Quell Fromage! He who laughs last laughs longest or what? You might remember that me and my mate are engaged in an (unspoken) competition to see who could complete a million metres first. You may also remember I told you about my mate taking his rowing machine on holiday so he could get in front of me, then he was ill all through his hols and couldn't train, and how pleased I was because I got 100,000m in front of him? Well, I was in the garden the other day trimming the hedge and had to climb onto the garage roof and balance holding the trimmer in one hand; all of a sudden I felt this terrific pain shoot down my back. I looked like a question mark as the muscles in one side of my back went into spasm and I knew this was a couple of weeks off type of injury. So now I'm well behind schedule and looking for another scheme but I definitely won't finish in the 10 weeks of the original plan. Weight Management Programme. To anyone following the weight management programme in the Training Guide here is a little idea to spice up your life. The thinking behind the original plan was that anyone who was really overweight may either have not done exercise for some time or never. So the weight loss plan was all low intensity and increasingly long sessions which presents little risk of injury to the untrained. However, if you have completed phase 1+2 of the weight management programme you can start to introduce some of the sessions from the 2,000m programme. Here's how to go about it. Go to the 2,000m training programme at the same number of sessions you are currently completing on weight management. Look at the sessions under the heading Pre-competition and Competition. You can mix these into your weight management regime by substituting a 2,000 metre session for weight management. You will find these sessions shorter but harder and the rate at which you will burn calories will increase. However, if you have not done phase 1+2 you may not have the physical conditioning to benefit from a higher intensity session. Also these sessions increase the variety of the programme, and although they may hurt, the fact that you are on the machine means that this is a price you are prepared to pay to get fit.