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It is my informed and considered opinion that interval training is hell on earth!!! I think that all up I have probably achieved at maximum 5-6 minutes of 8 second/12 second intervals and it is tough, I think it is probably the toughest thing I have done physically since my teens or early twenty’s when I used to push it really hard during pre season training. I am shocked though at how tough that five minutes has been, not only because of my weight and stress on the joints but mainly as I feel as though I have been sprinting for an hour after only a minute or two. In fact it takes so much out of me that a guy standing in his yard inquired as to my health, I couldn’t really hear him due to my heavy breathing and my ipod blearing in my ears, so I turned my ipod off and still couldn’t hear him through my heavy breathing. The only response I could give was a small wave to show that I was indeed in control of some part of my body!!! Maybe he thought I was being chased by an angry mob that had heard me singing earlier.

I must say though I feel really fresh and alive afterward though. As we are going to stay at a hotel for the next couple for days I will give the stationary bike a go at the hotel gym and see what difference that makes to how I feel during the workout, one of the problems I am having is that my calves and shins are giving me hell during this little experiment, I know it will go in time but walking home with a limp is never fun. I did find however if you limp while listening to some hip hop say some 50 cent “in da club” you feel like you’re limping like you’re in the hood and have survived maybe 15 or 16 shootings. Of course in reality I just looked fat, white and lame!!! But ain’t ones imagination grand.