Bill’s Training Blog

It’s the weekend and the temptation to be slothful raises its head. My intake yesterday wasn’t bad but it wasn’t strictly diet focused. So I need to up the exercise. (I’m blogging from bed so what does that tell you?)

Exercise yesterday was good though:

• 4km run/walk
• 800m swim

The swimming effort seems to continue to burn well after the exercise has ceased so that is great.

My aerobic capacity isn’t what it should be so the swimming is to help my breathing when I run, apart from the obvious health improvement effects.

I only do breast stroke too, as I can’t seem to sustain the freestyle style for very long. How weak is that? I’m trying to get in a lap of freestyle every now and then (a lap is only 25m!) and eventually be able to swim doing freestyle only. There’s still 10 months to the triathlon so I should be able to achieve that.

What I am noticing is the running is becoming easier and I hope that in the next couple of weeks I’ll be able to jog the whole 4kms without stopping or walking at any stage.

So, as I said in a previous post, I need to think less, do more and enjoy the effects of being healthier.

Oh, one other thing I have noticed … I’m sleeping better. I’ll tell you more about this a little later but suffice to say I was in danger of suffering from sleep apnea. I’m not saying the problem is over but I can’t remember the last time I got two nights of uninterrupted sleep like I just have. Heaven!

Bill

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