Monday 26 January 2009

Sunday 25th to Saturday 31st January 2009

Saturday 31st January 09
Last exercise post of this week and finished off in style! 16 miles plus (ignore the Training Center screen shot below it ignores the tunnel at the bottom of the trail and it switched itself off all over the place - does my head in). Anyway 15.75 recorded miles in just over 3 hours is okay for now. I've got a tactic of walking up the real steep bits to conserve energy and then running the moderate inclines and flat bits - it means pace drops to 11:30 but that's okay probably means 5hrs plus but I will get a bit fitter by time of marathon.





Friday 30th January
Not much sleep, normal slow five mile run. Not displeased with it. Gym later, broadly happy. Did a good session in Gym went on treadmill twice after haven't to abandon first run with cramp threatening right hamstring area - not pleased about that but still did the full 24 minute hilly, have notched it up to level four now - might have a shot at level five next week - anyway four out of five days went to gym which is good.

Thursday 29th Janaury
Had no baking duties at all last night so went to be early and got up late. Consequently only had time to whizz up town on mountain bike to pick up papers which is not a lot of exercise value reallty. Didn't get to the gym yesterday as was busy as anything and didn't get out of a long meeting til late. Will be back in gym later although am now supplementing the gym sessions with core strength work at home - squats, lunges etc.etc. so all is not lost! Surprising how fed up I get when exercise level drops - that's a good thing I reckon...

Wednesday 28th January 2009
Did five loaves overnight - must be insane. Tired this morning and as it was raining I thought I'd just do four miles on the heavy bike up town and back fetching papers. Gym later to make things right.

Tuesday 27th January 2009
Hoping for better things this morning after the rubbishness of yesterday's early morning effort.
Did a solid five mile run on the usual route up Ashbourne and back, very foggy and dark when I set off - nearly got wiped out by a cyclist with no lights on! got into Gym at lunchtime - 24 mins on hilly treadmill and similiar on bike, program 6 with a decent amount of load.

Monday 26th January 2009
No go in my legs this morning so just walked three and half miles. Rubbish - gym later where I'll make up for it.

Did a solid 50 minutes in the gym - treadmill and bike. Am getting into the bike as it's giving me a chance to do a bit of reading - been looking at an old copy of Modern Runner for tips and stuff. As a result of which am now doing exercises to build core strength on top of the press-ups and what have - lunges and squats to start with.

Sunday 25th Jan 09
Bit tired following Saturday's exertions but played grand at golf - we beat another pair by 5 and 3 shaking hands on the fifteenth - amongst the good stuff were parring the hardest hole on the course the 12th and the tenth hitting drivers to the greens in both cases! So that was okay.

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