Week 4

End of week report. Week 4.

Wow. Four weeks, who’d have thought we would keep this going? One month in I am starting to feel trimmer and every muscle is getting pretty solid. I am eternally hungry, I guess it is because I am burning through more calories than before, the ache after exercise doesn’t last as long as it did, and I am feeling really positive.
Despite suffering a setback with a minor injury which has forced me to adjust my training plan I am feeling pretty good about things and actually think that I am headed in a better direction now that I am working on the cardiovascular based exercises instead of the strength training. The power will come from time in the kayak.

Monday I was at the doctors, and Tuesday I had other plans so no progress was made as far as training.

Wednesday saw me put in a good solid workout pounding the treadmill, but the most impressive thing about Wednesday is that Nigel proved his dedication by joining me in the gym half way through a split shift.

Thursday saw a solo effort in the gym where I pushed myself really hard on the cross trainer, I can feel the burn in my legs even now

Friday night is going to be a gym night too. More of the same for me I think, a good long run on the cross trainer and maybe a bit more treadmill.

Someone has suggested that I start putting down the goals I want to achieve on a week to week basis, and I think that isn’t a bad idea.

I have been thinking how daft this is that we are preparing for a kayak race, and we aren’t spending any time on the water. So, one goal for next week is to get the boat out onto the water. At least once.

And I intend to run the Wrekin again at some point midweek, see if I can crack the 30 minutes target I set myself a whole month ago. The clocks go forward this weekend which will mean it will be dark when I finish work from now on. That isn’t an issue though as half of the DW race is going to be at night, I’ll just need to sort out some batteries for my head torch.