Midsummer Eve's Weigh-in

My midsummer celebration kicked off this morning by weigh-in. And now I'll go straight to the results: Again only -0.5kgs weight loss and the 10kgs milestone is still ahead, 0.5kgs still to achieve it. Have a nice Midsummer Eve!

Sportterfly

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Midsummer Preparations

I have repaired myself to the Midsummer weekend by thinking next long run route for the Saturday and by making some pasta salad to eat it after that. Before I can relax a little bit I should do my weigh-in again tomorrow morning. Maybe I should run in the midnight 'cause there is sun shining the whole night now here in northern Finland. Without this chronic lack of sleep, I surely would..

After Tuesday's 5kms run, I have recovered myself by relaxing but today I went for pram run before I picked up the girls from the daycare to spend summer holiday and then I finalised a four week's training program again by doing the fitness test. It gave me 57 and 34 as a result this time. And again I was able to do men's pushups. Cool. I'll continue the trainings with Nike+ Kinect Training as before.

Have a nice Midsummer all of you!

Sportterfly

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Five Kilometres Run

If someone is wondering why did it was snowing this morning in Oulu area even if it's June, it's because I was trying my running pace in 5 kilometres test route. In the beginning, I forgot to turn the target zone alarms on so I wasn't reminded of too high speed and I ended up running too quickly and get tired quit soon. The running would have been easier without that episode but I could keep my pace in the same level the rest of the route and my time was about 34:30. I tried to run the route in 35 minutes so I succeed! Now I'm positive that I can run the quarter marathon in 75 minutes in July. But today I was recalled that the pace distribution should be thought carefully before the events.

Above is photo of one of the two polar bears we saw yesterday in Ranua. Even if it feels that the weather is so Arctic that we could meet the polar bears on the running route too. I was tired to run today because of the yesterday's trip and because children kept us awake last night. This morning when I did my reparations for the run I recalled that when I ran my first half marathon, our oldest daughter kept us awake in Helsinki because of the first teeth that were just erupting.

         Sportterfly

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Training Session Postponed

Tomorrow I'm skipping the training session for the first time for some other reason than a flu. We are going to Ranua with friends to spend a day in wildlifepark. Kids are waiting to see the polar bear there, so hopefully she is awake.

Tomorrow I should have done the fitness test (for the second time to update the training program) but I do it in Wednesday instead. Tuesday, I'll try my 5 kilometres running pace and my husband promised to join as a rabbit. This is the first time we are trying the joint running exercise for this project.

And lastly, let me introduce my soul mate who is decorating our garden this summer.

Have a nice coming summer week!

Sportterfly

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Breaking the Records Part 2

It is time for the second Breaking the Records posting. The first part is found here.

Burbee

At first, I couldn't do any proper burbees. It just felt that I didn't even have the right muscles to do it. So instead of jumping back to the push-up position I only stepped back. Nowadays I can do at least 5 burpees correctly in a row.

Men's push-ups

My record of the men's push-ups is six. I'm still very happy of this result, even if I couldn't do any in my latest fitness test. Couple of months ago I couldn't believe that I could even try to do men's push-ups. Maybe the Kinect sensor acted up last week when it supposedly couldn't count.

Running high-knees

The fitness test always ends to the high knee running where I have to run three 30 second drills with high knees. There is about 30 seconds break in between the drills. In my first fitness test in January, I couldn't run 30 seconds even in the first drill. Last time I ran even in the end of the third drill and I even improved the result compared to the second drill, because I ran as I wouldn't need to ever run again after the test. Number of the countable high knee steps in three drills were 93, 77 and 81.

One leg squats

Nowadays I can do 15 one leg squats that are counted. In the first fitness test I couldn't do any.

Plank

Instead of traditional plank, I do nowadays plank to pushup drill. In the latest muscle training I should have done 20 repetitions in a row, but I had to rest in the middle. My record is 10 repetitions in a row now.

Sportterfly

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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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