Cross-Training | Obsessive Ramblings

May 28th, 2012 | 2 Comments

My legs were shot after yesterday’s run. My quads had spent a couple of hours immediately after the run threatening to cramp up and I spent the rest of the day trying to keep mobile to ward off the sensation. A 4:30am alarm call was therefore not a welcome sound so, of course, the first and subsequent alarms were all switched off in rapid succession. So much for dedication this morning! Lunchtime was a different matter and because I have a busy week, may well be the only gym session I get in this week. So it was off the Pilates again for me, and although I still felt like a bit of a beginner, I was more settled than last week’s initial shock to the system. After an afternoon of work, I had … Read entire article »

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Operation Date

April 24th, 2012 | Comments Off

Another quiet and pretty normal day. Liz made oat waffles for us this morning as we are trying to get back into a term-time routine for a few weeks, at least until her operation, which we have now had confirmed dates for, so at least that is positive; 18 May for pre-op checks and 24 May for the actual operation. Colleen has said she will come down to help, but there is still a lot of … Read entire article »

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Tech Support

February 21st, 2012 | 1 Comment

Ok – Tech Support night tonight. Trying to setup a 1.0TB Buffalo Drivestation (fancy product name for an external hard-drive) to our Thompson Router as a NAS so that we can share it and I can download all our iTunes Media (music, films, books) onto it so that we don’t have to have the behemoth NAS Linkstation running all the time, only when we need to do a backup. That’s the theory anyway. As ever, nothing involving technology … Read entire article »

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Is it Backstroke, Backstroke or Backstroke?

February 14th, 2012 | 2 Comments

I went swimming today as it is half term break, so my lesson wasn’t on yesterday. As I’m still (very grumpily) consigned not to run at the moment, and it is my cross-training day anyway, I took my Garmin to a man-sized 25m pool in London (well, more man-sized than the 15m one I use for my lessons on a Monday, but not quite as macho as the full 50m Olympic sized pools which are far … Read entire article »

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Quiet Week

February 10th, 2012 | Comments Off

Well, my week has been very busy and my ankle is still coming and going. So, although I had a week of running planned, it has actually turned out something like this : Schedule Actual Time RPE Enjoyment Load Calories Run 30.3 miles 0.0 miles 0:00 0.0 0.0 0 0 Row 0.0 km 2.0 km 0:08 8.0 4.0 64 129 Swim 0.0 m 500.0 m 0:40 8.0 4.0 320 300 Cycle 0.0 miles 38.4 miles 2:05 9.0 4.7 198 1481 Elliptical 0.0 m 1060.0 m 0:15 8.0 4.0 120 204 Physio 0.0 m 0.0 m 0:55 8.7 4.3 157 393 All in all, it actually hasn’t been a bad week of cross training, and since I was planning on a rest week next week anyway, I’m sure the ‘imposed’ rest will have … Read entire article »

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Cross-Training (Rest) day

January 31st, 2012 | Comments Off

Cross-training today, chose cycling again after yesterday’s swimming. Down the gym at lunchtime with Colin, one of my colleagues who has had a back injury since Christmas so he is taking it easy as well; it seems there is a lot of it about – injuries I mean, another colleague had knee problems and that was after rupturing his achilles, yet another had back problems. Given the choice to get injured or be sedentary, it is … Read entire article »

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Full Day

January 30th, 2012 | Comments Off

Out for my second long run in sequence this morning. It’s still January and yet already the Monday runs are getting to the stage where they take about an hour – mainly because of how slow I am, and not the distance I am running Soon be getting up at 5:00am then; Liz is very thoughtfully doing that at the moment to get her run in, but we chatted yesterday evening and decided that … Read entire article »

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