Smoked salmon open sandwich

Wow – two thirds of the way through already!  Christmas did put a bit of a spanner in the works and I missed out on a bit of what was going on, but I think I’m all back under control again now (kinda).  Enough, anyway!

Had a bit of a busy weekend, so didn’t quite get around to doing everything I wanted to, however enough got done that I don’t feel like the weekend was wasted.  Today was time to run through the fitness test again and while there wasn’t much improvement, the fact that there was any at all while I hadn’t been doing the exercise was very satisfying.

I comfortably kept up a good jog for the entire kilometre and picked up my pace nicely in the last 200 metres to finish one second short of the six minute mark – dammit!  Well, there’s my target for 12 weeks set out nice and easily.  I honestly think I could have pushed a little harder, but I was still pretty knackered by the end – but very satisfied with my slight improvement.

In other tests, I improved my wall sit marginally, did a bit worse in flexibility and maintained the same result for my abs.  The big surprise was the push ups – I have so much trouble getting through the number scheduled in a session and usually only manage less than half, so was amazed (and pleased) to see a decent improvement here.  I went from doing 21/22 in a minute at the start and 4 weeks in, to doing 28 today.  I have a cunning plan in place starting tomorrow though to really get this one improving though!  OH, and just in case you were thinking this was pretty good, they ARE on my knees…  And my husband put me to shame by doing 36 in a minute (on toes).

So really, pretty pleased with my results given my lack of exercise over the past 4 weeks.