5.30am Oh my god, it's dark outside. And not the light piddling fake darkness but actual black as night style coverage. And did I mention freezing? I snuggle back under the duvet till the door starts banging and Staff Reitze in full army regalia shouts, 'Meet in 10 minutes in waterproofs'. Oh god. Was 5 minutes late and we were all made to run around the house twice. Got lots of angry looks from the other girls, must try harder.
Then it was on to hill training, panting up these impossibly steep slopes (did I mention STILL not had breakfast?) and then doing interval training a mixture of power walking, jogging and running. Oh yeah- it was RAINING. Not feeling v happy.
A quick breakfast of muesli and it was on to SAQ, which stands for Speed, agility and quickness. This basically meant lots of circuits of plastic discs, to tapping them, skipping and jumping over logs for what seemed like forever. I've never been so gad to stretch in my life as everything seemed to hurt, and it was only my first full day.
We had our meeting with the nutritionist in the afternoon after a small lunch and though I was focusing through my hunger, she made some very good points about our diets nowadays and why low GI (glycemic index) food is best for us. Snack time came during the lecture- a bowl of hummus that was made in front of us with a selection of carrot sticks and pepper pieces. The plate was passed around the room and I couldn't believe how focused I got on its slow passing- and then someone took TWO carrot sticks! How dare they! My stomach rumbled and I was aware that I wasn't thinking rationally.. then I got my carrot and relaxed.
Drinking so much fruit tea I feel like I'm turning into one big sack of peppermint and lemon, but flavours have become so much more pungent in the last 24 hours- must be the chocolate deprivation.
More stretching and bed- so knackered I fall asleep as my head hits the pillow at the late time of 9pm!
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