T-25 On the brink of serious
We’ve crossed the Rubicon this week and entered what feels like the pointy end of the training program. With 24 weeks to go, and a bad Sunday run to reinforce the point, it’s time to get serious about the running.
T-26 Stars and Stones
Some sessions are stones and some sessions are stars but in the end they’re all rocks and we can build on them. This week has been both and I’m learning the value of making small changes as we go.
T-27 Motivation isn't a magic alchemy
You would think that after last week’s scare, motivation would taken as read and there would be a stampede to each scheduled session. This week was about realising that motivation doesn’t happen by magic.
T-28 Endurance comes from Perseverance not Perfection
This week has been a Wonder Week - emotionally turbulent, unsettling but a leap of emotional growth. I learnt this week the insidiousness of self-sabotage and I learnt the value of asking for help.
T-33 and the hamstrings are singing
The achilles recovery continues to progress which has meant an increase in training load with 10kms of running put in the bank last week.
T-34 and we're into autumnal training
It’s very nearly daylight savings and to celebrate we’re going to talk a little bit about sweat nets
New York: Statue bro?
Every time I see a statue, the dreadful old joke about what one kiwi statue said to another floats through my brain. It does sometimes mean stifling an inappropriate urge to snigger - it's possibly not the done thing to ask Lady Liberty "statute bro?".
On the streets of New York
We have done ALOT of walking whilst we've been in New York. We've found that it's a city that's much easier to navigate via walking and almost everything is within walking distance of where we were staying in midtown. For almost all of the holiday, we've both done over 10,000 steps a day but in New York, we've more than doubled that each day.