The Croydon Half Marathon

Strength training

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Tuesday 8th January 2019

This afternoon when I woke I was pleased to see my weight was down by 3.2lbs. I know they say you should not weigh yourself daily and obviously my weight will fluctuate each day but I enjoy it. I find when I weigh myself weekly it’s too easy to snack midweek with the thought “oh I will burn it of”. If I weigh myself every day just after getting out of bed then its a constant reminder to stay out of that cookie jar! Not that I eat cookies but you get the point.

I started my day off with a quick strength training session before breakfast, I have a great app on my phone which has an interval timer, 7 exercises, 30 seconds each then a short 30 second ish break, reset app and repeat – job done. (Planks, Press-ups, bridges, Forward lunges (with dumbbells), squats (with dumbbells), chin-ups and lastly dips). 

No run until Wednesday so eay day for me.

I cooked Cottage pie with savoy cabbage and cauliflower for dinner which was delicious but I ate too much as usual 😦

 

First day of new training plan :)

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This is the first day of my training for the The Croydon Half Marathon.

I was given a turbo trainer a while back and this morning I got to try it out for the first time – it was good fun. The workout was only 45 minutes but a great start to my half marathon training. I found a really fun video on YouTube simulating cycle training by CTXCvideos (https://youtu.be/zSFYRiqodvU), I put my laptop on the table in front of my bike and watched it while doing my workout. My internet dropped 3 times during the workout which was not great and my gear cable got really slack so lost part of my gears for the last 15 minutes but something to work on for next time. There are lots of other videos on YouTube as well so I will try more each week 🙂

Woke up this afternoon and official weight was 10 lbs heavier than I want so another goal to work on over the next 12 weeks…………STAY OUT OFF COOKIE JAR!!!!!!!

For last years Marathon training I did so little cross training so I am hoping to change that this year, We shall see 🙂