Monday so it must be a spinning day. As I think I mentioned I'm fortunate to have a proper gym spin bike and treadmill. These were bought a few years ago at great expense on the basis we could dump our gym membership. It turned out to be a fantastic investment and both machines have more than paid themselves back.
The plan was to get up early to start the day with a circuit session and return to the gym this evening for a spin set. I'm not sure whether spinning at home or heading into Dunfermline to do the New Row repetitive climb set with the bike club is better for me but given I'm not completely at the back of the pack on my spin bike I'll work on that for now.
I awoke with a thumping headache and felt miserable. As I said yesterday, I have been suffering from sinusitis which is entirely self inflicted. I have been prone to sinusitis in the winter and hay fever in the summer. The reason that it's self inflicted is that I have the medicine to sort it out if i would just remember to take the stuff. Anyway after a nasal spray and a couple of paracetemol I felt a bit better. I walked the dog but decided against the circuit session which can wait until tomorrow and set off to start work after the Christmas recess.
Work is situated in a log cabin in the garden and to be fair the work life balance that I have is the envy of many. Not that it doesn't get stressful from time to time but having the flexibility to bike or run at lunchtime is of massive value to me. I stuck my triathlon wall chart up in the office and started filling it out with the races I've entered. That took all of 2 minutes as I've only entered a couple to date. I'll keep a record of my training plan on the wall along with my weight to remind me of what I have done later in the year when I will convince myself that I haven't done enough!
So after work tonight I headed into the gym and spent an hour on my spin bike. As I'm focussed on weight loss at the moment the key was keeping my heart rate down and in the appropriate zone. I'm never very sure about this method but I'm giving it a shot and as I lost 4lb last week something is working. The spin session was slightly disturbed by Sky Sports announcing that Terry Butcher, the manager of my team Inverness Caledonian Thistle, is being hunted by the Barnsley Board for their vacant Managers position. Terry has done an awesome job and I only hope the bigman stays to finish off what has been a fine season so far.
Anyway, I quite enjoy spinning. During the period I was training for IM New Zealand which was held in March 2009 the winter here was pretty severe - lots of frozen roads and snow. This meant getting outside to run or bike was tricky. At the time I was a member of Bannatynes in Dunfermline and they were kind enough to let me use the spin studio to train when there wasn't classes on. If you every want to be mind numbingly board spend 4 hours in a spin studio. I worked out how to connect my iPod into the sound system and I got a few strange looks from the local gym bunnies when they ventured into the studio to hear New Country music blasting out. It's not everyone's taste but it worked for me!!
I have attempted to post a video of me finishing IM New Zealand when the commentator says that he met me at the Carbo Dinner the night before the race and that I hadn't been able to train due to ice and snow in Scotland. It was absolutely bang on except for the fact I never met him!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpazerfLFg8
I'll come back to the full story about IM New Zealand later in the Blog because it was an adventure in itself!
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