It's been exactly a month since the Tough Mudder in Melbourne/Phillip Island, and where am I and our team at now?
Well, after boring our work colleagues and families silly for a week we all accepted that we had to get back to normal life, at least in some sense. We played with the idea of heading up to Sydney to do the TM there, but decided we'd think about that for a month - and now with the month up I doubt any of us will be doing it. Not that we don't want to, but the time/$ is a bit of a barrier (and some of our families seem to want us back from the world of training!)
But it's also been interested after a month to see the training sneaking back in, even without a purpose, so attached to it have we become. A few of us went out on our own on occasion but it just didn't really gel or feel the same. So very subtly a Thursday lunchtime session emerged, which was then advertised to the rest of the office and we were delightfully surprised to see 8 people (most of whom hadn't done the TM) turn up to engage in 30-40 minutes of interval work of some form. So that'll keep going.
And then today 4/5 of the old team decided we felt like going for a jog - so we went off for the old workplace 4.5km run. I hadn't run since the TM so I was quite worried about my performance but was pleased to see that most of the fitness is still there. One of the girls on the team (ironically the oldest!) has already decided her next challenge is a marathon (!!!!) but the rest of us aren't quite nuts enough to join her in that at this stage....
And for me personally? Well, with an understanding of my weaknesses I'm keeping up with the weekly boxing class (although I've dropped the circuit for now to save some time/money), I'm riding more (again, as much to save money as for fitness!), and have started a plan of doing some crossfit based workouts 3 mornings a week - They seem to be going quite well so far. Short, sharp and something that keeps you interested, as well as building the strength I need. I'm still limited by my equipment somewhat (desperately need a barbell!) but it's going well.
Now the big question for us is "What next?" Sure, there's the Tough Mudder in 2013 but I'm feeling the need to mix that up with something else, something different..... Now just to search to see what else is out there...
