Boring update

Another trip out to Scolty on the mountain bike last Sunday, followed by another expensive trip to the bike shop. Chain gave up and took the whole of the rear mech, and hanger with it as it departed.

This week in the gym has been similarly up and down. Tuesday I managed to clock my best session so far in the gym, following up a 30min 5k with 9.6miles in 30mins on the exercise bike.  Then Wednesday I could barely run at all and had to bail on the treadmill at 1.1 miles and the bike at 20 mins and less than 5 miles. Today was then a mix of both, clocking by far my best run with a 27:15, 5k but then collapsed mid-interval on the bike at 15mins when my heart rate hit 200 even though I was pushing less than 160watts.

This week totals up at 7.5 miles run in over 75 mins and 18.5 miles on the bike in 68mins.  In the same week last year I racked up over 32 miles just running.

Not really sure why I am bothering with the gym. I have only ever done any training for a reason and at the minute I don't really have one. I don't enjoy it. I don't like the numbers. Still it is saving me from going home and sitting in front of the TV for a few hours a week and it isn't making me any worse. 

Final news on the numbers front up to 76kg. At least 4 weeks of gym has helped to start moving that in the right direction. Still nearly a stone underweight so plenty more to go. 

On the non-numbers front, I managed to go to the Co-op on my own to pick up bread and milk for my granny. I say 'on my own' but I had Dexter and Holly as far as the door and I could still see them from inside the shop.

2012 - Three weeks, three runs

Haven't posted for three weeks. Would love to claim it is because of the hectic life I have been leading but really it is because I have done nothing worth writing about.

And three runs is a bit of an exaggeration as well. Made three trips to the gym this week. It is in the office at work so no risk from going outside.

In those three sessions I have managed to rack up the sum total of 6.1 miles on the treadmill in a little over an hour. Not even 10k, split over 3 sessions. By this time last year I was at 86 miles, including 3 races, plus another 19 miles on the bike (9.8 this year) and 3 miles in the water (1.4 this year).

Eating junk for the last 7 months and those three trips to the gym have finally helped me put another kilo back on. I am back up to 73kg now, still about 9kg below where I should be, and 11kg below where I was.

Broke Bike Mountain

Relatively good start to the year having been out today to visit my granny and I got out on the mountain bike with a couple of friends for a while.

Mountain biking is turning into an expensive hobby. Only the third time out on the bike and it will require yet another trip to the shop for new parts. Broken front mech this time. Still cant figure out how it broke. It is a relatively protected component so it can't have hit it on rocks or roots.

The bike shop website says they are open tomorrow, so hopefully will manage to take it in and get it fixed before going back to work. Will probably need to find someone to go with me though. Yesterday's solo trip to the local shop, even though I drove the quarter mile there and back, resulted in a couple of hours of being sick and the subsequent dehydration left me this morning with a New Year's hangover today without any of the drinking jolliness.

Still another couple of days to fill in before going back to work. Running out of books to read, films to watch and more than sick of holiday TV. The bike shop should fill an hour worth of tomorrow but could do with the distractions of being back at work.

New Year, New Blog

So 2011 stands without a doubt, challenge or contest as the worst year of my life.

While I am still far from being back to my normal self, December at least saw some fairly major progress in that direction. In the spirit of New Years, new starts and all that nonsense I have decided to begin a new blog.

Let us see what 2012 brings then...