Training 2.9

A word to the wise, never take the mickey out of a bloke's fading suntan when

a) he's still coming to terms with having to go back to work after 2 weeks on the beach
b) he's about to set that night's training session
c) you haven't trained properly for a couple of weeks

My sunburn from my two weeks in Crete has now settled down completely, the peeling has set in and the tan has started to fade. I wasn't that bothered by the banter tonight as I had already decided on the session for tonight on Thursday. It was "envelope" time and the boys were going to work - HARD!

Warm up, especially elongated and messed up just to keep the Fat Lad, Paulie and Penfold on their toes and then into the work. Starting at the bottom left corner of the field, run to the centre mark, turn right to the corner on the same goal line, do 5 press ups. Run again from that corner to the centre mark, turn right and on to the corner on the same touchline, do 5 sit ups. Run back to the centre mark, turn right and on the the corner on the same goal line, do 5 star jumps. Finish by running back to the centre mark, turn right heading back to the corner we started from and on arrival do 5 squats. Rest ... for 90 seconds and repeat ... three times.

After a 6 minute rest at the end of the 4th set, we did another 4 sets. Fat Lad, having had a hard session at the County's School of Excellence last night, was doing some sprint work. He was doing 6x30m, 8x20m, 10x10m and 12x5m. Now Fat Lad finished before us and decided to run us around the last set but not do the exercises on each corner.

Penfold didn't manage to finish all of the first set of four. Paulie did the full set of four both times and on occasion I was glad of his company as I dragged myself around. We also had a few moments of giggles at his expense during the warm down. As we were completing our stretches, he complained of something brown and smelly on his knee. He thought he'd just kneeled in some dog "deposit" and then as he brushed the recently cut grass from his knee, smeared it across his leg! Fortunately for him, it was just some churned up dead grass!

It was a hard, hard work out in the heat tonight .. calories 1213, average he 82% and max hr 100%. The week's total calories 3672!

My whole lower body aches now though ... I'm sure it will be easier next week