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:

• Day 1 – run – 3 miles
• Day 2 – coastal walk – 7 miles
• Day 3 – Holkham Parkrun
• Day 4 – bike ride – 5 miles
• Day 5 – school track run – 3 miles
• Day 6 – treadmill run – 3 miles
• Day 7 – park exercise machines
• Day 8 – garden weights session – 30mins
• Day 9 – exercise bike – 30mins
• Day 10 – Gorleston Cliffs Parkrun
• Day 11 – garden circuits – 30mins
• Day 12 – a fast mile – 6.35
• Day 13 – arms and ads video workout – 30mins
• Day 14 – early morning run – 3 miles
• Day 15 – plogging – 4 miles

Two weeks into this year’s ridiculous ‘different activity every day’ Juneathon. Today: early morning run.

I was out the door at 5.55am. It was a beautiful morning and wanted to just have a gentle little 3-miler down to the river and back.

I made the mistake of running around the field on the way back, which meant my feet were absolutely soaked by the time I got off it.

But it was a lovely run – 3.5 miles in total – these early morning runs should definitely make a more regular appearance in the week.

Today, a first for me at the ripe old age of 53, a ‘video’ workout. When I say video, I’m not talking Green Goddess, Rosemary Connelly or even Mr Motivator. I’m talking about the craze of online workouts.

I joined the better half for a online workout: ‘arms and abs’. Instructor Caroline put us through our paces. I actually quite enjoyed it. 30 mins of focused, non-stop exercise.

She had us shoulder pressing, chest pressing, lateral raising, tricep dipping, rowing, and all plethora of pain.

I’ll be feeling it in the morning!

Today’s Juneathon attempt was a fast mile.

Managed a 6.35 mile in the late afternoon – it was still pretty warm so more than happy with that.

After the fast mile I had a gentle pootle back through the fields.