I had one of those sleeps Sunday night where you wake up thinking your alarm is about to go off, then realise you still have 3+ hours to sleep. They sure don’t come around often so I treasured it! I still woke up before my alarm so it gave me plenty of time in the morning to make food for the day:
After work I had an orientation at the gym I’ve just joined. This gym is the biggest one I’ve ever seen. Most of the local gyms I’ve seen would have easily fitted into the floor space at least 4 times. I joined mainly for classes so while I was there last night I booked in for a Ride (Spin) class on Thursday morning. The guy who showed me around was nice enough, I did have to specify I wasn’t looking for a trainer a couple of times and I found out he was BIG on high fives (I didn’t hear him the first time and kind of left him hanging…) We didn’t quite get through the extensive orientation they have so I’m heading back first thing tomorrow morning.
My IT band was playing up a wee bit on Monday after the long run – lucky I had a massage booked in tonight so I can get any niggles sorted before the race on Sunday!!
I got a text from my doctor yesterday as well – apparently all my results were perfect (a good thing!) but I’m now wondering why I was so tired last week. We shall just have to see how this week goes!
This morning started with Kate: I was warned when I stepped in the door… Andrea (slightly laughing) “Have fun today, she’s in a mean mood… That was a tough workout”. We started with some boxing for a warm up and as she was making me doing some knee strikes (that’s what Google told me they were called – I’d never done them before) I remembered what this month’s challenge was – how dare she make my legs tired before I get to do the challenge!!… So I grabbed the kettlebell & had a Swiss ball behind my back: I had to do 10 squats, 10 squat pulses and then stay in a wall sit for as long as I could. I can’t remember what my time was last week; I think it was around a minute. Anyway I sat there and chatted for a while, it got really hard and when I stopped I thought I heard her say 2mins something… Turns out it was almost 5mins which is almost double the longest time I remember doing a wall sit for WHAAAAT?? Either Kate is really good at distracting me now or I was good at distracting myself telling Kate about the good looking guy trainer I met haha…
We got into some good strength work after that, I’m certain I will be dreaming about bench press & leg presses tonight…
GOALS FOR THE WEEK:
I’ve realised I eat well through the day, but if I come home before exercising I end up mindless snacking – and not on good choices. There aren’t many ‘bad’ food choices (things like muesli bars etc. that Liam likes to take for his work snacks) in the house this week but I’ve made sure there are lots of good ones; be it hummus and carrots, grapes etc. so if I am legitimately hungry I can go for those instead.
Complete the Pumped homework: This week is a list of reps to complete during the week – a total of 1101 reps & bonus challenge of 1101 secs of huffy puffy every day (18min 21 sec to be exact!). I’ve got a little chart I’ve printed off to keep track 🙂
Complete Sunday’s 10km race: It has some elevation in it on the way back by the looks of mapmyrun. Considering last week’s run & the below elevation (I REALLY need to start adding in hills to my training) I’ll be pretty happy if I come in under 70mins.
Have you got any races planned this week?
Sweat Eat Run Repeat 