Someone sent me a link today to a site called one hundred push ups that has a training schedule and some handy notes for you to improve ypur technique and obviously build up to 100. I thought that I would start with the test after a 20 minute warm up run on the treadmill in the hotel.
I was starting to feel it at 18 and had to quit at 27 (the test is designed to point you to which workout program to follow). I am going to give it a couple of days but I have printed off my push up routine for the week, pasted it into my diary and am keen to get started.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Treadmill keeps on turning
This week I am in Jakarta, Indonesia. The gym in this hotel is pretty good and have a bunch of treadmills that look out over a garden with a nice pool. When I got to the hotel tonight I thought I would get down there and have a run. Pretty happy with 10k in 59 minutes with an average bpm of 141.
The hotel is in a fairly respectable part of Jakarta and the gym is open for public membership meaning that it is a very mixed crowd of westerners there for business, westerners who live in JKT and locals. Funny that a whatever their nationality a Muscle Mary is a Muscle Mary wherever you go. I actually wanted to laugh out loud at one point in my run at the absurd noises coming from muscle mary A to muscle mary B at the bench press - that coupled with the words of "motivational wisdom" really were enough to keep my distracted enough to log the miles and go home with a smile.
I still have not decided on which races (if any) to complete this year but that will come.
The hotel is in a fairly respectable part of Jakarta and the gym is open for public membership meaning that it is a very mixed crowd of westerners there for business, westerners who live in JKT and locals. Funny that a whatever their nationality a Muscle Mary is a Muscle Mary wherever you go. I actually wanted to laugh out loud at one point in my run at the absurd noises coming from muscle mary A to muscle mary B at the bench press - that coupled with the words of "motivational wisdom" really were enough to keep my distracted enough to log the miles and go home with a smile.
I still have not decided on which races (if any) to complete this year but that will come.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Goals...
Today is a good day. I 'achieved' today. That is to say that I managed to close off a few important things from my to do list and move onto other less pressing, but have-been-waiting-longer things that have piled up. I like the sense of well-being i get when I feel like I have achieved. Doesn't really matter what it is or where I am, if i feel like i have completed something or added value to something, it really does lighten my day!
Speaking of, I got back on the treadmill last night and banged out a moderately paced 12k (just over an hour) and that too felt like achievement. My legs are a little tired today, and I know that I am still building back up my fitness but I knew that tonights plans meant that Wednesday would be workout free and I could push it a little. In my last post I said I would write a training calendar for myself. Well, I havent written a schedule yet, I thought it best to start with some goals. As I am feeling pretty good right now, I think I need to be honest, but not conservative, ambitious, but not wholly unrealistic. Therefore, in 2010:
Speaking of, I got back on the treadmill last night and banged out a moderately paced 12k (just over an hour) and that too felt like achievement. My legs are a little tired today, and I know that I am still building back up my fitness but I knew that tonights plans meant that Wednesday would be workout free and I could push it a little. In my last post I said I would write a training calendar for myself. Well, I havent written a schedule yet, I thought it best to start with some goals. As I am feeling pretty good right now, I think I need to be honest, but not conservative, ambitious, but not wholly unrealistic. Therefore, in 2010:
- I would like to run a 45 minute 10k
- I would like to reduce my marathon time to 3:45
- I would like to do a sprint tri in under 1:20
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Poor Start
I am a worrier.
At the moment, my worry is about my work-out routine. Why? I have no idea. Bizarrely enough I have done a couple of 1500m swims this year. I have run twice, both 5km, both under 25 minutes. I have also been and hit the gym hard twice. So what is there to worry about? All I know is that I dont feel like I am getting it right. It is probably because i am no where near the sirt of miles of was doing at the height of last years training and i am feeling withdrawl!
My solution. Do what the magazines and the blogs say to do. Pick a race or two at which I would like to climax this year and build a training schedule, in phases, building up to them. The Singapore Marathon is an obvious choice, but that is in December and is too far away for the first peak, so I will go away and think long and hard about the year and report back.
At the moment, my worry is about my work-out routine. Why? I have no idea. Bizarrely enough I have done a couple of 1500m swims this year. I have run twice, both 5km, both under 25 minutes. I have also been and hit the gym hard twice. So what is there to worry about? All I know is that I dont feel like I am getting it right. It is probably because i am no where near the sirt of miles of was doing at the height of last years training and i am feeling withdrawl!
My solution. Do what the magazines and the blogs say to do. Pick a race or two at which I would like to climax this year and build a training schedule, in phases, building up to them. The Singapore Marathon is an obvious choice, but that is in December and is too far away for the first peak, so I will go away and think long and hard about the year and report back.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Years (Un)Resolution
My first day back at work in 2010 and i am slightly ashamed to say that I have not done any real exercise yet this year. I set out with such great expectations, but the wedding we attended and the subsequent feasting in Sydney proved too much of a draw and I have am absolutely knackered as a result.
The flights there and back were uneventful, but Malaysia Airlines really doesn't have a patch on Singapore and I spent most of the flight in a grump as a result.
Sydney is a geat town. There are a lot of cool suburbs, excellent restaurants and gorgeous people everywhere. We saw runners, bikes, swimmers and surfers pretty much everywhere we went - lending themselves a very healthy atmosphere which I am sure would be pretty infectious if you lived there. I recently read that Australia has a higher level of obesity per capita than the US!? I am sure this might be true given the quality of the food and the seeming lack of portion-size control in restaurants. If it is, it was not evident in the suburbs of Sydney that we saw.
The flights there and back were uneventful, but Malaysia Airlines really doesn't have a patch on Singapore and I spent most of the flight in a grump as a result.
Sydney is a geat town. There are a lot of cool suburbs, excellent restaurants and gorgeous people everywhere. We saw runners, bikes, swimmers and surfers pretty much everywhere we went - lending themselves a very healthy atmosphere which I am sure would be pretty infectious if you lived there. I recently read that Australia has a higher level of obesity per capita than the US!? I am sure this might be true given the quality of the food and the seeming lack of portion-size control in restaurants. If it is, it was not evident in the suburbs of Sydney that we saw.
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