Sunday/Monday Bits And Pieces

Not too much time for a full post at the moment, so here goes with a quick catch up:

Sunday
Only 2 weeks to go to the Breezy Point Triathlon, so another indoor spin was in order. Actually, there’s nothing like a good Spinervals workout when it’s chucking it down outside, and today was no exception. The 50-minute Muscle Breakdown got the nod over Sweating Buckets, Have Mercy and The Uphill Grind – it’s a fairly intense workout made up of various intervals, 5 minutes of 4 seconds on/4 seconds off and 3 x 1 minute isometric squats. Good fun, and the time flew by.

Followed up the bike workout with a steady four miles on the treadmill – nothing fast and really just to get my legs ready for running after riding. I did vary the incline a little and ended up with it ramped it up to 10% grade. Might as well continue the quad burn after tearing them up on the bike.

Monday
Started the day with the Hundred Push Ups plan. I’m currently on Week 5 Day 2 and it’s starting to get tough (again). The format was slightly different today with several sets of a lower number of reps, culminating in a max of 40 at the end. I ended up with 160 in total, so not too bad I suppose. Getting there…

Incidentally, with just 2 weeks to launch date, the 7 Weeks to 100 Push-Ups book is doing rather well in the Amazon.com rankings – ducking under 5,000 for the first time and currently standing at #9 in the Abs Workouts category. It will be interesting to see what happens to the rank when the book is finally available in stores….

Lunch time rolled around pretty quickly with the rain finally making way for some early afternoon sunshine. I headed out for an 8 miler and felt pretty good in the Newton Gravitas and some good tunes courtesy of the iPod – loving the Genius feature of iTunes and its ability to create some great playlists! The wind was a bit of a pain at times, but it could have been a lot worse.

Good start to the week. Now I just have one workout left to do today – the weekly grass cutting which will probably be a nightmare considering how much rain we’ve had the last few days. Fun, fun, fun….