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Juneathon day 8: an oasis in the desert (and a fun party)

Okay, it's late and we have an early start in the morning, so let's hit hard and fast! Saturday, with an action-packed oasis of activity in the desert of calf woes: I salute you!

The day started well, with a Wild Training session. That was an hour of tabata, alternating between rip training and various kinds of jump lunges and...

Juneathon day 7: weights, low carbs and foam rolling! Running again soon?

I also look forward to Fridays. My friend Holger (aka @TheHolgernator) and I head over to Deep Mill Farm, a nearby and most excellent equestrian centre, for an hour's training session, under the supervision of Darrell from Wild Training Amersham. We do something different each time: given my continuing calf woes, today we majored on strength training.

Playlists and shuffling with Google Play Music

I am continuing to love Google Play Music, and find myself using it alongside Spotify on my phone in equal measures. I have now uploaded all my purchased music to the Google servers, so can listen to everything at very high quality wherever I am. How technology has come along in the last decade!

In using it, I have come...

Juneathon day 6: calf-friendly activity and low carb eating. Help!

Written around lunchtime:

Thursday is orchestra evening - the Misbourne Symphony Orchestra, rehearsing in Amersham. It doesn't leave a lot of time for exercise, so I thought I'd fit in a walk at lunch, as a calf-recovery-friendly option. I had a very pleasant wonder around Rickmansworth, managing 3.18 miles in just over an hour. What beautiful weather...

Juneathon day 5: love your calves!

I am getting intimately familiar now with our foam roller. I bought ours from Helen at Ten Point in Amersham (a present for Mrs H, but that's another story!), and am very pleased with it. Helen directed me towards a Barefoot Audio YouTube video showing how to use the roller, which is excellent and thoroughly recommended as a...

Juneathon day 4: the calf strikes back (plus a cute cat picture)

Juneathon: "an annual festival of activity and excuses". I've managed a bit of each today!

While I was keen to get a run in today, my calf had other ideas: going down the stairs to get breakfast, it was clear that it wasn't much better than last night. So I would have to do some other kind of exercise.

Particularly...

Juneathon day 3: evening run in Chalfont St Peter

I look forward to Monday evenings. The two older kids have piano lessons; dropping them off gives me an hour that can't realistically be used for anything useful but ... running. Ok, I could perhaps bring a bike, but even the pool round the corner is shut, so a jaunt round Chalfont St Peter, in a way that is entirely...

Juneathon day 2: trying out the calf on a busy weekend

Is it just me that finds it hard to fit runs in to busy family weekends? Today we have been up at my parents-in-law's place, having fun at the playground and later at nearby Wimpole Hall, only getting back to ours near 9pm. I did take running stuff, but it just wasn't going to happen there...

Anyway, with it being...

Juneathon day 1: first open water swim, and some circuits

Today's Juneathon activity started pretty early; soon after 6:30am, me and my friend Karen were in a car heading over to near Egham for some open water swimming in Heron Lake. It was a lovely sunny morning, if a bit nippy. When we got there, it...

Blog catch-up: flute concerto, 10k, lots of work

As I was writing my Juneathon kick-off post, I couldn't help but notice a distinct lack of "blog love" since about March, so this is a very quick catch-up! It has been very eventful. Here's a potted summary of the most interesting bits...

On April 27th I...