So I’ve completed day 9 and I’m still alive which is no small feat. Today I burned about 5250 calories and consumed 985 so not a bad day all up.
Due to being in lockdown several guests were starting to feel a bit stressed (cabin fever) so we had a bit of an outing in to the Melbourne CBD on Saturday which was great. They set us a challenge of going to a food court and eating healthy – I ended up having some chicken strips from Oporto (250 calories) so not too bad considering there was a fantastic look pizza and burger place in the food court! I must confess I did have a minor fall off the bandwagon but I can’t go in to more detail until this experience is over in case someone reads this – I don’t want to be punished by the trainers! 
I also managed to injure myself on Saturday morning doing hill sprints which was quite frustrating as I was leading the pack and coping very well. Some kind of groin muscle wasn’t too happy about it and it was too painful to run so I had to walk the rest of them 
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Sunday was a day of recovery so we spent most of it in the spa with lemon water and music (it was the closest thing to a party we could manage!) and my body was starting to recover.
Unfortunately during body combat class on Monday morning (6:00 AM) whatever I hurt on Saturday was back. I got the masseuse to take a look at it and it helped a tiny bit but I was still in pain. Next up was the Athletics track at Balam park (the same one we went to last week except this time it was open). Even injured I managed to beat my time by 25 seconds and I was walking for most of it so that’s something – would’ve loved to have been able to run it out.
We then had a 50m sprint and I couldn’t help myself – I just had to race everyone else! I thought I’d be okay as I’d managed to half jog the last lap on the track and was feeling quite warm so I went for it (and won!) but now I was really starting to hurt.
The New Me has a staff member who specalises in Myopathy and I’d heard he had crazy healing powers – I had nothing to lose so gave it a whirl and just wow. I think this guy replaces physios as my favourite medicine/doctor like people – he managed to just get right to the pain and sort me out.
I was still a little sore for the rest of the day but today I had full movement back. I still took it a little easy ‘just in case’ but I think one day this week (probably Thursday?) I’lll try and crack the 6000 calorie mark 
Anyway it’s an hour past bed time and I need to go put my washing in the dryer and get some sleep – Night!
