Monday, 2 March 2009

The Tax Man is funding my training

Distance: 750m
Crawl 30 lengths

Reps: ~400
Time: 30 min

Another half hour in the pool at lunch, only 30 lengths today. Then back to the gym this evening. I was planning a gentle 30 minute 4k run, but all the treadmills were taken. Oh well, onto the machines instead. 100 reps on the (now fixed) abductor. 100 reps on the adductor. 20 reps on shoulders x 3. The chest press was taken by some beefcake who was using it as a rest station. I didn't have the nerve to kick him off. So onto the leg press, 20 reps on each leg, followed by 40 "running on one foot".

Then, as that very nice man at the tax office sent me a cheque last week, I treated myself to a half hour sports massage and got all the knots in my left quads and right ITB all smoothed out. I wasn't going to have this weekly, but after my little unexpected windfall, I decided why not? I'd highly recommend having your legs pummelled and squeezed if you can. Ok so it hurts a bit, but no pain no gain, eh?

Next on my shopping list is a Garmin 405. Or maybe a Timex Bodylink T5G311. Any suggestions?

2 comments:

Heidi said...

How much did you get back?!

ulen said...

Enough to buy a Garmin 405; 10 sports massages and still have enough left over to pay for my car insurance at the end of the month!

:o)

Running 13.1 miles in memory of Carl

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