Swimming - I had my swim lesson this week - I hadn't been in 3 weeks. It went really well! The swimming on holiday got me in a lot of practice and I've finally got the hang of bilateral breathing. I still need to work on my breast stroke technique.

My swim coach actually told me that I need to move up to the advanced class so I will be going in at the 9:30 session rather than 9 pm - I joined the advanced class after my usual class on Monday and seemed to cope OK, was just mega tired! I'm nervous for my first official class tomorrow though! hopefully I will be able to keep up with the others!

Cycling - I went  on the bike 3 time this week. Me and Phillip did 13 miles on Monday, 16.2 on Thursday and 36.76(what the F!) miles on Saturday. It was hot out and we didn't want to be stuck in the house so we went for a bike ride at a nearby town at a nature reserve. We didn't expect to be going out for 36 miles.. but we ended up taking a wrong turn and went off the cycle route.. and obviously didn't realise straight away ;)

Walking - I've still been doing quite a lot of walking this week. I'm still taking the dog out in the morning and the evening and going walking during lunch breaks.

Running - I did 4 of my planned runs for this week as part of my Half Marathon training. I'll have a post out tomorrow with more detail on my runs(if you're interested in that kind of thing of course)

Yoga - I started a new challenge for this month with Sweaty Betty! It actually makes a change from the usual Alo Yoga challenge that I've been doing. I've been trying to venture out of my comfort zone and take my pictures outside.. be more scenic and all that Jazz. It's been going well thus far! It's only been 5 days.. ;)

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Food

Food seems to have been all over the place this weekend and the weather and my increase in exercise has played a part in that. I've gone from feeling SO hungry one minute and snacking a lot to having hardly any appetite and not wanting to eat anything at all.

The good thing is that my food choices have at least been healthy choices. A lot of fruit to cool myself down, Nakd bars. I found some Frozen Yoghurt(Yoo Moo) ice lollies in Tesco the other day, so I've been having those too.

Salads has been the norm in the morning and in the evenings, we've either been having another salad or very small meals.

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Exercise

Swimming - I had my swimming lesson this week after not having one for two weeks since bank holiday. It went OK, as always for the past couple of weeks it's been overly busy in the lessons which is making in increasingly more difficult to try and swim.

I STILL haven't got the hang of bi-lateral breathing yet which is kind-of annoying. It's SO hard to breath on my left side, I take in water every time! I'm also not rotating enough on my right which makes it harder for breathing too.

I've only 3 weeks till the holiday and then I will be swimming every day so I'm hoping to improve then.

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Other than swimming, does shopping, coo-ing at and rocking a baby count as exercise? I think it does! All of the above is hard work and I'm knackered after this weekend.

This is the little bundle that I've been looking after this weekend!

After last weeks half marathon, my legs needed some much needed time to get back to normal. They're still not entirely there and I really could've done with not walking so much on them this weekend. I'm hoping they'll be back to normal this week so I can at least get a run or two in this week. We will see.

Food

Food has been here and there this weekend. I've had some pretty healthy meals and choices during the week but slacked towards the end of the week. Plus like I mentioned at the start of this post, it was my birthday this weekend which meant there was some cake involved and I've been baby sitting this weekend for P's brothers baby whilst they were away this weekend and it's been pretty hectic. I feel like I've not stopped. Food whilst shopping over the weekend has not been the best of choices and food choices at home over the weekend have been convenience more than anything.

I just need to get back on it this week.

Plan For Next Week

So, my plan was to have an active recovery, which didn't do exactly to plan. I didn't workout at all this week but I did do a lot of walking this weekend and lots of baby lifting and walking about.. it wasn't much but it was something. My leg really played havoc after the HM last week so it's actually been pretty hard to try and walk and do anything with it.

It's starting to get back to normal so hopefully I will be back to running this week.

It's officially 3 weeks until my Holiday to Egypt so I want to have one final push at getting some weight off prior to going on holiday. I want to make sure that food choices are healthy and I want to have a good crack at exercise. I want to be active everyday and doing something. I'll be getting back into a routine of early mornings so I can do a workout early in the morning and hopefully at least start to make some positive changes.

I know that holiday eating isn't always the best when you're all inclusive, so ideally I wanted to be at a lower weight, so there is wiggle room for a little holiday weight gain. I am going to try and be better on holiday this year so I avoid this issue, but just in case! I did write a blog post on avoiding vacation weight gain so maybe I should go back and read it and remind myself ;)


In case you missed them, here are the two blog posts I wrote this week:
Race Recap // Run Hackney Half Marathon 2015
Om Yoga Magazine // Home Yoga Practice, Yoga Sequences & Pose How To's

Hope you all have a great week next week!

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Exercise

Yoga - Yoga is still the same, I've still been doing it everyday and it's really nice to just zone out for a while, get a little bit of practice in and then do the yoga pose for that day. It's been a really good source of motivation for just getting me moving. I love it!

1 x Running -  I didn't run at all, all week as I was trying to rest and hopefully allow my injury to go away. It didn't happen, annoyingly enough but I think I made the right decision to not run and make anything worse.

I did my Half Marathon(Run Hackney) today. I did it in 2:27:05 - Not the best time for me but I'm not upset. It is 10 minutes slower than the half marathon I did a few years back.. but I was injured so what did I really expect? Considering I was  injured, I am actually surprised it didn't take me longer. I'm happy with my time and happy that I managed to finish! I race recap will be coming to the blog very soon!

Misc -  Since I wasn't running at all this week, I did want to make sure I was at least getting in some other form of exercise. I've been continuing to do workouts from the Workout Trainer App. I really love this app! It has SO many different workouts to choose from. I stuck to Abs and Arms mostly for this week. Stayed away from doing any leg work.

Food

Food has been pretty good this week. I've been making healthy snacking choices and I've been having really good, healthy meals too. Since I'm now in the routine of getting up earlier, it's so nice to be able to have a nice breakfast. I've been having Mesa Sunrise(which is similar to bran flakes) from Natures Path with some added fruit and I've had Yoghurt/Museli/Fruits on some days which has been pretty amazing.

I've had salads again this week, I've been changing it up every few days so I don't get bored of having the same thing everyday. All in all, its been going pretty well.

This was one of the salads that I had this week. It was a mixed salad pack and I added some sweetcorn and plain chicken breast. There's also Mango, Lime and Chilli salad dressing on there too which is AMAZING. I got it from the Tesco Finest range, ingredients are pretty reasonable and I like it a lot!

Plan For Next Week

So, my plan for last week was to get more posts up during the week, I definitely did that, you can find the posts I wrote for last week below:

Monthly Stats // May

Review // Nothing But. Snacks

Pre-Race Preparation

I want to keep up the posts during the week, I did a lot of pre-planning and I've got some blog topics that I can cover here on the blog so that will keep me occupied.

I didn't film a Youtube Video this week. My plan was originally to Vlog my day for the Half Marathon, however, that didn't go to plan. I just completely forgot to film whilst I was doing things and now it's too late!

Next week, I just need to make sure that I recover properly from my HM. I'm pretty sure my legs are going to be worse tomorrow than they are today so I just need to take it easy. I want to make sure that whilst I'm resting from running, that I'm doing something else to keep active, although that shouldn't be too hard considering I've been really enjoying the app for workouts.

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