BFL – D23: Grinding away
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Yesterday I began the 4th week of my BFL challenge. I must say, in all honesty, week 3 was a sumbitch. I got that damn cold last Sunday and it niggled me the whole week.
Monday’s session was chest and biceps again. Apparently I am getting stronger, but I certainly didn’t feel it. On the upside, my shoulder is feeling a lot better, so I am hoping to do more on the bench press side of things. Those machines are just not quite the same.
Something I have noticed is the power of music when I am doing my cardio workouts. If I just listen to the crap they play on the gym audio system I find myself focussing too much on what’s going on around me. If I play my iPhone and select my own up-beat playlists there is a marked improvement in my ability to focus on dropping the time it takes me to do a 10km cycle. In the past week I have been hovering around the 21m50s mark, but I have gradually been whittling that down and today I crushed my old best of 20m32s by almost a minute. I got there in 19m43s. Thank you David Bowie! Your Jean Genie gave me a lift I sorely needed!
