Not a bad week Training week considering the weather. So after the disaster of the bike incident on the Saturday, I decided to take to the hills on Monday and living in Leenane, there are no lack of hills to climb! So I literally walked out my back door and up the hill beside my house. Did better than I expected, got up it a lot faster than I thought. Didn’t make it to the top. Was ragging when I got back down and realised how close I was to the top. Definitely use different muscles going up the hills than to jogging, so need to get more hill climbing in.
Went to Zumba again on Tuesday. Bodytoning was cancelled so during the week I did some kettle bells and sit-ups to keep my core going. Find that both of these are very handy to do and doesn’t take up too much time. Particularly the kettlebells, which you can do while watching TV and it gets your heart rate going.
Before the weather changed and to take advantage of the brighter evenings, I got a jog in on Wednesday. I decided to jog home from work. It is about 5km in Distance and I have to admit that it is mainly down hill, but it would be the Longest Jog that I would have taken on so far. Again I surprised myself with this. My breathing, which was always my bad thing, was fine and my legs felt good! I had to stop about 200 mts from home due to stitch in side, which was disappointing!
Took a rest day on Thursday.
On Friday the weather was dreadful. We had a kayak club rolling session in the pool so I went a bit earlier and got about a half hour swim in before hand. I always like swimming, even though I’m not very good. With the bit of extra fitness from the training, I thought I would be flying up and down the pool, but no I was more like a slow frog! Was interesting to see how sometimes the fitness doesn’t cross over
Took weekend off.
So where do I think I’m at now? I’m very happy with being able to jog a lot more than I expected. It hasn’t become a natural or automatic to thing to get out and exercise yet but, I do enjoy it when I get out. Would definitely find it harder to get out if I didn’t have the Challenge at the end. I think after Connemara Adventure Challenge, I will need to set myself a new mission! My main aim still hasn’t changed, and that is getting over the Finish line. I’m not bothered by how long it will take or who will do it faster than me. I know that I will definitely get over the finish line, I maybe crawling but I will make it. I do need to get longer distances into my training though and also to carry mandatory kit with me while training.
On another positive, my body is alot more toned and I seem to have lost weight.
