I was planning on getting up at 4:45 and going to the gym but when I woke up I was super tired and my knee was hurting so I decided to go back to sleep until 6:30 then got iup and did my weigh in and was 0.1kgs heavier today so not too bad as I ate a bunch of carbs again yesterday!
I then worked until 12:00 when I made and cooked 12 pigs in blankets and ate 6 of them for breakfast and saved the other 6 for later in the day!
This afternoon I have to take my son into Bristol for him to talk to the Airforce recruiters about the best way for him to go forwards with enlisting once he has finished his A levels this time next year so not going to get any exercising in today other than walking so I am taking today as a full rest day and will only make sure that I have made over 10000 steps by the end of the day!
I may pop into the office later on and do some bits then I have time to go to the gym in the morning as I urgently need to start building up my left knee as it is still really sore and the only way to ease the pain is to strengthen the knee up doing leg weights!
As I said yesterday I really need to start to focus on consistently going to the gym 3x a week for the rest of the year to try and heal and strengthen my body ready for the rigours of racing again next year! I also need to start consistently doing sprints 2-3 times a week too to build leg speed. I think by October I should be ready to start doing squats and plyometrics again which will really help me to get faster on the track. This will give me 5-6 months of proper training before the start of the season so I should be in really good shape by then!
I am going to reduce the amount of track time I have while I am training to try and reduce burn out from riding all the time so I plan to do gates on Thursday nights until it gets too dark then do gates on Saturdays and also Saturday and Sunday ride the bike then Monday, Wednesday and Friday lunch times I will do sprints and then move to track skills and that will be me for now. I plan to use track session to work on skills from now until the end of the year to work on track skills such as manuals and jumping then at the start of next year I will start getting full speed laps in.
As I said before I think I will do the Gym on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings early then my weight days are separate from my Sprint/ track days so I should be as fresh as I can be. I basically want to get to the position where most days I am only doing one form of exercise other than walking which I will do every day then I can avoid being really tired and over training!