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| Thursday, 21 July 2011 09:27 |
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Monday 18th July 2011 – Another day of themepark cross training on the stairs – so many stairs!!! So many water slides, so many other rides. Another warm and sunny day, small queues in some places, big queues on other rides. Luca has gone all hardcore!! Off on all the big rides by himself while I spent time with Milla. Tuesday – 4 sets of 3 minutes fast (4.00 pace) and 3 minutes jog, with 10 minutes warm up and cool down, so about a 45 minute run up and down the foreshore here at Surfers. The day was then spent at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, seeing the animals, holding a diamond python and taking the Green Challenge Rope Course!! Great fun, and the kids did an awesome job – Milla is not yet 7 years old, just tall enough to do it and we all had a great time on the flying foxes, tarzan rope swing and other games. I hadn’t ever done a ropes course before – lack of opportunity rather than desire – we had a lovely day to celebrate Charlie’s 8th birthday. Wednesday – A quiet day, walking and swimming. Hair cuts fir all the kids, so they are looking very smart! I also ordered a new HR watch from wiggle.co.uk – time for a Garmin instead of my very inconsistent Kathmandu watch. Thursday – Tempo run – this time 3.2 km warm up, 4.8 km at 10k pace and 1.6 km jog cool down. Interesting that this 10km was faster than my first TT 3 months ago. Friday - Last day at the theme parks - still much stair climbing. Not doing the stretching that I should be doing. Saturday - A warm sunny morning again, 16.3 kms running north along the Broadwater past Labrador, then south again. The wind was picking up pretty sharply as I was heading home. Then a very very long afternoon commuting back home to Adelaide. With delays, it was over 10 hrs from hotel lobby to home again. But then Cadel won the TDF tonight - a fantastic ride!! Sunday - yoga. At last. Even though it was the dreaded back bend session. |
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The Cancer Council came out this week and announced that there is no safe level of alcohol consumption, and that alcohol should be considered to be as carcinogenic as smoking and asbestos are. As well as being highly associated with throat and mouth cancers, it is now found to correlate highly with breast and bowel cancers. Perhaps it should not be so surprising that a substance that can so alter mood and ability, even at very mild levels should turn out to be in fact, not good for us.
This story, an editorial from the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this year has some amazing targets - it ties in with our look at sitting and health, and is about developing healthcare systems that support exercise - recognise it as being as vital a measure of our health as is blood sugar levels or blood pressure. It recommends 150 minutes of physical activity per week for adults as a minimum. 30 mins on 5 days. For children, it is 420 mins / week - 60 minutes every day. How close are you?
This is another article on inactivity / obesity and health from Sports Medicine Australia, highlighting the link between an inactive childhood and a lifetime of battling depression. It is food for thought (!) these days where there seems to be much paranoia about safety of children away from their parents watchful eyes, and therefore a tendency to want to keep them closely under watch instead of encouraging more activity and indeed risk taking behaviours. The ability to judge situations for risk and to be able to take appropriate risks builds self esteem and resilience. Not much to do with bowel cancer awareness, but close to my heart as well.
Another article on sitting
This one is in really simple terms - if you walk 30 mins (as recommended) and sleep 8 hours, most of us still have 15.5 hours per day not moving. You cannot sit all day behind a screen, then drive your car and sit and watch tv with out it being bad for you. A good read.