A few weeks ago I saw a competition posted on Facebook , the prize being three free months membership to all of the Newport Live sporting venues, which seemed ideal as I want to do some core and strength training as part of my training regime leading up to the Manchester marathon in early April. The competition only involved me having to complete a questionnaire about my previous fitness, my current fitness, and my future goals, and amazingly, I was selected as one of the winners.
Last night I had to meet with Dee Montague of Newport Live at the Wales National Velodrome where she took some photo's of me standing next to gym equipment. These photo's may be made into posters and billboards and dotted around the city. Fame at last eh. I then asked Dee what happens next. In January I will be given my free three months membership and assigned a personal trainer who will then write up a personal training plan for me, based around my available training times. Once the three months are up, I then receive nine months half price membership and my progress will be monitored throughout the year. So by this time next year my overall fitness should have improved no end, and hopefully I will be a stronger runner.
On Saturday I needed to do a long run, so what better way to do this than run from home to the Riverfront Parkrun, and then run home again, although the bus was quite tempting 😉
The run out was done at a nice, easy pace as I was in no rush, and I wanted to keep some "umph" for Parkrun itself, which was done at a strong, steady pace, about a minute off my PB time, and the run home was again going to be at an easy pace. I began feeling tired at about 8½ miles and I put this down to only having eaten a couple of slices of toast three hours before, so my fuel tank was running on empty and I was now using my considerable fat reserves.
Monday evening and the running club had organised a core and strength taster session at a local gym. There were so many people who wanted to do this that we had to be split into two, hour long groups. The exercises were mostly basic stuff like, sit ups, press ups, burpees and variations of those, but doing plenty of reps of each. We were then split into groups to compete against each other in other exercises.
All in all it was a really good session which highlighted areas of my body that need improvement, like my core muscles, glutes and quads. Hopefully I can concentrate on these once my Newport Live membership kicks in.
Watch this space.
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