Wed 30th Nov '22
For someone who says the numbers on the scales aren't the be all and end all, I'm pretty fucking obsessed with the numbers on the scales! This morning I got my lowest number since I started blogging on 12 Sept, when I was 172.4lb. Today I was 162.6lb. That's decent! I'm happy. Getting close to a stone off.
It was my club 800s interval session at the track tonight. Damn, that was tough. Twice round the track is soul sucking. Hard enough to go round once, while you're fresh, but it's hell to know you've got another lap to do. (Imagine doing a track 10,000m! That'stwebty-five fucking laps!) On top of that Coach wanted me to do 4 mins 40 secs per interval. I wasn't sure I could attain that, but thought I could give it a decent shot. However. As my bad planning would have it, it looked like my Garmin was out of charge, so it was a no no for tonight. Well damn! My Samsung is no good as a running watch except for basics. It's definately no good for intervals. It was my only option, and just marginally better than nothing. It turns out, the Garmin might have had enough charge, it was just that the battery indictor showed as empty. When I plugged the watch in to charge, it was saying 47%. I might have to send it away to be looked at. The long and the short of it is, I have no proper stats to give Coach in my run report.
The session was a good news, bad news situation. Good news, I ran the session, I ran faster than if I was on a full on run, and I managed to do four reps in the twenty-five minutes. Recovery was full standing recovery, no jogging or walking it out, standing still for half the time it took to do the 800m. Bad news is, as inaccurate as my timing was tonight, I reckon it took me five mins or a litttle longer to complete each rep. Well short of what Coach wanted. So i pass because I ran the intervals, I get an epic fail on pace. Blah! I went, I ran. I'm happy with that.
Food was good today. Porridge bars for breakfast, raw stuff for lunch, veg soup after club. I snacked on tinned lentils sprinkled with nutritional yeast before club. Hey! Don't knock it till you've tried it. It gives me the savoury hit that I want and staves off hunger before running, without being too heavy.
All in all, a good day. And marcothon starts tomorrow. I'll explain that then. Ah, a cliffhanger! Mwah ha haaa!
