Not As Fit As I Thought!

When I did my big 40.7k ride the other day I was stoked! "My fitness is building so quickly!" I exclaimed to

myself. I was so proud and with good reason! It hadn't been long since I'd felt like I was dying with a little 7km ride and now I'm doing almost 6 times that!

However, a few days ago my son and I went and played some tennis for half an hour. I haven't held a racquet in years and I don't know when the last time he did was either so it wasn't serious. Just a little hit around the place. Neither of us is experienced enough to aim well so we spent most of our time running ourselves ragged chasing the ball. It was great fun!

However 24 hours later I can hardly move. What the hell? How does that happen? Doms... Three hours on the bike and I feel fatigued but my muscles are fine, then half an hour on the court and I'm knackered!

I guess it all comes down to doing a bunch of different exercises for all over fitness. I've been focusing too much on just riding.

So I'll get back into my running and also into my Convict Conditioning workouts and build up my fitness in  a more rounded manner. See how we go! In the meantime, it's a magnesium bath for me and time on my favourite instrument of torture. Ouch ouch feel good!

Today however I went kayaking with Mr JDF. We had a great time and were out in the sun oaring around for three hours. We were bummed that I didn't think to activate Strava until we were about a third of the way through our paddle but ah well... can't remember everything!

We took mandarines with us and had them for breakfast which was nice. As a bonus we were then able to have fun spitting the seeds at each other because we're romantic. And classy.

I love being out in the kayak. We saw a couple of things you'd not normally see such as this:

We got a nice couple shot for the fam:

And I did my body a disservice as well! When we arrived back at our slippery boat ramp I shouted to Bill "I'm going to hit this rock... oh no I'm not" and I missed it by just a smidge. Then I confidently hopped out of my kayak and was almost fully standing when my feet slipped backwards out from underneath me and I... hit the rock. Damn the law of attraction. The most obvious damage was the cut on my foot:

There were other injuries too. I can hardly move my left hand but it looks fine. Not even any swelling and for the first time in my life, I'm glad my boobs fell down because it was my upper left chest that hit the rock. I got such a shock I couldn't even speak for a couple of minutes but I got a big hug n kiss from Mr JDF which kinda made up for it... but not much. LOL.

Then I forgot to sunscreen my legs. Again. It's as if there's a part of me that thinks my legs are the only part that tans. So now I look like this:

I like this photo because it tones it down. In reality the burned bits are bright, bright red. Hahaha.

Just as well I started the day with a brief meditation prior to going out so I was all JenZen and completely unfazed by my ordeal:

Have a great weekend all!