After all the fun of the snow last Sunday was feeling the pace on Monday and was completely knackered. Went spinning and the gym but couldn’t really get into it. Apparently after between 6-8 weeks of training is the danger time when you are most likely to get injured or burn yourself out. I’m just waiting for my second wind.....it’s taking its time!
Training kept going slowly, only managed a mile in the pool on Tuesday, followed by footy and squash on Wednesday where I was smashed all over the place. Cut my leg up at footy too sliding through the snow on astro-turf (what did I say about injuries?!?!) which was another excuse for my abject squash performance. Feeling the pace by Thursday I didn’t finish work until late so missed hockey training!
By the end of the working week I was definitely ready for the weekend, and when the spinning instructor didn’t show up for 5 mins I thought I was gonna be able to crawl back home. My hopes were dashed when she walked in though and after the last Friday spinning session and the gym I went back home for some well earned beers and watching the rugby with a couple of mates, completely shattered!
Early start Saturday for our hockey game in Peel but was a cracking match, managed to put 5 past a decent side, Dale Williams bagging a hat-trick (and had another unfairly disallowed!) Dale only plays well still drunk and is generally sweating guiness by half time so we knew he must have had a big night before! Spent Saturday afternoon sewing as was turning boiler suits into top gun outfits by sewing patches on! Thankfully the rugby was on too, don’t want to get too much in touch with my feminine side! Great 80s night out anyways for Dawse’s birthday and some great 80s outfits!
Finally for the big walk on Sunday…..Bratty came up at about 2, and the league cup final kicked off at 3 so both hungover we figured we’d watch a bit of the build up. Then the first 5 minutes. Well might as well see how the first half finishes. Oh and the half time analysis. Might as well see who wins. And the trophy presentation. Oh is Harry Hill on? etc. etc. etc until it got dark and wasn’t really worth the walk! Poor form and no excuses after a long week and a big night out the night before. It was even Man Utd I watched, as a Liverpool fan I must really not have wanted to go! Defo need to make up for it next week!
Dave.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Snow joke!
After four weeks of pretty solid training this was the first week that it went a little bit backwards!
With Marky B picking up a bug in the previous week it was up my own self motivation to get training hard, hence why the training went a bit backwards! Managed spinning and the gym on Monday, however Tuesday I didn’t go for a swim as it was the start of the Winter Olympics and I wanted to see how fellow manxie Zoe Gillings got on in the snowboard cross! As someone who has only tried skiing a couple of times I can only wonder how impossible it must be to carry those speeds on a snowboard on a difficult track, let alone with four other people bombing down next to you! In the end Zoe did brilliantly getting into the semi and it’s great to see someone really putting the rock on the map on a global scale!
Played footy and squash as usual on Wednesday, but as we didn’t have any hockey match on the Saturday, instead of Thursday training (some of) the hockey club decided to go on a ghost walk round Castletown! Was a good tour and there were some really interesting and gruesome stories, but as a cynic I have to say my favourite moment was the headless dog ghost whose existence cannot be proven as it can only be seen by other dogs!!
It’s amazing how quickly fitness leaves you and by the end of my Friday spinning session and gym I was absolutely knackered! Was really struggling with the spinning and had a severe case of couldn’t be bothered, I was all up for it but I hadn’t told my legs they were nooot interested! After struggling through spinning and the gym I went to the hydropool and sauna at the spa and it was only jumping in the freezing cold plunge pool that woke me up!
Again the weekend was pretty slack, Saturday I moved the rest of my stuff including beds etc. into the flat and sorted out a fair bit of my stuff. Went for a few quiet pints on Saturday night as I was shattered from the week’s non-exertions! Today we decided for our “big walk” we would go from my flat down Marine Drive, through Port Soderick and then walk back down South to Ronague. The only slight problem is that it had snowed overnight and there were no pavements for part of the way out of Douglas (especially around the Fairy Bridge). We were therefore dodging fast-moving traffic in the slush and although we managed to walk 12.5 miles on road it certainly wasn’t my most enjoyable walk and we do not intend to repeat it!
Luckily since the walk I’ve managed to not have too many flashbacks of traffic going 50mph on a freezing road tearing towards me!
Dave.
PS I appreciate the titles of these blogs are getting worse and worse.....
With Marky B picking up a bug in the previous week it was up my own self motivation to get training hard, hence why the training went a bit backwards! Managed spinning and the gym on Monday, however Tuesday I didn’t go for a swim as it was the start of the Winter Olympics and I wanted to see how fellow manxie Zoe Gillings got on in the snowboard cross! As someone who has only tried skiing a couple of times I can only wonder how impossible it must be to carry those speeds on a snowboard on a difficult track, let alone with four other people bombing down next to you! In the end Zoe did brilliantly getting into the semi and it’s great to see someone really putting the rock on the map on a global scale!
Played footy and squash as usual on Wednesday, but as we didn’t have any hockey match on the Saturday, instead of Thursday training (some of) the hockey club decided to go on a ghost walk round Castletown! Was a good tour and there were some really interesting and gruesome stories, but as a cynic I have to say my favourite moment was the headless dog ghost whose existence cannot be proven as it can only be seen by other dogs!!
It’s amazing how quickly fitness leaves you and by the end of my Friday spinning session and gym I was absolutely knackered! Was really struggling with the spinning and had a severe case of couldn’t be bothered, I was all up for it but I hadn’t told my legs they were nooot interested! After struggling through spinning and the gym I went to the hydropool and sauna at the spa and it was only jumping in the freezing cold plunge pool that woke me up!
Again the weekend was pretty slack, Saturday I moved the rest of my stuff including beds etc. into the flat and sorted out a fair bit of my stuff. Went for a few quiet pints on Saturday night as I was shattered from the week’s non-exertions! Today we decided for our “big walk” we would go from my flat down Marine Drive, through Port Soderick and then walk back down South to Ronague. The only slight problem is that it had snowed overnight and there were no pavements for part of the way out of Douglas (especially around the Fairy Bridge). We were therefore dodging fast-moving traffic in the slush and although we managed to walk 12.5 miles on road it certainly wasn’t my most enjoyable walk and we do not intend to repeat it!
Luckily since the walk I’ve managed to not have too many flashbacks of traffic going 50mph on a freezing road tearing towards me!
Dave.
PS I appreciate the titles of these blogs are getting worse and worse.....
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Moving times!
Busy busy busy week!
Started off with a very strange spinning session as our usual “slave-driver” Greta was away, followed by a session at the gym. I then managed to do my second decent 2 mile swim in a row on Tuesday, I’m trying to vary what I do and I find swimming stretches all the muscles better than any other exercise, I’ve always loved the feeling of being in water nothing beats it!
Things then picked up on Wednesday with a shattering night, played 7-a-side footy in St John’s for an hour, followed by going straight to the gym at 7:15 for another hour. Then down to the NSC for squash with the hockey guys at 8:30!! Certainly slept well on Wednesday night was knackered!
Thursday I had some great news, not only did my spangly new trainers arrive (and actually fit) but I finally managed to get the keys for my flat! This was meant to be sorted by Christmas, but it has been delayed again and again due to various problems, windows with no planning permission etc. etc. etc. Buying a house is definitely one of the most stressful things you can do!!!! Still, it was fantastic to finally get in there but the only problem was I missed hockey training because I was packing my life up to move! I figured after an epic Wednesday I could afford to have a night off, but it was almost as tiring sorting my stuff out!
Finished the working week with another spinning session on Friday and then spent my first night at the flat. I’d like to claim it was cold weather training for Kilimanjaro to sleep in the freezing cold flat but in truth I couldn’t get the bloody heater working!! The weekend was pretty chilled out, trying to sort things out at the flat and played a shocker at hockey on Saturday, went 2-0 down in the first half because could barely see the ball against the blinding sun! Managed to win the second half but went down 2-1 in a game I didn’t feel we were second best.
Valentine’s day on Sunday, had a very romantic day by walking down Marine Drive then back round to Douglas with Marky B and then bought some stuff for the flat! We managed to resist the temptation to hold hands but looked very gay looking round B & Q on Valentine’s day!
End of another busy week but at least I had a freezing cold flat to put my feet up in on Sunday night!
Dave.
Started off with a very strange spinning session as our usual “slave-driver” Greta was away, followed by a session at the gym. I then managed to do my second decent 2 mile swim in a row on Tuesday, I’m trying to vary what I do and I find swimming stretches all the muscles better than any other exercise, I’ve always loved the feeling of being in water nothing beats it!
Things then picked up on Wednesday with a shattering night, played 7-a-side footy in St John’s for an hour, followed by going straight to the gym at 7:15 for another hour. Then down to the NSC for squash with the hockey guys at 8:30!! Certainly slept well on Wednesday night was knackered!
Thursday I had some great news, not only did my spangly new trainers arrive (and actually fit) but I finally managed to get the keys for my flat! This was meant to be sorted by Christmas, but it has been delayed again and again due to various problems, windows with no planning permission etc. etc. etc. Buying a house is definitely one of the most stressful things you can do!!!! Still, it was fantastic to finally get in there but the only problem was I missed hockey training because I was packing my life up to move! I figured after an epic Wednesday I could afford to have a night off, but it was almost as tiring sorting my stuff out!
Finished the working week with another spinning session on Friday and then spent my first night at the flat. I’d like to claim it was cold weather training for Kilimanjaro to sleep in the freezing cold flat but in truth I couldn’t get the bloody heater working!! The weekend was pretty chilled out, trying to sort things out at the flat and played a shocker at hockey on Saturday, went 2-0 down in the first half because could barely see the ball against the blinding sun! Managed to win the second half but went down 2-1 in a game I didn’t feel we were second best.
Valentine’s day on Sunday, had a very romantic day by walking down Marine Drive then back round to Douglas with Marky B and then bought some stuff for the flat! We managed to resist the temptation to hold hands but looked very gay looking round B & Q on Valentine’s day!
End of another busy week but at least I had a freezing cold flat to put my feet up in on Sunday night!
Dave.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Less slacking more sloccing!!!!
Am getting a bit slack at these blogs am going to try to put some time aside for them each week Marky B is tearing ahead with his!
Training-wise this week it has been pretty consistent and I'm definitely feeling the effects of the training in a good way, the hill up to my house has never been less daunting! I'm even still running at hockey after 10 minutes of the match (although hitting the ball is still proving to be a problem!) The mixed season has now started which has been a good laugh, although after starting with a good win up in Ramsey we were beaten yesterday by our 3rd team in a very bad tempered derby match in which our captain was sent off and one or two of us were lucky not to get our marching orders.....not good form!
We're also trying to incorporate longer walks into the training schedule, and as the nights start to get lighter we will try to walk on a Tuesday after work and then a long walk on Sunday. I'm also trying to include squash on a Wednesday night with the hockey lads into the schedule, which is meaning pretty much cardio every day, is gonna be a killer!
After walking up the sloc last week we then repeated the exercise today but when walking back through Ronague we went left instead of right and down the Ballabeg straight round to Gansey, which turned out to be a 14.4 mile walk, the longest we've done! I’m looking into ordering some half decent trainers to try to not put too much pressure on my joints on the road. It’s quite a difficult balance training for both because as Kili is going to be uphill in boots, the Parish walk will be all on road with trainers. Trying to make sure we do enough of both to make it is gonna be another challenge but I guess we've just got to try and do as much as possible of both!
Finally I've just got to say I almost didn't make it to the longest walk of the training so far because I was out dressed as a cow with an entire herd the night before, was a hilarious night! Nearly even did the sloc dressed as a cow but just wasn't in the mooooooood!
Dave.
Training-wise this week it has been pretty consistent and I'm definitely feeling the effects of the training in a good way, the hill up to my house has never been less daunting! I'm even still running at hockey after 10 minutes of the match (although hitting the ball is still proving to be a problem!) The mixed season has now started which has been a good laugh, although after starting with a good win up in Ramsey we were beaten yesterday by our 3rd team in a very bad tempered derby match in which our captain was sent off and one or two of us were lucky not to get our marching orders.....not good form!
We're also trying to incorporate longer walks into the training schedule, and as the nights start to get lighter we will try to walk on a Tuesday after work and then a long walk on Sunday. I'm also trying to include squash on a Wednesday night with the hockey lads into the schedule, which is meaning pretty much cardio every day, is gonna be a killer!
After walking up the sloc last week we then repeated the exercise today but when walking back through Ronague we went left instead of right and down the Ballabeg straight round to Gansey, which turned out to be a 14.4 mile walk, the longest we've done! I’m looking into ordering some half decent trainers to try to not put too much pressure on my joints on the road. It’s quite a difficult balance training for both because as Kili is going to be uphill in boots, the Parish walk will be all on road with trainers. Trying to make sure we do enough of both to make it is gonna be another challenge but I guess we've just got to try and do as much as possible of both!
Finally I've just got to say I almost didn't make it to the longest walk of the training so far because I was out dressed as a cow with an entire herd the night before, was a hilarious night! Nearly even did the sloc dressed as a cow but just wasn't in the mooooooood!
Dave.
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