Running, Gymnastics and Boxing

How's everyone's weeks going? I've had a big change this week, I had to give up my job. I had been having less and less money every month and when I worked it out I was substantially worse off working than being on benefits.. I don't know what is going on there. The whole experience has been so stressful, I can't understand why the government make it easier to be on benefits than to be working. But anyway, enough of that! I have my interview to go back to uni to study mental health nursing on Wednesday. I really hope I get on the course, when Mike is a qualified social worker and I'm a qualified mental health nurse hopefully we won't have trouble finding work the way we have with our current qualifications.

Yesterday I had a good easy run. I resisted the urge to do a slow and fast one since my 10k training begins next week and I want fresh legs... I'm sure I'll be fed up of speedwork soon enough even though I'm missing it lately! Since my headphones broke in the half marathon I've been running without music and I hate it! Can't wait to get my music back on my runs.

5 miles in 49.02, 9.49 per mile
Mile 1 - 9.45
Mile 2 - 9.59
Mile 3 - 10.08
Mile 4 - 9.54
Mile 5 -9.17

I enjoyed a sneaky sprint towards the end, overall this run felt surprisingly hard, I didn't realise how much the half took out of me, but it could be lack of sleep from taking our lovely little pup out to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. Can't complain though as she's been wonderful at toilet training we've barely had any accidents and she's really good at letting us know when she needs to go out :-)

Today Mike and I did some gymnastics, I did the usual routine minus the handstands as I just didn't feel up to them, I tried 2 but felt dizzy so I gave up and did the other things. It was a bit rubbish really I don't think my head was in it today... We did a boxing finisher which was tough! 5 x 1 min power boxing 1 min rest, I was laid out on the floor after the last round!

Right I'm off to go watch some TV and relax with Mike, have a good night everyone :-)