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Tuesday 31 December 2013
Monday movitation
Opps I keep forgetting this!! I blame the Christmas period. You die fat!!
Your Christmas personality type
The way I see it is there is three Christmas eating personality types. Well four if you count people who don't celebrate Christmas, they just carry on as usual!
The 'you don't have to mess up your diet to to have a good time at Christmas' people - to be honest no one wants these sort round at Christmas, the have jacket potato instead of roast, fruit salad instead of pudding and a pumpkin and ginger smoothie instead of a glass or three of wine.
The second tend to control themselves slightly - have one mince pie instead of three, one glass of wine instead of half a bottle, they manage to have a couple of chocolates rather than the whole box. This is the group that most of us would like to think we'll be.
Then there is the third piggier category - The have second helpings even though they already have a severe case of the meat sweats, the eat mince pies for breakfast lunch an dinner, the start drinking at lunch time and use any excuse for a drink.
I have to confess I am completely in the last category!! I love Christmas and Christmas food and drink. I use it as an excuse to eat and drink all the naughty stuff that I would usually shy away from. Cheesy footballs are a guilty pleasure, I could eat a whole tub over the Christmas period.
But I don't have a problem with this! I am good in my eating and exercise most of the year and come December I relax. The reason I don't have a problem is because I feel I need this step backwards to allow the leap forward that happens in January.
For Christmas Michael Clease bought me these two books, one to encourage my triathlon dreams and one to help me find my ideal career. I am excited to get reading them and get inspired.
I do love New Years day and the possibilities that there are for the upcoming year, the blank canvas that the year is, the ability to better myself and become a better person.
I will put together a list for my next post of all the things that I hope to achieve and goals I will set myself but for this last day I will make the most of eating and drinking all the naughty things that are in the house :)
The 'you don't have to mess up your diet to to have a good time at Christmas' people - to be honest no one wants these sort round at Christmas, the have jacket potato instead of roast, fruit salad instead of pudding and a pumpkin and ginger smoothie instead of a glass or three of wine.
The second tend to control themselves slightly - have one mince pie instead of three, one glass of wine instead of half a bottle, they manage to have a couple of chocolates rather than the whole box. This is the group that most of us would like to think we'll be.
Then there is the third piggier category - The have second helpings even though they already have a severe case of the meat sweats, the eat mince pies for breakfast lunch an dinner, the start drinking at lunch time and use any excuse for a drink.
I have to confess I am completely in the last category!! I love Christmas and Christmas food and drink. I use it as an excuse to eat and drink all the naughty stuff that I would usually shy away from. Cheesy footballs are a guilty pleasure, I could eat a whole tub over the Christmas period.
But I don't have a problem with this! I am good in my eating and exercise most of the year and come December I relax. The reason I don't have a problem is because I feel I need this step backwards to allow the leap forward that happens in January.
I do love New Years day and the possibilities that there are for the upcoming year, the blank canvas that the year is, the ability to better myself and become a better person.
I will put together a list for my next post of all the things that I hope to achieve and goals I will set myself but for this last day I will make the most of eating and drinking all the naughty things that are in the house :)
Thursday 26 December 2013
Merry Christmas
Merry (belated in some countries) Christmas to all my lovely blog readers.
Chubby Katie.x
Chubby Katie.x
Monday 23 December 2013
Motivation Monday
I chose today's motivation Monday because it is something I am particularly guilty of. I plan to exercise most days but often I lie in bed planning when I should work out, then I get up and I decide I should have some breakfast, then I figure its getting too hot out I'll run in the evening, in the evening I decide I have too many chores still to do and I'll just leave it till the next morning!
In searching for todays Motivation Monday, I came across a little blog called fit fab cities(and she does a motivation monday!), unfortunately it seems she has given up posting but there are some nice little posts about food and training, check it out!
In searching for todays Motivation Monday, I came across a little blog called fit fab cities(and she does a motivation monday!), unfortunately it seems she has given up posting but there are some nice little posts about food and training, check it out!
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| http://www.fitfabcities.com/ |
Friday 20 December 2013
A little winter running
As I mentioned in the last post I have come back to England to spend the Christmas break with my family. Due to the excess I will be partaking in over the Christmas period its important that I keep up the exercise.
Its obviously colder here than in Sydney, it's currently a high of about 8C and I tend to run in the morning so its a couple of degrees colder. This means I have to adjust my clothing to keep me warm but not to get too hot. Its tempting when you come from a hot place to a cold one to think you need to wrap up warm, wearing gloves, scarf and hats but you'll quickly over heat and have a unenjoyable run and if you are going far it might become dangerous.
As you can see from this photo (i'm not looking my best, I had just finished!) I chose my trusty 2xu compression tights, they are the only full length tights I have and I find my legs don't get too hot but they do keep the chilling wind off.
I have my Wiggle.co.uk DHB baselayer top on. Its merino wool which is meant to be breathable and quickly evaporate water (sweat), its also pretty cheap!)
The jacket is just a cheap one from a high street store, I like the bright colour in the darker mornings, its really light weight and it can be taken off and tied round my waist.
The headband is a inov8 wrag, I plan to do a future post on this but in the mean time i'll say I like it because it so multi functional, it keeps my hair back, if my head gets cold I can turn it into a hat, I can wear it as a scarf if needed.
On the weekend I went to a friends wedding in the Peak District. Its beautiful round there but a fair bit colder and a colder wind. I went on an enjoyable run up and down some of the hills, not really going far as my sense of direction isn't the best! I made the mistake of wearing a t-shirt and I never properly warmed up. I did have my wrag with me though so I kept switching it from one cold arm to the other!
As you can see from this photo (i'm not looking my best, I had just finished!) I chose my trusty 2xu compression tights, they are the only full length tights I have and I find my legs don't get too hot but they do keep the chilling wind off.
I have my Wiggle.co.uk DHB baselayer top on. Its merino wool which is meant to be breathable and quickly evaporate water (sweat), its also pretty cheap!)
The jacket is just a cheap one from a high street store, I like the bright colour in the darker mornings, its really light weight and it can be taken off and tied round my waist.
The headband is a inov8 wrag, I plan to do a future post on this but in the mean time i'll say I like it because it so multi functional, it keeps my hair back, if my head gets cold I can turn it into a hat, I can wear it as a scarf if needed.
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Wednesday 11 December 2013
Another crazy challenge
Theres been some discussion on my favourite running forum Cool Running about doing 2014 km in 2014 and I'm tempted to give it a go.
It works out as 5.518km per day or 38.73km per week. Thats not a crazy amount. A marathon and a couple of months of marathon training would really help.
I googled 2014km in 2014 and I found this pinterest board, someones already down the motivation work for me :)
It works out as 5.518km per day or 38.73km per week. Thats not a crazy amount. A marathon and a couple of months of marathon training would really help.
I googled 2014km in 2014 and I found this pinterest board, someones already down the motivation work for me :)
Monday 9 December 2013
Motivation Monday
Oh boy do I need a little motivation today! I think I really need the Christmas break to rest, relax and kick back into some exercise.
I was browsing the internet for Monday motivation and I saw this, maybe more of a suggestion than motivation but it made me smile.
I was browsing the internet for Monday motivation and I saw this, maybe more of a suggestion than motivation but it made me smile.
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| I think you can get it from here http://rexlambo.com/ |
Friday 6 December 2013
A little inspiration
Its always good, I think, to watch some of the professionals in the sport you are participating in. On tv is great, in person live is even better. Not only is it inspiring, it also lets the organisers know that there is interest out there and (I hope) encourages and spurs on the competitors.
So when I saw an ad for the NSW cycling Grandprix and it was just down the road from me I thought i'd better check it out.
I don't know much about competitive cycling, I know a few names from track Olympics and the Tour de France but thats about it.
Michael Clease and I went along for about an hour and had a bit of a wonder around. Channel 9 where doing a little segment so we might have gotten on tv in the background!
I think we saw the Mens masters race and the Womens Internationals. The circuits were 1.34km and they did between 14km and 36km depending on the race.
A little research into who was who and who were favourites would probably have made it more enjoyable but it was a fun experience.
We did watch the women warming up and picked our favourites that we planned to cheer one. One was because she lived in the area, one because her kit looked fast, one because she looked like she was racing for a small team not from Wiggle!
Sadly there weren't a whole lot of spectators but its wasn't the best weather and I hadn't seen much advertising of it. I like to think that Michael Clease and I did our little bit to keep these type of events happening.
Photos courtesy of Michael Cleases iphone :)
So when I saw an ad for the NSW cycling Grandprix and it was just down the road from me I thought i'd better check it out.
I don't know much about competitive cycling, I know a few names from track Olympics and the Tour de France but thats about it.
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| Womens start |
I think we saw the Mens masters race and the Womens Internationals. The circuits were 1.34km and they did between 14km and 36km depending on the race.
A little research into who was who and who were favourites would probably have made it more enjoyable but it was a fun experience.
We did watch the women warming up and picked our favourites that we planned to cheer one. One was because she lived in the area, one because her kit looked fast, one because she looked like she was racing for a small team not from Wiggle!
Sadly there weren't a whole lot of spectators but its wasn't the best weather and I hadn't seen much advertising of it. I like to think that Michael Clease and I did our little bit to keep these type of events happening.
Photos courtesy of Michael Cleases iphone :)
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| Women speeding past |
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| Men towards the end of their race |
Thursday 5 December 2013
Couple 'a' new things
I've been looking into a few new things recently that I'm going to give a go.
The first is Marathon Talk podcast's Jantastic. Its a challenge for January, February and March thats all about re-motivating you after Christmas and a maybe a bit too much indulgence. The podcast is English so its also to motivate you in the chilly winter months, not something that I need to worry about in Sydney but the heat of summer can be an excuse to limit running too.
In January you are meant to set an amount of runs you'll do per week and challenge yourself to stick to it. I've gone for 3. I think thats a good number thats going to get me running but not too many thats going to be too challenging to stick to. It will also leave me days to attempt some other exercise.
February is about keeping up that number of runs but also working on your distance, after all the show is called Marathon Talk.
March is about combining January and Februarys results and also working on speed.
The second thing is an app for the iphone called Sleep if you can. Its described as the Worlds most annoying alarm app. I've commented on here a few times before about the challenge I face every single morning trying to get out of bed to do some exercise so I'm keen to give this a go.
When you first get it you have to register somewhere for example the bathroom, then when the alarm goes off you have to get up and take a photograph of something specific in there. Its cheating if you do something close to your bed!!
Read more about it here, they also have some other alarms for the bed lover, like one on wheels!
Last thing to mention is that I am currently looking into the Gold Coast marathon as an option. Its in July...plenty of time to train, its not so far away that it'll cost a fortune, its meant to be a fast one (although a marathon is only as fast as the person running it (I just made that up!!)) and its in a popular holiday destination so fingers crossed there might be some cheap accomodation options, maybe even a campsite?
I'm off to England for Christmas, hopefully i'll have lots of spare time to run around the lovely countryside and counter act the damage of mince pies and mulled wine!
CK.x
The first is Marathon Talk podcast's Jantastic. Its a challenge for January, February and March thats all about re-motivating you after Christmas and a maybe a bit too much indulgence. The podcast is English so its also to motivate you in the chilly winter months, not something that I need to worry about in Sydney but the heat of summer can be an excuse to limit running too.
In January you are meant to set an amount of runs you'll do per week and challenge yourself to stick to it. I've gone for 3. I think thats a good number thats going to get me running but not too many thats going to be too challenging to stick to. It will also leave me days to attempt some other exercise.
February is about keeping up that number of runs but also working on your distance, after all the show is called Marathon Talk.
March is about combining January and Februarys results and also working on speed.
The second thing is an app for the iphone called Sleep if you can. Its described as the Worlds most annoying alarm app. I've commented on here a few times before about the challenge I face every single morning trying to get out of bed to do some exercise so I'm keen to give this a go.
When you first get it you have to register somewhere for example the bathroom, then when the alarm goes off you have to get up and take a photograph of something specific in there. Its cheating if you do something close to your bed!!
Read more about it here, they also have some other alarms for the bed lover, like one on wheels!
Last thing to mention is that I am currently looking into the Gold Coast marathon as an option. Its in July...plenty of time to train, its not so far away that it'll cost a fortune, its meant to be a fast one (although a marathon is only as fast as the person running it (I just made that up!!)) and its in a popular holiday destination so fingers crossed there might be some cheap accomodation options, maybe even a campsite?
I'm off to England for Christmas, hopefully i'll have lots of spare time to run around the lovely countryside and counter act the damage of mince pies and mulled wine!
CK.x
Monday 2 December 2013
Motivation Monday
I'm gonna start doing a motivation Monday post! Each Monday I'll endeavour to post something which will inspire us to get out and get exercising.
I found this online a few days ago and feel like I should print it big and put it on my bedroom wall, either that or record them all on my phone and set it as an alarm!! (Can you even do that on an iphone?!)
My favourites to encourage me to jump out of bed are 1, 2, 16, 22, 23 and 45.
All the others are great and of course benefits that I'm keen to have but the ones about concentration and stress and anxiety are the ones that I see making an immediate improvement to your day and benefits you will get especially when you exercise in the morning.
I found this online a few days ago and feel like I should print it big and put it on my bedroom wall, either that or record them all on my phone and set it as an alarm!! (Can you even do that on an iphone?!)
All the others are great and of course benefits that I'm keen to have but the ones about concentration and stress and anxiety are the ones that I see making an immediate improvement to your day and benefits you will get especially when you exercise in the morning.
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