It's been good being away from home - I've fallen into a supportive routine that I'm suddenly very aware is about to be pulled out from under my feet. I can only hope that the last couple of weeks have set me up to continue on my own unaided.
Details: I've been staying on the Shore with my Derby wife and we've been living in each other's pocket for a month. What a whirl-wind honeymoon it has been but now it's almost time to go back home (Wednesday) as she's jetting off into the wild blue yonder and I will need to maintain my sleep and diet on my own effort, plus keep up my attendance at the gym without a training buddy. Actually I'm only concerned about the sleep and diet aspects, I've already lined up people to replace her at the gym.
Fitness: Treadmill is still out of the question so I busted a move on the exer-bike. Immediately my quads started to bitch loudly but after three minutes quietened down as they realised I was going to ignore them. Somehow my muscles burnt a lot more than last time on the same interval setting but I did knock a minute off the time. Then the leg press. I like to use this as a completely nonsensical way of judging my speed on the rink. It's great at the moment because my right is far more dominant and although it's stopped bleeding, I can't put undue pressure on it so I've been concentrating on my left. While I can lift more and at higher reps than last week, I do wonder how consistent the improvement will be over the next couple of months. I'm also working out my hamstrings to their point of failure because of something Kamikaze said, quite logically, about muscle balance. I'll need them to stop my quads causing undue damage by being significantly more powerful than all the other muscles and tendons around them.
Aikdio: No training today. Thought about it a bit though. Dual training tomorrow (two and a half hours). Fortunately it's 'jo month' which is great, because I need that.
Derby: Headed to the Victoria Park Skatepark to check it out in the daylight hours. Was overly intimidated by all the young bucks on their BMXs and it was actually quite crowded. Definitely think going in the dead of night is the best bet. I also wasn't entirely sure if my legs were going to keep me upright for long if I was going to be doing a lot of jumps after the fun times I'd put them through at the gym.
Diet: I thought about breakfast a lot this morning and still failed to eat anything substantial. I'm not sure an entire punnet of blueberries counts but it was followed by tea and biscuits. After two rest days and sitting at my desk my body kinda refuses to pre-load for training, it assumes there's going to be more lazing around. Sushi for lunch - apparently I have lost any tolerance at all for wasabi. Of course I chose to eat my sushi in public and then ended up crying as I tried to pretend the wasabi wasn't cleaning my sinuses with a rake. I can't have any sympathy, I didn't clean the wasabi off the rest of the sushi and kept crying the whole time. Like an idiot. But we had delicious steak with salad for dinner (thanks to the wife, but she was home all day, I hate to say it but that means she should cook dinner). It made me a little sad that from Thursday onwards I have to cook for myself again. I have no idea what to do. Mostly because I'm refusing to think about it just now.
Sleep: Seeing as my body refused to sleep any more than 8 hours at a stretch I'm confident I have it coined at 11pm sleep time and 7am-ish wakeup. Powered through today after waking up at 6am. Little late this evening but after a full quotient last night I'm still good to roll which is why I don't like getting a full 8 hours, I find it very difficult to get to sleep the next night. 6-7 is much better, it means by bed time I start to feel a little bit like having a nap. Regardless, it's getting close to nap time.
Man, that all ended up being a bit tl;dr today. It's just been one of those days though. Everything just felt a little bit boring - and unfortunately I only have myself to blame. At least it's over now, and hopefully tomorrow will bring with it some more excitement.
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