It’s 4.45 am and I think that I have just been woken by the singing of a lone blackbird. Is this what it will be like, sleeping in our “bivvies”, I wonder.
I purposely went to bed last night with the window open so that I could hear the dawn chorus. I am eagerly awaiting the lighter mornings when I can be up and out of the house before 5.30 am. In my head this is going to form the basis of my training – cycling for an hour or so before work, alternating this with an early morning swim session when Cheltenham’s Sandford Parks Lido opens in May.
I have now had seven sessions with my personal trainer. We have been doing sit-ups (haha – that’s a bit of a joke as I haven’t managed one yet!), crunches, squats, lunges, my old “friend” The Plank, press-ups and other challenges which I think are designed to build on my core strength. Sadly, I think it is becoming pretty clear to everyone that I have no core strength at all – zilch, zero, none!!
I am convinced that I am that person at the gym who makes everyone else feel good about themselves and for now, if that is my role, I am happy to roll with it in the hope that one day, I will be able to pass that particular baton onto someone else. Until then, I will keep plugging away at my “half” crunches, my unrecognisable planks and my non-existent press-ups in the vain hope that maybe, just maybe, in the not too distant future, I will be able to cycle 65 miles!
I purposely went to bed last night with the window open so that I could hear the dawn chorus. I am eagerly awaiting the lighter mornings when I can be up and out of the house before 5.30 am. In my head this is going to form the basis of my training – cycling for an hour or so before work, alternating this with an early morning swim session when Cheltenham’s Sandford Parks Lido opens in May.
I have now had seven sessions with my personal trainer. We have been doing sit-ups (haha – that’s a bit of a joke as I haven’t managed one yet!), crunches, squats, lunges, my old “friend” The Plank, press-ups and other challenges which I think are designed to build on my core strength. Sadly, I think it is becoming pretty clear to everyone that I have no core strength at all – zilch, zero, none!!
I am convinced that I am that person at the gym who makes everyone else feel good about themselves and for now, if that is my role, I am happy to roll with it in the hope that one day, I will be able to pass that particular baton onto someone else. Until then, I will keep plugging away at my “half” crunches, my unrecognisable planks and my non-existent press-ups in the vain hope that maybe, just maybe, in the not too distant future, I will be able to cycle 65 miles!