So today’s gym work-out didn’t go as expected. I did my walk for a warm up as planned and did my 12.5k cycle as planned – sort of. I say “sort of” because I didn’t plan on it taking as long (30 minutes 47 seconds) nor did I anticipate my knee hurting loads in the middle of it all. I’m somewhat annoyed with myself for taking so long to get through 12.5k as it shows how unfit I have let myself get…again! To put things in perspective, way back in January when I was starting out with all this, or not too long after anyway, I managed 11.5k in 25 minutes which means that 1km took me 5 minutes and 47 seconds over my January pace. Not at all amused! I am, however, determined to get this down as time progresses. I’m hoping that before Christmas I can have that time down to sub-8 minutes!
So aside from the cycling not quite going as planned, the weights machines were really busy so I fit in what I could and did some core work too. Got really tired and probably burned somewhere in the region of 500 calories in that hour. Not bad going.
Not quite feeling finished for the night, before my bath I did some bicep curls at home. It’s only about 12Kg weight, but I did it to the point where I couldn’t go any more with it on each arm. My right one got 22 on the first set, 18 on the second. My left got 19 on the first set, but only 11 on the second. I wonder how that improves over the coming weeks. Tie will tell!
