OMG, I'm unfit...

I was tagged sometime ago by Hilda (amongst others) but I was in blog-blah land at the time so I didn't want to play....but now, here we go:

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Let’s see I was 20, in my 3rd year of university which was my first year of my (graduate) law degree. Walking 5+kms everyday and later in the year, I signed up for my first gym membership.

Five snacks I enjoy?
A question about food - easy...
* hummus
* cashews
* vegemite toast (preferably soy & linseed bread)
* brie
* protein bars

Five songs I know all the words to?
* Dancing Queen – ABBA
* Bradman – Paul Kelly
* Jack & Diane – John Mellencamp
* Bust a move – Young MC
* Angels – Robbie Williams

Five things I’d do as a millionaire
* buy my parents, brother and grandmother a new house or pay off their mortgages;
* donate money to cancer research and to Medecins Sans Frontier
* buy a unit overlooking a beach somewhere
* travel
* study something interesting like history, archaeology or literature

Five things I like doing:
* reading – I’m a bookworm
* travelling
* having dinner & catching up with my closest girlfriends
* watching sports
* did I mention reading? Oh, alright – shopping, specifically for gym/running gear :-)

Ok, onto the boring stuff ;-)

Saturday 29 January

Activity: swimming
Time: 9.15am
Duration: 35min-ish
MTD: 14.15kms

1,500m today. Much better than last Tuesday's session but still hard work for some reason.

Sunday 30 January

Activity: run/walk
Time: 9.30am
Duration: 46mins

Was getting very warm by the time I left the house this morning. One thing I've forgotten over the last 3 months is to get up early and to get my sessions done while it's reasonably cool. Oh, that and taping my headphones into ears so that they don't fall out.

The plan was to do an easy 15-20min run on the grass at my local oval with a 15mins walk to warm-up and cool down on either side of the session. In the end I ran for 16.38mins which included a walk for 1min at the 8min mark and a 30sec penalty to rescue a soccer ball for the blokes playing soccer on the oval at the time. I am really unfit - I've lost a lot of fitness over the last few months. At least I know that it will come back reasonably quickly...

Came home and iced my knee and hip straight away. My knee felt ok during the session although a little tight later in the day, most noticably when walking down stairs. The 'tightness' however is in a slightly different place on my leg than it was previously. Go figure. It's feeling pretty good now so I'll keep up the stretching and ice for the next 24 hours....

This week is going to be a big one. Start a new job tomorrow and 3 sessions with Satan this week!

Monday: Satan + 17mins on the elliptical thingy
Tuesday: run/walk (will decide on the type of session after consulting my 'adviser')
Wednesday: Satan + 15mins on the elliptical thingy
Thursday: run/walk
Friday: rest
Saturday: 7km walk with a girlfriend around the Bay (& having breakfast) in the morning followed by a session with Satan at lunch
Sunday: run/walk

and I might squeeze a swim in there somewhere depending on how my shoulders handle the triple dose of Satan...

I've just finished Sucking the Marrow out of Life by John Maclean. A really inspiring read - for those of you who don't know of him - he was hit by a truck in his early 20's and became a paraplegic and afterwards went on to finish the Hawaii Ironman event 3 times, to swim the English Channel, to sail in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race and to 'wheel' from Brisbane to Melbourne as a charity raiser which is approximately 2,000kms. It has reminded me that one lil ITB will not stop me from achieving my goals. Now, for something different I'm going to read Middlemarch by George Eliott!