Tale of the tape and the tissue

Sorry there haven't been any updates for a week or so - that's really for two  reasons. Firstly, I had a scheduled complete week off in my training programme, to allow a bit of rest and recovery. Secondly, for the last five days I've had proper, full-on, can't get out of bed, would rather be dead than this - flu.

This wouldn't have been a problem, except that I'm still pretty ill, and I'm almost certainly not going to get any training done this week either. I guess I'm going to have to accept that these things happen, and there's not a lot I can do about it, except rest up properly and try and get completely better this time. The enforced layoff gives me a chance to get some writing done for my Open University Course anyway, so hopefully once I'm fit again I'll be able to concentrate properly on my training.

It's Monday though, so as usual, here are my weight stats for the week:

Weight: 10 stone 13.6 lbs

Body Fat: 17.5%

Visceral Fat Rating: 5

Basal Metabolic Rate: 6963 kcal / 1164 kJ

Muscle Mass: 8 stone 8.4 lbs

Water: 57.2%

The only thing to note there is that despite not doing any training, my stats have stayed pretty much the same this week.

As an extra bonus, I thought I'd include this photo taken at the Hampshire Hilly Hundred last week. There were a couple of others, where I looked only 'mildly' uncomfortable, but I think this is the funniest one. As I could clearly see the photographer, I imagine this is me trying to look fairly relaxed and unflustered - which gives you some indication of the fact that I probably wasn't feeling my best!