Possible Leg Injury

The old right leg's flaring up again after footy this evening. I'll see how it is in the morning.

Hopefully it's just because I've only been back in to football for three weeks and the longer I play, the less sore it will be. Fingers crossed. Can't be bothered to be injured.

After Work Run Update

I'm now into my third week of running 3km after work and I'm loving it. It's cold and wet right now, but I'm really seeing through that and focusing on the run. Run after run, I've pushed myself to try and do more and more and yesterday, I finally managed the whole thing. I was worried today that I wouldn't be able to do it again, but I did.

I'm hoping things stay like that, but as the week goes on, I tend to feel more rundown. The best performances tend to happen at the beginning of the week.

I'm really pleased that I've shaved over three minutes of the time too.

All that's left is to keep at it and get quicker.

Latest 5km Run

I was very bitter this weekend because I woke up on Saturday with a fierce shooting pain in my leg, resulting in me hobbling around. This meant I could not complete this month's 5km run. I'm extra peeved because the snow in December meant I missed that one too. In terms of me running a 5km race every month, this is not cool.

The good thing was that I managed to sleep it off (don't ask!) so I still fitted in my weights session.

This puts me in the dilemma of now either running two runs in February (I'm busy this weekend), or sticking another one at the end of the year, which following the snow, I've already done.

I'm inclined to do two runs in Feb, but watch this space, I'll get back to you on that.

This Morning's Workout

Well I woke up this morning with a slight bit of pain in my right leg today following football last night, but it's nothing serious.

Anyway, on to the main point, I did NOT manage to do my weights session this morning. This wasn't because of football, because apart from the slight pain, I felt full of energy and ready to go. It was in fact because of some family issues I had last night. I didn't get to bed til late and as you might know, as part of all of this healthy living, eight hours of sleep a night is a must. I basically had eight hours sleep and had to get up and go straight to work.

It's not a total write-off though. As I mentioned before, I'm aiming to rest on the weekends, so I've rested to day and will rest one day on the weekend, which leaves my 5km run weights session on the same day. I'll still get two days rest and quite a bit of exercise in. Sorted.

Footy Tonight

Playing football tonight and I'm not feeling as run down as I was last week so that's a good thing. It's a big test tonight because last week after my first football session in about five months, it took about three days to recover and I had to to take the day off exercising.

I've got a weights session tomorrow and I don't want to miss it. We'll see what happens in the morning.

Next 5km Run

I did mention in my last post that I was going to aim for four runs this week, but I totally forgot I've got a 5km run coming up this weekend. So what I've done is three 3km runs over the past three days, football tomorrow and instead of a run on Friday, I'll count the 5km run as my fourth run of the week.

I'm not looking forward to it at all. I don't think I've done a full 5km since late NOVEMBER!

Gulp.

So far, so good!

The 3km run after work makes me full of energy! Feeling good about it so far.

The time it's taking me is coming down too, so that can't be bad.

Two more runs this week and a nice, long rest on the weekend.