Week 24 Training log

Bad Cards

I was asked to add something on my blog about the effects of fitness on things like concentration and quick thinking.
This happened after a family get together for my sons 8th birthday. As usual at these events the night turns into a game of cards. It was noticed by some of the players that my concentration levels were no as they often are. How this was noticed defeats me, for I have the attention span of a young goldfish....What was that.. oh yeah as I was saying, I have the attention span of a young goldfish, mmm what mmmm, apple crumble, oh yeah, I have the attention span of a... er, of a..er. gold thingy, and that's on a good day.
It was assumed therfore that any gain in fitness obviously effects your goldfish, I mean concentration.
Any way they said that this information should be passed on to others who may also be suffering from goldfish...er oh sod it.

A bit of a build up week leading up to christmas with just under six hours training in total. After being Ill for the week before, it was wise to go from the bottom again and work up. I was busy wth work as well last week which probably helped to keep the traning down, otherwise I may have over done it in my first week back.

Three steady runs, one of which was extremly wet were enough to maintain the fitness and keep the legs moving.
Started doing sprint sets in swimming. Now, I was begining to think that my swim fitness was getting pretty good. That was untill i tried 200 metre sprints on a time. Oh my god how wrong was I. I was huffing and blowing through any hole I could find, and on completion of my first 200 set I had only thirty seconds rest before going again. I managed four before finding myself with no recovery time at all.
I'm not disclosing the times involved here out of embarrassment as my ten year old daughter can do the same thing for a lot longer in almost half the time.

I'm ending this week with some praise. Not for myself, but for Wiggle. The company I bought my wet suit from. You may remember from a week ago that I was having trouble with the wetsuit fitting.
Well dispite the fact that the thirty day returns date had passed and the suit had been used, Wiggle aggreed to change the suit for a larger size. I haven't had a swim in it yet, but just trying it on it feels so much better without being too big, I'de say just right. Nice one Wiggle.

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