Today's update comes to you from the gym, as I have just survived my first express mat Pilates class in Aussie. I've decided to go at least twice a week, to get some more action in the core department.
Why the core focus? Well, I need my core for swimming, riding and running. Riding especially, as my core will have to hold me in the aero position for several hours while I'm off half-ironman-ing or Ironman-ing. While running it will keep me upright which will help with my breathing, and while swimming well, if you don't know the reason perhaps you're reading the wrong blog!
I haven't done a lot of training for the past week because I've been sick with crippling stomach cramps. Hannibal the gallstone has been a pain in the guts and was so annoying yesterday that I decided to take some panadeine, and train my core today. Stuff you Hannibal, I'll make sure everything else around you hurts so I can't feel it when you start attacking. I'm also back on a mostly liquid diet for a couple of days to try and settle him back down. He doesn't like solid food. I'll give him what he wants for a couple of days and then BAM! It will be back to solids. Ha!
This week I'm repeating last week's recovery/light week, on account of still feeling like crap. I haven't heard from my coach for a week and to be honest I'm not very pleased. I'm fairly sure I'm not paying six weeks in advance for deafening silence. If I hadn't called him last Monday, I'm pretty sure he would have been totally silent. Another pain in the guts. I think it's time to call head coach.
I'm going to Sydney this coming weekend for the Aussie Fitness and Health Expo, and to meet my one year old niece for the first time - and see my now four year old niece again. Very excited - I'm wondering how I'll feel about Sydney now that I've been living in Melbourne for nearly a year. I'm flying up Sat night after work and back Monday afternoon. Miss Sydney is being checked up on, let in/out and fed/watered by a friend, so no cat hotel stay is required.
I've got a few things to organise (shuttle, transfers, train trip out to Blue Mountains to see the family), but I'll get to that tomorrow. I can use the gym in Sydney thanks to my reciprocal rights so Sunday will see me running, and Monday swimming as normal but in the morning. Saturday means a ride which I can do at the gym on a spin bike, as I'm basically going straight from work to the airport in the afternoon. I may have to leave some stuff at work but it's all good.
On that note, it's time to swim - catch you all later.
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