Day one the aftermath

I suppose its best to fill you in on the aftermath of run one before getting to run 2. Well for the first time ever, after sitting down after the run, i thought I'd torn a calf muscle, in fact turns out to be cramp. Never had a full on cramp like that before like a real tense dead leg. thought the next day would be horrible but in fact was not too bad at all. A little ache here and there in the hips but OK.

Run number two... the excuses

So day 2 of the schedule to become the lean machine. Well I had my excuses ready but yeah... I did it and got in a 20 min run. Actually, after 6.30am flight to Dublin and back again today I thought it would be a nightmare and my schedule was conspiring against me. Felt better, took things easy (as suggested in the 10k training schedule!) but ended up being a carbon copy 20 min run, 3500 steps (both Yamax Digiwalker and TK 800 digital pedometer extremely accurate on both runs. If you're interested in the week analysis of how these two pedometers fared the week when they went into a head to head test click here.

As with all trips away you seem to end up walking none stop. Dublin's walkabout in terms of testing the distance and my quest to find out how much everyday  exercise I'm getting in was a little flawed as I had teh pedometers in my pocket and you have to have them on your hip. I reckon though  I walked 10,000 steps about 6 miles. Then with the evening run of 1.8 miles, 75 crunches, 3 pull ups and 15 press ups. I went to bed as smug as bug in rug!

So what's coming up... two days off running (so called rest days)

Next week i think I'll target 5 pull ups. 20 press ups and keep crunches the same as they really hurt. I forgot to mention some tips I'm applying at the min:

1) I'm running mainly on grass to soften the wear to the old hips

2) I'm stretching, achilles, calf, hamstrings muscles before and after for 60 seconds each muscle (i'll add some diagrams to show you these exercises

3) Rice again, feeling fresh - bring on Sunday!