Bit of a disastrous evening in the gym tonight.

Rowing was fine – 786 metres, better than Saturday but not as good as last Thursday

Cycling, level 11 – dreadful. I was finding it really difficult to keep going at over 75rpm (the target) and during the fourth minute I could feel my neck starting to throb on both sides, so I stopped.

Walking – not bad – 5.5kph at 2% then 4% as instructed

Squats fine, lunges fine, clean and jerks fine
Lat pulldowns – not fine. On the second set my shoulder did its tearing thing, so I stopped that as well
Single row with tricep kickback – fine

And I couldn’t face doing the core exercises, I had demoralised myself totally. Monday is usually a goodish day but today was just not working.

My new trainers which I love also caused some grief – I was wearing them without socks (hate socks) but the heels cut in and rubbed my heels raw, this was also part of my disinclination to do the core exercises. I was just fed up.

So, on Wednesday I’ll go back to level 10 on the bike, and put 7.5kg each side on the lat pulldown machine, and see how we go.