Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019
-
This gets harder the more i read. You have to tow your running stuff while you swim? Jesus hooroo.
-
Holy farkamole you guys are crazy doing this!
Hadnt heard of the event before but just had a look and wow. The BOI course looks tough with those long swims. Actually would have thought that they would go in the opposite direction to finish back at town, not out on the island
-
@jk said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
Holy farkamole you guys are crazy doing this!
Hadnt heard of the event before but just had a look and wow. The BOI course looks tough with those long swims. Actually would have thought that they would go in the opposite direction to finish back at town, not out on the island
I do love how it is all split up though. That 3.1k swim... hmmmmm
Had first PT session today and she seems like a hard taskmaster which is what I need. It was a sorting out session rather than active. Tomorrow the active part starts and she has told me the first two weeks will be a it boring while she builds my fitness up.
I do love straight up PTers and not telling me rubbish. She has set small short terms acheiveable goals that I can be pushed to so long as I have mental strength around food.
Short term goal is 1kg per week and 5 chinups without help in 4 weeks!
Also told me not to give up beer or anything silly but when two months out from the race she reckons she will convince me to give up alcohol for that period as it is one of the biggest hindrances to effective training for endurance type races. I'm all good with that.
-
dude I have failed (again and again) at keeping a food diary - but it does help to give you a real sense of how much you eat and when. Not sure whether it'd be demotivating or motivating when starting the kai journey, but I know a few people who swear by it. One mate in particular uses an app and while he doesn't eat super clean all the time, it just gives him that daily reminder he needs.
Good luck bro!
-
@paekakboyz said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
dude I have failed (again and again) at keeping a food diary - but it does help to give you a real sense of how much you eat and when. Not sure whether it'd be demotivating or motivating when starting the kai journey, but I know a few people who swear by it. One mate in particular uses an app and while he doesn't eat super clean all the time, it just gives him that daily reminder he needs.
Good luck bro!
Cheers bud. The PT has a little note book that I must honestly fill out while warming up. She then will decide the punishment required to make up for the 'mistake' eating. I love how she does this type of punishment/reward system. Hopefully it will make me think twice before driving through KFC for lunch!
-
@Hooroo you could just send her a link to the BBQ thread
-
@paekakboyz said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@Hooroo you could just send her a link to the BBQ thread
I swear if she saw my facebook page and the meat I run through that, she would give up!
-
@hooroo said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@jk said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
Holy farkamole you guys are crazy doing this!
Hadnt heard of the event before but just had a look and wow. The BOI course looks tough with those long swims. Actually would have thought that they would go in the opposite direction to finish back at town, not out on the island
I do love how it is all split up though. That 3.1k swim... hmmmmm
Yeah but imagine if it wasn't....8km swim......fark!!!
-
Re food diary, if you kept it for a month you would have a good idea of the amounts of food you are eating (and should be eating) and the calories associated to it. I kept a food log for ages a few years back and found it just gave me a way better understanding about whats in stuff. Just means you sometimes hesitate slightly before grabbing that extra donut.
-
@hooroo said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@paekakboyz said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@Hooroo you could just send her a link to the BBQ thread
I swear if she saw my facebook page and the meat I run through that, she would give up!
are you talking the meat hanging out the front of your singlet?
-
@hooroo said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@jk said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
Holy farkamole you guys are crazy doing this!
Hadnt heard of the event before but just had a look and wow. The BOI course looks tough with those long swims. Actually would have thought that they would go in the opposite direction to finish back at town, not out on the island
I do love how it is all split up though. That 3.1k swim... hmmmmm
Had first PT session today and she seems like a hard taskmaster which is what I need. It was a sorting out session rather than active. Tomorrow the active part starts and she has told me the first two weeks will be a it boring while she builds my fitness up.
I do love straight up PTers and not telling me rubbish. She has set small short terms acheiveable goals that I can be pushed to so long as I have mental strength around food.
Short term goal is 1kg per week and 5 chinups without help in 4 weeks!
Also told me not to give up beer or anything silly but when two months out from the race she reckons she will convince me to give up alcohol for that period as it is one of the biggest hindrances to effective training for endurance type races. I'm all good with that.
Sounds like one of the really good ones. That is awesome. No excuses now!
-
So after my first PT session, I caught a gastro bug and have only manage to get back for second PT today with no exercise in bettween.
Felt as though I had blood in my lungs! Couldn't work as hard as first PT but put the effort in despite the lack of energy.
-
@hooroo said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
So after my first PT session, I caught a gastro bug and have only manage to get back for second PT today with no exercise in bettween.
Felt as though I had blood in my lungs! Couldn't work as hard as first PT but put the effort in despite the lack of energy.
Mate....sounds like your body was shitting itself (literally) at what is to come!
-
@jk said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
@hooroo said in Bay Of Islands Breca swim run 2019:
So after my first PT session, I caught a gastro bug and have only manage to get back for second PT today with no exercise in bettween.
Felt as though I had blood in my lungs! Couldn't work as hard as first PT but put the effort in despite the lack of energy.
Mate....sounds like your body was shitting itself (literally) at what is to come!
Pretty damn tough session but I still completed without crying....
Thing is in the first session when knackered I could still jog the stairs each time I was sent up. This time I could only walk up
-
Training isn't going as well as I hoped due to work.
In saying that, this week I have been getting up at 0430 to be at gym by 5 so I can slot it in before I start work.
Have tried to go after work but usually feeding up takes over on the farm.
I have a year from now so not panicking but not as advances as I wish I was.