Whoaaaaaa!!! What’s happening?
I’m just back from a great 7 days in Sydney - looking out for a new place to live at the end of the year. Fabulous place.
The wheel has completely fallen off my running though - I feel really pissed off with myself. I had been having a few niggles (sore knee, dodgy stomach virus) but I could definitely have got myself back on track sooner than now.
My reasons/excuses for not running more in the last 2 weeks are:
- The week leading up to when I went away was totally filled up with work and prep for leaving (4 kids to be left with grandparents needs a lot of prep!) - I can forgive myself that week because it was really unusually busy.
- The week while I was away - I took my trainers and Nike+ but I didn’t manage to get off my arse to do a run. We were really busy throughout the whole week - it wasn’t a holiday - it was a mission to find out everything about living in Sydney. However, if I am being honest with myself I could easily have squeezed in a couple of good runs. We did lots of good walking though!
So all in all I’m pretty annoyed at myself and know I could have done better.
What is frustrating as well is that while I was there I met up with Pete (an old friend from Uni) and he has done a great job of losing weight. He has spent the last 5 months with a personal trainer 3 times a week and has lost around 15KG. Down from 85KG to 70KG. He looks great on it too - it takes years off him. I was really jealous but really inspired at the same time. Here’s how he did it:
- He worked 6-7am Mon/Wed/Fri with his trainer and did an array of fat burning exercises. On Tues/Thurs/Sat he spent that hour running.
- He cut out lots of carbs from his diet and completely banned them after 3pm.
All sounds pretty simple doesn’t it. He lost all the weight he wanted to but he isn’t ‘ripped’ in terms of muscle. That is his next challenge.
So - today I’m researching personal trainers to see if I can follow the same model. I’ll let you know how I get on.
By the way, I weighed myself this morning and I was down to 92KG - that is really reassuring. I’m still losing a little weight each week despite my crap running. Just think what I could do if I kept my running on track!