Back on trails

So, week 2 began. I already have one session on my track record: Felt good...

Started this challenge at the beginning of this year, so this is the summary of my first week of training: Tuesday - 43 minutes at an average pace of 6.40min/km. Average HR of 83% and 6.5k done. Wednesday - 45 minutes, avegare pace of 6.23 min/km. Average HR of 83% and 7.15k done Friday - 38 minutes, 6.31 min/km, 82% av HG and 5.9k done Saturday - 51 minutes, 5.59min /km, 87% av HR and 8.7k done Sunday - 1h30 of padel with the friends. The body feels well. A bit of soreness, but perfectly manageable. This, for me, is very important. I know the first weeks are a pain. When you have your responsibilities, you cannot give yourself that killer workout that gives you that  new walk for  2 or 3 days. Face the facts, you do not have strenght to endure longer runs and start enjoying, right away, but results will appear.

As the title says: 10k under 50 minutes. First of all, You have to plan you progress in the long term. Consult your Medical doctor, run some blood tests and do an ECG before starting any strenuous physical activity. I did that: everything's fine (no High blood pressure, no blood sugar, no cholesterol and an olympic athlete resting heart rate of 47 BPM). It's as if my heart is asking me to be put under pressure... How am I going to do this while juggling family, work and a PhD thesis on the way? Careful planning and ensuring that I don't get injured in the way... With that being said, I'll be reassessing my plans every 2 weeks and adapt it according to how I am feeling and to the load work/family/PhD puts on my days. So here it goes: For the first two weeks, I plan on doing 4-5 sessions per week. The goal is to put my muscles and cardiovascular system under pressure and see how the respond to this load. I plan on doing short 40min sessions, and a longer, 1h se...

Hi there, The purpose of this blog is to keep track of my journey to getting back in shape. A bit of a background: I got FAT during my early twentys. For a sports person (Handball and MTB), I got to 96Kg. That's a lot for a 1,75m person. I also used to have quite unhealthy habits: smoked for 15 years and it got to a point where I would smoke about 20 cigerretes per day.  3 years ago, at the age of 33 and carrying 88 kg, I decided to change my habits. Simple thing, lose weight and quit smoking. Back to exercising was not on my priority list back then, because I was heavy and didn't want to put too much stress on my knees. And so it happened! Lost 10kg and haven't touched a cigarrete since. Now, my goal has changed, I can get back on the trails without worrying too much about the load I carry. For the last year, I've been doing around 1-2 hours of low intensity sports (Padel) per week, and I feel I am definitely ready for the big change: Start running and prepa...