Well it's been a busy old Mum's Day today.
I had a walk up Mt Ainslie yesterday, no sight of the Sky Wale unfortunately, but a great walk followed by coffee at yet another new coffee shop, this time with a full on commercial bakery attached, where I had vegemite toast by choice and not just because I was on this program. A couple of the ladies I was with had almond croissants. I didn't let them know that I haven't been able to eat even a plain croissant after I found out that they had a week's worth of fat allowance in each!!
Bikram in the afternoon. Still not able to do it, but even I can feel a marginal improvement since my first session. Though I did notice that the more I got into it properly, the more exhausted I got. By the end I felt quite literally like a wet rag. Except more like a wet rag that needed to pee really badly. Everyone else was pretty much still lying in the final meditative relax pose and I was bolting for the loo. Didn't need to drink as much immediately as I had the first time and by the time I got home I actually felt quite energised.
Oh, and in between, there was a visit to one of the best yarn stores ever, Stitch 'n' Time in Phillip. I was SO good and did not buy any yarn - but I did procure a yarn winder. Oh and then there was a skinny iced chai and an apple strudel at Hansel & Gretel - so nice and I figured that there was minimal pastry and plenty of apple so was the healthiest choice they had. And I forewent the cream, which I always do anyway.
So today I was a bit stiff, especially my right leg, although the knee itself is feeling a lot better. Was lovely here in Tuggeranong, but got foggier and foggier as I got closer to Lake Burley Griffin where the Mother's Day Classic was held. Got there after the 10k runners had done their thing, but who could have seen them running? The fog was soupily thick. Met up with friends and attached my bib. I'd had a long think about who I wanted to walk for and decided I would walk for everyone I knew with breast cancer or who has died from it. So the walk was for you Lorraine, Maria, Ria, Maureen, Sue, Shirley, Kylie, Fiona, Margy, Jennie. That is 10 women in my life. It was sobering to see so many names of people who participants were walking or running for.
It was a record turnout and then some in Canberra and we patiently cued up for the start of the walk after the 5k runners had all taken off. In the hour and a half while we had been waiting to get going, the fog had just finished lifting revealing a beautiful blue skied Canberra autumn day. We had a great walk amid a sea of pink. It felt really good doing something with the community for the community. Hope all that money raised goes to fund some innovative and amazing research that will stop more and more women from getting and dying from this disease.
Oh, and next year - that will be me running the 5k and maybe even the 10k if I can get up to that level.
Came back and made my shopping list from the Week 1 plans. Have fiddled the plan a little so I can make the most of each meal, living by myself as I do and freeze things for later or take things in for lunch the next day. Shopped, then had an extraordinarily bad meal which involved a burger and ice cream and about which I shall say no more....
Then came home and finished off my fitness test and running time benchmark. I had been hoping to do these yesterday but time got away from me a bit and there was no way I was going to start tomorrow without having finished those tasks!
So I'm all ready and willing to go. Bring on tomorrow, my new job, my lifestyle, a new me. A red letter day and then some! Watch out world, I'm revved up and firing to go!
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