Results tagged “exercise” from Birmingham Mail - Road Runner

After doing a days training with the army (which you can see pix of and watch on this website) I've fallen back into the trap of eating like Pavorotti and drinking like George Best.

A five day holiday in New York didn't help. My average diet consisted of burgers, fry ups, coffee and beer.

It's time to get back into the fitness thing again. Cue leaf turning.

I am getting really nervous now. Only three weeks to go and I haven't done as much training as I should do this week because I have been too stiff from playing football on Wednesday evening. I haven't played properly since I was 12, which is probably why.

All the blokes from work go every week to have a game of five-a-side and I have always meant to go with them but have been too intimidated by all the testosterone. But I just decided life is too short and went along to have a go, or rather, was pushed into going to make up the editorial team's numbers. I was the only girl across about eight pitches, but it was still fun and I wasn't too bad. I probably got a bit too into it because for the next two days the fronts of my thighs and my back absolutely killed every time I moved. It was impossible for me to run like that, especially with the back pain.

One thing that I noticed was that I wasn't getting nearly out of breath as the blokes were because of all the running I have been doing over the last 12 weeks or so. But I was in a hell of a lot more pain than them the next day.

This is the annoying thing about different types of exercise - you use whole sets of different muscles to do different things. I do indoor climbing about once a week, running three or four times a week, and I swim, and all of these things have caused different muscles in my limbs to ache the following day.

I have been put down to play football next week, but then it will only be a couple of weeks before the half-marathon, so I might lay off that one so I can concentrate on running without having to worry about all the different dimensions of agony I would be causing myself!