Juneathon Day 8: But I Don't Have A Bike?

What a day...

Something good happened today - the plumber came! The upstairs radiators now turn off when the heating does, which means no more sauna bedroom! While the plumber was still working away I had to head off to my own job.

After walking to work, being on my feet all day, then walking home all I could think about was getting in bed and reading - but then Facebook reminded me there was something important I needed to do first, Juneathon! 

I had written on the Facebook group asking for suggestions before leaving for work, but the one I had received before leaving was to run home from work as seeing as I'd forgotten to bring a spare change of clothes and had fake converse rather than trainers it didn't seem appropriate. When I got snug in bed though I saw a comment on the Facebook page of a different suggestion and that reminded me to get my arse in gear.

Ash Medhurst had suggested that I do bicycle crunches, but my initial thought was 'I don't have a bike', I Googled it though just in case and discovered I didn't need one.

I watched a How-To video on YouTube (twice) and then cleared a space on my warm-but-no-longer-boiling bedroom floor. The first task of the exercise was to lower myself into a lying down position, and even that hurt. I bent my legs, interlocked my fingers behind my head, then lifted my head up and the video instructed and begun riding my imaginary bike. I counted each elbow-to-knee touch as one and set a goal of reaching 50.

After 35 I have to stop for a breather, then again at 45 then at 60 I stopped. I started writing this then thought, 'I can do better than that!' so I got on the floor and did 40 more. Making that a total of 100.

I am now worried I will ache tomorrow at work. Although, I am starting to get used to being constantly achey and in pain!

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