#indoor rowing

I was late finishing work today. I had planned on going for a run but it was just too late to fit my run in. I also had to assume meal prep duty so I snuck in a 5km row and some stretches. It was all time would allow today. Maybe tomorrow I will get out for a run. It looks like I will be working from home a little longer. We have dropped to AL2 but our office is so crowded social distancing is not possible. That is great news for me as I really like working from home. The other great news I had today was a call from Lucy my hairdresser ringing to rebook my haircut for Thursday. Thank goodness for that, I was thinking about taking to it with the scissors myself.

I’ll be cycling a lot more going forward - I’ve withdrawn my Ironman Canada entry and I’ll be focussing on the parts of training I find most fun. So cycling, swimming (when the pools open again), and strength work. I’ll be running a little bit too, not least because I signed up for a study where you have to run at least twice a week for 16 weeks (13 to go!).

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It’s ages since I did a 5km row. It was fun, don’t know why I stopped doing rowing. Oh yes lack of time! It was a beautiful day so I headed outside to workout in the sunshine.

I decided early in the day that I was not going to run in the rain. It rained and hailed on and off all day. I went for a walk in the garden on my morning tea break. It was freezing out there. So after my final meeting of the day I ran up and down the house for 10 minutes to get my 10k steps. I worked up quite a sweat despite it being pretty chilly. I then headed into the tiny gym and jumped on the indoor rowing machine and did a 5km row. The sweat just poured down my face so I closed my eyes and kept on rowing.

I may have mentioned that it was a cold wintery day at my place today. It was also a busy day in the office/sewing room. I was working away on several things this afternoon when the door bell chimed. A lovely man wanted to cut my power off. Yes I had paid the bill. He wanted to install a new meter so he could bill me more efficiently. He had emailed Hubby who may have mentioned something was going to happen around our power supply! So with a stiff southerly blowing all the remaining leaves off the trees outside my office window the power went off for half an hour while the new meter was installed. It got quite cold in that half an hour but I had boiled the jug before hand and I did some laps of the house towards my 10k step total and managed to keep my anxiety about my workload in check until the lights and the heat came back on. Then Daughter appeared at the door, her workload had got the better of her and she needed a hug, hugs were duly dispensed, work woes shared and she headed off home to return later for dinner. More working was done then it was run oclock. I was not in the mood to run in the wind and rain, no. Just no. I headed into the tiny gym. I have been reading about 5km rowing challenges and I wanted to see if I could row 5km on my rowing machine. It was the most fun I had all day and I was warm, very warm.