What have I been up to?

I realize I haven’t updated this blog in sometime with what I’ve actually been up to. I’ve enjoyed posting useful information about nutrition and recipes, but the main purpose of this blog was to talk about how I’ve tried to get from fat to fit.

I’ve continued my rugby refereeing over the season and have been quite successful, making the promising referees’ school and ending the season being appointed to the under 18 section 2 final. Refereeing is a great workout, but in isolation it’s not going to change your body shape.

With the longer days we’ve been having, I’ve started running again and have been turning out regular 7.5km runs. As always the initial goal is to just finish the run alive and I’ve been managing that well. On Thursday, without really trying to, I came home in under 40 minutes and turned out a sub 5:00 km.

In terms of my diet, I’ve adapted a scheme called Body for Life to my own lifestyle and it’s been working well. Essentially what I’m doing it eating less, but eating more often. Mid morning and mid afternoon snacks are important and I’m making sure I get them and snack on the right kinds of food.

So far I’ve been doing this for around three weeks and have already dropped at least 3.5kg. I haven’t actually weighed myself in about a week so I’m not sure of the actual figure.

Today I churned out another 7.5km run and came to the conclusion I’m not quite in as good a shape as I thought. Time wise I was fine, aerobic was fine, but both my lower calves ached for a good chunk of the run. By the end of the run they had come right, but it’s usually an indication of a lack of recovery.

At my peak I know I can run 10.5km every second day, but as I’ve pushed myself too hard in the past, I recognize the issues caused by too short a recovery period. Perhaps I need to aim for a 72 hour recovery window for another couple of weeks.

Hopefully I will be able to put more regular and more interesting posts up in the future and I hope you’ll come back to read them. Oh, and if you were wondering, I haven’t touched a drop of alcohol this month.

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