Fi's Six Week Challenge - One word - Sandhills!

 At the end of last week, I told you I was going to take on the sandhills at Cronulla on Saturday morning.

So, at 7:00 on Saturday morning I met the rest of the East Side Crew Run Club at Bronte Beach and we all got in our cars and made the trek down to Cronulla.  I was really excited when Kimmy first told me about doing the sand dunes (sounded like fun at the time for some reason!) but I got pretty nervous beforehand, as it has been about six years since I have tackled a sand dune.  Plus it started absolutely pouring on the way down - which just added to my nerves.

 

 

Taking on the wall of sand

 When I arrived and saw the massive mountains of sand - I was sort of regretting my decision to try and run up these things!  But it was actually a really great session! I think everyone was equally as nervous as I was, so we were all cheering each other on, and it was just a great atmosphere. Everyone was so happy to make it through the session, and even though our legs were burning and felt like lead - we were a very happy bunch at the end. I felt very proud of myself for giving it a go!

Absolutely smashed! 

 

 

Feeling like Champions!

It was really nice to finish the session by going to breaky with all of the other Crew members and have a catch up away from training and talk about the session.  It always seems like the harder the sesssion - the more everyone likes to talk about it! 

Breaky afterwards

One of the good things about the Challenge, is that I can still go to breaky and dinner with friends and be able to stick to the meal plan.  I have found that I now know a lot more about basic principles of nutrition and what I should be eating at each meal.  For example, the breakfast for Saturday was scrambled eggs with spinach and mushrooms.  So it's really easy to order this at a cafe - I just swap the scrambled eggs for poached so I know that there isn't added cream etc. in the eggs. 

But overall, following the meal plan is a lot easier than I thought it would be. Each week, we get given a shopping list with all of the ingredients we need for the week to come, so it's really easy to grab the ingredients and prepare your meals in advance. The meals are really tasty, and I've learnt a lot more about using herbs to add flavour to your meals!




Looking forward to the rest of Week 4 - think it's going to be a great week!

Fi