Summer Challenges

Last real summer challenge is coming, which might risk my weight losing and exercising project. We are still travelling plans before the preschool and daycare starts and we are going to spent almost a week on the road this time. I just counted one day that if I have to do my long run of 150 minutes on the road, I should be left from the car three hours before place where we will have a break. I think I will have a bit longer run next weekend if I check the time to start from GPS of our car. Hopefully I have lot of opportunities for exercising during this trip.

Yesterday and this evening I did my exercises a bit opposite way than I would do usually. Because the days have been very hot here and it has been impossible to exercise during the afternoons, I have done my exercises just before the kids go to sleep. And because the kids are on holiday and they feel hot also we have been swimming in the river in the evenings just before my exercises. Just to mention one tip how to handle the exercising in hot circumstances, it helps a bit to keep oneself cool if exercises are done after swimming and long hair is wet already before sweating. 

Sportterfly

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Finally It Is Raining

This morning I went for Nordic walking in very nice weather, at least the exercising point of view. It was raining a lot and there was only 21 degrees outside. The rest of the day there was even harder rain and lighting so I decided to get exercising out of the way before that. But it haven't been so easy to breath and exercise for weeks now so I really speed it up and enjoyed it. Last week I felt my energy storage emptied in 30 minutes but today I could continue with the same steady pace till the end and I ended up doing couple of minutes longer exercise than previously.

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First Nordic Walking and Some Recovering Activities

On a Sunday evening we went for a walk with my husband and kids. Husband taught our oldest daughter to bicycle without training wheels and I walked and run with the pram when youngest daughter were bicycling too and I tried to warm up my leg muscles at the same time after the Saturday's running event. We stopped by to the nearhood forests couple of times to check if there is already some blueberries. BTW, in a week, I think, the blueberries are just perfect to be picked up.

Because the Sunday's walking felt so good I decided to try Nordic walking on Monday. I have dreamed to replace some home trainings with the Nordic walking now that the weather is so nice and it's more fascinating to exercise outdoors than in the hot living room. The first 20-30 minutes of my Nordic walking I could keep faster pace than during my snail style running exercises but then my pace slowed down and in the end I walked only 300 metres longer in 45 minutes that I would have proceed in my corresponding snail style running. The quarter marathon still felt in my body and I should have stopped the exercise earlier, I think.

I have also stretched my leg muscles now four days in a row to recover from the running. This evening I walked a bit before stretching. Our daughters are again spending couple of days in my parents and we have done shopping and planning of some painting and other small fixing that we should do in the house during this summer.

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