On Saturday I ran to Kentish Town….it was about 6 odd miles to get there. On the way back I discovered my Everest …Highgate Hill in Archway next to the Whittington hospital….That is one steep hill and to be honest it made me its bitch. My back was in tatters and the joy I had felt earlier by running the hills of Hornsey soon evaporated.
The way everyone at EKBJJ makes me their bitch I was made to feel by this damn hill…and it told me one thing in no uncertain terms while I can run and have been doing as well as my bike work…I have neglected my strength and balancing work…..Like my old coach Jason Kelly taught me conditioning is not just the aerobic and anaerobic but the muscular and skeletal. Terms like proprioception which Jonny Silmon taught me the value of…I had ignored…..
As long as I did the running I had convinced/lied to myself that I can neglect do the conditioning, the stability ball, the need to do anaerobic…Yeah I was doing my bizarre hyrbrid of yoga/kata/kembagan/wai khru before each run.. The muscles were loosened up and warm…but they lacked the fibre I was demanding but had been… yep too lazy to put into place
Monday I did some of the Steve Maxwell body exercises, used the lat pull down machine and my back felt stronger for the first time in ages. And while I have lost some of the tiger blood (sorry Charlie) ….by heeding the wisdom of Dai Goh Dais like Diamond Stan and Jonny Harimau
I am in a wonderful relationship right now, but that is no excuse for me to indulge my inner sloth…time for me to just bring it..bring on the Bas, just bring it….
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