Finally got my training plan for the next month or so. This will get me started (after my recent two months of Boot Camp) on my journey to completing the half marathon in October.

By the end of the month, I’ll be doing:

• Four jogs a week of 5kms each
• Two bike rides of 5kms each
• A series of strength exercises for my legs, back and core muscles

The sarge has got me exercising 5 days a week and I’ll soon be riding and/or running to and from work in Mt Eliza. It’ll definitely be a challenge but I’m committed to doing it. Gotta start on Monday!

The Boot Camp physical
This morning we had our end of month physical. I didn’t go to well with the strength exercises. I beat my previous scores for both the Beep Test and the 2km run.

Now that I got past 7 in my beep test, I’m officially a Boot Camp “Alpha”! This is the group which gets the harder exercises and longer runs. I’m not looking forward to running with Bertha on the next hell week!
Here’s my progress over the last two months:

Beep Test (VO2 Max)

• Started at: 3.8
• After the first month: 5.8
• Today: 7.1

2km run

• Started at: 14m 52s (walked a lot of it!)
• After the first month: 11m 49s (ran all of it!)
• Today: 10m 51s (ran all of it except for a 5 sec breather half way)

All in all, I’m pretty happy with the progress. Let’s see how I rate in September when Boot Camp proper starts up again!

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