A number of factors have added together to make this week a tiring but satisfying on. Attempting to resume normal sleeping patterns after 2 weeks of watching the Tour de France was not so easy.
Returning to work after two long, restfu andl relaxing weeks at home has taken a bit of a toll as well.
Add to this that I also had somewhat of a down week with no offical training last week and I had only touch lines on two slower than average games.
Finally some heavy winter rain, some very solid sessions, some challenging games ahead and I am left making the most of a quiet Friday night at home.
Training this week has included:
Tuesday- Hard interval session Tuesday. 10 Degrees Celcius. Windy. Heavy rain. 8.6km of running in the form of 300m repeats, 100m repeats, 120m shuttles and fartlek efforts. Boots felt like concrete with all the water and mud. Average HR of 157bpm (82% of max) but the graphs here: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/100878659 indicate that during the efforts HR was consistently over 170bpm with a max of 182bpm (95% of max). Sometimes after a session like this though you have an appreciation of being young enough and able enough to actually do it. One of these days, many years down the track I am sure that I will be wishing I could still complete a session like this on a cold winter night.
Thursday- Boxing session. A good 80mins of work. Was feeling good and really went hard in this session which of course left me somewhat sore but nothing too bad.
Monday, Wednesday (and Thurs),were mainly following progressions for pushups, pullups, light back squats (60kg), plank holds, ring dips and moderate presses (40kg). The purpose of these progressions is merely to build some volume in some light/bodyweight style exercises. The hope being that it will just put the muscles through a range of motion without taxing the body too much and interfering with other sessions. Seems to be working so far.
Looking ahead to the weekend I will have a tough wet game to referee in Bundaberg Cup and a touch line for Toyota Cup. The heavy rain in Sydney meant that the Toyota Cup game has been rescheduled as it was supposed to be played at ANZ Stadium tonight.
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