Just for general wonderings…
After the excesses of the weekend, today was always going to be tricking to get an activity in. Together with a full day of teaching, an end of school intervention session, and an evening Samaritans duty, it was near impossible.
But I did it.
A run in the woods. Not really sure if that counts as an actual different activity, but that is what happened.
It was only 2.5 miles, mainly because I’m still not feeling 100% and the fact it was very warm.
Tomorrow’s another day…
It has been a busy weekend: my mum’s 80th birthday bash.
So activity today: football.
It was a 5 min kick about with my little nephews in the garden. It was a hard half hour training session.
Day 17 of Juneathon, not just ‘Juneathon’, it’s day 17 of ‘let’s try to do a different activity every day Juneathon’.
I grant that this activity may seem very similar to one I did recently.
It was an early morning 3 mile run, starting just before 6am.
However, today is my mum’s 80th birthday and we are heading down south to celebrate.
So the run was actually the ‘Early Morning 80th Birthday Celebration Run’ and I’ve definitely not done any of those this month!
Now, you might remember day 9, the exercise bike in the garden. So, therefore,you may think that that is the end of the exercise bike for Juneathon.
Wrong.
Today’s activity: exercise bike in front of the TV watching the Ashes. Nice.
‘In the Long Run’ by Rob Burn
This book was gifted to me by a lovely man in Ireland.
Beginning in early 1981, it follows one man’s experiences of training for, and running, the 1981 New York Marathon.
It is a fascinating, and funny, story of what it takes to get to the start line, and complete a marathon. With the added complication of a BBC film crew creating a short film.
This book was published over 40 years ago, in those days 16,000 ran the New York Marathon, in 2022 just short of 50,000 completed it. The world of running has come along way since Rob Burn brought us his story.
No idea if the BBC film ever made it to public viewing. More research required.
Halfway.
The attempt do a different activity is still going.
Today: plogging.
Plogging is a combination of jogging with picking up litter, merging the Swedish verbs plocka upp (pick up) and jogga (jog) gives the new Swedish verb plogga, from which the word plogging derives.
So it was a loop of the village picking up litter on the way. I wasn’t expecting to pick up much litter; the village doesn’t have a litter issue.
So it was actually quite surprising how much litter I found. Cans, McDonalds boxes, cardboard coffee cups, fag packets, crisp bags, bits of plastic, and various other bits of rubbish.
It was a 4 mile run, very gentle, lots of stopping, complete success.
So having done 15 days I am happy to report I have indeed completed 15 different activities:
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