Hey there
I posted a while ago that I hadn’t been updating much because I was too busy doing it to write about it, well, that still stands. By the time I’ve crammed everything into my day, all around the rather tedious requirement to spend 8 hours a day 5 days of the week in the office then I am pretty much stuffed and not of a mind to chat.
So, well, running I’ll admit has been pretty hit and miss, mostly miss really, I get in about two runs a week, three if I am lucky and I’ve not cracked 10km yet 
Why? Well, because if I have the choice between knocking out a 38km commute to work and a 26km commute home or a short run, well, the ride is winning right now. Also if the weather is warm it is easier to head out for a ride than to flog myself on a run.
The way it stands I don’t have any running goals at the moment and don’t really need to be hitting my straps until the winter aths season starts. At the moment I am quite content having cycling as a summer activity and giving way to running as the days get cooler. My mind is at peace with this arrangement so I am not going to fight it. I have entered the Sunset series for the first time in years though, that will be 3 8km runs on a Wednesday night through February and March.
I have some good long rides in the lead up to the 120km Amy’s Ride on the 2nd of January. I am going to ride with Andrew which I am quite looking forward to, we ran Run for the Kids together a few years ago so it will be cool to have a ride together too.
I’d been dreaming up a nice long loop that would cover about 95km from home, via Beach Road and the Dandy Creek/Eastlink Trail. Given that work is a bit slow at this time of year I decided to try some of it out yesterday. I backtracked from home to pick up the Eastlink Trail, I followed this to Carrum (apart from a stupid detour that I don’t want to talk about that added 7km to my journey and wasted time, if I didn’t have my iPhone and GPS I’d probably still be wandering around Dandenong, yikes!), then I picked up Station St to Beach road etc etc until I got to the city, it was 87km all up, the morning was fab and it was a mighty nice way to start the day.
Today was a 6km run in the morning, 26km cycle home and then an arm workout, I barely have the energy to type this post now.
The arm workout was the last of my 12 week program, yipeee!!
I am so pleased with my progress, my arms in particular have responded really well. They are not wussy little sticks any more, they are strong, I made great gains with the weights I can lift and my whole upper body has developed some great definition.
My legs, hmm, well they are nice and strong and I made some big gains there with what I can lift, although definition is lacking. That’s a no brainer, it’s simply a body fat thing, that’s just an honest assessment, not a “oh woe is me, I am so fat boo hoo” insecure thing.
TOH is writing up a new 12 week program for me to start in the new year, I am going to take a couple of days off now and then get stuck back in. I’ll be cleaning up the diet again after going off the rails a little bit over December. I am bored of hating my legs so there will be a big focus in the next 12 weeks on dropping some body fat and bringing out some definition 
Vain? sure, so what, I like the weight training and goals help.
