Monday September 5th - how did it get to be September already?  A work day from 8 am til 9 pm - no training, but I did sign up at the gym (at 7.30am!).  I think maybe I do need to some strength work to shift my muscle / fat ratio a little.  And I am hoping that 9 weeks out can make a difference, and is not too little too late.  I'll do a 4 week trial.  If I think it isn't any good for me, I'll stop.  

Tuesday - Sprint session - 2 sets of 4 x 400m at 4.00 pace with 90 sec recovery, and 150 sec between sets.  I did ok.  Not awesome consistency - I haven't managed that at all yet.  I am a bit worried about next weeks session - the program says I am meant to 'sprint' for 1 mile, then for 2 miles, then for 2 x 800m.  I can't run anywhere near that fast for 1000m, let alone 3200m.  So my mental battle will be to try to keep faster than 10k pace fullstop.

Wednesday - First gym session.  Up bright and early, and in there by 5.45 am.  The program I am trying is a single set of 8 - 10 exercises performed really slowly to muscle 'failure' ie so I couldn't do another rep.  This being the first session, I was a little conservative, and finding my way around the gym.  It is pretty well equipped, and not too busy at that time of day ;)  The session only takes a little over 30 mins, some foam roller work, and back home for a shower and off to work before 8.  Easy!!

Thursday - 13km run at steady state on the program (well, 10k pace plus 40 secs (5.10/km), which makes it steady jogging).  I thought I'd give the gym a go - I haven't run on a treadmill, so I figured this would be a good session to try it out.  It sucks.  I have no consistency, the machine was slow to respond to my button pushing and it is deathly boring.  At least on the road I have fences to pass, traffic to watch for and routes to plot.  Hills to climb and to kick out the legs on.  Puddles to dodge. Not on the treadmill, facing the window, watching people trying to reverse parallel park (hahahahaha).  But, I did it, then 15 mins on the versa climber, just to get a bit sweaty (why would you put the sweatiest piece of machinery in the middle of the big room, furthest away from the fans?).  A good session, then walked home (very close gym!). 

Preggie class stretch out in the evening - just in time for my second weight session tomorrow!!

Friday - off to the gym at 5 am again.  Not doing so many of the arm weights that the program says - after seeing myself in the mirror, I don't need bigger traps, deltoids nor biceps, no sir - rie!!

Saturday - Up bright and early again for my long run.  19 km today, so it is actually my shortest long run for a little while.  I did the same route as a couple of weeks ago, listening to similar podcasts and feeling good.  Only a few hours later, however, I was not feeling good.  A very heavy productive cough appeared, and walking to Kensington to see Charlie and the 2 older kids left me exhausted and breathless.  Home for a snooze (for 3 hours) and a quiet evening with 11 hours in bed overnight, and I was feeling brighter.

Sunday - yoga.  And then weights in the late afternoon while Charlie made lasagne for the kids dinner.  Not 100% well, but no where near as bad as yesterday.