Night at the Mall and Catch Up

Finally a moment to say hi! I actually started writing this Monday, however the words weren’t coming, my attention span the past few days has been short and then there’s that thing of it being hot. The amount of ice cold orange juice, ice lollies I’ve consumed in the last few days is insane. It’s a battle of will power not to give in and flake. Add this week for some reason I’ve been a little more tired than usual in the evenings, which hasn’t helped feeling productive. Read extremely sleepy eyes. No matter how much I fight it. I haven’t even caught up on my current Netflix marathon, I’ve been that tired.

Where do I start? Friday!

Teaching early, my morning run got pushed to the evening. No way in this heat was I running midday. I don’t mind evening running and workouts once in a while, but I prefer early workouts for a reason. I feel like an elastic band ready to ping. My muscles are warmed up, I can run a little quicker and lift a little heavier, it never feels like a good workout. Afterwards I’m either too wired to sleep or the exact opposite, crash! Crashed I did, but it was the first good run in a while. I even had extra energy to run the steps 6 times instead of the usual 3. The still air that replaced the lovely breeze of earlier made my tank top feel like a winter coat. 2km in I was running sans tank, something I rarely do! But it was darkish with the lights, so I didn’t have to suck everything in that much!

Night Run

I swear they look steeper at night!

Saturday and Sunday, very exciting. Roof top workout, run respectively, potter, beach, little sleep Saturday thanks to the concert nearby, Sunday evening baking. Exciting! 

Lots of different types of fish off the pier, running Sundays 15km.

I read somewhere that you can let Monday run rings around you or you can run rings around Monday. I’m aim to be the run rings around Monday, but Monday has a knack of running rings! I called it quits with it Monday. I managed to get nearly everything done, but that’s only because I kept putting off jobs at the weekend (my pottering wasn’t very productive). By the time Monday rolled around, I felt like the student who left all their studying to the last minute. Until next time, lessoned learned. Ha! I did have a good workout. Mixed grip chins ups are getting easier.

Tuesday I had it all planned. Work, gym, skip the beach until it’s cooler, back in the afternoon to clean the house, beach, grocery shopping I couldn’t get Monday. It went perfect until the afternoon. It took some oomph to clean. I could’ve put the air con on, however there are polar bears to think of and the electricity bill. The cats and I have to make do with the fan. Only when it’s extremely hot, I put it on. But I like to have windows open even in the depth of winter, so it’s never on for long!

Cycling in, listen to the gibbons at the Zoo

Stopping by the local shopping centre/mall later, in a world of my own queing to pay, bam emergency lightening! Power cut! 20 minutes later waiting to pay and still no lights. Why wait so long? I’ve been after a summer cat hammock for Diesel for a while. Previously he’s had cheap cube cat trees, with the top floor providing a cool summer hammock. His current cat tree is all fluffy fabric, which must feel like a sauna. All ones I like won’t ship to Spain, Spain only has ferret hammocks. Last resort I thought I’d check out the home decor shops if they had a collapsible beach head rest I’ve seen a few people have (none ship to Spain!). No headrest, but I found a fold up/collapsible kids camping chair. I thought it would be a good substitute. He gets a head rest, back rest and can hang with legs everywhere.

Anyways, Night at the Mall? Do the mannequins come alive at night? Not being able to pay cash, even with power resorted and close to closing the assistants kindly reserved our purchases for later. They relayed from a security guard, ‘no idea why, the car park is total blackness, lifts are out (one of my worst nightmares. Being stuck in a lift!), but some shops still open’. I had a little grocery shopping to do and chanced Alcampo being open. No surprise, it was. I swear big supermarkets are never without power!

Lightening and rain woke me up in the early hours yesterday. Yay! Rain! The cooler morning you knew wasn’t going to last long and the clouds hanging around until midmorning, made my run a little more bearable. Don’t get me wrong. I love summer. I’ll take long hot summer days to cold, wet, windy winter days any day. I just don’t like running on them much! I feel like I want to run in a tank top made ice cubes, like the cooling face sleep masks! 

Do you prefer training the in mornings, afternoons or evenings? How do you keep cool or try to get cool in the summer? Favourite 80’s movies? I loved Mannequin, Indiana Jones, The Goonies and Star Wars!