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Point to Point

This weekend was very welcomed as I had had a pretty slow week in work! On Friday Ryan and I decided to stay in and chill out. I bought some nice burgers and pudding from Marks and Spencer (with my voucher from employee of the month) and we had a night in. Unfortunately that triggered a full weekend of binging on unhealthy sugary foods!


Our Mountain bikes are still out of order, which sucks as I had planned on going on the bike somewhere with rachelinwales unfortunately we had to rearrange our mtb date for another time. Instead Ryan and I took the road bike out for a little bimble in the local area. I actually really enjoyed it. We did hit a few rain showers on the way but at some points the sun was really shining bright!
boardman hybrid bike
It was a fairly flat ride and some hilly country lanes but I find the Boardman is a very quick bike and assists hugely with the effort of dreaded hills! We stopped at the Maenllwyd pub for 10 minutes to bask in the sunshine before continuing.
Ryan chilling in the sun
The ride took us just under 2 hours and was a good workout but I am really starting to miss the mountains. Hopefully next week we will do Whites Level although I am a bit nervous for that one as I haven't done it before and Ryan said it was very hard. I tried out my 5 ten mtb shoes for the first time and I found them a lot more comfortable than expected and the grip on the pedals are incredible! In the evening we went to go watch Iron Man 3 in the cinema and it was great! I had nandos peri peri nuts, wotsits, sweets and when we got home I had a peice of cheese cake and white chocolate Toblerone!!! Naughty!
Thought Iron man 3 was brilliant
Sunday
Today I was invited to a Point to Point day with some of the girls. They are all horsey people and know what theyre doing when it comes to this, me..not so much! All I knew was the time to get there and it has something to do with horse racing.

Turned out to be horse racing
The weather wasn't the best - very overcast and cold but at least the rain help off! Bec very kindly set up a great picnic for us all with LOTS of food and I didn't stop eating!
Bec arranging the picnic
All the girls were dressed for the day - tweed waste coat and riding boots. I had no clue what to wear to something like this so Bec lent me a pair of boots and her Barbour jacket- I am so glad she did because I was freezing! Everyone seemed to have lots of wine to drink but I stuck to the food, strawberries and cream, jam scones, cheese and crackers and even cupcakes!

Me, Bec and Tors at the jump
I bet on 2 horses, 1 dropped out halfway through the race and the other finished off centre place so I didn't win anything but I really enjoyed the day and had more than a few laugh with my drunken friends!

I came home at about 7pm feeling great for having a fab day ut and catching up with friends and also terrible/gross for having eaten so much crap this weekend - I am certain I have gained a few pounds and I was too late to hit the Gym before it shut! So, with Ryans encouragement I decided to do a little run on the treadmill. Unfortunately 1.37 minutes in I had to emergency stop the machine as my shins hurt so badly!

ice therapy
I then sat for 15 minutes with a bag of frozen rice on my shins. This is really depressing me now - as soon as I start to see progress, something like this stops me! I don't care how I feel tomorrow I am going to do a run!

On another subject, my skin care is going well - I am enjoying it and my face constantly feels very moisturized now. I really tried to persuade Ryan to try it and got very grumpy when he refused!


Ahh well - another week starts tomorrow, one of which I plan to really knuckle down at the gym, I am aiming to increase a few weights and be very careful with my diet as a good detox from this weekend! I hope to feel more positive this time next week!



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