What was I thinking – 09.05.2020

Total Distance Travelled: 814 kms Days to holiday: supposedly 252

Days in Lockdown: 54

This has been week one of doing that 30 Day Shred HIIT session and OMG what was I thinking! 

I knew I wasn’t fit – although I had hoped that my penchant for walking and enjoyment of cycling would help – but nothing could have prepared me for this!  25 minute work-out session have left me so out of breath, hot, sweaty and knackered, I’ve only just about managed to get out once on a bike this week – and even then to do just about 9kms.  I needed to see if I was able to do, cycle I mean, considering how much pain my legs were on day 2 of the HIIT sessions.   Why do people subject themselves to this.  On the other hand, the sessions have become a marker for Working Day End.  My team-mates and I put away our work-laptops precisely at 5pm and log into Zoom to subject ourselves to this punishment. 

I must say though, by the end of the week, I’ve been able to get through more of the exercises and I wasn’t in so much discomfort. Seeing as the training is called 30 Day Shred, we’ve committed to keeping up with the exercise during the weekend!!!! Why?! On top of that, weekends we’re aiming to do the sessions in the morning, as an incentive to get out of bed, get the day going.  I can’t see me doing this for more than a month.  To be honest I want to stop already, but it’s only another 25 days to go, that’s not such a huge commitment.

I don’t know how I’m going to keep up with the cycling 30kms, if I’m in this much pain and discomfort because of the Shred sessions already.   Although that was the reason why I pushed myself to do that 8kms on Tuesday.  (I know 8kms, after having done over 50kms before).   Still I needed to see if I could do it – do a HIIT session and cycle all in one day.  Turns out I can – it’s just that I can’t cycle long distances.