Sitting here on a Sunday night....

....and I'm feeling positive.

I did a session at the gym today.  It was a light session due to my achilles issue, but I'm hoping I'll be getting out for a slow run on the flat tomorrow.  At the gym I just did 2x5mins slow running, 20 mins on the bike and 2x15mins of stretching.

Today is also my last day of drinking alcohol until February half term.  I knocked the booze on the head successfully in the last part of last year and felt this helped with my training, so I'm hoping to keep it going in the new year.  It remains to be seen if I continue to see improvements in my running, but I'm hoping I will.

As I sit here typing, the achilles is feeling okay so I'm hoping the issue has sorted itself out after 7 days off running.

Also, my wife has tonight reminded me that this time last year I was 14st 9lb (93kg) whereas this morning I was a much more reasonable 13st 2lb (83kg).  Here's hoping I'll keep around that weight over the next few weeks.

Another session

I could have gone to the gym yesterday, following my session on Friday, which is encouraging. However, I decided to take it easy and go this morning instead.

So, this morning I did:

- 3 lots of stretching.

- 20mins walking on 15% at 5kph

- 15mins on the recumbent at 6kph.

I enjoyed the session and I'm feeling quite good as I'm writing this. When I say '3 lots of stretching', each session is about 10mins long, doing various exercises/stretches, so today was about 30mins of stretching which is good.

Good session, but pain afterwards...

I've been a way for a couple of days for work, and it's the furthest I've been since I've hurt my back. Generally, it was okay with the occasional pain but it wasn't too bad.

I went to the gym before work this morning and completed:

- 20 mins on treadmill at 15% and 5.3kph

- 20 mins on bike at 10kph

- back stretches.

Although I felt fine at the gym and immediately afterwards, I had some sharp pain in my back in the afternoon, which is a worry. I'm not sure if the gym and the pain are connected.

Currently I'm frustrated with the slow progress. Actually there sometimes is a couple of steps backwards, in terms of progress. I am wondering if I need to go and get a scan done to see if there any other issues