Run Rabbit Run

Week 6's SSS was the Run Rabbit Run and I still haven't conquered it!! I was so keen to smash out this workout - it sounded brutel, it sounded like hard work and a terrific challenge!!

I wanted in!!

So it's not Saturday - Its Monday - but what the Hell - I want this Rabbit off my back!!

So I slept through my alarm at 430am and slept in until 8am (love school Holidays!!) - so I decided to do it at home instead of the gym. I read through the workout - I can totally pull this off at home!!

I scrounged around for some equipment..... The Run Rabbit Run consists of 4 circuits of 3 exercises each completed 4 times through and separated by a 400m run . 

Well I have my treadmill for the sprints......

Some old 5kg hand weights for the "Dumbell Squat Presses" and the "Walking Lunges with Over Head Weights".....

A rusty old Bar Bell with some rusty old weights for the "Up right rows"......

Threw two chairs together for some "Tricep Dips"......

This unmowed retaining wall will do instead of a box for the "Box Jumps" .....

And a bucket......just in case.....

So I'm all set - start the clock......

Holy Smokes - that was one hell of a workout - numerous times I had the burps, head hung over - but I didn't need the bucket after all.

It was hard going - it was hot (Hmmmm the air-conditioned gym at 5am would have been alot more comfortable than in my yard in the sun at 10am) and there was a moment when Fat Kate was hunched over the Pool Table gasping for air and talking me into quitting - But I didn't - I completed it all 100%.

The recommended speed for the runs was 11km/hr on the treadmill and I was smashing the last 200m out at 12km/hr (mainly just to make it go faster!!) so I'm pretty pleased with that.

I got finished in 1hr and 3 minutes - despite the fact that I forgot to turn off my heart monitor as I was flat out on my back for over 5 mins convincing myself that I could get up :)

The kids came down before I was finished and where cheering me on through the last circuit and the last sprint - There is nothing in the world like hearing the sound of your kids voices shouting "You can do it Mummy!!! You are fast!!! You are strong!!!! - absolute magic!!

So My day of training is not over yet - I shall go to the gym this afternoon to complete my Lean and Strong Monday Workout - I'm certainly not going to fall behind like I did by missing Monday last week.

Negativity Cloud

Wow!! I feel like this last week I have been trapped in a negativity cloud - all I could see was darkness and night insteads of positive light.

It just hit me - 5 weeks to go!!! And I'm further away from my goals than I was when I started - HOW is that possible when I have worked so consistantly, with such determination??? It just didn't make sense to me!!

So I poo poo'ed my whole week really!!

Missed the gym Monday - and Wednesday and spent the rest of the week trying to catch up.  Saturday's Super Session was a right off - and I'm carrying around this cloud of "Surely I can do Better!!"

So this week - this is my goal - To do better!!! To have a God Damn loss on the scales (for the first time in 8 weeks) to RAMP up my workouts with more more more - Obviously "just" following the program is NOT working for me - I need to add, extra classes, extra cardio.

I have 5 weeks to strip this body fat that is weighing me down - that is constantly on my mind, that is covering the beautiful muscles I have spent 7 weeks building!!

I have 5 weeks to count calories every day - in and out and record them ALL in my diary.

I have 5 weeks of posting my diary entry every night - just like in preseason.

I have 5 weeks to FOCUS on the positives in my life and share them daily.

I have 5 weeks to add extra cardio, to step further out of my comfort zone - to push myself to new heights.

I have 5 weeks to DO NOTHING that drags me down, sets me back or makes me disapointed in myself (ie - sticking my finger in left over cake icing!!!!)

I have 5 weeks to go to bed with no regrets and no doubts that I could have done more throughout the day to see me achieve my goals.

And the beginning of that 5 weeks - starts TODAY!!

I'm off to do Saturday's Super Session - the Run Rabbit Run that I have somehow managed to avoid for 2 weeks now - I am going to smash it up, record my results - stay tuned for the low down of how awesome I was during this training session!!!

PUMPED!!!