First spin class of the year…
The regular instructor was on vacation making for an interesting time with the stand-in. Not a bad time, just interesting.
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This morning was the first day in the gym, or doing anything healthy since Christmas (do sports on the Wii count?).
I’ve been trying to mix it up a bit, but haven’t got into a good groove yet since the move, with straight cardio 2 days a week (morning spin class) and the other 3 days being about a 60/40 split of weights/cardio.
Since I’m off work this week I had a bit more time than normal so tagged some extra cardio on at the end. The beginning and middle wasn’t any new, but the end was a bit different to what I normally do.
I started out with 25 mins on the eliptical thing (Precor Adaptive Motion Trainer to give it the fancy name) keeping my heart rate right at 130. Then was about 30-35 mins weights - back, shoulders and arms today.
Finally I decided to do some running on the treadmill. I’ve never been a fan of running and generally don’t do much of it but with my plan to do a duathlon in a couple of months I figured I better get my a$$ in gear and get used to doing some.
This is where things get interesting. I’ve given some thought to the distances involved in the duathlon, 2 miles running, 10 miles cycling, 2 miles running and figured that sounded like about an hour, not including transitions.
Then I started to think about what that meant. 10 miles @ 20mph on the bike is doable, especially given the flat roads round these here parts, giving 30 mins biking. That meant the 4 miles of running would take up the other 30 mins.
For someone who does a lot of running a 7:30/mile pace is probably nothing impressive, but I don’t do much running. This morning I did 1.5 miles at 9:00/mile pace and that was not as easy as I had hoped. Either it’s time to rethink my goal, or work a the running part to get my speed and endurance closer to where I want to be.
TBC…
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Just part of the morning routine. 35 mins cardio at the gym!
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40 mins on the stationary bike followed by 20 mins of weights.
Personal trainer time tomorrow…should be interesting!
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Well, today was the first piece of exercise Ive been able to fit in since relocating cross-country.
I joined a gym last week, but then spent the next few days ill, so finally got there for the first time. I was a bit disjointed this morning for other reasons so only managed a 1/2 hour on the rower then bailed out.
This is the first time I’ve been in a gym since I was 23 I think…I turned 32 last week.
I’ll be back at it in the morning, all going well I’ve put in a better effort.
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After days of snow, wind, rain, etc and no real way to go out for a ride I went for one indoors again.
I also had a cold for several days there too, so I have all the excuses covered!
Anyway, just 45mins in my target zone with the 4 year old firing his Buzz Lightyear missiles at me…not a great workout, but better than nothing!
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not much else to say really!
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Didn’t get on the bike today…sadly, it was a glorious day!
Mother-in-law is coming for Thanksgiving so helped get things straightened up for the arrival!
Tomorrow I am going to try and get some miles in…we shall see…
I did a breif half hour on the indoor bike which was decent. Similar story to a couple of days ago and I’m sure a similar story on several winter days to come!
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