Monthly Archives: March 2010

Tuesday week 13 – usual visit to the gym, then Spin Fit with Helen.    For the weights I increased the reps slightly…and it was fine. 50 mins – 360 cals   BENCH PRESS – 3 X 12 – 14KG … Continue reading →

Monday of the 4th cycle of 4 weeks of the year so far – week 13.  I’ve done Endurance, Power and Strength weights for 3 x 4 weeks so far, and now I’m going to see if I can continue … Continue reading →

Thursday I played basketball for an hour.  I figured I could do my weights at the weekend and I did. On Saturday I went to the gym, started off with a nice warm up run in the treadmill: 15 mins.  Did … Continue reading →

Tuesday of week 12 – I walked to work and got a lift to the gym after work.  I went right into the Weights when I got there and did a good hour of weights:   BICEP CURL – 3 … Continue reading →

A little tired from the Mighty Deerstalker the weekend before, I forced myself to go to Body Pump again on Monday of last week.  I lowered the weights again to the following:   WARM UP: 5kgLEGS: 8.5kgCHEST: 5kgBACK: 7.5kgBICEPS: 3.5kgTRICEPS: … Continue reading →

Saturday I experienced the worst thing I have ever chosen to put myself through… the mighty deerstalker.  Advertised as 10k and a bit… it was 8.67 miles of hell.    We started off running up along a flat grass bit … Continue reading →

After the half marathon my legs felt ok.  My calves were a little tight, but other than that I felt good. (if just a little bit tired).   So my week went like this:   MON: BodyPump – 300 cals … Continue reading →

I’ll try and update this as much as I can… the last week or so has been hectic… I haven’t updated it since I completed the Balloch the Clydebank Half Marathon…so here goes…   I got up early on the … Continue reading →

On Saturday I did a longish easy run… I was running with a friend who has hurt her IT band, so I didn’t mind how fast we went, as long as she didn’t hurt!  We ended up doing 6.5 miles … Continue reading →