Today’s training was a 40-minute strength session. My workout included sets of hold, flow and high-energy exercises.

I found the hold exercises in each set the most strenuous. There were squat, plank, lunge, pilates-hundreds (I am unsure if this name is correct) and bear-crawl positions to hold for as long as 40 seconds at a time. These exercises were challenging!

The flow and high-energy exercises were easier to manage, but I struggled whenever I needed to jump out of a position — someday I will get this right. At the end of today’s session, Jateen said he found the chest-to-floor-getups one of the easier exercises of the day. I do not share his viewpoint.

Lately, I’ve been feeling more like my old self. My energy is picking up, and I’m managing to control my post-marathon swelling that kept flaring up at random times. I told Jateen I’d like to start running 15 km and further again — maybe from next weekend. Jateen did not object, which I hope is a good thing. I need to slowly build my way back to running longer distances again.