Beep!

Tomorrow is the first of August, meaning yay oh yay, July is over! Ha!

Right, I started writing that post a couple of days ago and today is already the 2nd of August. We are moving in the right direction.

I am writingnow because in normal circumstances, and despite the rainy weather outside, I would be running at this time of the day. However I feel very hormonal, I just too an Ibuprofen cause I feel very swollen and I know I am PMSing, if not inminently, so I'm not sure I should be running right now, under the risk of injury, tiredness or of rendering the rest of the day useless due to body aches and other random crap related. I wanted to badly to start doing some extra stuff for my physical conditioning that feeling like this makes me feel absolutely shite.

I am naturally a deranged person, so what I had in mind was, and still is, to take a bleep test everyday (two if necessary), to start improving my resistance to the Multi-Stage Fitness Test (from now on, abbreviated MSFT). It is very crazy, but it is achievable, and I think in a way it is the only way to assess what is actually happening with me in terms of fitness. Running up and down hills and crossing bridges and all that crap is fine, even doing series of sprints is fine, but you never know how fit you actually are until you put it to the test. to take as an example, I took the test two days ago and scored 9.2, which is okay for just now, and it is 1.2. more than I am supposed to do in 25 days' time, but I want so badly to get to level 10, that scoring only 9.2 sounds just terrible right now. In all fairness, I did not push myself too much, I felt the first discomforts and stopped, so if it had been the real deal, I could have probably pushed it to 9.5, maybe, but that means I am still over half a level short. I need to get over 10 to actually make sure that I am not going to die or fall short the day of the actual test.

I have also prepared some hill sprinting sessions - something like 10 minutes to start with, and then we'll see if they are working or not. Hill sprinting is apparently an absolute killer, however it is a very good method to improve speed and VO2 max, which in the end is the actual point of the MSFT (I should call it "misfit"). So hopefully, in the next few hours, the painkillers would have made an effect and I can jump into, at least, my compulsory run of the day. I am actually about to update my zones, so it is a bit more difficult for me to achieve the results. I am pushing myself a bit much, I am aware, but only by being out of the comfort zone you can improve. And it's great to develop mental toughness.

Now I'm off to get some work for tonight and tomorrow done, otherwise my legs will be soon stronger than my brain - or my wallet for that matter!