When I woke up at 6 am I was genuinely concerned that we'd be pushing on the track in the pitch black it was so dark. Even when we were arriving at Uni it hadn't really started to get light. I'd never been to the track so early in all my 4 years I spent in Bath - but there's a first time for everything.
I'd worried for nothing though as come 8 am it was light (ish) as we walked up to the push track. No preamble was provided it was just 'spike up and get to it'. Abbie went first, one of my roomies and the youngest in the group. I was second. We had 6 runs and it went well for the first session I think. We always have to start off both sides which stresses me out somewhat as I find going on the left quite difficult (probably something to do with me being a right foot take off?). Last time I went on my wrong side I scraped my feet and legs and ripped my spikes :( So I was sort of dreading the left especially seeing as I had brought my new spikes with me this time not the one's I'd ripped. But my spikes survived as did I. We get to watch some video footage tomorrow so that will be useful as it doesn't always feel right but I can't tell why yet. My main problem is pushing through the sled and running far enough to maximise the sled acceleration. So that is my focus for the remaining 3 push sessions we have.
Here is a video from today's session: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152829501582238
The rest of the day involved some educational sessions about the British bobskeleton programme, performance lifestyle for bobskeleton, nutrition for strength and power and recovery. These were useful and I did pick up some good pointers especially for when we go to Lillehammer. The nutrition talk confirmed a lot of what I know and do already. There was a lot of protein and hypertrophy chat which is a little scary - I don't plan to 'get big'.
The other bit of exercise we did was to go in the gym and get our strength programmes. We only had an hour so couldn't do the full session in terms of sets but we did get an idea of the exercises and techniques. Although I would have definitely liked longer in the gym. I did several new exercises so fully expect to be sore in the morning - particularly in the hamstrings and the adductors (inner thigh). Add this to the expected hip flexor DOMS and I may have a funny walk tomorrow.
Tonight involved a trip to Sainsburys, dinner (lasagne), cards and Made in Chelsea. Rock n Roll. We are really getting on board with the full-time athlete life.
Until tomorrow x
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