Re: 2008 Competition Preparation
thanks all. I am about to start putting on the tan, god it takes such a long time.
I have had an interesting week. I am loving the cardio again, and I am a bit addicted to it.
I did an Indonesian yoga/penjak silat class on Tuesday night and it was really, really, really hard. My legs were sore for two days after.
I am going to carry on with it, it was awesome, and works different muscles as well as self defense/martial arts and great for flexibility and balance.
This is the really fun bit. Just like everywhere else in the western world, MMA is catching on big style in England, and a new martial arts shop has opened up on my little high street.
My hairdresser told me about the owner (also on my funky little high street), who seems really cool and peaceful, and he is an instructor of Wing chun/tsun, which I may also try a few classes with my hair dresser.
At work I have been on point of care testing, which is quite an interesting section. While we don't do much clinical stuff or testing samples while on POCT, it is very technical, taking care of a lot of the analysers that are used on patients out on the wards, blood gas analysers, glucose analysers etc.
I am out on all the odd wards people rarely see unless they are very sick, like AE resus, ITU/ICU cardiac ITU, NICU (neo-natal care unit), labour ward, theatres and recovery.
I am walking loads and also seeing a few wonderful sites (new babies and moms), some really disturbing sites in AE/ER resus, and some really interesting bits in theatres (this is cardiac surgery).
It does motivate one to stay in shape.
Anyway, I am really enjoying myself.
The odd bit at work is that we do have an on-call system (basically we are there the entire time though), and this means we need another person to work from 8 am-8 pm to take over from the on call person and hand over them, while most people work the normal 9-5 30.
We now only have 5 people who are doing the 8-8 or extended day shifts, so very short staffed. Not great for fitting in training, it is great for acquiring more annual leave, I think I have three extra weeks from this year alone.
SO, I am going to have a rough work schedule till we hire someone or get our trainees qualified, it will be at least four months.
Anyway, after one of these long days yesterday (and I got up at 5 am to go for a run), I went to the gym even though I was a bit tired.
I dropped a 20 kg/45 lb plate on my foot.
OMG, it was seriously painful, my first thought was that I had broken it.
Of course this was the first thing I did in the gym, so I didn't train.
I almost cried, thinking I wouldn't be able to walk for my qualifer tomorrow, even though there is another one for this federation.
I am fine though, I went for a run today.
I will let you know if I do qualify ASAP, it will be dead embarassing if I have to do another, but it will be a steep learning curve.
My condition is a wee bit better, still not brilliant by any means.
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