Marathon Training – Day 25

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:03:54 +0000

Dosed up to my eyeballs on Rubex for Vitamin C and all sorts of other goood shit to try and shift this bloody cold, and (said he looking for sympathy) having had a rubbish night sleep in the spare room because I couldn’t stop coughing, I headed to the squash courts for a run-around this afternoon. I spent 45 minutes chasing around after my own shots and got a good cardio workout in the process. I have to say, I did a few court-lenght (as in, not very long) sprints while I was in there and I wasn’t able for it at all.

It’s bizarre that you might be able to cycle 7km then do 20 minutes on a cross trainer with relative easy, to the point where you don’t think you’re dying, but if you sprint the lenght of a squash court 5 times in quick succession, it feels like you might, in all truth, keel over and die!!

Thankfully, I didn’t keel over and die. In fact I summoned up the fortitude to go the swimming pool afterwards and turn in a few lengths. To be fair, probably only about 15, at which point I thought my breast stroking arms were about to fall off, but heck, it all counts!!

That’s well over an hour of good solid continuous exercise, which is good enough for me! Bring on Day 26…

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Marathon Training – Day 25