Bill’s Training Blog

Exercise Summary: 6.62 km in 40m 57s
This last week has been weird. It started a cold/flu which resulted in me taking drugs and going to bed early. The rest of the week was “okay” but I couldn’t shake the cold, something I ate didn’t agree with me and that made things worse but tolerable. I [...]

I know this morning’s post was a bit of a whinge. I think I had one of those moments where I saw myself slipping back into old habits and to be honest it scared me. I’ve lost 75% of what I plan to lose and I felt that, for no reason, I was slipping back [...]

Exercise Summary: 4.6km Run/Walk; no time recorded
The above summary says it all. Yesterday was not a good day on the road to health and fitness (pardon that godawful pun!). Sure, I went for the 4km run/walk and while that sounds good, I did it as an afterthought rather than as a planned activity.
You see, the [...]

Firstly, I think I may need to apologise for yesterday’s post on Rest. I re-read it last night and thought it turned out to be a bit preachy when all I wanted to post was that it was interesting that we need instructions on napping and that the world has a way of invading our [...]

Summary: 5km run in 23:56; MTD 48:49km (Target: 100km)
Life has definitely changed. There was a time, just a couple of months ago when I would crawl out of work, jump in the car and get home as fast as I could and have a nap. Yes, a nap. Sad but true. I didn’t sleep at [...]

Thanks to Joe Thorne over at Learning to Run I was “up and at ‘em” yesterday. I wanted to find some magic in my runs, rather than just complete the distance. So I grabbed the FBH and we headed for the coast. We’re about 17km inland in suburbia.
The run starts around 3km from Hillarys Boat [...]

It was partly due to not sticking to my diet.
It was partly due to looking for a prettier route.
It was partly to do with extending myself and building my stamina.
So I completed a 10km run around the bridges in Perth. It was a glorious day too. As the picture attests to. (though I take frickin’ [...]

This week has been a little weird. With the FBH going off for her 3 day break I thought I would be able to get into the running and swimming better if only because there was one less person to worry about.
WRONG!
I’ve only exercised 3 times this week and only twice after the last weigh [...]

I only slept okay last night. I went to bed at 10:00pm to start a routine about going to bed at the same time. I think I woke up around 3:30am and then 4:53am with an alarm time of 5:30am.
When the alarm finally did go off, I really didn’t feel like getting up. [...]

Perth-fect weather for a run!
Just back from a new run along West Coast Highway and it was great!

Run Distance: 6.02km
Run time: 31:34
Max Heart Rate: 164
Avg Heart Rate: 143

The benefit of this run is that it has quite a few more inclines than my regular run. The aim being that I need to be [...]