Sigh…

So this is how the schedule breaks down.

I’ve already been naughty. I missed last night’s cycle ride because I was, frankly, shagged, although I’m taking their word on the whole building up to the morning runs by taking the next couple of weeks to reset my body clock.

I am not a morning person.

The swim sessions are being split so that two of them are 1500m freestyle, with a goal of finally getting 30mins or under for the distance. The other two are ‘lighter’ (really?) and drop 250 – 500m but replace those 250 – 500m of straight freestyle with 250 – 500m freestyle wearing fish fingers.

That hurts, actually, especially from length 14.

Monday night gym is going to be mostly upper body work. I’ve discovered there are free weights, but I need another induction. The only induction time is 09:30 on a Tuesday morning (how daft is that?), but I’ve blagged the phone number of the guy who does it so I can arrange a different session. Wednesday night is going to be a lighter session, I hope, but it depends on what’s on offer in the free weights room. Also we’re moving in the next two weeks, and I may join Body Zone in Kirkcaldy on the recommendation of some gym nut Munky knows. So the gym thing is a work in progress.

The evening cycling sessions are around about 30 miles on the flat route or a 20 mile hilly route. I’m not in the gym tonight owing to work commitments, so I’ll be going out on the bike instead.

The run we have at the moment is just under 4 miles according to Gmaps Pedometer, but obviously that’s going to change when we move, especially as we may move before the morning runs kick in to the programme. Those are 4 miles of hilly off-road tracks.

Sunday rides so far are 50 – 80 miles.

Alcohol intake has been banned Sunday – Thursday. Only I might break that rule tonight because I have the next two days off to go flat hunting and if I interpret the spirit of the rule I’m now on the weekend with it not being a school night. I have a set of Tanita Body Composition Scales so I can keep a check on how über-buff I’m getting.

That should keep me amused for a while. Until I keel over and start meeping anyway.

I tell you, if I start feeling that my boobs are losing out unacceptably, I’m calling it quits. I like my boobs.

Go to Foska and open the photo albums.

See how many people you can recognise.

Is that Fixed Wheelnut I espy? That’s certainly the The League‘s very own librarian, Mrs Pike, in the “Foska Photos” pic on the home page wearing the marmite shirt.

Can someone recommend me a protein supplement for post-workout? Has to be animal protein — humour me. The techs say I can’t process vegetable protein. The only support I have for this particular piece of craziness is that while mixing meat with carbs (especially rice) makes me as sick as a chocolate-stuffed dog (ha!) I can mix vegetable protein with carbs — e.g. tofu with rice — without worrying about it.

I’m not too good with milk, although I can handle plain yoghurt, if that makes a difference. And if I have to do this sad and freakish thing I wanna free something to come with. Like a t-shirt (if it’s black and not too horrid) or a bottle or something.

Oh I see.

It’s not an immediate requirement.

It’s a goal. I can work up to it.

Oh well that makes everything all right then. That’s just super.

Over how long?

I don’t have to do the morning runs for maybe a couple of weeks, build up to them?

My, that’s terribly magnanimous. How unexpectedly gracious.

This is my proposed training schedule.

It made oi larf.

They made me write it down and everything.

Once I’d picked myself up off the floor and had just about got my breath back they repeated it. And then today I bought an 80 point Fit Fifer Card. It’s 3 points for a swim session and 3 points for a gym session.

I’ll let you work the rest out for yourself.

Although I could burn four points every Monday evening by adding an instructor-led circuit training session after going to the gym.

Do feel free to laugh, point and mock.

Look what Munky got me!

A new avatar!

I’m so happy!

This is fab.

I need more of this in my life.

I just want to say that impacted saddle sores suck like a Dyson.

Actually, Dysons are over-rated. Saddle sores suck like a Sidewinder.

I used to have a Sidewinder belt buckle, when I was a little girl.

Don’t ask.

Snaffled from Sciolist:

Instructions: Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 and look through random quotations until you find 5 that you think reflect who you are or what you believe. Then post them in your journal.

1. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

   Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

2. People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.
   Anatole France (1844 – 1924)
3. You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
   Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
4. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
   Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
5. We’d be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end.

   Hunter S. Thompson (1939 – 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Can anyone give me any hints on doing that rolling turn swimming thing that racing-types do? I was having a go yesterday and wasn’t overly successful.