Today: pilates.

It was nice to finish on a new activity for the month and something slightly more relaxing.

The annual Juneathon facts and stats blog post will appear imminently…

Today’s activity is a run, but definitely counts as a different activity: hill reps.

Been putting off for most of the month because it has been far too warm. But with tomorrow being the last day of the month it had to be done.

So after work I got changed and headed straight to the only hill in the village! It was a half mile warm up getting to the ‘hill’.

Completed 6 reps.

Ran back.

Done.

‘Nowhere on Earth’ by Nick Lake

Teenage fiction. Got it a while back at a school book fair.

It starts with a plane crash.

Then turns into a fight for survival. A teenage girl and her younger brother face being hunted down.

But everything is not as it seems. A story of survival, hope and love. Great little read.

Managed another new activity today. I was back on the online classes for a ‘legs’ class.

Caroline put me through my paces with squats, fire hydrants, strides, lunges, glute bridges, and a plethora of other leg exercises.

Knackered.

We a slowly trundling to the end of Juneathon. Today’s activity was sandwiched between a busy day at work, dinner and an evening Samaritans duty.

It ended up being a 3.3 mile run around the village. Not the new activity I was hoping for – I just wanted to go for a gentle run.

I’m hoping for a strong finish to Juneathon. Something different for the remaining three days. Defo.

When the idea was suggested that I should do a bit of yoga for Juneathon, I jumped at the chance.

I’ve never done any kind of yoga, plus I’m always up for having a go at something new. Also, this was in the form of a video class which made it all the easier to give it a go.

So we powered up the laptop, plugged it into the TV and let Andrea talk us through a ‘Ying Yang Yoga Session’.

It wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. Although, I didn’t really know what to expect!

She had us in various positions; some of them quite challenging. We were doing lots of ‘grounding’, ‘focused breathing’ and various other bits of nonsense.

At one stage we were repeating the phrases: ‘May I be gentle with myself’, ‘May I be gentle with others’ and ‘May I be gentle as I look into the world around me’.

This ‘Ying Yang Yoga’ is probably not for me.

Namaste.