbling!!! Does include the drop off and pick up of the Pink One from school!
I also managed 12 toe touches, 12 sit and reaches and 12 sit ups/tummy crunches (these seemed such a great idea each day when the numbers were smaller!!!)
So for Juneathon Day 11 I had planned on going for a run, but as you’ve probably gathered from my previous posts I’m notorious for changing my mind!
Today was an OU study day for me, so when I got a specific task completed I celebrated by going for a walk instead of a run. I wasn’t feeling particularly great – tummy still not happy, think it’s all the worrying about the Blue One, who’s temperature is still high! Plus, it was so warm really didn’t think a run was a great idea, so a walk in the beautiful sunshine it was! 3.68km to be precise!
To the post office… bugger, it was closed …and home again!
I had a target as needed to collect something from the post office, which is a reminder for me of how my running journey started, but in typical ‘me’ style I got there at 3pm and the post office had closed at 2.30pm!!! Doh!!! Never mind – least I got out and it counts for Juneathon – yay!!!
I also then had the walk to collect my Pink One up from school after her gymnastics class. For some unknown reason my right foot/ankle started hurting on my walk there and is still hurting now…!?!  I did nothing specific to set it off, so it’s rather strange! Hoping it’ll ease off by tomorrow!
Collecting the Pink One!
Did do a good number of steps today too – and I didn’t have my phone on me at all times – so would’ve been more! 😜
Oooo, lots of steps!
Finally I did 11 toe touches, 11 sit and reaches and 11 sit ups/tummy crunches (these are definitely getting harder now!)
Oh and my hubby bought me some flowers to cheer me up – I am very lucky!
So for Juneathon Day 10, I still have a poorly little boy, so not much major exercise went on. When he had a few minutes where he was feeling a little bit more energetic we managed to go out in the garden and play a little bat and ball.
Bat and Ball!
Then when the Blue One got a bit tired and we came in, IÂ for some unknown reason decided it’d be a great idea to sort out all the kids toys!?! Why!?! I have no idea…
How did this all fit in the drawers?How will I get it all back in?
I’m sure the amount of toys they have grow when you take them out of the drawers! Eventually though I did get it all tidy again…
Ahhh, that’s better!
That was definitely a good 3 hour work out!!! There was also wrestling the first dose (of three) of antibiotics into the stubborn three year old boy – the second two doses he was a very good boy!
Finally – I did 10 toe touches, 10 sit and reaches and 10 sit ups/tummy crunches.
Usually I do intervals on a Tuesday but my running buddy Helen is away this week, so I had planned a run for my Juneathon Day 9 offering, but being anxious about my little boys high temperature, gave me a grumbly tum which resulted in me not eating much yesterday evening which in turn meant I felt like I didn’t have much energy to go for a run – it’s a vicious cycle!!! But enough about what I didn’t do and on to what I did do!
Well my Blue One still had an extremely high temperature today (spiked to 39.7 during the night) so I managed to get him an afternoon doctors appointment. Today was an OU study day for me, so the Blue One was with his nanny and grandad D, so come his appointment time I walked to the doctors (with a detour into the Coop) to meet them.  Then the Blue One went back with them so mummy could do some more work! So my effort was two very short walks! Yay me!!!
Walk to the doctors with a stop in the CoopWalk back from the doctors
I did also do nine toe touches, nine sit and reaches and nine tummy crunches/sit ups!
My Blue One now has antibiotics and following his reaction to the one dose he had this evening I have three work outs ready for me tomorrow!!! Haha!!! Wish me luck (praying some chocolate button bribery will work!!!)
Think tomorrow’s exercise level might not even be as high as today’s – shhh, don’t tell but I think I’ve got a sore throat!!! 😔not good…
Well, back to watching Transformers Rescue Bots with my awake poorly Blue One!
So for Juneathon Day 8 my main contribution was an hour of housework – additional effort in the fact I did the vacuuming which included the stairs!
Photographic evidence of the vacuuming
There had been plans to do a kilometre (or possibly a mile) ‘run’ with my kiddies, but a poorly Blue One with a very high temperature (39.3 degrees celcius at its highest) who was a bit tearful (though he did eat his dinner bless him) put paid to that idea! He kept falling asleep today, which is very unlike him, and he went in the pushchair when we collected his sister from school – which he hasn’t done in months! He had a football session this afternoon where he just sat on my lap for 45 mins – his temp hadn’t been that high when I left the house! Praying a good nights sleep will have him back to his bouncy happy self – though after Calpol, he was more himself and wanted to play… as it was time to get ready for bed!!! Obviously!!!
Left: Falling asleep on the way to football Right: Falling asleep on the way home from football! This is only a 5 minute journey – and he didn’t even play, just sat on my lap for 45 minutes!!!
I’ve turned on the pedometer bit of MapMyWalk – a photo of today below – but I am not entirely convinced by the figures if I am honest!
MapMyWalk – Daily Activity
I also did eight toe touches, eight sit and reaches and eight sit ups/tummy crunches…
Hope everyone else has had a good Juneathon Day 8!
A very short post tonight about my ‘exercise’ for Juneathon Day 7, need to crack on with some more OU studies, so today I did some short walks to take my daughter to a birthday party and back. All in all, covering almost 4.5km, but adding all the time up, it over an hour – it’s quite funny comparing the speed of my walk back to collect her (average pace of 9:21mins/km) to length of time it took to walk back home again with the small Pink One in tow (average pace of 17.30mins/km) – but walking is walking and it was a beautiful day and lovely to be going along chatting and holding hands with my Pink One! I probably don’t do it often enough!
It’s a beautiful day…There and Back Again!!!
In between walking to and fro for my daughter, I baked some Gluten and Dairy free banana loaves, which are now in the freezer, ready for my daughter’s school fete on Saturday! I did make three – but one of them was a complete disaster for no apparent reason so didn’t make the cut!!! This did involve a considerable amount of standing up and mixing – so must contribute to my exercise somehow!?!
Gluten and Dairy Free Banana Loaves
I also did seven toe touches, seven sit and reaches and seven sit ups/tummy crunches!
Hope everyone else had a good Juneathon Day 7 and a lovely weekend!
So Juneathon Day 6 – the plan had been to do the Danson Parkrun, but woke up with a grumpy tum (blooming IBS is really getting to me now – even on this low FODMAP diet it can still be triggered! argh!!!), and really didn’t feel like doing a timed run. So text Helen, who I was going along with and asked if she minded if we did a more local run – which thankfully she was happy with too!
So 8.30am this morning, I walked over to hers, then we walked to warm up, going back through a beautiful park (see image below) and then went on a very gentle 3km run.
Beautiful park – sunshine, pond and ducks!
It was a very pleasant run in the cool morning sunshine – the beautiful weather always helps me to feel more upbeat!
Route and how we did!
Helen witnessed my 6 toe touches!
Obligatory after run selfie with the lovely Helen!
I then did a sprint for the 200m to home – always good to feel how quick I’d need to go to do 5.20min/km – don’t think I’d ever be able to keep it up for any extended period of time though!!! Haha!!!
Sprint to home!
Finally did my 6 sit and reaches and 6 sit ups/tummy crunches!
Hope everyone has a great Juneathon Day 6 and happy Saturday!
Not the cheesy TVÂ game show of the 1990s but my rather feeble attempt of making my weekly big shop my ‘exercise’ activity for Juneathon day 5!
Pushing a shopping trolley around with my 3 year old Blue One sat in there, plus the weekly shop – it’s quite a work out! Plus the lifting in and out of said small child, and then the carrying in of the bags once home and putting it away – it all adds up! 😛
Shopping with the Blue One!
I also completed five toe touches, five sit and reaches and five sit ups/tummy crunches!
Jog on Mum 