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RE: Training's fust in August.
This week's weigh-in figures were far more welcome than the previous week's shock. After a week of fairly solid training I managed to lose 1.3kg of weight and 0.9% body fat, while all other figures were also heading in the right direction, which is heartening.
On the other hand this morning's 60 minute mountain-climb on the treadie was a hard lesson learnt ... I attempted to maintain my pace at an even 6:00/km as the pitch increased to 10%. This I managed to do ... just ... but the pay-back came after when I couldn't increase the pace as the pitch lessened. In fact quite the opposite happened and I had to slow right down for a time, and finished having covered less ground than last time. None-the-less, a very tough and important workout, and as I said, a lesson learned. When the going gets tough ... don't be an idiot, slow the ferk down or you'll blow up completely!
It still scares me slightly that I have an awful lot of ground to cover before race day if I'm going to give this race my best shot. However, I'm on the books and running hills, and tough ones at that, so I can't exactly say I'm not trying. I'll just keep at it and things should sort themselves out eventually.
My cross-training on non-running days is finally taking some shape. Having been sent a wad of core-strengthening exercises by an athletics coach, and finding myself unable to do many of them, I've gone right back to basics and have again embarked on the 100 pushups and 200 situps six-week programs that worked so well for me a couple of years back. Combined with a few basic dumb-bell exercises for the upper body as well as some stretching, I feel I have a workable routine in place that is starting to do some good.
Currently Sweder is on his way to this side of the planet and we have a run scheduled together on Friday. This should be a good opportunity to further build some motivation and set our focus on race day, now rapidly approching. Alright, I know it's still twelve weeks away, but those weeks will undoubtedly fly past, so it's never too early to start the mutual encouragement and lay down a few more lines in the running log.
9.72km, 60 minutes, ave climb 5.4%
YTD: 790.7km
Track du jour: Given his predilection for whooshing off a great rate of knots and leaving us mere mortals in his wake, this track is probably more appropriate for Sweder, but I'm taking it, just because it's a fabbo track to belt out a fast kilometer to.
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Training's fust in August.
