Panic

Been to the gym and a couple of times, including today, but am now really just doing running, exclusively. Someone on the Football team said he just wants me to do cardio to get fit. I'm not sure how serious he was being, but that's what is actually going to be useful to me so it is now going to be the majority of what I do at the gym.
My visit today was a Football related run and it wasn't particularly fun. I mixed in sprints with fast running, slow running and walking, but nothing for any more than 2 minutes. I did it for 45 minutes and was pretty tired at the end, which isn't great, but at least I lasted up to then.
I'm playing my first ever matches with the team this weekend and I'm pretty nervous. It's an 8-a-side tournament on full size pitches and the matches are all 10 minutes. As far as I know, there are only 8 of us going, so I'm going to have to play every game and I'm probably going to be completely knackered after 2... or maybe the first 1... I haven't got any skills in the locker to impress and gloss over the heavy panting, so I'll just have to defend stoutly and try not to make any mistakes.
I've just had a pie(and some weird 'gravy' I made to go with it... it was strange) to put back on any calories I've burnt off and am about to go on a drive with Mum. However much it'll be great to have the freedom of driving, I still dread each time I go out... But I'm 21 and it's getting silly.

Freedom...

I moved it up a notch today with a 6 mile run and a sprint at the end. I held the sprint for a minute and it completely knackered me out, which felt great! I feel like I should be running on the road because it's all I've really been doing at the gym, but I think I'd be more likely to stop when I got a bit tired if I was on the road. I did a few other exercises too for a bit of a stomach workout, but nothing big.
I have Football training tomorrow evening and I'm hoping my legs aren't sore at all from the run. They seem fine at the moment so it's looking good.
Also learning to drive at the moment. This is actually my third stint because I never really stick at it as I really dislike it. But now I'm at the point where it's just annoying not having the freedom and I want to be able to drive back from Bath to play Football at home twice a week so I really need to stick at it this time! haven't gone for a drive today but tomorrow we're going for a longer one than yesterday and going to try and get a bit closer to the city.

Back in the game!

So I just got back from Football training and it wasn't as horrible as I was anticipating. The sprints were easier this time, but I think that's down to them being made slightly shorter rather than being better at them. I'm guessing the manager thought they were a bit mean last time.
I've also been for a run at the gym the last two days, doing 5 miles with a sprint at the end both times. They weren't as bad as I thought, as I anticipated hell after not going for a proper run for about 3 weeks or something. I feel like I'm back in to it now and it helps that I've been to the Pub the last two nights and have completely avoided alcohol drinking only squash and water. Go me!
Football training again on Tuesday will hopefully( and I can't believe I'm saying this) be a bit more punishing, because I really need to get fitter for matches!

Detox

Ok, so I'm probably not going to properly detox in any sort of way, but I definitely need to eat better after the past week. It has been an amazing week though! 2000trees festival was absolutely incredible and I'm buying a ticket for next year as soon as I have the money. Then the visit to Exeter was great too. I probably spent half the time laughing.
Now I'm back and I don't have any massive things planned for a while I am gonna try and properly get back in to the gym. I'm going for a run today that will probably be horrible, but I obviously need to get back in to it.
Wish me luck!

Football

Yesterday was the start of pre-season training and, my god, some of it was tough. The intense fitness training was punishing. We had to run a series of sprints(more like fast runs) to and from cones and get back to the start within 25 secs, doing that 5 times with 30 second rests in between. Obviously that doesn't mean much if you don't know the distances, but I'm pretty sure that combined distance was over 100m and it had 3 turns in it. The fourth and fifth were horrible, but that kind of thing always feels worth it. We also did a series of exercises that included burpees, mountain walking and some little bend-jump thing. The rest was ball-related stuff and the match at the end was fun.
If I hadn't of been invited I probably would never have turned up, so now I have been once I am happy to keep going! I'm off to a festival for three days now though and then off to a friend's for a couple of nights in Exeter a day after I get back from that, so not much fitness for me over the next week :S

Forgetful...

Well, this last week hasn't been the most productive... I played Football on Monday and got myself a nice blister because I wore socks with holes in. Doh! Tuesday morning I didn't realise I was supposed to be working, which was stupid, and then I made the same mistake Wednesday morning. Lucky I get on with my boss as I probably would have suffered by missing two shifts in a row anywhere else.
I played Football Wednesday night too and, even though I wore two pairs of socks with no holes in, my blister was quite painful after. I also went to the gym twice this week, but didn't run either time because of the blister, so I just did weights. Neither session was particularly great, but it's better than not going.
The problem with not having been to the gym much is that I feel much guiltier about eating rubbish and drinking, which happened again because a mate had a free house. Though playing a game of Risk probably burned all the calories...

Naughty Week...

Oh dear, so after a weekend of naughtiness I thought I'd got my exercise back on track. After one day of that seeming true, I ended up spending 3 days at my mate's house. Not only did we go in to town two of those three nights, we also had pizza for tea every night and food in town after the night out. I spent way too much money and have let myself down a bit. I'm going to try and avoid going out for a week because I want to avoid drinking, but also because I don't think I can afford it.
What I can afford is going to the gym! I went yesterday, but I was pretty hungover so it wasn't the most productive session. I did try that crazy 8s thing I've mentioned before and I just about managed to do it. I had to stop briefly on the way down but a friend drove me on. It was horrible, but I might put that down to being hungover and having already done all the other thigh weight machines in the gym because some guy was just sat on the leg press doing nothing for ages...
I really didn't feel like a run as I thought I'd be sick, so I just tuck with the leg weights and then went on the cross-trainer for a bit at the end because I've never used it before. It feels a bit weird to me, so maybe it takes a bit of getting used to?
Time to start eating better again and that can start today! Bring on a run tomorrow!