American Dietitus

Having now been in the US for over a month, a few variables have all come together to result in a mild case of American Dietitus.

- No weekly 5-a-side football (I've looked but no local clubs need any players - boo!)
- More weights and less cardio work - I'm spending time in the gym, but not enough running, as routes round here seemed less than ok.
- Lots of dinners and drinks with colleagues and other HRLPs, have lead to an increase in beer consumption, and more burgers and hot dogs than I can remember..

SO! Back to it. Less beer, and less terrible food!

It's really nowhere near as bad as I'm making it sound, but really what has suffered is my cardiovascular fitness. Therefore I have been concentrating on more road running the last week. However you will see below what I mean about american dietitus - I must try harder!

Wednesday
Ran 7Km down to the very tip of South Norwalk (main town area) and then straight back again.  Given fitness had suffered, I did stop a few times to walk - but not so much that the time suffered massively.



Thursday
We had a day - long work out at work which meant that someone ordered pizza for lunch.. It did come with chicken salad, but I still ended up eating 2 large slices of pizza. So back to the gym!

Run: 1 mile, 8min20
Cross trainer: 6 min, no hands, level 10.

Chest Press
58.3kg x 7
52kg x 8 x 8

Chin ups
4 x 3.5

Leg Press
93kg x 11

At this point I decided it would be better to run more, so went for a quick 3km run - however the pizza really gave me very little energy and it took 17min!

Friday
Rest day - met up with HRLPs for after work drinks and dinner. Ate possibly the hottest burger ever at http://www.gingermannorwalk.com/ - A great evening!

Saturday
Given that I'd had beers and burger the previous evening, and that I was shortly off to see the Yankees at Yankee Stadium - I ran a 26.59 min 5.1km with a very similar route to the route above.

Sunday
Given Id spent the day eating hot dogs and drinking beer (it had to be done - it was the baseball!) - I set out this morning for a longer run. Same route as previously, but with the aim of going down further into South Norwalk (achieved). 9Km in 48 min. I'm actually quite happy with it, despite that it looks like it was a bad time. I had to stop a couple of times to drink water in the shade as it was HOT - which is why the avg pace looks so bad. The average moving pace is better.


Aim to run at least 10km this working week, and the gym at least once as well. Best case scenario, I manage to make it to the Norwalk Whalers Ultimate Frisbee - if they don't cancel this time!