Juliette cross-training for Romèo

A follow-up on today:
The spring weather seems to be extremely unreliable. I went out expecting nice sunny weather. The wind is hard from the north-west, so I dressed accordingly. Fortunately, because during the two hours I spent there we had both rain and snow!! :eek: And personally I started having bad stomach cramps (not from the exercise.. :eek: ), so that changed my original plans a bit.
I walked for 3,5 km, 33 minutes, then went to my favourite dirt track which is just almost dry from having been a ski track. It's 2,4 km, so I ran it twice.
I thought, why not test natures own opiates for the cramps, since I didn't have any pain-killers handy. :rolleyes: At first I thought I was going really slowly, but for the second round I actually got some speed and managed to do the 4,8 km in 28'26. That's my new speed record: over 10km/hour!!!
And in my endorphin high after that I walked over 6 km more, so I didn't quite make todays goal of 10 miles (16,1 km), but got a personal best for April anyway: 9 miles (14,5 km)! :D
Right now I need to go get something to eat, my body is SHOUTING for energy.. I've got a story to tell, so I'll be back.. :cool:
Juliette
 
Ok, so here comes the story:
I can definitely tell that the spring has come by all the creeps that have crawled from all their holes.. There are these two men I have worked with, let's for the sake of the story call them Peter and Alan. Alan is recently divorced, one child. Peter is married, two children.
The history goes as follows: Alan, at the time of his divorce, had a huge crush on me. I was sympathetic at first but got freaked out when, after about two weeks he was making plans for moving to the same city as me "to be near me all the time". Since I had only friendly feelings for him, I took a lot of distance and told him that he was moving WAY too fast. Things finally settled down to neutral after a phase of antagonism on his part.
Peter started showing me a lot of attention at about the time I was trying to be as far from Alan as I could. I knew he was married and I wouldn't go along with it, but I really liked him, that I can't deny. He used to tell me things like "Oh, you're so dangerous.." even though I was just plain professional and friendly at the most. And show me a woman who doesn't like that... :p Things led to nowhere, mostly because I didn't let them. Let's say, it wasn't because he wouldn't have asked for more...
All that was over about a year ago. I see them in my professional capacity now and again, couple of times during this year.
Suddenly, last week, Peter phoned me. He, allegedly, had a question about our old project. I answered that in my brusque way, as usual, (stupid question anyway) and expected the call to be over. Apparently he had expected my answer to be something that would lead to us meeting, since when that didn't happen, he said "well, actually I just wanted to meet you". And when I told him (still quite brusquely, I never learned the flirty way of dealing with these things), "we can meet without making these stupid excuses, why didn't you just ask me for a coffee?", he said "that would've been kinda wrong, since I'm married and all..." So I guess he wasn't thinking of having coffee with me, because that he could do quite legally, even though he's married... :mad: :mad: :mad:
SOOO, he had thought, he'd get me to settle the meeting and could then blame me for everything that (hopefully??) followed. And he'd hand me the responsability for "seducing" him, instead of him, a married man, going after me. AAAARGGGHHHHH! Needless to say, we're not meeting, not now and not in the foreseeable future. Not until the hell freezes over and/or he gets a divorce + 3 years when he finds himself after the divorce. Whichever comes first.
AND I just need to declare myself a bit crazy as well, since after all this, I still really like him. What a stupid woman I can be... :confused:
A long story, but there's more to come:
I just learned yesterday that a friend of mine had met Alan at a party. And had spent an hour listening to Alan tell her, how I'm as close as one can get to the woman of his dreams. Great! So he still goes around after over a year and tells that to random people in random parties. :eek: It's really hard to be flattered about that, it's so much easier to be totally freaked out. :eek: :eek: Now that I come to think of it, he did tell exactly the same thing to my mother about a year and a half ago, when she came to see me at work. She asked me later, if he was harassing me...
I'm just wondering, will these kind of things keep happening every spring from now on or was this just a BAD week with the sudden rise in temperature.
Comments are welcome. :D
Juliette
 
It looks like you are dangerous after all, Juliette! Look at these poor men who can't get you out of their minds!
:p Just joking!

However, this Peter surely has a lot of nerve! I'm sorry for his wife, she's most probably already been cheated plenty of times.
 
Venice girl said:
However, this Peter surely has a lot of nerve! I'm sorry for his wife, she's most probably already been cheated plenty of times.
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That's what I'm thinking too. One more reason to stay away from him.. I need that kind of a man like I need a hole in my head. Have met the wife once, about a year ago, and she had the kind of chilly attitude towards me, which made me wonder (since absolutely nothing had happened between Peter and me) if Peter might be calling my name (or somebody else's) in his sleep. :rolleyes:
Why, oh why don't I meet a decent available man, but instead have these idiots thrown upon me.....
Julie
 
Here's my day so far:
15 km of nordic-walking!!! That's 9.32 miles for our going around the world in how many days -challenge. :D
The thing is, I wasn't supposed to do more than 9 km today. We have this thing with a friend that whenever we can, she takes the bus to where I live and we walk/nordic-walk to where she lives and I take the bus home or vice versa. That way neither of us walks alone (which gets kinda boring, when I do it all the time) and we get nice exercise not going round in circles but going from point A to point B. We usually take the route with the nicest scenery, about 9 km, like we did today. We started from where I live, and I only realized when we arrived at her place that I didn't have my bus card with me. :eek: And not taking the money my friend offered for the bus, I decided to walk home. The shortest route is about 6 km. So that was all together about 2,5 hours of brisk walking for today.
The rest of the day I'm going to spend doing absolutely nothing, if you don't count watching tv and surfing on the net doing something... Or maybe I'll just watch my kitchen garden grow, that'll be relaxing, as nothings happening yet. There is basil, tomatoes, string peas, rucola (rocket), red salad and lobelias to sprout and some very enthusiastic garlic already growing. In this climate they won't be going outside before mid-June, but hopefully by then they will be BIG.
Judging by the population scarcity at WLF everybody is having a relaxing Easter, so I'll go do the same.
Watch out for the Easter Bunny!
Juliette
 
Howdy!
Today's the weigh-in day for the Spring Challenge. This week I'm not a great asset to my fellow Spring Flings, since this is a seriously bad time of the month. Weight today 67,9 kg = 149.6 lbs. That's 0.3 lbs up from where I started last week. :( The (hopefully) good news must be, that normally I'm up about 2-2.5 lbs (c. 1 kg) during my period. Next week will tell, if this is the case now also.
I'm thinking of doing a good walk/some light jogging today. Then I've got tons of clean laundry to fold and cooking to do. Sun is shining outside and I'm hoping that the glass I broke this morning will bring me luck. I just pushed it down from the table before I had really woken up. Not a valuable object, but one of a set of six... But can't be bothered to worry over that, it's such a beautiful day. :)
Happy Easter!
Juliette
 
i'm sure next week will be much better weight wise. i'm having the same problem myself hehe
and i'm sending you some positive vibes so you meet available man who will make you happy :D

HAPPY EASTER

Lena
 
Another day gone.. It's amazing that I still have one free day left. They've been so scarce lately that already yesterday I thought "tomorrow's a workday :( " and then remembered that IT'S NOT!!! :cool:
I did a 10,5 km walk/hike (6.52 miles) with my best friend. We're both about as enthusiastic about hiking etc. right now, so we're doing a lot together. :) Brings a nice change to endlessly putting my feet in front of each other alone. She's even thinking of taking part to the 25 mile walk I'm gonna do in the end of May, but hasn't decided yet.
I'm planning a bit of a run for tomorrow morning if the weather stays the same and another friend asked me for a walk in the afternoon.
My back which bothered me a lot in the past has been in very good condition after I upped my amount of walking/nordic-walking/running in the beginning of this year. During the last eight days I've moved myself forward an unbelievable amount of 68,79 km (42,74 miles). :eek: The challenges here and the 25 mile walk ahead are certainly pushing me to things I wouldn't have thought possible, or at least, I would've expected to be very sore by now. I'm very interested to see how long I can keep this up. :confused::)
The only thing I'm a bit worried about is that I've found myself slipping in the eating department. And not to the expected direction either. I've skipped a couple of breakfasts, not intentionally. If unintentional things exist. And I'm having a hard time eating everything I've planned. I don't feel hungry. Maybe this is just some hormonal thing that will pass quickly. I don't know what is really happening weight-wise. It seems I've gained. That should be impossible with the amount of exercise and food I'm having. It's bad time of the month, so I'll just have to wait about a week to get the next reliable number. I don't want to go back to the stupid way of losing weight now that I know a better one. I wonder how I start sliding to that direction the second I turn my eyes somewhere else?
I'll just have to get the eating back to regular times and amounts. I can do that. I think... :rolleyes:
There's my dinner calling me from the kitchen.. See you all later! :)
Juliette

PS. For those of you who read about my sorry pair of admirers in a previous post an update: Just got a text message from Alan, wishing me happy Easter and asking could we meet. Geeez, why can't people understand their own language: NOOOOOOOOOO! :mad:
And thanks a million Lena for your vibes. I'm hoping they bring me a nice man any day now.. :p
 
Thanks Daisee!
They will be most needed.. ;)
And good rest of Easter to you, here we are already one day down, one to go.. :)
Juliette
 
Today is Monday. And I've been trying to weigh myself on Mondays, not that it's been possible too often lately. But today it is. I'll call these my bad day stats, since that's what they are. And if I happen to be at home weighing myself in four weeks, I'll compare the results to these instead of last weeks.
It's just psychologically very hard to see my weight going about 1 kg (2.2 lbs) up every month for a week.
Weight 67,8 kg (149.3 lbs)
Body fat 28,4 %
Body water 52,4 %
Muscle mass 33,7 %
Cannot really celebrate those, although the extra weight seems to be going down already. Now I'm where I started the Spring Challenge 1st April, so I'm hoping I won't be an embarrasment to my fellow Spring Flingers in next weigh-in.
Today the sunshine is even more bright with only tiny white strips of clouds sailing over the sky. I've got two work things to do before the return to work tomorrow and couple of house work things I'm thinking of getting out of the way.
I'm thinking an interval run/walk, 6-7 km and then some very light social walking later in the day. Tomorrow I'll be happy if I can squeeze in two 20 minute walks in between work things, so it'll be a rest day. My body can probably use one. :rolleyes:
On todays menu: white fish with broccoli-red onion-sunflower seed salad, mushrooms with tomato, avocado, cottage cheese, lettuce, basil and garlic. :D
Many things to do, so I'd better start now..
Have a good day, everyone! :)
Juliette
 
Just a quick update on today:
Did 9 kms (5,59 miles), walking 15 mins, running 45 mins. Did a new speed record 10,54 km/h, although running alltogether was less than enjoyable today. Maybe one day very light exercise is really in order.. I'll keep up the exercise after that, maybe not quite in these quantities, but regularly anyway.
I'm psychologically preparing myself for going back to work after four (!?!) days of total relaxation. It was wonderful to have this break and tune in with myself for a while. Next two weeks are quite busy, but some of the work I'll do at home. Only about 5 days of travelling. Tue-Thu I'll be away, then next Mon-Tue.
I'm really hoping the Easter Bunny took some of my weight away, so when all this bloatedness goes there are good news in the scales. :eek:
Good week to all the Spring Flings out there!
Juliette
 
Steve said:
Hiya Juliette. :)
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A belated hiya to you too, honey!

Came home from a quick work trip. A good one, for once: workwise perfect, decent eating, some exercise, even nice rest in between. I'm really energized instead of the usual beat. :)
Rest of the week working from home. A lot to do, but I'm the master of my schedule.
My kitchen garden is growing fast, all the sprouts visible in all the pots! :D
Springtime, beautiful springtime....... :p
Juliette
 
It's going to be a warm and sunny weekend! Spring!!!
I'm thinking of whether I should buy myself a new bike or get the old one a general overhaul. The biking season is about to start here in the north. I'm just amazed how much the new bikes cost, also the rate that they get stolen. Nobody has ever been the slightest bit interested in my 20 year old 5 gear girly city bike... But it might be time to let the old bike retire and get a new one.
My apartment looks like I've been just coming here to sleep for the last 4 months and never done anything to keep it tidy. I have people coming to stay next weekend, so I'll need to start doing something about it NOW to get everything in order by their arrival.
A friend of mine is arranging a kind of opening of the garden season tomorrow, or should I maybe call it the balcony season, since none of us really have a garden.. A nice late afternoon party outside (if the weather is as forecasted) and we're going to walk to her place for that, so some exercise, about 7 km, is included.
I need to do some shopping today, a lot of work and arranging my place, so I'll be nearby the computer most of the day.
Have a great Friday 13th everywhere!
Juliette
 
omg i just realized its friday 13th :) its usually my very lucky day lol :D
consider that cleaning your apartment as working out. i started enjoying cleaning. when i do my dishes i can actually feel my abdominals contract lol so now i pay more attention to the way i'm cleaning also...gotta work all those muscle groups hehe.
i love spring and all balconies become like little showing rooms of all sorts of flowers. its beautiful.
we don't bike much in my home town since there are too many hills and all, but continental croatia is excellent for biking. coastal part is more for mountain biking.
enjoy your cleaning girl :D
Lena
 
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