I’m going to Cairns!

Well should I say WE are going to Cairns!  At rather short notice we have arranged a trip up there to train Kristin in program writing, which she is excited about, and this will double as our holiday for 2008.  We’ve combined it with our trip to Adelaide to see Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander on 28 April.  So, will drive to Adelaide, and fly out on the Tuesday to Cairns, spend a few days with Kristin, and then head up to Palm Cove to relax for a week!  I will be in comp prep so will be training my bum off and dieting but, I will be taking the week off from work so that will be nice.  The following Friday I head off to Brisbane again!!  No rest for the wicked.  I think that might be the end of tripping around until after the comp, apart from visiting Sandy of course.

Entered my food into Calorie King today and sent off to Sandy.  My carbs weren’t high enough so need to increase my oats at Meal 1 and she is going to have a closer look tomorrow and rejig it a bit.

Training

Crap!!  I am so deconditioned leg training wise.  My program consists of just knee extension and leg press, curls and stiff leg deadlifts at present due to my injury.  After straight setting I had to superset one legged leg press and one legged extensions.  I lifted wussy little weights and the lactic acid burn was intense.  I didn’t want to overdo it and also wanted to see what effect it would have on my hip and lower back when I wake up tomorrow.  I am seeing the osteopath this week, thank goodness.  It’s been over 5 weeks since I sustained this injury and it should be fixed by now!   I did 20 mins on the bike after training and actually enjoyed it!  It doesn’t affect my hip at all which is good.  Tomorrow I have cardio in the morning, will do 30 mins, and then Jode and I are training chest and abs.  Wed is another double session, then I have Thursday off and Friday just training.  I’ve scheduled it that way as I am program writing on those days.

Thursday night we are going to see Glenn Archer and support the Roos at a $100 head dinner.  This will be my off diet day for this week I think, unless I decide otherwise.

I can’t sleep at the moment, I think due to the fact I have a couple of things on my mind business wise.  Generally I have been sleeping well and down to 1mg per night now.  I might go and listen to some relaxation tunes after this to switch off.

Had a beautiful dinner last night, outdoors at the Spanish Bar & Grill.  I had lamb backstrap, medium rare.  It was melt in the mouth.  We had a very productive chat re business goals too, so we are both fired up to do plenty of things this year.

I bought some new Asics off ebay a couple of weeks ago.  What would have cost me $260 here, cost about $110, including postage.  They are the exact same ones I have now so I knew they would fit.  They are so shiny and new compared to my grungy old ones! 

Ok, well that’s about all I have to say for the moment!