The choice I didn’t think I would make

An update on training and life choices.

This is a very self indulgent post about my training, but I share it as an example if why I bang on a lot about why you need to get really clear on your goals.

Back in April, after the Boston UK marathon didn’t exactly go to plan, my partner suggested I try an autumn marathon. I didn’t want to marathon train through the summer holidays and heat, but there was one race that I thought could work. Valencia Marathon is the first weekend in December and since I would be training for an October half marathon anyway, I could roll this into a December marathon. But the race was full so that plan didn’t happen.

You know what happened next: I signed up for HYROX. My training for this involved going to circuits once a week and doing some weight training. With my half marathon now out the way, the plan way to make the strength training more HYROX specific. This started on Tuesday night with a HYROX class at a local partner gym. The instructor had been recommended to me and I messaged her on Instagram before going along.

It’s fair to say I was a bit nervous about going along. HYROX seems to have attracted a lot of people who have done CrossFit and the gym where I was headed was a previous CrossFit ‘box’. I’d always found the language of CrossFit quite off-putting and almost intimidating - there are so many abbreviations and nicknames for things that it can make you feel like an outsider who doesn’t know what you’re doing. But I put on my big girl pants and went along to the class.