JCC 2016 Fitness Goals

Well as long as you don't end up keeping certain body parts in a jar, I think you'll be fine!

 

Google says it's basically a harmless dumb rash. But I don't want to live with stupid bumps on my inner thighs for the rest of my life. I can't imagine having to explain that before seeeeeex. "No, really, it's not herpes. We're totally cool."

 

I've been continuing my 10k training plan. Two speed sessions a week, one being half marathon/ 10k pace threshold and the other 800m and mile repeats. Amazing how the body adjusts to this kind of treatment. At the start of the programme holding 4min / km pace for any time at all was a struggle, but after three weeks I can do four one mile repeats with 90 second rests at that speed. All I have to do now is learn how to do six of them in a row!

 

Ezio, there are certain things that really don't need to show up on the "post a pic of yourself" thread, know what I mean?

Seriously, hope the appointment goes well for you.

 

Haven't posted for ages because my training is all about volume at the moment, which isn't very interesting to talk about, but it's great to pop in and see that people are still getting out and doing some meaningful movement now the weather's cooled.

When you're in the strength game, every now and then you get a really strange request. A couple of years ago I ended up modelling for a (nude) statue of Odysseus. The sculptress wanted someone in their 40s who was genuinely strong. Today, I received a request from ITV (a UK television channel) to do some kind of fruit-based strength challenge (they suggest crushing apples or breaking coconuts) for a show called 'Go for it'.

My friend Mayyah was on the show a while back bending frying pans, briefly included in this clip:



I think I'll give this one a miss but they've contacted a few people from my old gym in London so hopefully I'll see one of my friends obliterating fruit in the not-to-distant future.

 

That's awesome! I think I have to reconsider my fitness regimen. Nobody ever wants to see marathon runners posing nude or crushing fruit on TV!

Edit: There are exceptions...

 

Eurghh... just saw this clip featuring the founder of Bikram yoga. Even creepier than Trump.



I'm used to having to wipe up a small puddle of sweat on deadlift day or when doing kettlebell ballistics but hot yoga is ridiculous imo.

 

Went for a three mile run after my doctor's appointment. Realized during the run that maybe that wasn't so great of an idea, since the doc had sliced into my thigh to take samples of the rash (which, btw, he decided wasn't a rash but a growth that he's going to test for cancer). Running with your inner thigh having recently been sliced by an x-acto knife is fairly unpleasant, as I just learned.

I also learned that the mental worrying is pretty devastating. I can't focus in school. Can't focus on homework or anything else. All I think about is this damn issue now. What it could be, or mean. What it could mean for the kids.

October is traditionally my favorite month of the year. But with the work drama and this thing, October 2016 has been pretty awful.

 

Damn... hope you get the results back soon and they're all clear

 

Hope everything goes well for you Ezio!

 

This dude gives me a bad vibe. Like he's psycho or something. Wasn't he accused of rape?

 

Ezio, even if it is the worst, be glad that you found it early. Nip it in the bud, man, nip it in the bud.

 

When do you find out the results?

 

Wouldn't surprise me. I've heard a lot of bad things about him over the last few years but that's the first time I've ever heard/seen him talk. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. Really bad vibe.

 

Two weeks, if not earlier.

 

I found it unbearable.

Edit - I hope the results come through early

 

Sorry you're stuck with this worry, Ezio. Lots of things it could be rather than cancer, though, the doctor is probably just playing safe.

 

My 2016 fitness goals? Ask me in 2017.

 

Sorry to hear about this Ezio. As others have said, could be lots of things and even if worst case, you're on it early.

 

I don't know what it is, but lately I've been scarfing down bread. I've eaten two loaves in two weeks, dipping the slices in olive oil with Italian seasoning. So much for my diet of spinach salads...I have bags of spinach being ignored in the fridge.

 

This is one of those 'I really want to offer some advice but this thread isn't about that' moments!

In other - shocking - news, I may be entering an endurance event this winter

Really want to do it, but I'm hesitant as I've got a decent shot at being british champ in my weight/age category next year in my powerlifting federation but not if I take 3 months out training completely different energy systems for a 3 day endurance event. Stupid body, why can't it be good at everything at once?

 

Unhinged, if you're waiting for an invitation, I'm always interested in your advice. It's probably not for me anyway, but it's still worth reading, IMO.