Summer Breaks

Summer break of baby swimming started today, summer break of the kindergarten starts next week, almost all of the daughter's hobbies are on summer break, except football which ends after the midsummer. Now I really have to concentrate that this project doesn't end up to the summer break also. 

At some point of the summer it is time to travel and it really challenges success of this project. This summer I really need to run and be active with my dinings also when we are travelling. Maybe when the life style becomes healthier I need to exercise and eat properly on my future summer vacations. So should I just get used to it and stop complaining?

Sportterfly

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Some Easy Hills and Basic Run Comparison

Today I ran my hill run and increased the time of the exercise to 40 minutes. I did five 90 seconds long spurts and with the warm up and cool down I was 55 minutes on the route of 5 kilometers. Nice that the landscape changes when the distance increases.

Last week and today was again easier and I felt proceeding in my running pace. I think I rest more so it affected immediately to the heart rate and speed. Here are few of my basic 30 minutes running exercises (about 45 minutes with walkings):

Date    Kms           Pace avg             Heart Rate         

20/3     3.20km     14:17min/km     HR avg 139

17/4     3.24km     13:57min/km     HR avg 134

22/5     3.69km     12:30min/km     HR avg 130

05/6     3.96km     11:32min/km     HR avg 130

BTW. The new Adidas sneakers feels perfect. At least, I haven't realised during the exercises that shoes are different so I think there is nothing that bothers me with the new pair!

Sportterfly

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Long Run, Training Program and Hydration

Long Run And Training Program Continuation

Today I did my 90 minutes long run which was easiest one this far. I run a little bit over nine kilometres and I could keep the same pace from start to end. Cool! After the last exercise for four week's period, I updated the training program for the next period.

Hydration

I have started to think and try the hydration and energy drinks for the July's running event. Few weeks ago I started to run with the small water bottle and this week I have run with my water belt on and in addition, today I started to try the energy gel during the long run to get my body used to it before July. Due to hot weather we have had, I haven't been drinking enough and I should pay attention to water drinking also outside the exercises. And in addition five handfuls a day thinking continues, of course.

Sportterfly

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The Day of Weigh-in and Fitness Test

Today it was time to check my progress of my project again.

Weigh-in

Scale showed me the 78.0kgs, which is -0.5kgs in two weeks. I thought I would even had gained some weight due to the very hot weather and swelling I've got due to it. And my scale really hates the round number breaking again because it seems to be so hard again to achieve my 10 kilogrammes milestone.

Fitness Test

And I guess due to the hot weather, my fitness test felt really weird today. Even if I felt I have power to do it well, and I shouldn't have excuses to fail, I didn't get any men's push-ups, for example. Result is unambitious: Fitness Score of 49 and Athleticism Score of 37. And more detailed results follow once again:

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Endurance 77 (earlier 68, 53, 52, 42, 01)

Flexibility 55 (earlier 36, 55, 55, 55, 27)

Strength 38 (earlier 51, 51, 34, 21, 09)

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Balance 69 (earlier 59, 50, 45, 36, 58)

Power 63 (earlier 51, 54, 53, 24, 01)

Speed/Reaction/Agility 05 (earlier 10, 9, 10, 37, 12)

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Actually the detailed results don't look that bad after all. Only the strength is significantly worse. But now that I have grieved the results this evening I really got angst to try my best in the next four weeks! Damn!

Have a nice and exerciseful weekend!

Sportterfly

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A Rest Day

Today I have spent my Wednesday as usual by resting and doing all the other things than exercising. I slept last night and this morning 14 hours all together. Bad nights with the baby have made me so tired that also my trainings have felt stuffy and heart rate has been higher than previous week. It was so nice to sleep the overtiredness away.

We have still repaired our garden for the summer, I cut the lawn and we barbecued, but I ate only barbequed chicken with the fresh salad.

Sportterfly

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Vegetables, Training and Strawberries

Vegetable garden is done today and little muscle training in between. Then strawberry garden is fixed for this summer and water is carried to the vegetable garden.. So great amount of beneficial exercising done today. I burned my back while working outdoors, ouch. I never remember how insidiously the first sunny days of the summer burns my light-colored skin. I'm so happy that I can do alone all the heavy work outdoors and without asking help all the time. And it's so nice to own a painless back.

Tomorrow I could try my new shoes for the first time when it's time for the second interval running exercise.

Sportterfly

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Nike, Adidas, Asics..

I got my birthday present a little bit beforehand as my birthday is not coming until July. I wanted to have new pair of sneakers from my husband and we decided to buy the pair already now, because I want to run them in properly before the quarter marathon of July, which is only a week after the birthday. 

The evolution of my running shoes is Nike, Asics, and now Adidas. Firstly, I have tried Nikes, which had a perfect shoetree for me, and even if the pair is old and I guess they are not enough supportive for running anymore, the pair is not broken and is still in use in home training. Then I decided to try Asics. The pair has been a bit too narrow for me, and I guess it's done for the legs that doesn't carry overweight. I have felt that the pair is going to break soon, even if they haven't been in use as long as the Nikes was. And I've been afraid that it happens just before the next event so I needed to have new pair to use with the Asics. In the shop I tried Asics on and realised that the same seams press my legs that with the old ones, and I have think that the seams are just giving up, but I guess the seams have pressed my legs from the beginning because of the narrowness. My husband has also bad experience of Asics so now I decided to try Adidas, just to get experience also on it and because Adidas feels to have more wider shoetree. I'm looking forward to try them in real work..

Sportterfly

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