I’ve got a birthday coming up, and I’ll shortly be starting physio for the spinal stuff I’ve got going on… so @petermorwood surprised me this morning with an early present: a FitBit! And check out the skin… 😏
ETA: The FitBit is a Versa 4. The LCARS face (Star Trek Console) is free and can be installed from the app's gallery. The colors on the image at the link are (surprise) more accurate: it was kind of bright in the kitchen when I shot this, and the colors got a bit blown out.
Today was 45 minutes of cardio, a shorter strength session (15 mins), then 30 or so stretching.
Blood sugar does not come down during exercise, it seems, but after, which Dr. Google says is normal... 🤷♀️ Mine seems to go up during sleep, which makes sense, I guess, cos I eat my main meal in the evening... maybe I should go for a walk after dinner or something to reduce that impact?
First marathon complete ✅️ obvs we walked bc it was over fells and moors and bogs and was very very hilly but 26 miles is 26 miles!! I'm so proud of us 🤩
Here we are at the start line, 8am, bright eyed and bushy tailed
A rainbow on the other side of the first v steep, v rainy hill
The middle 10 miles or so were straight over the moors.. after the wettest March in 42 years.. so everything was so unbelievably boggy and saturated and unstable and sinky. People were just scrambling around the fells trying to find any remotely stable ground to walk on 😂
Of course someone was always going to fall into the bog.. that someone was me. I was the Bog Victim of our group. Full on Vicar of Dibley style, the ground just disappeared from under me. It was up to my chest and so so cold and stinky and disgusting. Thankfully that wasn't long before the halfway checkpoint so I was able to change into dry pants at least. Boggy knickers were not pleasant 🤣
2 more miles of bogs up to the highest point at 15 miles, then the last 11 miles on actual tracks 😍 The last 3 miles felt like an eternity bc my feet were so tired and sore by that point. But we did it! Collected our tshirts, changed into dry socks and shoes, ate chocolate before setting off home.
Matthew's mam made us dinner as we were picking Maggie up from there after they looked after her, and we got home about 10pm. Such a long day but so much fun! Had a lovely hot bubble bath and a really good scrub, and forced myself to stretch properly. Ending the day on 74k steps (new record!) and nearly 30 miles 🤯 time for bed 😴
the fitbit app going “you did it!! congratulations you healthy active person!!!” for it thinking i’ve been working out because of how much my heart rate was high, when in reality i just went to buy a tesco meal deal
First workout of the week. Been either tired, cold, or discouraged this week, but finally got my shit together and did something . It seems a bit warmer out today also, so will aim for a walk later as well.