..and the wind doth howleth...

Boy... was it howling a gale down the beach this morning. AND I met my friend to re-resume our weekly beach workout sessions. Well, we trudged in the dark thinking we would go mid way and do stairs/hills & boxing / soft sand - however, as we were walking..and it was dark... we noticed that the tide had created a channel separating us from the other half of the beach..the one with the stairs... and I thought, doing wooden stairs in the dark is probably not the greatest ideas anyhow..
Geez, I'm going to make a GREAT personal trainer! LOL.

So, we dug a hole in the sanddunes for the boxing gloves & focus mitts so they wouldn't blow away - and then attempted to do some jogging /running/sprinting circuits.
We decided, in the interests of our eyes, that it might be best to head back to the kiddy playground on the grass and resume our workout there - where we did stepups, sprints, tricep dips & boxing circuits.

I am looking forward to working out in daylight next week....
but not looking forward to riding in the dark - even though we have 'lights' shining on to the arena, it still creates the worst shadows in which MONSTERS and DEMONS lurk - according to my horse anyhow.. and apparently they have big TEEEEETH!

today's workout

Well, this morning I met my training partner on the beach for our regular Tuesday session.
This consisted of:
Walk 900m to warm up, then stretch - continual stream of chatter
Jog 900m, then stretch
6x100m soft sand runs
10x40m hard sand sprints with a walk back in between each one.
2x100m soft sand runs, with last one in a fast run
Lots of stretching & talking in between.
This all took us 50minutes.

One of the guys at work has just come back from Port Macquarie, where he did an Ironman Triathlon... wow, certainly not for the faint hearted.
It consists of 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and 42km run. The last 5ks on his run he was doing 5minute kilometres - pretty bloody good for the last moments of such an incredible effort. He did it in just over 12 hours. Sensational stuff!!