Sunday, 20 May 2012

If music be the food of love....

I really need to sort out the music on my ipod.  I managed to hop chirpily out of bed and down to the gym for my bike/run brick.  My plan was for a 20 minute cadence bike and 10 minute run/jog.  The bike was going well and by putting up the resistence a little I managed to knock another 15 seconds off my 10km time, albeit leaving me breathless and dripping in sweat (such a nice mental picture huh? imagine what it was like for the people who actually saw it!)

 I had struggled a bit towards the end because all the music that shuffle put up was techno chill-out which isn't really conducive to pedalling like mad when you'd rather be eating eggs benedict on a sofa reading the Sunday times style supplement.  But that was nothing with the struggle I had when I started the run/jog.  I just couldn't find anything to keep me going - not helped by the fact that I seem to hold my breathe everytime I pressed the forward button on the ipod so after about 15 attempts to find something vaguely inspiring or even just simply upbeat I was wheezing like a warthog amid the odd expletive that was meant to be in my head but spilled out causing my exercise neighbours to look at me nervously (large, red, sweaty lady keeps shouting out swear words while running very slowly on a treadmill hmmm) and then I lost my temper, pressed the stop button and did my best to stomp off while my legs did bambi impressions.  I managed 1minute 38 seconds! *sigh*

So to regain some self-respect I did 3 sets of 10 full press ups (yaaay!) - although the 3rd set were interspersed with a couple of little rests stretches and then 3 sets of Mark Durnford's horrid abs torture exercises (med ball crunches - and yes Mark I did use the heavy one - russian twists with the med ball and swiss ball mountain climbers) and I didn't swear once (well not out loud) although I did notice that the lady who had been next to me on the treadmill made sure she was on the furthest mat away from me  - but she could only do press ups on her knees so she left mwah ha ha ha ha
 PS I cannot do this!

2 comments:

  1. You need to get "f**k the world" by the vines. It got me through the last mile of my (only) half marathon. Tee hee. If you do the tri then I will sign up for another half. X

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  2. LOL thanks my lovely sis. I think I will have to put out a request for other suggestions for inspiring tracks so I can manage 10 minutes on the treadmill after my cycling. I will do the tri although I can't guarantee it will be particularly fast so you'd better start running xx

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