Ill again

Woke up yesterday feeling rough with a bloated stomach and sore throat. My legs were also really sort from all the training I have been doing so I took the mountain bike to work instead of the bmx to make sure that I took it easy.

At lunch I rode back across town and did Pilates where I felt OK but my stomach was feeling strange. When I got home from work I had to rush to the toilet and then go to bed as I was feeling feverish. I slept for an hour and then got ready and went to basketball.

I have noticed that my fitness level has improved greatly in the last month or so since I last played and I am now able to run up and down the court much better than before. I was able to play an entire quarter without feeling too bad and I have no aches in the legs at all which is really unheard of. This shows that my training is paying off even if I haven't lost a great deal of weight I am definately getting fitter by the week.

I am going to rest for the next couple of days to get ready for the weekend and the first race of the season.

My new number plate arrived this morning and I have just put my ranking number for the year on it.

Here is a photo:

Here is a picture of my training bike with the extra long seat post on it:

As I am in bed sick today I created a spreadsheet of my weight loss this year and I have published a graph on the following link;

Weight Loss 2017

As you can see from the chart I have lost 1.8 kgs this year which is not too bad and is more or less on my goal of loosing 1kg a month.

I have also done a re-evalution of my goals for this year.

I am on track with the not drinking fizzy drinks. I have not had any this year at all. I have also been drinking lime water every morning before breakfast and also drinking 3 litres of water a day.

I haven't been eating much fruit and this is my next goal to focus on along with stopping eating crisps and chocolate as my consumption of both has increased this year as a result of cutting out fizzy drinks.

I think that I over estimated my fitness levels when setting my fitness goals and it has become apparent that I am not fit enough to do sprints more than twice a week at the moment and I have not done any HIIT training yet either partly as a result of my colar bone not allowing me to do press ups yet.

I also gave up on the manul challenge although I am heavily practicing manuals everytime I am at the track and my manuals have improved a lot over the past few months.

So for the next few months I am going to focus on doing 2 quality sprint sessions a week plus the usual track work that I have been doing and the one session of Pilates a week.

I need to focus a bit more on flexability as well so I want to start stretching everyday for the next month starting next week to see if this helps.

I am also going to start playing basketball on Sunday's for a couple of hours so this will help greatly with my fitness as well.