Tuesday 28/01/09

I had a bloody good thought while I was on the cross trainer last night. Currently I am struggling to find a suitable two man kayak. There seems to be nothing on eBay and the cost of a new boat is too much. This year I had already planned on going to Devizes to understand what will happen. Well I’m thinking of asking around (maybe with a leaflet campaign) to buy a boat that won’t be wanted after the 2009 race. There must be some people paddling the DW who are planning on getting rid of their craft or have a spare 2 man loitering in their garage. Here’s hoping anyway.

I have also been looking around on the internet to see who else is blogging their progress. I have found some goodun’s where I am going to keep up with their efforts, and I have found some absolute shockers. One of which made me chuckle. Within the space of two weeks this guy decided he was going to do the race, started a blog, did a bit of training and the ditched the whole enterprise.

For the last couple of weeks I have been wondering how I am going to shift the few inches of spare tyre that I have, in discussions with Fitness Stu his advice was simple. Cardio. So with that in mind I have been pushing on.

6 minutes on the rowing machine. I did the additional minute just for the additional 60 seconds of cardio. Still boring, made worse because the TV below the rowing machine didn’t have the text subtitles on so I had no idea how much that antique they found in the attic actually sold for.

Doing all of the exercises on Sunday turns out to have been a bit of a mistake as it messed up my routine, I started again with the arm exercises though.

Concentrated curl. 3 sets 15 reps. 2kgs.

Seated curls with dumbbells. 3 sets. 15 reps. 10kgs.

Shoulder press with dumbbells. First off I’m not sure if I should have been doing this exercise at all this day but I couldn’t remember what I should have been doing. I also couldn’t remember what weight I should have been doing and as I didn’t want to keep getting up to have a look at my card I guessed at 12.5kgs. I only managed 2 sets of 10 reps with the sudden realisation that my usual weight with the exercise must be much less.

Weighted crunch. 7kgs. 3 sets of 20.

Cross trainer cardio. I had to dig deep with this one for some reason last night. Started at level 6. Made my way up to level 10 (incrementally pushing it up a notch every five minutes) nearly burst a blood vessel and then wound it back to 6 for the last 5 minutes. The only thing that kept me going was the Fitness Stu’s words about cardio and the increasing worry that I’m not going to be physically able to complete the 125 miles of the race.