Double Training Days

I feel better already and tomorrow I'm going to do both muscle and running training. I'm doing muscle training every Tuesday and Friday now and I run every three days so this week the training sessions happen to be on the same day. Interesting to see how the muscle training before the running affects to the heart rate levels. It is effective to do all four sessions during two days and have five days when I don't need to exercise.

I have felt extremely tired today and during the weekend. I don't know is it because of summer time that changed the clocks or because of the medicine I took to allergy now. I have taken naps every day and before this weekend I have needed naps maybe hardly once a week. I have been suprised even myself how little I actually have needed sleep lately even if we have a little baby. And because I'm tired now I dream all the time some sweet or salty snacks, chocolate and candy mostly. Hard..

Sportterfly

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Flu or Allergy?

I feel again having flu. That's why I skipped yesterday's running and planned to do it today if I feel better. I hope I know the reason now for this continuous feeling of flu. There is already pollen in the air and yesterday I bought medicin for it. I don't usually get very strong symptoms because of the pollen but I have asthma and last year I had to increase medicine because I had one flu after another because of the exacerbation of asthma. Maybe I get now stronger symptoms of the pollen too. I don't know, but I hope that the antiallergies help now.

I felt flu a bit still this morning and I planned to pram walk instead of running. It was easy to keep heart rate low so I guess I don't have very bad flu coming after all. I think that after tomorrow's break I can continue training with full intensity again. But I am totally frustrated to think all the time that what is my training condition.

Sportterfly

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Sausages

Damn, I forgot to photograph the sausages! We were just in the park nearhood with the neighbours. We had a campfire there and we made sausages and drunk hot chocolate too. I just enjoyed the moment and the best spring weather so much that I didn't remember to take photos of the sausages that I had planned to publish here. I just wonder why all the blogs are full of photos taken of the healthy foods but no one publish any junk food they fall for. That's why I have planned to scatter in my blog also photos about the junk food and other temptations I face during the project.

Enjoy the Weekend!

Sportterfly

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Fifth Weigh-in

No! I didn't reach the 6kgs milestone yet so I should wait two more weeks to get new outdoor clothes for the spring. But I haven't had time to use my -4kgs gift either, which I decided to be leg care, so I need to make an appointment to have it soon.

Now my weight is 81.5kgs so I have lost 5.5kgs all together. This wasn't the easiest two weeks period I have had. There was that birthday party and I ate all kind of junk food on my way and otherwise I have also tried to eat more proper food not to lose weight too fast. Anyway I'm still half a kilos ahead of my schedule so I'm not very worried. Now I just need more time to think this project and the next two weeks I don't have anything else going on so I can think about myself more.

Sportterfly

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Tears in Eyes

Yesterday, I tried another time the pram running and it was so much easier than the first time. I don't have to think anymore that I have the pram with me and I can concentrate better and better on running. I ran a bit faster than with the first pram running and my heart rate was easier to keep down. My husband ran against me when I was just taking the first steps of running after warming up. He already started the cool down and proposed that he can take the baby with him home that I can run in peace but I decided to continue with the pram that I really get used running with it. And afterwards I didn't regret because it was so much easier this time.

While running I also thought what really what keeps me running. What forces me to go jogging again and again. Running slowly is a bit boring, I admit, but I love to dream about my running events while I exercise. On the other hand dreaming of running doesn't help to keep the pace slow and I always end up running too fast and wake up of dreaming when have to concentrate to slow down again. But today I realised that the reason for this crazy hobby is the best feeling you can ever get, the feeling when you are crossing the finish line of the main running event of the season and you have almost tears in the eyes because you are so moved that you did your best and all of the tens of exercises you have done matters. That's the moment I could run for thousands of times and that's the reason why I keep running time after time.

What about you? What is your best running or training motivator?

BTW. Today it was so warm to walk from the daycare with the winter coat on that I hope I have reached 6kgs milestone tomorrow to have new outerwear for the spring.

Sportterfly

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For My Own Joy

Why do I write in English? Hopefully some day I will read the first postings and be ashamed of bad English I wrote at first and I hope I can see a lot of development in my writing skills. I'm working in the IT sector. English is my working language but I don't need it very often during the long leaves. Earlier I have noticed that it is hard to return to office after maternity leaves when the language that you need daily is totally forgotten. Now when the idea of this blog came, I planned the postings to be short going straight to the point. Then I thought that the short postings I could do in English as well. So I'm sorry for all the clumsy postings. I'm not very good in sport vocabulary and of course it is hard to express how I feel in foreign language. But even if I wouldn't get any readers, I do it for my own joy and to keep up my language skills. At least after two months blogging I already notice that I have proceed. If I have seen something interesting in a blog or in an article I don't remember anymore did I read it in English or in Finnish. That's a progress I guess. I could recommend to everyone of you trying the same, writing in English. If you have ever think can you do it, I know you can!

Why do I write about exercising and losing weight? For my own joy! When I started, I didn't actually know that the web is so full of the blogs about losing weight. I didn't have read them much. Anyway, I have always been interested in watching all the TV programs about weight loss and it is interesting to see the huge changes that people can do in a short periods of time. Now it was nice to have the same kind of project of my own where I have realistic but hard goals. And during all my projects I have had some kind of training diary. So even if no one reads about my project this is my diary where I can return and think back hardness of the first training, difficulties to eat right things, and all other things I faced on my journey. And yes, I am reading nowadays a lot of my 'colleagues' blogs about their projects to get back to shape and they are very interesting to follow! Now in the evenings I prefer of reading blogs instead of watching TV. And hopefully my progress and milestones I reach on the way inspires someone who pops in here a visit to start own kind of project too. 

Sportterfly

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Doing Nothing?

After eight week trainings with Nike+ Kinect Training I have felt progress all the time. Now that I'm also running it feels like I'm not exercising enough even if last week I made five trainings all together, twice with Nike+ Kinect Training and three times by running. That is one training more in a week than any of the preceding eight weeks. And today I did the first training with Xbox for the week and there is still three sessions coming.

The basic running trainings have to be done so slowly that at the end it feels you could do another similar exercise right away. Preceding weeks I made all the exercises with so high tempo that this running training program feels now like I'm slacking off. Even if I know that this is the best way to do the running exercises now, I feel impatient to wait that I can see the progress in pace or in heart rate level.

Compared to the previous half marathon shape I have this 15kgs extra load now with me. I know I would get my knees hurting now if I ran any faster. Hopefully my pace increases when I get more weight off and if the muscle training helps..

Sportterfly

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