Day 40 - Fitness 365

I decided to do my run tonight despite having some trepidation about it. All say I had been feeling as though I might have pain if I landed on my right leg. I started the run slow from and at first I thought it was going to be sore but it turned out that after about 20 paces everything felt fine and I was running quite freely.

I ran with friends from our club house and it was a cold, crisp beautiful night for it and as you can see from the data above we ended up running close to 5.2 miles in 42.35. This is my longest run for a while. Apart from the good news about being pain free, I also felt really quite easy on this run so I do think all the work at the gym has helped my general fitness.

Feeling good about things tonight but again will take it easy with running and keep doing what seems to be working.

Day 39 - Fitness 365

This was the least amount of cardio work I have done this year, just 20min on the gym bike. I then concentrated the rest of my time in the gym working on strength and stretching. My glutes are tight on both sides as a consequence of yesterdays running so I really wanted to give myself the best chance to recover.

Day 38 - Fitness 365

I probably had too good a time at my pals party last night! I still made it out this afternoon for a run outdoors though. This was my longest run in terms of time for quite a while and happily it was pain free. Although I feel fairly fit just now my running fitness is quite a way off. In the end I manged to run about 4.8 miles in 40minutes, a few little hills on the route so I am quite happy with that.

After the run I drove up to the gym just to try and work the muscles of my legs and get rid of any post run tightness. I jumped on the bike and did 5 miles in 20min and then spent some time stretching, focussing mainly on my quads and glutes.

Day 37 - Fitness 365

Just a quick update as I am getting ready to go my good friends party. I went to gym and took it pretty easy today, Just 15min on bike 3.5 miles and 25min on elliptical 3.1miles. In between it was situps, planks, stretching and PT.

Have a great Saturday. 

Day 36 - Fitness 365

Wow almost a tenth of the way into the year already. Today I spent quite a bit of time in the gym. I did 2 sessions on the gym bike of 30min and 10min. Some of the longer session was hard and over the two i covered 9.8 miles.

After the biking I did a lot of core and weights, well for me. I also managed 275 squats today over 8 sets.

Finally I wanted to test the old injuries and how they responded to 2 runs in 2 days. I jumped on the treadmill and was prepared to stop at anytime if I felt any niggles. I didn't and managed a nice run of 2miles in 16mins.

I haven't weighed myself since the start of January. I have been feeling a bit lighter and some folk have said I look as though I have lost some weight. I bit the bullet and jumped on the scales and indeed I have lost 7 pounds. I haven't really improved my diet much so I am guessing a few weeks with a better diet should see more weight reduction. Good news for the weekend. Time for a chilled out Friday night now.