OK weekly summary time

Didn't train Friday because had chiro appointment and assumed that I'd be training in the gym on both Saturday and Sunday as previously arranged with Kristine. Unfortunately something came up and she had to cancel on me today so I only managed 5 boxing trainings this week.

I am thinking about Scraps resistance band stuff in a new light though so plan to spend a bit of time looking at that tonight and do some core work. After that I want to go and try Hitmandonny's 'changing the oil' sauna and water drinking thing at the aquatic centre. I might go for a swim as well but haven't been for a couple of weeks because for some reason they cut the pool opening hours on us in January to times which were not convenient. Hopefully that was just temporary and I can start going back again soon.

Today I got up early and I brought my long run back. I woke up in a sweat after having a nightmare about having to go back to my former job working at Mc Donalds and really needed to run off some nervous tension! Actually it is currently a 30 min walk to warm up before a 1.5 hour run but I'll gradually build it up to a solid 2 hours and then hold it there for a while so i can build speed. This is adding an extra cardio session but I think it'll be ok. No soreness yet and it's the afternoon now - I didn't even need to sleep afterwards so i can't have worked too hard!  :P I finished the last 7 mins 30 secs fast, 30 secs slow just to let the muscles remember a slightly faster pace than I ran with for most of the run too.

Did my weekly cook up yesterday - a beef stirfry with pearl barley and lots of veggies and cashew nuts (very happy with this one) and a chicken rice and veggies thingy. Last cook up was a creamy pasta with bacon and chicken plus some other rice, veggies meal which I forget - anyway still going through them so I'll have 4 different meals to choose from for a while. I think the past one is a bit too high in carbs relative to veggies but am reasonably happy with the rest. I also decided to put a limit on my indulgence in my dark chocolate addiction. I read recently that dark chocolate is high in antioxidants which help reduce the rate of aging etc by scavenging free radicals - same as vitamin C but even more. I have since decided I LOVE dark chocolate with 85 % cocoa but was sometimes having a whole 100 g block in one sitting. So I bought a few blocks, broke them up and rewrapped them separately in 25 g portions so I'll have only one portion a day.