Week 2: 14 July - 20 July

Monday: 17.5 points, day off exercise
Tuesday: 23.5 points, C25K run (w4,d1)
Wednesday: 20 points, 30min bike, 30min exercise bike
Thursday: 22 points, C25K run (w4,d2)
Friday: 18 points, day off
Saturday: no tracking, 22km kayak
Sunday: 20 points, C25K run (w4,d3)

Food
A generally good week. Could have made a few better choices for snack (a bit too many chips, lollies etc). Food for the 22km kayak was well planned and worked out great. Had a powerbar on the drive down, and drank cytomax throughout the event. Felt great and didn't crave junk food afterwards like I usually do. So I guess that's a good indication that I was getting dehdrated on my long kayak sessions and need to replace carbs better.

Weekly Challenge - Fruit and Veg
Well I love my fruit, but am not a big vege eater. I had my fruit serves on all of the days, and probably had 5 serves of vegies on about 2 days, but the rest of the days were only 3-4 serves of vegies. So I didn't make this weeks challenge. But I guess a positive was that I DID eat more vegies than I usually do.

Exercise
Great week! Running is going well. Saturday was the first of the HCC familiarisation paddles. Brooklyn to Spencer return (so supposedly 25km, but GPS said only 22km). It was sooooo much fun and such a great experience. It was fantastic just to paddle with other people. In all there was about 100 paddlers. I was a bit nervous that I would be one of the last paddlers (because I was not going to race it. I had heard that everyone races it and gets pretty serious. As it turned out most people did race it, but there was a fair sized group of paddlers (like me) who were just going to see the course and didn't race it. As soon as we had paddled a couple of km, I turned around and saw that there were plenty of people behind be, and I relaxed and really enjoyed myself. There were plenty of people encouraging me and taking me under their wing - it was quite amusing. I guess they assumed that because I was a female and on my own that I must be in need of help and advice. It was sooo funny at the end when they turned around and realised that I had kept up with them the whole way! It was great that I had help to get the kayak on and off the car, and had people to help me carry it down to the water and back. It was also great practice setting up the kayak and all the related equipment. The GPS was fantastic. My brother David had set up a track for me to follow (which was the shortest route), and whilst other paddlers were zig zagging down the river, I was taking the best line. Other paddlers realised that I had the GPS and track set up and followed me becuase they knew that I was going the best way. I had such a great time. I felt strong the whole way. I couldn't believe it when I reached the turnaround point - it went so quick. I had plenty of comments that I looked like I was enjoying myself too much! One interesting thing was all the jellyfish in one section of the river. There was heaps of them, I could feel them as I was pulling the paddle. I was even scared that I would flick one into the kayak.