Training Log Archive: fletch

3150/15300

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Never got round to the morning set, so have broken my run of not missing rehab :(
Did the evening set with 20kg in the pack. Sore left achilles on first set, pretty good after that. Harder on the shoulders than anything else.

Event: MetrO 11-12: Swan View
 

Sooo nearly piked this morning. Felt OK getting up when the alarm went off and had brekkie, but my back felt really stiff and a bit sore and I nearly went back to bed.
Finally got out hte door then made the tough decision to go down the coast first, meaning that my only tailwind for the ride would effectively be warm-up and cooldown. Took it pretty easy down to Tydeman Rd. Nearly chased one bloke that came steaming past, then backed off and dangled about 100m in front for a while, but resisted. Got mixed up with a few others from Tydeman along PReston Pt Road, dunno who was in a group with who and who was just in the same place at the same time, but despite enjoying a little break tucked out of the wind, I was on my own once I hit the climb before Pt Walter. Steady pace through to Canning BRidge, where I seemed to be the only rider on the planet that didn't know that the path unde CAnning Hwy was closed, so after a little detour, continued on my way, rode throug a group before Mt Henry, then turned north. Had a cling-on on a flat bar for a while, but he disappeared at the Narrows and pottled home solo again from there.
Glad to get it done before it got too hot.

3060/15300
No weights on either set. Morning set was more like mid-afternoon.

2880/15300

Too lazy to do anything else. Morning set with 10kg again

2700/15300 (preemptive of evening set)

With the pack again am. Added 3 sets of leg raises and back extensions after the calf work to target a couple of bits that I think need work but are being slightly neglected by my superhuman mutli-challenge weights program.

Still wasn't feeling terribly inspired, but managed to overcome my standard morning lethargy and get on the bike finally.
I hope how I felt was a reflection of the fact I may have had a virus for a while rather than further fitness loss, as the middle portion of the ride felt terrible.
Got going a bit better for the last 20 minutes or so, but it all felt that little bit harder than it should have. Not really looking forward to th return journey.

A ride of 2 parts. Had to go pretty hard from school to Jacko's work to pick up the orthotics that I was meant to get but forgot about yesterday (Sorry Jacko!). Ride was fine till Ocean Reef Road, but then the bike lane/shoulder on Marmion disappears for quite a while, which made for slower and more annoying progress.

After picking up the orthotics, all desire to ride a bike had disappeared and I plodded home very slowly along some less major roads, trying to get home without having to divert out to either Marmion Ave or the Freeway. Mission accomplished. Probably should have had a drink at some point. Had a full water bottle, but the water was a week + old and had been sitting in the car for quite a while, so I gave it a miss.

Have been feeling totally crap since getting home. I;ve either fried myself or I'm just really unfit. Oh well.

In happier news, Jacko has suggested that after a couple of weeks with the orthotics I start to ease back into running again. Yay for running in the holidays.

2520/15300

Added a 10kg pack in the morning, but didn't take it home, so back to no weight in the evening.

2340/15300. Bit late on the 'morning' set, but still got the twice-daily thing done.

Almost got up for the Floreat renegade ride. Wish I had, but I still feel pretty ordinary and went back to sleep, only for my alarm to go off again 15 minutes later even though I'm sure I switched the phone (not just the alarm) off. Then felt worse when I got up at 6:30.

Was gonna start all this silliness tomorrow, but seeing as I hadn't done anything all day, decided to get into it straight away
Push-ups: 14, 18, 14, 14, 18 (meant to be 20+)
Squats: 19, 24, 19, 19, 50 (didn't feel so bad about the push-ups when I realised how much harder these felt today)
Sit-ups: 21, 27, 21, 21, 30
Dips: 15, 22, 13, 13, 18 (started on Week 3, switched to week 2 after 2 sets...)

Can't wait to see how sore I'll be tomorrow.

In other news, it's about time to add weight to the calf rehab... need to take a backpack into school tomorrow.

2160/15300

So... the ever climbing calf drop count isn't keeping me terribly interested any more, and I'm not really doing any of the core stability stuff that I promised myself I'd get into (or riding, but that might come back soon without doing anything stupid).

Anyways, I was wating a bit of time at work daydreaming and remembered the 100 push-up challenge, went to the website and also found the 150 (bench) dip challenge, the 200 sit-up (crunch) challenge and the 200 squat challenge. As I am superhuman, I have decided to undertake all of these challnges simultaneously. If I am sensible, I may also d a bit of other muscle endurance stuff to try to maintain a bit of all-round body balance (not likely, other than a few back extensions when I have access to the roman chair)

Push-ups - 27: Challenge to start from Week 3, Day 1
Sit-ups - 100; Challenge to start from Week 3, Day 1
Dips - 28; Start from Week 2, Day 1
Squats - 100; Start from Week 3, Day 1

It strikes me that the sit-ups is a hard one to regulate whether you cheat a bit towards the end, and the dips can be made a fair bit easier by changing the [lacement of the feet, but again, will do my best not to cheat too much...

Squats definitely wasn't a max test to get to 100, but I figure I'll be sore enough by tomorrow anyway.