So late last week it seems all of us in the team 'hit the wall'. After a solid period of training we all started to suffer the toll of what we were doing to ourselves. People were off sick, needing days off from training, and I found myself trying to keep going but ending up in severe pain - Especially my calves.
It certainly has reminded us of the importance of rest and listening to our bodies.
So with that in mind, and a bit of rest under our belts, 4 of us rocked up again at Lysterfield for the same training run on Sunday, with a few small extra bits to bring it up to 12km. It's a great course if you haven't run it before.... Scenic, with a nice mix of hills, trails and forest. We did it all in 1:37 - involving a few stops to allow the rest of the group to catch up.
That afternoon I rested more in preparation for the pain to come on Monday....
Yes, our trainer was back... and ready to dish out more suffering. It consisted of three minute sets of push ups, squats, dead-ball squat/throws, lunges and burpees. And then followed by a high-intensity interval session involving various sprint lengths. Great workout, but agonising....
And then, given that Monday night we normally have circuit training anyway I joined in again, foolishly perhaps, only to be confronted by a lot more squats and lunges... Ouch. Every time I sit down or get up it's just agony right now. Going to the toilet is an exercise in balance and pain.
On the bright side I think I am recovering more quickly from the pain, but will have to keep watching myself, especially the recently-damaged left leg.
Tough Mudder certainly has been getting a lot of press around here during the last week or so too. Lots of newspaper articles, radio mentions and so on. 20,000 people are predicted already so it's certainly taken off, and we seem to always be bumping into people who are planning on doing it too...
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