All kinds of sore

Image courtesy of and (c) AfroGeeks

In the past 5 days I have:

• done weights training twice
• been for a run (~4km) twice
• attended two parkour classes (my first two)

It doesn't seem like much when I list it like that. Nonetheless. I am sore.

But I feel fantastic. I feel strong, reasonably fit, and like I have taken a solid couple of steps down this road to Midoriyama. Last night at parkour I achieved something I thought would take me a few months to work up to. Basically two horizontal bars about 2m apart, and I wanted to swing from one to the other. Similar setup to the Jumping Bars:

Image courtesy of and (c) Sasukepedia

Sickie schedule

I've been sick the past week. My body has amazing timing. I challenged myself to get up at 5am throughout May, which worked a treat because I mostly had the weights to myself at that time of the morning. And then on 2 June I got hit hard with a cold. My first sick leave in two years, right at the beginning of June. And it was right after I hit a pretty big milestone -- 105kg squats, 110kg deadlifts.

Back to the gym yesterday, easing into it. Dropped back to 80kg for squats, to make sure I'm getting all the way down to a right-angle. (I wasn't before, but didn't want to push it in case I missed my incremental increase.) Then a short run this morning. And now my legs (and glutes) are saying "hey what happened to sofa time?"