Not much hope

I don't think there's much hope of me posting a weigh in on Monday in the fifties. I haven't seen last Mondays' weight (60.3) since then, it must have been a particularly "light" day. I'm still at 60 point something, but the 50's might have to be another week away. But I would REALLY like to be in teh 50's for the big race NEXT WEEKEND.

OMG- its next week!!!! and I'm already starting to feel edgy and nervous. I've been training for this event for the last 8 monnths and now its finally here - what if my hamstring isn't healed in time, what if I have one of those "bad" running days? What if my family all beat me? (They are all entering as runners, even my 10 year old, and none have done any training, how much of a goose will I feel?) So many nerves - I'm not sure how I'll get through the week.

I'm starting to have a sense of how athletes feel before a big event. I have been reading a blog written by someone who trained for a triatholon, then a1/2 ironman, andthen a full ironman. Reading her throughs (he he, I must have ESP), I can see the same mental anguish, fear, anticiptation and pain, just on a much smaller scale! Its started me thinking about what my goals should be after this.. The gym are going to hold a triatholon in the future - you can do the whole thing individually, or in a team and do one leg each. I was thinking of a team, and I'd take the running leg - but maybe after the race I should take up cycling and swimming - to add variety to my exercise. Can't do either of them for shit - but then I couldn't run either 8 months ago - now I reckon I could keep training for a 1/2 marathon - so...... WE'll see. At the moment the only definite goal I have is to be able to do all of the ridiculous bicep/tricep pushup combos in the new release of Combat on my toes, before the next release is out (about three months) Has anyone else tried these - they are hard work! And 1 handed pushups!

Injury update - I have spent the last week xtraining most days to try and keep my fitness up. Have warmed up on the treadmill, tried a slow run, stopped after 1 min feeling the hammy, then done combat, plus either the bike or the elliptical. I must have looked a sight doing combat earlier in teh week as I couldn't do any right sided kicks and knee lifts - but did them with great gusto on the left! By the way I also noticed one day with my HR monitor on when warming up walking 6kms/hr - which used to be my ultimate goal speed for walking - that I couldn't even get my HR near training zone - it sat at about 109 - ie walking does nothing for me anymore! I think thats good! Any way - felt fit and strong on Friday - fully functioning in combat - so went for a slow, short road run this morning to test the hammy. I could feel it straight away lower down, but not in the area I had injured - and it was definitely better part way through the run when it was warmer. But as soon as I finished I felt a twinge in the butt (the injured area) but nothign more. So I guess its healing, and I should stick with xtraining this week again - may be have a last run on Wed/thursday. My fitness felt really good though - so that was encouraging. Hopefully this will be enough to see me through to Sunday.
If you've made it this far, hopefully this means I haven't bored you to tears with this long post.
Cheers
Lisa