Good morning all,
Sorry I have been a bad blogger, I should have written this on Sunday and it is now Wednesday! I would love to tell you I have been on holiday or extremely busy, but I haven't, I have just been a naughty lazy Fatty Boom Boom!
So since my last post, I have drunk lots of water, stayed away from alcohol, eaten lots of fruit and vegetables and lost so much weight I can fit into my daughters clothes.... YEAH RIGHT!
I have been bad with food (hence not writing my food diary on My Fitness Pal), I have drunk copious amounts of alcohol, I have drunk a fair amount of water (well you have to the morning after the night before) and I did lose 1lb last week, but think I put it back on this week already.
I am rubbish, try as I may to stick to my plan, be good, I falter at the first mention of pizza, a night out, or just the fact the day has a Y in it! To top it all off I have had a sore throat and itchy chest again for the last few days, which I know is my own fault, as adding all of my training to dehydration of alcohol, and lack of good nutrient and vitamin rich food leaves me low and then I get ill.
Does anyone else have this lack of self discipline? I am sure I cant be the only one, in fact I know I am not as Mr FBB is almost as bad as me. Only thing is he can lose it far quicker on the odd week he is really good.
So there we have it, I am still (and probably always be) a FBB, difference is I am now a fitter FBB, so I guess every cloud has its silver lining and all that. So what have I been up to (bar stuffing my face and doing the robot dance at 1am in a bar full of stuffed jungle animals)?
Monday - Rest Day:
I did manage to get my 10,000 steps in courtesy of a very long dog walk.
Tuesday - Intervals:
10 mins warm up z2/3, 4 x 6 minutes z4 10 minutes cool down. Struggled from the start of the warm up again. but managed 6:28 at 180, 6:26 at 184, 7:02 at 183 and 6:50 at 184.
Now this is where the fun begins! As I have mentioned in previous posts, I am rubbish at doing my cross training and strength and conditioning, to the point I often miss the days out. It is generally because I find these sessions boring, and don't really get competitive with myself like with my running. So I decided I should try out all of the classes at the gym and find some I enjoyed to do on my cross training days... Here is how I got on.
Wednesday - Circuits:
After getting to the class 15 minutes before the start time of 7am, boring the poor receptionist all about why I was trying the classes (nervous trait, cannot shut up in the hope that if they understand why I am there they wont laugh at my lack of ability). Into the studio I went... OH NO... I wanted to turn and leave, so far there were three very fit looking men, and no I don't mean good looking (although I am sure they probably were) but I was more taken to the fact they were tall, muscly and didn't have an inch of fat on them. Behind me followed about 5 or 6 women, again all of which had bodies I can only dream of ever having.
We were asked to get a step, mat and barbell with weight of our choice. Mr FBB had advised me to start of with low weights until I had got used to the classes so I picked up the smallest weight, a lovely 'Look at me I am a total wimp' bright yellow weight. I mean I understand that the weights will be different in size to accommodate the weight differences, but really add in some nice bright differentiating colours too and we can really stand out!
I mentally whispered my mantra - 'no one cares what you look like, how little your weight is, or how rubbish your ability is, they are just here to do their own thing,' and then add in the special note my friend told me 'which is mainly to pose in the floor to ceiling mirrors' which makes me giggle and gets me some weird looks.
The class starts and we set of running around the studio to warm up, then the instructor tells us some moves corresponding to numbers, i.e. when she shouts a number we have to do said move then carry on running. The star jump was ok and I could do that, unfortunately I couldn't do the one where you dive to the floor, do a press up and jump back up again. My knees wont allow it, I did try, apart from the fact it took me so long to get down and back up again I had missed about 4 moves, I fell flat on my face trying to do the press up! So I stuck to star jumps for every number.
Warm up finished and I am already purple faced, half my water is drunk, and I am dripping sweat every where, maybe I could just slip out now and no one would notice! As it happens the rest of the class was actually OK. We did various squats and lunges with the barbell, more press up drops and jumps. It was quite intense and fast paced but I managed it. I enjoyed the fact that the instructor showed us what to do and then walked round to check our postures etc. This was a massive benefit to a newby like me as she soon made sure I was getting my body into the correct shape and holding my weights properly.
After the class my legs were quite jellyfied, and I had to lean up against the wall to get dressed as didn't trust them not to give up completely. I felt I had reached enough embarrassment for one day without landing on my arse as I lifted my leg to get my underwear on.
Thursday - Body Pump:
I almost cancelled as I was feeling rather stiff and achy from the day before, but after a good telling off from my good friend Andy, I was up early and at the class for 6.30am. Again we had to get a step, mat, barbell and extra weights. I stuck with the lovely bright yellow wimpy weights (even though throughout the class the instructor shouted you might like to increase your weights on the next activity, I am sure that it was to everyone but in my mind she was staring straight at me).
This class was very similar to what we had done the day before except it was far slower in movement. Which whilst this meant I was working my muscles more, I wasn't getting as tired out and sweaty as quick.
We did more lunges, squats, chest press, sit ups. I also liked this class, however this time the instructor was doing the class with us rather than walking round. Unfortunately for me this meant I wasn't being checked on, and I am pretty sure I wasn't doing some of the movements correctly, especially the squats.
Friday - Short Run:
I went out early and did 10 minutes warm up walk followed by 35 minutes zone 2/3 5 minutes threshold zone 4 and then 10 minutes cool down walk. I did the 35 minutes at 7:38 at 170 and the 5 minutes threshold at 6:11 at 188.
Saturday - Rest Day:
Mr FBB and I went out with friends to a local pub for some blues music and a few drinks... which turned into more drinks in town, couple more bands and then onto a late open bar for a disco. Obviously ended with a kebab, however we did walk home, so as not to feel too bad!
Sunday - Long Run:
Today the plan said 2 x 40 minutes with 5 minute recovery, however same as last week I decided to see if I could do it in full. I also decided that as I wanted to keep it easy and not continue to try negative splits and PBs, I would go a different route and add some hills in.
The route started with slight decline, that followed onto a short steep incline and then a slightly less steep long incline. I wasn't sure I was going to make it to the top without walking, which worried me as I had only just started my run and had an hours and 20 minutes to go! I just kept telling myself that once I was at the top, I could regulate my breathing and I would be fine, and I did, I managed to get to the top and then spent the next 5 minutes trying to calm down as I jogged along the Stoney track.
Then I was running down hill into the next town along, Ware. Rather than cutting through straight back to the river I normally run along, I followed through the town and their beautiful park and then cut back onto my usual river and back up to Hertford. I still had a good 20 minutes to go when I got back into Hartham Common so decided to run through car park (another short steep hill) onto another hill and back onto the cycle path that leads up to my home. It starts on a decline, then flat, then steadily increases, then steep up hill, then steady increase to top. I normally use this hill as my walk home, but today I wanted to try running up it all. I managed it, but was puffing and panting by the time I reached the top, I am sure the people walking in the opposite direction thought I was having a heart attack.
But I was happy, I had managed another 10k, it was slow at 1 hour 20 but I had wanted it to be and I had put n some nasty hills.
So onto this week, Which is planned as an easier week as I have the Regents Park 10k race on Sunday. Monday was a rest day and yesterday I did intervals. I only did 15 minutes warm up one2/3 5 x 2 minutes zone 4 and 10 minutes cool down walk. I went slightly faster than normal, and as I was doing them in the evening, and it was beginning to storm, the air was extremely humid and I was finding it very hard to breathe. So although I completed the session, I really didn't feel good after.
Today is cross training, however my legs felt very tight and sore yesterday, so I am going to do lots of stretching and rolling, I have a short 30 minute run tomorrow, and hopefully they will feel better and then I can prepare myself for the race on Sunday.
My fastest 10k was in training and was 1:15:30 a couple of weeks ago so my here are my A, B, C times:
A - 1:12:59
B - 1:14:59
C - Completing the race... (I know that this is a cop out, but you never know what will happen n the day and I don't want to be disappointed!)
So that is all from me until after the race at the weekend.
Much Love
FBB
xxx
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