Dies Viginti

 Today started off with a shirt march of 2 miles. My lower back and leg are killing me. I did this march with a light pack of 5kg. My second march of the day was unweighted and was a quick 1.5 miles. My evening march was another short two miles, I didn't want to push it and injure myself. 

Labouring was chopping wood and moving sheets of OSB. I found moving the sheets was incredibly easy as I was able to move two at a time without too much hassle. This is definitely an improvement from when I first started.

I gave myself a rest from training today as I didn't want to push anything. I will be training tomorrow but today I'll take a rest. 

Nutrition wise I was a bit short on bread, only 130g, so under a sixth of what I would normally get. I'm going to out this down to poor supply problems and not a big enough grain delivery.... 

Mentally I felt pretty good, I started to feel quite anxious around dinner time but I think this was because of a lack of calories.

Reflection


Weight


My current weight is 156.4lbs, on Tuesday ( when I got back from my hiking trip I weighed 159 lbs ! This was definitely water weight however some of it was definitely fat. This is quite a drop which I thought was surprising. 



Calories


 I currently use a Versa 2 fitbit which can sometimes be generous with the calories burnt, however, my calories were as follows : 

Thurs -2,956

 

Fri- 4,063


Sat -4,184


Sun-2,957


Mon-3,554


Tues-3,064


Wed-3,206

 

Thurs-2,882

 

Fri -3,252


So my calories were actually less I think from the previous week. 4,000 days were while hiking and were counteracted by all the food I ate. However, weihgtloss wise, I find it interesting that I ate just about the same amount of calories as the previous week however I lost weight, which means either my fitbit is less accurate or i haven't put the correct ingredient amounts in my stew and breakfast even though I measure them out. It may also have something to do with the two meals a day  ?


Miles

Thurs -5.13

 

Fri- 13.45


Sat -11.72


Sun-7.2


Mon-8.33


Tues-8.57


Wed-,8.13

 

Thurs-7.62

 

Fri -8

 

I wasn't able to stick to my 10-12 miles a week as much which I am a bit annoyed about, unfortunatley I had quite a busy week. I am away camping and hiking over the next few days which I will hopefully cover a lot of miles .


Thoughts 


The week went quite well, I was able to get back into the groove of things. I felt more motivated since the hiking trip. I've tried to stick as much as I can to the life of a Legionary within the confines of the modern day, and while it is proving tough I am happy to keep going. Infact some of it, I might keep in my daily life. 


Plans

I aiming in reducing the miles and increasing the labour. This is primarily as I feel the marches are over stressing my body but as well as my plan to link in with a battle. Within the next week I'm planning on a battle, this will involve a prolonged training session. This week I will also be trying roman food as I have all of the ingredients to make larduim and maybe even posca ! 



Roma Invicta !

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