After the birthday celebrations of the weekend really wanted to hit the ground running on Monday and get in another solid week of training. Unfortunately, Monday had the worst possible start, as finishing work late I couldn’t manage to make it to the spinning class for 6. Marky B was also still feeling his knee so missed spinning and was called to coach some junior hockey so we decided to move the gym session to the next day. Tuesday we headed for the gym and did our Monday session but no cardio!
Wednesday I played footy as normal but as there were a few of the hockey guys who couldn’t make squash this was my only cardio fitness work for the entire week! Hockey training on Thursday was a no-go too and called off as only 4 people turned up! Bit of a crazy week seems that everything is getting called off all over the show! Trying to leave it to my self motivation is not a good idea, although I love the training I know I need more self motivation and really need to pick it up when things aren’t all organised! To finish the working week I had a work do out on Friday night at 7, but I was absolutely determined to at least get to the gym and do the standard workout on beforehand so at least I managed that one!
Pretty busy weekend in flat, sorting all sorts of DIY out and took me hours screwing rusted nails out of concrete to sort out my shed as trying to put a punchbag up! What a nightmare! Hockey match Saturday afternoon and a repeat of the bad-tempered derby of a few weeks ago! Not as bad tempered, but not a good result going down 3-0. To be fair we were outplayed by a better 3rd team and they fully deserved victory but it was just frustrating conceding 2 goals in 5 crazy minutes at the start of the second half! Unfortunately I took a hit to the knee in the game which was giving me a bit of trouble but I can’t let it stop me from my Sunday walk……Saturday night was probably the most fitness I had done all week on the dance floor as I went out for a “rubix cube” party, which involved wearing multicoloured clothes and swapping until you are all one colour! Was shattered!
On Sundays we’ve been concentrating a lot on training for the Parish Walk, and the last 4 walks we’ve done have been all on road. Obviously this is great training for the walk but I was getting a little concerned about the balance between road walking in trainers and going uphill in mountain boots! We therefore decided to climb up Snaefell for a bit of “altitude” training haha (all 2,036 feet)! The only problem was that we didn’t know the way or the best place to climb from! We drove out of Douglas, straight to Laxey and had no clue where to go so found the mountain road (via Ramsey!!!!) and headed up from there. If wasn’t the usual route up (we decided it was steeper!) and to be honest we didn’t actually know we were on Snaefell until we saw the tram lines at the top! It was just a big hill so we decided to climb it!
Although it picked up towards the end of the week I definitely need to pull my finger out and find my motivation from somewhere!
Dave.
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