Bigman nobbles his knee

Due to a personal engagement last night, Bigman missed out on another nights training last night.

Tonight the plan was to put in a good shift to catch up and burn off some of these lawyers cakes. In the event, Scotrail conspired to 'de-rail' the plan. Having jumped off the Glasgow train and skipped across the platform to return to the Kingdom of Fife on a north bound train heading for Dunfie, the train broke down at South Gyle and then limped to the bridge whilst letting the express trains north go by.

In the end, he chugged along to the gym for 19.00.

A warm up on the step machine for 30 minutes watching the history of Scottish Munros and their 'inventor'. Did you know the In-Pin was not on his list of Munro's! That burnt off 350 calories and then onto the treadmill for 30 minutes.

Well, that was the plan. And then after 4 and half minutes his knee crumpled. First of all he started to take more of the strain on the right knee and then it became just plain silly to carry on. He assumed he had taken a knock at footie on Sunday.

Then it was a session on the weights with 100 situps closely following.

It was time to test the knee on a bike. This had been put off long enough. Would he go for level and 10 and take it 'easy' or go full pelt for level 15 and take a risk?

Plan B. Give it a go. It held.

45 minutes later and 550 calories later and the knee felt good. The harder part was getting the heart rate to stay above 150 bph. A good sign. Having made a huge puddle (and not because of doing an Ironman or even a Paula Radcliffe) it was a great session albeit Bigman will need to stay off the treadmill to allow the swelling on the kneecap to go down

49 days tomorrow, the posse ecosse flies out to South Arica. Take off 7 days for tapering and then a further 6 days rest over the six weeks and we are down to 36 more training days!

It is great to see the light nights returning.