Monday Night Madness!!

Evening All..... Well Here we are Monday 27th August. Officially started "Matt O'Neills Metabolic Jumpstart" today which is the nutrition program which came hand in hand with my wonderful prize from Ian & Labrador Step Into Life.  This is an awesome time to lift my nutrition, as the benefits of my new training regime are becoming more and more apparent. Working is my saviour for planned eating. Away from the home fridge, and scheduled.  Loving the focus on ensuring I eat from all the food groups. I also must admit I finally drank my whole 2L of water today!! WOOHOO!

Tonight's session began at 6pm, at 5.35pm I was still in my jeans & work clothes, contemplating & procrastinating. Was I TOO sore, or was I TOOO tired....... but then I remembered last nights last paragraph of my blog.  I said that I would be training tonight. There is my accountability all in one.  How could I get on to write tonights blog and say oh yeh by the way I was too tired, too lazy, too sore, to train tonight but ho hum ...... Yeh B********!  So off I went to training, a little late (oops sorry Boss), and a little unprepared forgot the water bottle, but the biggest thing is I WENT!

Great to see the crew there. After warm up it was a 1km run sprung on us down my royal nemisis....Imperial Pde, and along Frank Street & back. Some of the group did 2km, and some did 1km.  As I do marathon training I know what its like to run in the group, and I also know that its my pace, and that I don't have to keep up with the pack.  I try, but I know its not a mandatory. As I approached the end of Imperial I looked left & looked right, I couldnt see anyone. I remembered Ian's instructions something about Baker St.... so I headed that way, and soon came across the encouraging smiles of the girls n guy running back from there turn arounds.  I no longer feel alone.

Heading back up Imperial I tripped on a reflector, and this was enough to jolt the nerves a little.  It gave me a fright more then anything. As I looked up at the shadows at the top of my nemisis, I was having a number of thoughts.... 1. Can you believe your breathing..... 2. You nearly fell arse up......
3. Last again Jacks but your doing it...... SO those thoughts became a little more angry as I neared the top.  I can remember Ian talking to me, something about run 10 power walk 10, imagine the line is a rope pulling you up the hill.  I was determined not to stop.  As I arrived there, and began the decent back to our training session I started to feel the emotions coming.  The girls were so encouraging, but I was not sad, I was proud that I had done that hill, and backed up after Sunday!  I also learnt that breathing through the tears, and running is very empowering.

I continued on to blitz the rest of the session.  I always feel a little sorry for my training buddy, as I am not the fastest sprinter at the session so they end up doing more burpys or skipping longer.  But the one thing I can say is I am doing my best to bust my butt, and they know it. Official Training Time: 43 minutes. Max Heart Rate: 180.  Polar Results: 58.05 minutes - 510kCAL Average HR 148 Max HR 180!!!

 I am continually amazed by the abilities my body can do, even though its been hidden under layers of unhealthy fat for so many years. I got my first fortnightly report from Step Into Life tonight.... I must say I was quite impressed :) Can't wait to see it improve x

xxx Jac xxx

Next Training Session for me is: Weights tomorrow afternoon, and KICKBOX Thursday night.