the day began with a battle of wills; the part of me that wanted to stay in bed versus the part of me that wanted to go to the gym… 2:20am was what the clock said when i first woke up, i certainly didn’t need to be up that early so i drifted back to […]
bit of a slow achy start to the day but that all quickly melted away at the gym. happy with the rowing times, i definitely gave the lungs a good workout as i got that little raspy feel like i was freeing up another tiny little portion that used to be tarred up… i did […]
this is surely how beethoven intended for it to be played – he was ahead of his time and surely must have known that both the electric guitar and Ritchie Blackmore would be created… it’s a great track for rowing to as well 🙂 another great session resulting in a sweat transfusion – the plank […]
did the full sweaty, 3 hour (ish) Sunday workout today. loved it, and been knackered all day since! really happy with the treadmill work – of the 4 lots of 2km, rounds 1 and 3 were all completed at 10km/h while rounds 2 and 4 were all walking (started out as jogging but i simply […]
tired, aching and feeling great as i write this – all three due to this morning’s gym session. walking, jogging, weights and lots of sweating. the best bit of course is having a shower, freshening up and feeling great afterwards! that usually lasts until i’m sat on the bus, then the tiredness kicks in and […]
This image (click for a bigger version) captures the source of much pain (physical and mental) from September 1980 through to the middle of 1985. i’ve mentioned it on this blog before, it was my nemesis. this is, roughly, our school cross-country route. thanks to the magic of google i have been able to […]
as mentioned in a recent post on my other blog, i have been left utterly gobsmacked by something completely unexpected; that my health and fitness efforts contain several success strategies and techniques that can be modeled in other areas of my life. for a while, the most startling thing about this blog, and this health/fitness drive, […]
since i started doing the occasional bit of running, the thursday “back yard session” has increasingly become “go for a jog day”. this is undoubtedly helped by the state of the back yard currently, but is mostly because going for a jog helps steer things towards being able to run a marathon. with another slightly […]
pick a long row day… had a relatively late night yesterday, and subsequently got up a little later than usual – so that made the long row choice easy; 10km. previously i’d got down to just above 40 minutes for this distance, so i set the 40 minute barrier as a target. this meant holding […]
“overload” is quite an apt word at the moment, it’s the reason why the journal entries have been intermittent and why I’ve even skipped the gym a few times in recent weeks. it is something that is being actively worked on… anyway, i have actually been to the gym sunday, monday and today so i’ll […]