Time to get serious

Got to say this round has not been as fabulous as my last round.

1. I haven't been on the forums as much - Lean and Strong are such a great, focused and talkative bunch. Lean and Fit no so much as some of us are doing our own thing - Including me.

2. My weight has been stable - still at around the 73-74kg mark. Diet as has not been good so this is my own fault. No one else to blame.

This week I am getting better organised and NOT buying extra food. I don't need it, I am not training the house down in fact even a heavy week is probably not that much more exercise than many 12WBT people are doing just following the program. So I do not deserve extra food and do not need it!

3. I am finding it easy to find excuses not to exercise. I am sure I will be OK with my event (and hopefully I can do well) but it is really easy to be slack when you have such a strong base.


This weekend has been a mixed bag - lots of couch time! but I needed that a little.

Got a long hard ride in on Saturday - 70km up to 45km/h with the big boys (and small ones - including the current under 15 junior Australian champion) they were kind and waited - and helped when I got a flat! Pretty happy with my 5 minute change and only a little help from the boys.

Sunday woke with a sore back - too much sitting and not enough stretching (need the challenge this week) so I went and did the body balance class. Great Stretch and strength and relaxation.

Today I got back into it with a good solid 45 minute run. 8 x 400m efforts so now I have a dog asleep on the couch snoring. a happy dog none the less. Then I called in and swapped dogs with a friend and took her little dog for a run. I ran to my 1km time trial course and did that - not rested so was a little slow 4:38 but happy enough with this. Now her dog will be a little quieter too (she is sick at the moment and can't run her dog herself).

I have cooked up a storm today.

Extra dinner for lunch tomorrow. Have a meeting tomorrow night so I have cooked tomorrows dinner and enough for lunch on  Wednesday. Breakfast is all sorted for a few days with a big batch of Bircher Brekki (bit of a fav of mine - acutally lots of the breakfast are!)

The other reason why I don't think I am doing as well this round is I haven't been watching the mindset videos. The mindset lessons or more importantly the headspace they help you get into is the key to the program. I know this and yet I don't make the time for them.... sigh. I should know better.

Time to catch up a little - but tonight it is early to bed - Got a date with my bike tomorrow morning starting at 5am and riding about 50km. Thats starting to get some serious training!