Week 4 Day 5

Gym 30 minutes
Mostly legs, including 100 continuous leg pushes (30kg), 3 sets of on stomach leg raises, 10 pullups.

There is a very significant difference between the strength in my left hamstring, and the power in my right. I reach a point where my right leg simply cannot produce enough power to lift a weight (the lightest weight!) but the left leg can still do another 5 or 6 or 7. So in a way this injury to my foot has helped me see this, right off the bat, as a potentially important area to work on. I'd really rather have an injury now and sort it out, than it all wobbles out in the last few days, or worse, on race day. Having good strength in both legs, and developing equal strength in both legs, is going to make running measurably further and faster more of a viable proposition than it has been over the last few years I think.

So I am going to make it a priority to work on leg raises (lying on stomach) every time I am in the gym.

I am a bit annoyed that I missed today's swim. I overslept and that's a terrible excuse. But I am doing more than I did last week, and if I swim twice this week, then I will swim three times at least next week. I just want to keep improving.

I have a slight sore in my mouth, which is a sign that my immunity is holding on by a thread. I think training on the slightly conservative side, especially with this cold weather, is half of what I need to do. More important is eating, and even more important than that - and such an easy thing is sleep. SLEEEEP! Will try to have a good sleep on Saturday night.

Today is Club Day so a few of us guys are going into Seoul.