follow the six-week fat burning program (22 units of running and cycling)

Exactly six weeks until Christmas. Isn’t that neat. Although I’m probably somewhere around week two or three, I always feel compelled to start anew, because I never run... or haven’t, in a long time. Especially not for 45 minutes. I would so much love to be a runner… and it would be so great to do our Christmas run once again this year.

Haven’t run in ages, but I do the cycling part. My guy is impressed with me, that alone is worth it. Muscles? Haven’t seen any. So far!

Oh well, I’m going to start anew. For the time being, on the bike – now that I don’t own a ticket for public transport anymore, I need to cycle everywhere, and did, in spite of rain and wind (T. was surprised I even did on Sunday). Good for my legs, and good for my eyes, too… the canal is beautiful.

I didn’t follow the plan, but am happy nonetheless with this visit to the gym: 31 minutes on crosstrainer, round of weights, then some running (8+10 minutes, or something?), and to and fro on bike. Next time: 45 minutes of very slooow jogging.

It seems that T. will have to postpone the marathon. There’s no time like the time we used to have when we went jogging on Saturday mornings – we last went in May!

I declared the upcoming Saturday a tabula rasa and apartment therapy day and I hope we can go for a run before starting on the apartment. Those 2×20 minutes I wrote about months ago are still on my to-do list, although I have been to the gym – just never ran. So warm there and I felt so heavy. Cycling – yes.

Ouch. I can’t run the New York marathon, OF COURSE, but I’d like to at least be able to run Riverside Park with him. 4 months remain.

The elliptical /crosstrainer for 25 minutes, as always, might wanna change that, then the circle of weights, and 15 minutes of jogging. Why only 15 minutes? Because I had no music (battery was empty) and got BORED. Nothing on t.v. either.

Next I have to do 2×20 minutes, and on the third day, 45 min of jogging – it’s pretty obvious that I won’t be able to do it, unless maybe I skip the crosstrainer and do the occasional slower interval.

The elliptical /crosstrainer for 25 minutes, the circle of weights, and 28 minutes of slow jogging (with slower intervals). Feel really good afterwards. (Instead of 30 minutes of slow jogging.) Only downpoint: it was much too hot in the gym, perhaps thanks to 25° degrees outside.