Five days of being tested, prodded, poked, stretched and loaded with weights on the PT course on top of the general travails of running every day for a year and I felt wrecked when I got up this morning. What to do? Crank the miles back up to five for today before hitting tomorrow’s big [...]
Aug
28
Aug
27
Changing the breathing technique
Today’s the last day of my advanced gym programming course that contributes to my personal training diploma, leaving me a couple of weeks to embed all the information – and there’s a lot of it – until my assessment. While I think I get most of it, it’s only when you actually start revising the [...]
Aug
26
Thank God bad days only last 24 hours
I felt pretty dreadful for most of the day yesterday – in fact, that’s rubbish, I felt awful all day… After heading into town for my PT course, it dawned on me that I’d had a pretty heated conversation with some travel industry colleagues at the leaving do and so sent them an apologetic text. [...]
Aug
25
The hangover runs are the worst
I was very silly last night. It was Stephanie Boyle, PR manager at Visit Britain’s leaving do and I’d said I’d pop in for a couple after my course as I had to be up early to go again. Best laid plans and all that… I ended up leaving at 11pm, a mixture of red [...]
Aug
24
Sore points – lots of them
Yesterday’s stop-start running shenanigans where I started three separate runs in a short space of time have left me feeling pretty sore. There’s a whole lot of chafing going on, while by warming up and cooling down, I’ve also a bit of a sniffle… When the cat alarm (thanks Mini) went off this morning at [...]
Aug
23
Today should have gone smoothly…
… but it didn’t Today was meant to be a nice easy run – just a three miler after yesterday’s 14 miler and associated fuel tank problem. The idea, as I was on the PT course in Southwark was to knock off there at 5pm and head to Hyde Park for a 6pm meet and [...]
Aug
07
PB over five miles
Despite having spent the week moaning about feeling tired and the number of niggles I’m getting, I actually woke up this morning feeling full of beans. It could have had something to do with the fact that I woke up and, instead of going straight out, waited a while until I woke up, had a [...]
Jul
24
Now with gym instructor qualification
So I was up early this morning for a quick five miler as I had to be Bankside gym behind the Tate Gallery where I was being assessed for the first stage of my Personal Trainer Diploma, the Certificate in Gym Instructing. Fitness training in the UK is monitored by the Register of Exercise Professionals [...]
Jul
23
Getting mentally injured
‘They’ – whoever they are – say that exercise is supposed to relieve stress, but it doesn’t feel like it at the moment. I’ve my first practical exam for my PT course tomorrow and have had loads of paper work to fill in over the last few days regarding the programme I’m going to be [...]
Jul
19
Fancy a 24 hour run?
There’s a race coming up in two Saturday’s time that I would have loved to take part in: the Adidas TR24. It’s a 24 hour cross country race for teams of up to eight over a 10km course. Basically, you always have to have one of your team running the course over the 24 hours. [...]
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