Day 133: On You Marks

It was another rest day today as my wife was working all day. But I am extra rested now for Lilla's new challenge for September, first o run 100 miles so that's around 160 kms for me.

It will be very interesting to see who brings this home first. I will need to try and get some extra mileage in. Even if I get 6 days of 10k it will still take me best part of 3 weeks to cover that so will need to try extra hard. But I want to make sure that I keep my pace around the 5 minute mark per km.

Good luck everyone who has entered.

Until tomorrow...

Day 132: 2 More Rest Days

The official rest day today but there will be another tomorrow as my wife has to work. Still I will have fresh legs for the new challenge on Monday. Plus I am aching from yesterday's weight session and every time I cough my abs well lets just say they are sore!!!

It's all good though, wouldn't change it.

Until tomorrow...

Day 131: The Pump

It was back to the gym for the 2nd day in a row but this time for a great weights session. Found a great workout on bodybuilding.com for Ectomorph's which I mostly followed today. The only deviation was that I did not adhere to all of the 3 minute rests as I would have been there for nearly 1.5 hours and I dropped the squats. The only time I rested for 3 minutes was before the final set.

Basically it comprises 6 different exercises, 4 sets of each with 10, 8, 6 & 15 reps. I found it quite challenging with that 15 at the end. This is of no use if you are a regular weights trainer or find it easy to bulk but apparently it works very well for those who find it hard to put on muscle, the link is below: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/ectomorph_pyramid_training.htm

Needless to say I had a great workout, and I am sure that I will know about it tomorrow too, which will be good. Managed some decent weights too, not as high as last time but I would have struggled with that final set otherwise. But it worked most of the upper body muscle groups.

Until tomorrow...

Day 130: Back to the Gym

Well it was the same as when I last left it!!

Got the HIT training session loaded onto my gym key and then it was off. I have done this many times before just not for a while and I think I managed to carry on from where I last left off. 1minute intervals of 6, 12, 14 and 16 kph repeated 5 times and then a 21st minute, 30 seconds at 16kph and 30 seconds at 17kph.

WOW, I was tired by the end of it. It's completely different to distant running. Even though I covered around 4.2km in about 21 minutes. Got a really good abs session in afterwards and then tomorrow I will pump some upper body weights. Looking forward to the weights, again it's been a while!!

Until tomorrow...

Day 129: Shattered...

My 10k PB that is. Sunday was my last run and I posted that I thought that was a PB and indeed it was by almost a minute.

Today was the first run for 2 days and I managed 47m 13s so around another 45 seconds off my PB. Again the distance on my Nike + is dropping due to the speed increasing so I will need to re-calibrate. I think I am going to concentrate on some HIT sessions in the gym for the rest of this week in preparation for the next challenge.

I will also mix some weights into this and some abs. I will then come back to the distances and I think these HIT sessions will increase my times.

Until tomorrow...

Day 128: Final Extended Rest Day

A long day, up at 5:30 and back at just before 18:00, training a course for 5 hours and driving for 3, boy I'm ready for bed now!!! Still school holidays so no chance to get out for a run on my return home tonight. Will be back out in full force tomorrow though with hopefully a great time as I have had 2 days off now.

Blisters are sorted, 2 pairs of socks does the trick. Used to wear 2 pairs when I played squash and it worked back then so hopefully no more troubles.

Until tomorrow...

Day 127: No News

As today's title suggests nothing much to say today. Miserable day weather wise, no training due to Bank Holiday in the UK. Kids played with their friends running in and out of each others houses so they had a great day. Back to work tomorrow but to the office so unlikely there will be any running either but back to it Wednesday.

Until tomorrow...