Now that my aerobic fitness and endurance is getting back to something better than awful aerobic fitness i decided it was time to start work again on lactic endurance. So this morning's work out ( Read more... )

I went running this morning. It's damp and a bit blustery so not ideal conditions but I did 3.2km in 18m10s. That works out at 5.7mins/km which isn't too bad. Lets put it this way, if I could run 5km in 25 minutes I would be delighted at this point. The bad news is that I am doing it in almost continual pain. It became very noticeable around ( Read more... )

A month ago the Nomads started inside training under the dome at St. Michael's College School. I missed the first three sessions; two due to illness and one due to opera, so I made the effort today. The damn thing had been double booked and we got bumped by a marching band, of all the unlikely things. We had the place for about half an hour so i ( Read more... )

I've got my first official referees' meeting tonight.  I'm not sure what that's all about but we shall see.  I'm also back on track at trying to build up my fitness.  I was making good progress when the first round of lurgy struck ten days ago.  I wasn't well all last week and I still have a cough and other assorted problems but I forced myself ( Read more... )

Partly because of the recurrent ankle problem and partly because of some interesting material about interval training that krustukles posted yesterday I decided to go back to a staircase routine for a bit. So, today 45 floors (mostly at a run) with each set punctuated with one of my shoulder exercises and twenty crunches. After the last set of stairs I did ( Read more... )

My shoulder is officially healed and I'm cleared to pay rugby again. Lorraine (my physio) made me put it through all kinds of range of motion both against resistance and while she applied as much pressure as she could to the joint. It's actually quite funny because although Lorraine is quite tall she is slight and probably doesn't weigh much more ( Read more... )

Weight now below 215 pounds for the first time in a year. That's roughly 20 pounds off since Thailand.