Combining training and life

As any of you who read yesterday’s blog will know, I took a day off training and went out for dinner with my family (Thai in Richmond, since you ask, and very nice it was too. Plus beers and even shots after! All on a school night, tisk tisk).

However, taking my first day off after four consecutive days of assorted training did make me feel quite guilty, especially as I went out for dinner – I am meant to be becoming less of a fat bloke, not more! So, I am now in a place where I am trying to balance my social life with training, and doing lots of both.

Now I am quite lucky in that although my job starts at 7.30am, I always finish at 5 on the dot, no matter what, and thus I am afforded the opportunity to nip to the gym direct from work (it is a two minute walk away) and be on the treadmill by 5.10-15 at the latest.

This means that direct from work tonight I will go to the gym, smash through 6.5km in around 35 mins, be out of the gym by 5.50 and home by 6.20. Then eat dinner (left over veggie curry – almost zero fat in it as I made it myself), jump through the shower, out the door by 7.10 to go the Camden Roundhouse to catch the Naked and Famous (1^st support band on at 8). Phew!

It will probably be a similar story tomorrow as I am going to a friend’s leaving party from around 6.30, so shower at the gym and then direct to the party, no time for dinner! Hopefully I can try and organise myself better so I can find proper space in my life for both running and socialising without burning myself out.

Weight update: When I last weighed myself on Monday I was still 100.7kg and I don’t think I have lost anything since then, given I have been out a few times and had take away for dinner on Monday night! Hopefully I can eat a little healthier in the next few weeks and crack 100km before the end of the month.