Ill too

Think I am getting sick as well as being injured now! My wife and son have been sick all week and I think that I am slowly coming down with it too.

I woke up at 11am this morning and only woke up then because my son was off school and feeling better so he woke me up.

Because my son was home and he was ill I didn't want to take him too far from home so I didn't pick up my bike from Crucial.

We did head out a bit later and went shopping and too a quick look at the track which still isn't rideable as the weather was too wet to finish the last straight this week.

On a more positive note my knee is feeling much better although it is still swollen and a bit sore still.

I have decided that I am going to take this week off and then start at the gym next week first thing on Monday morning (5am). 

Gym wise I am planning to do Upper Body Weights on Monday and Thursday's And for the time being I am going to do light aerobic exercises (mainly exercise bike and recumbant bike for the next couple of weeks) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday's until my knee is better. Once my Knee is better I plan to do Upper Body on Monday and Thursdays, Lower Body on Tuesday and Fridays and Aerobic on Wednesdays. 

I am going to hold off on doing too much BMX Sprint training until the new year once I have done a month or so of Weight training to strengthen my knee back up. 

I plan to start doing Manual training as soon as my knee is able to straighten properly (hopefully in a week or so).

My main priority at the moment is getting the knee healthy followed by dropping weight followed by improving my manuals followed by getting into race shape for next season.

No Riding Today

Went to Crucial BMX this morning and picked up my Yess 24" and dropped off the 20" to get dialled in and get the new Rennen chain ring put on it.

I then went to the track from Crucial but as I got to the Junction to go to the track it started throwing it down so I aborted the mission for the Day.

When I got home I decided to wash the Dialled and get it on ebay to sell.

The bike looked amazing after its wash. Here are the Photo's I used for the ebay add:

I am not too worried about training today as it is probably better that I rest up as I have a basketball tournament tomorrow so I will have to play 2 full games of basketball.

I have just found out that there is a 24 hour gym opening in town next week so I am going to go there on Monday and sign up then I can do 5am workouts when I am working earlies before work and either 11pm or 2am workouts when I am working nights. Hopefully after a month or so of working out my knee pain will go away again like it usually does.

Cross Training - 01/11/17

Did a bit of cross training tonight and played a Basketball Match for an hour.

I am going to do more of this as Basketball is a really good way to drop weight and strengthen the legs at the same time.

I am going to start training every Sunday at 5pm for 1.5 hours and then on my weeks that I work earlies I am going to train at a local school on Thursday nights for an hour and a half and also play Matches with my team on Wednesday nights.

Hopefully all of this will mean that I drop weight and also get back into some kind of Basketball form so that I can play at a higher level again.

I went to see the track this afternoon too as it is being reformed at the moment and it is looking good the third straight is really big but there is loads of places to improve and the 4th looks like it will be really good to practice pumping and manuals as it is filled with deep rollers. Cant wait to be able to ride it this time next week.

Because of the track maintenance I will have to go to Bristol more next week to get my track time in which isn't a bad thing as the Bristol track is much longer than the Bath track. I will be doing my normal Monday full laps on Monday and Tuesday I will be doing pump laps and then probably some jumping and maybe some flat manual practice as well.