He’s going for distance. He’s going for speed.
After watching an article on the news last night about interval training being superior to other training for fat loss (I will write a post on what interval training is and what it does in the next couple of days) I felt inspired to push myself for my walk. I was feeling pretty good, my knee had settled down although it took the use of an anti inflammatory to get it right (I wouldn’t usually do this but I am determined to push through these little niggles!!!).
I took my usual route and went in the direction I find the most challenging as this direction has more up hill components, as I got to the first hill I pushed myself - power walking up it, I then took it easy for the next and then power walked up the next, as I repeated this for the last set of hills my right calf and shin started really complaining, so I stopped, stretched and then pushed on and then the pain came back so I stopped, stretched and pushed on…this continued a few more times and then I was on the home stretch.
The problem was that the spasm had caused my legs ability to walk normally to be greatly diminished. I was in fact walking like a drunk, sadly at the same time as walking like a drunk my underwear was doing odd things, so I was now walking like a drunk with his hand down his pants (I was trying fix my undies…honest), it wasn’t the most pleasant of walks.
BUT…I kicked butt on the speed of my walk, I got around my course 8 or 9 minutes quicker than the last time, in fact I am now doing in 30 minutes what used to take 45 minutes, I’m pretty damn excited about this.
Tomorrow I will try a new route that I have in my head and see how if it works out to be about 45 minutes or maybe a bit longer, and I must remember to take my magnesium to stop those leg cramps. I will try and post tomorrow.
Posted: January 23rd, 2007 under .
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Comment from Nese
Time: January 23, 2007, 10:54 pm
Oh man, you had me laughing out loud with the thought of you walking like a drunk with your hands down your pants. Partly because i seem to be forced into watching ‘highway patrol’ or whatever that show is called and they always have crazies walking along the roads being picked up by the police then where ever i go i seem to see these nutters wandering along the roads and i ponder to myself what makes them deceide to do this? But of course perhaps it is as simple as they are having leg cramps and wedgies!!!
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