Managed a quick run before work on Saturday, 6 minutes quicker than last time and no chunder - a great success all round. So that was 4.7 miles in 40 minutes, the aim is to cut 10 minutes off that.
There's a Mixed Martial Arts gym round the corner that I've been told about so I'm thinking of venturing over there sometime next week to see if I can fit it into my training. I also going to start recording my weight just too see if I do manage to actually shift any.
13 stone 8 and a half pounds. Ok, i really do need to think about shifting some of it.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
It has begun.
Today was the true start of my winter training. Setting off at 7.30 in damp drizzly weather I proceeded to demonstrate to myself several things: a)why I need to be in training, b)how much smoking really isn't good for you and c)what the contents of my stomach looks like. I can at least console myself knowing that chundering seems like a good indicator of effort (and terrible fitness i hasten to add). So that's it, running every second day come rain or shine.
I have to admit I'm pretty polar with my training - its all or nothing - and today was very much a demonstration of the effect of the nothing side of the agreement on the everything side. Over the next few months I'm looking to really give training a proper shot - running, climbing, weights and any other other training methods I stumble upon.
The books will be coming out of storage - Mark Twight's Extreme Alpinism, The Rock Warrior's Way, Geoff Lowe's Ice World and any other tome that I will study extensively then ignore in my usual fashion.
This is all pretty incoherant but I hope over the coming weeks that the blog forms some sort of training diary and that I will be able to come up with results. So here are my aims for Scottish winter 09/10 season. Climb a proper grade IV mixed route and a V on ice (point five or the like) - it can't be that hard, can it?
I have to admit I'm pretty polar with my training - its all or nothing - and today was very much a demonstration of the effect of the nothing side of the agreement on the everything side. Over the next few months I'm looking to really give training a proper shot - running, climbing, weights and any other other training methods I stumble upon.
The books will be coming out of storage - Mark Twight's Extreme Alpinism, The Rock Warrior's Way, Geoff Lowe's Ice World and any other tome that I will study extensively then ignore in my usual fashion.
This is all pretty incoherant but I hope over the coming weeks that the blog forms some sort of training diary and that I will be able to come up with results. So here are my aims for Scottish winter 09/10 season. Climb a proper grade IV mixed route and a V on ice (point five or the like) - it can't be that hard, can it?
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