Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try

martyboy48 wrote: »

Delighted to hear you're back running, brilliant news
Keep it sensible for now though, you know yourself like

Don't give up on your kayak ambitions though

Don't worry I won't

Mrs Mc wrote: »

So chuffed for you AM

Thanks A, and for all your support in the last few weeks, it means a lot.

Thanks for all the lovely posts too guys, yiz are the best internet strangers in the world

Monday 23rd May #chocolategate

Decided to work from home today as woody managed to eat 100g of a 200g lidl chocolate bar last night :eek: my fault in fairness I left it on the couch and then left the room, when I got back there wasn’t even a smudge left… chocolate is poisonous for dogs and he had been sick a few times during the night, so a call to the vet first thing this morning meant a trip down there and they said they’d keep him in as he needed IV fluids to flush out the toxins and if he needed anti seizure meds they could give to him on the spot. My poor baby! When I went in to collect him this eve he had to do the rounds and say goodbye to all the girls - he knows how to charm the ladiez does our Woody!! That’s it though, not another screed of chocolate will pass the threshold of my front door - I’ll have to eat it in the car before I get into the house :pac: #mostexpensivebarofchocolateever

AM: yoga (flexibility section) 30 mins.

PM: Lunctime run: 3.5 miles @ 12:27 avg hr 128, lovely lovely lovely, kept it slow and headphone less. Could have upped the pace a bit for the HR but am not in any hurry and was happy to just enjoy this.

PM: Functional movement workout 2 starting to see a little progress in these..

PM: Ramble slow easy ramble in St. Catherines Park, probably about 2.5 miles, a glorious evening indeed and was watching the rush of the Liffey where they kayaks normally are with a different eye Heaven.

Kennyg71 wrote: »

Our dog ate whole Easter egg, same result as woody. Vet for the day and breath
Mints needed to get rid of smell of puking :eek:

Yes I heard that on the grapevine earlier today!! little divils apparently, in the opposite to humans, its the dark chocolate that's very bad for them. The bar I had was 47% coco which is slightly worse than the normal milk chocolate. I have to say, one of the (many) advantages to having a mongrel is their iron constitution!!

FBOT01 wrote: »

How did we get from Woody eating chocolate to Tang's iron constitution

Very brave when you know he's away

Tuesday 25th May

Run 3.5 miles @ 11:49 avg HR 132
Finally catching up on missed sleep although still quite tired today, brought a much improved woody for his usual 1.5 mile loop, dropped him back at the house and straight out for this in the beautiful evening sun. Pace already dropping for the same effort over the last few days, I think that's the first time I've seen 11 for pace since April

Functional movement workout 4
Also had to throw in some foam rolling, funny how quickly the muscles tighten up again!!


Wednesday 25th May

Another ‘kill two birds with one stone workout’ Needed to get a broken laptop to our IT guys in Harolds Cross for repair as it was beyond even my talents, so took a Dublin Bike there with the laptop in a backpack and took the pearse street/canal route which was lovely

3 mile cycle in 20 mins - never thought to turn the watch on for this :rolleyes: would have been far more enjoyable if there weren’t 20 million sets of traffic lights, about 10 million of them red…

Run: 3.1 miles @ 10:58

Ran back to the office the same beautiful sunny route. Had forgotten my HR strap and yes this is too fast, I know that, I’ll give myself a slap on the wrist, save anyone else the bother. Here are my excuses (more than one!)

•It felt lovely
•I got into a stride and found it hard then to slow back out of it
•The fact that I had to say ‘excuse me’ to people walking ahead and startled them because they heard neither my footfall nor my breathing meant it wasn’t waaaaayyyy to fast
•I was really enjoying it
•I had to get back to the office before tomorrow
•I was really enjoying it (did I use that one already?!)

A couple of things to remind myself, 1) get back to drinking lots of water, I literally stopped the day I got the diagnosis (had been religiously drinking 2 litres a day - have turned that into wine ever since :eek: ). 2) Get back into the foam rolling before bed habit.

I just got a notification on my phone under the heading ‘insights’ whatever the hec that is, the message said, you’re moving more than you typically do on a Wednesday, well done keep it up. You gotta love smartphones

Yoga & FM workout planned for this eve.

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

Did it come from the Garmin Connect app? A new section appeared on Connect in April called "Insights", but mine is still blank so I don't know what it does. Apparently I never do anything worth its time. :pac:

Ah! yes it did, I never look at the GC app, its just there so I can sync my watch with bluetooth! he he there's one that says 'your least active day'

'It looks like Friday is usually your least active day of the week, lets change that today. Is it nice outside? How about a quick 10 min walk? If the weather is bad you can march up and down your stairs a few times to get your healthy activity in' :pac::pac::pac:

That's hilarious! I better make a real effort to make sure I get lots of activity in this Friday so.

snailsong wrote: »

So did you enjoy that run today? I think you forgot to mention.:-)

I wonder did the makers of the insight app realise that most of us leave the phone behind when we run. It'd do nothing but give out to me.

Keep enjoying it, AM. You're storming back.

Lol thanks P - it was jolly good

I'm not sure but I don't think you need the phone to get the info ? I've gone back to wearing my old fr15 which counts steps when not in GPS mode so everything I do, including walks I don't log here, is counted when I upload the watch. It's a good idea if it gets people more active but then folks with a Garmin are probably already hooked on exercise

snailsong wrote: »

I feel like I've got super powers

Ha ha have created a monster :eek:.:p