Recently before this trip I invested in a go pro and I am hoping to start making more and more videos relating to my blog post and travels, so I have made a youtube account. The link to my video is below, so take a look and let me know what you think, and be sure to subscribe if you want to catch more of my videos in the future. So lots of you may have known about my trip to Lanzarote over new year, if you have been following me on instagram. Because I have been so busy in all of January and beginning of February, I haven't had a chance to get this blog post onto the blog, but now is the time. Over Christmas is a great time to go on a training camp, especially a warm weather one, because it is the time of the year where the weather tends to be pretty rubbish and motivation to get out on those cold, dark long runs is pretty low. We had a very early start of 2:30am, which I definitely would not recommend doing, especially if you are planning on not really pausing your training for a day of travelling, because you are going to be pretty tired, and unsurprisingly when it got to 5pm, when we were doing our first session, I was feeling a little dazed it is fair to say. However once that session was done, we headed for an early dinner. Dinner did not disappoint, the buffet style was perfect for everyone, Whether it was pasta, steak, fish, roasted veg or even ice cream, it had it all! My average day was swimming in the morning, normally a 1.5 hour session of about 4km, then a running session in the evening, which really did vary. One day it was a 7km run, one day 800m reps, or one day a long 12km run. Even though we only had just two base sessions, the resort had many many classes to offer during the day. I found myself doing yoga and ab attack everyday. Then also I did a few one off sessions like ariel yoga (photo shown below), it is fair to say this was rather interesting. All my friends loved it but me on the other hand, lets just say I wanted to walk out after 10 mins. Weirdly it made me feel sick, I think it was the hanging and swinging sensation, which I did't really like. The blue track was great and I found my instagram feed turning very blue based, as it was great to take photos on! The week as a whole was seriously tough and by the last day, my legs were well and truly tired, and if you read my blog post KENT CHAMPS my week of hard training in my legs showed in this race, but I did know this was going to happen and but I knew I had to look to the future and the rest of my races in January. I would like to say that my hard training in this week, benefitted for my future races, especially my INTER-COUNTIES. One of the days I did a triathlon, which was great fun. However the swim was in a pool, and open water is definitely my preferred choice but it was nice it being a 50m pool instead of 25m. The cycle... well this wasn't nice. It was so so windy and I pretty much struggled to stay on my bike, let alone actually go fast on it, so this is where I lost lots of time because I was being a cautious rider and didn't want to fall off. With about a quarter of the cycle section left, a boy fell off his bike, which really scared me and made me even slower. At the end of the day I decided that I didn't really mind where I came and I focused on my swim and my run. My run was good, and the feeling of jelly in my legs disappeared after probably about a km. I have had a bit of a different week this week. I had the physio on Thursday and my foot injury which I had been holding for a couple of weeks was assessed and I am now off for 2 weeks, which wasn't what I wanted to hear. I am off to Boston, USA next week, which will be good fun, so I am really excited and hopefully I can pop into a few sports shops and pic up some new bits! I hope you all have had a good weekend, and if you have broken up for half term on Friday you have a relax week off! PS. Don't forget to watch my youtube video! (I have added the it below too). G x
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Abbie :D
2/18/2017 01:56:10 pm
I really enjoyed your video and would love to see more! What software did you use to edit?
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