A pleasant surprise on stepping on the bathroom scales this morning as they told me that I've lost 3Kg (1/2st) since coming back from my holiday in Crete just 9 days ago. This might not seem remarkable as everyone puts weight on while on holiday and loses it when they come home, but I have been the same weight (or within a couple of pounds) for around 18 months. So I'm going to press on with my no beer/no bread/loads of salad diet, even thought it's becoming more difficult to ignore my rumbling stomach!
Tonight's training had a good turn out with Mr H, Chuckle Elder, recently married Ricky, Fat Lad and Paulie all turning up for a session. The first four mentioned above decided they would do a sprint session and as regular readers will know, my hamstrings are like cheesestrings so I try to avoid sprint training, especially this close to the start of the season.
I asked Chuckle to give me a stamina building session and Paulie wanted to join in. He set us a target of running 30s on/30s off for 30 repetitions. He even set the pace for us on the first run and we did our best to keep to the same pace throughout. We had a 1 minute rest after 10 and 2 minutes rest after 20 and finished almost on our knees when we did the 30th.
On the 12th run, Paulie pointed out a dog "deposit" that we needed to avoid but I managed to trample straight through it three laps later, requiring me to spend 15 minutes trying to clean it when I got home! Our session was a hard one and at the end I was absolutely exhausted. Calories burnt 1076, max hr 108% and average 80% over 1h4m.
No training on Wednesday as I have a meeting at my son's new school where he will be starting in September. I'll be back at it on Friday when it will be just 2 days to Fat Lad's test!!! The Achilles pain has flared up again but not as badly this time and there's no swelling this time, so happy days.
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