Juneathon Day 9: The Garden Dash

I have just got home and again all I want to do is snuggle in bed with my book, but I have a blog post to write! (I'd forget if I didn't do it straight away). 

After finishing work at 5:40pm I walked to my sister's house - I ended up staying until 11pm! 

We played with her tortoises (more interesting than I imagined) and socialised in the communal garden with her lovely neighbours, both of which (tortoises and neighbours) I met for the first time today. 

Zoe (sister) kept edging the conversation onto Juneathon, eager to see me embarrass myself. Eventually everyone agreed on the exercise I should do - 5 squats, run to the other side of the garden, do 5 more squats and do all of that 10 times! The complaint that I was still in my uniform didn't stick as Zoe grabbed a pair of tracksuit bottoms for me to wear. 

The garden is about 20 metres long, and I'm not known for a love of running. I'm the type of person (usually) who if seen running is usually due to being chased. 

I was so embarrassed by the idea of this challenge for two reasons 1) there were people watching me (some of whom I had just met) 2) there was a possibility others may see too if they heard the noise and looked out of their windows. Originally it was myself, Zoe and her boyfriend Pete, and their neighbours Lavinia and Nick but when another neighbour walked past to get to his flat Zoe invited him to join and watch me - much to my embarrassment.

So, with a McDonald's top, three-quarter-length tracksuit bottoms and my fake converse on, I began. As is the theme of Juneathon it started off easy and got a lot harder, but at least once I'd got going I wasn't so embarrassed by my audience. In fact, the audience actually proved useful as they were cheering me on and I wouldn't have done it as quick if I'd been doing it alone. 

Another reason my audience was lovely and rather useful is that each of them joined me on one lap! All of them beat my speed, but they were only doing one lap! I even got carried away at the end and did an extra squat thinking I hadn't finished yet - but luckily everyone else had counted for me. 

It took me about 5 minutes to recover because I was so out of breath and my heart was beating so fast, Zoe handed me my Strongbow and I took deep breaths!

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