Kickboxing Dolphins!

Labdien,

Well it’s been another big week – some highlights are I had private kickboxing tuition and went on my longest run ever! Here’s a breakdown of my week.

Monday I did a session in the gym after work. I went to the pool after work and bought a 20 visit pass – I like the swimming abd am really seeing the benefits of doing it. I ended up doing 18 laps, all freestyle.

Tuesday morning I did my longest run ever – almost 11 k’s! That means I’m almost in City to Surf territory! Here’s my route below. I only walked a little bit – the steep Avenue Road & Cowles Road in Mosman.



Wednesday I ran the walking group at work, going for 45 mins – we had to walk slower than normal as we had some slow people in the group. After work I had my group session with Ben in the gym, starting off with some cardio, then he worked us hard doing circuit training in the studio.

Thursday lunch time Laura from work & I went out for a lunch time run, from work across Pyrmont bridge, through Glebe, across the Anzac Bridge, down around the big silo’s and back. It was 7 k’s all up, and we did it in 46 mins. Not bad! Followed up in the evening with a swim – 20 laps – that’s 1 K!!! Most. Ever. With my bike ride to and from work, that’s 7.5 k’s on the bike, 7k’s running, and 1 k swimming – my very own triathlon!!

Friday was the day off and I was bad . I went to the supermarket after work to get something for dinner and I ended up buying some stuff I shouldn’t have. Damn Woolworths now does this ‘Buy 2 save $’ and I was suckered in to buying 2 mini cheese & bickie packs, 2 small packs Samboy chips, 2 100 gm blocks of Lindt Dark choc & mint and 2 Nestle diet dark choc mousse. It didn’t seem that big a deal when buying it, but on reflection I shouldn’t have. I think a Friday evening is a really bad time for me to go to the supermarket – I think I’ll try to avoid from now on!

Saturday I had a mixture of good and bad. Good was the exercise. In my last blog I updated you on Chris, who I met at the gym the previous Saturday. Well this Saturday I met him there at 8:30 am and we had a session together. We started off doing various weights in the gym, him really pushing me and what I can do. We then headed off to the studio where he have me a private kickboxing session!!! Chris teaches kickboxing at a studio in Five Dock, so I got the whole session 1 on 1!! It was awesome and we both got a great workout – I was dripping at the end! I was talking to Chris today and he really enjoyed it too – and he was so tired he had to have a nap after lunch!!! I didn’t!
I was very happy to have ridden my pushbike on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday as well. A 7.5 k round trip means that I did 30 k’s on my bike last week!

The rest of Saturday I spent putting around on Abby – I introduced her to my brother, beeping her horn as I came down their driveway! My nephew and niece loved her and I even took Zoe on a small lap of their driveway! I then went to the new Balgowlah Village for a sticky beak where I had coffee and a cannoli – bad. And then I put-putted down to Manly for a cruise, and also up to North Head before I introduced Abby to Mum & Dad – Dad’s not a fan of me riding a scooter, but is happier now he’s seen Abby and her bigger than normal tyres etc. For the rest of the not so good, my boyfriend and I (yes you read that correctly) went out for dinner – Chinese at Gordon – and we had probably what was the most fatty thing on the menu – Peking Duck. I’d never had it before, and I probably shouldn’t have, but it was really good!!

Sunday I rode Abby to Paddy’s markets where I did my veggie shopping for the week. Wow! It’s so cheap there. I bought about $10 worth of vegies – celery, bad of beans, 5 oranges, coriander, 5 apples, bok choy, ginger and more which would have cost over $30 at woollies! I then headed to the Fish Markets where I bought my favourite fish – swordfish steaks. When home I ‘Mastercheffed’ the steaks – creating a marinade out of soy, olive oil, lemon pepper, chilli, ginger and fresh coriander ready for the evening.

In the arvo I headed out to meet the gorgeous Leigh-B for a run. We started at Curl Curl, then headed over the headland to Freshwater, across the beach, along that headland, down to Queenscliff, along Manly Beach and back. It was a lovely run, topped off with a pod of Dolphins frolicking just off Manly beach which was just amazing to see. We ended up running for over 8 k’s, just over 1 hour – map below. Then it was home for my foil wrapped, oven baked fish – it was quite nice! I’m marinating another steak now for tonight in the same mixture, but I added garlic & salt now too!!



So that’s me to-date!

See ya!