weekend, horse and bike rides & kickboxing

Well, this weekend I was just soooooo good it's astounding. Friday night was my 'cheat meal' which also involved 1/2 bottle of champagne - all good and planned.
The rest of the weekend not one thing passed my lips that wasn't on the plan. Sickening! :-)
Saturday was my rest day - but I did ride my still wild pony. It appears that my saddle is also incredibly scary and does possess teeth that I knew nothing about. At least, that's what Kado was telling me when he spotted it sitting (lurking) in the stables (ready to pounce).
Luckily, the hour and a half of work on Saturday may have started to take the edge off some of that overdose of sugar in his system, because on Sunday he started to resemble something more like my old horse that I used to have before this manic monster took its place.

Sunday afternoon I went on my own for a bike ride as speed racer had been working like a dog on Saturday - 4 hours of ripping out flooring, and lugging it downstairs to the trailer. He said that was more than enough of a workout for him. Phewy. Anyhow, I endeavoured to make the same time as last week, and I did - it's a damn fast pace to get to this spot in 15 minutes....and it hurt a bit too. But this time I only gave myself a couple of minutes to recover before turning back - more fool me. I turned back into the mother of all head winds. It took me 22 minutes to return - there were times when I felt i was pedalling but not moving!!! Excellent quad burn though, but when my quads fatigue guess what takes over? My glutes!!!!! Must be from riding horses - you use your glutes so much in riding!
Then I did a couple of hours study.

This morning I went down to the beach for my usual workout - well, it's usual depending on the tides, state of the sand etc!!! So this morning there was no firm sand whatsoever, and I opted for barefoot yet again - thank goodness! I did 900m walk warmup, 1.2km in soft sand jogging, then 10x40m soft sand sprints. Tonight I am trying kickboxing for the first time - I have been dying to do this for years, but never got around to it - well, tonight's the night!!!!