Project X
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Constipated from alcohol, rich food, and not enough water - a weekend away on wine country will do that to you. Plus dealing with the flooded house has been a riot... Those dehumidifiers are sucking the water out of the air and my will to live!
But I tried it for a run because it's sub-five weeks to C2S. Struggled to 3km in 16:50. Time to get serious as I'm 101 kg now and will hurt myself trying 14 km in this kind of shape
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Run this morning - was going to be 5 km but the app crashed then the phone restarted so fuck that. About 4.5 km in 22:10.<br /><br />I figured out i actually miss morning run. Gets it out of the way and it really is the best time of day to be awake. Before the dickheads start moving around.
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<p>So, just under 4 weeks to go until City2Surf, and commenced the countdown with a 5km run just after 6AM. It was fucking cold - weather station up the road says -1 but was probably around 0 where I was. I go from suburban streets down into a bike path near a creek and it dropped a little further there. Jeez!</p>
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<p>Individual kilometres:</p>
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<p>5:26</p>
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<p>5:17</p>
<p>5:32</p>
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<p>Total of around 26:50 which is sub-27 for the first time in a while over that distance. Concentrated on a strong finish after a fairly casual start.</p> -
Finally got off my fat arse to do a bit of body weight. Circuit of the following:<br /><br />5 pull ups neutral grip<br />10 push ups<br />10 tuck jumps<br /><br />Ran 4 of those with one minute breaks and I was stuffed. Sooooo unfit and had enough after just over 8 minutes.
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5 km run tonight after I got home from work. One of those days where I felt mentally cloudy and thought a good run could fix that right up. I was right!<br /><br />Km markers were:<br /><br />5:14<br />5:30<br />5:47<br />5:42<br />5:18<br /><br />Tried to go out hard to get the anaerobic bit out of the way but the second and third km finished with uphill sections. Last km I grunted it out because I wanted to try and get average 5:30. Missed it by 1 second!<br /><br />Really got to find the willpower to run it again on Friday so I can set myself up going into the last 16 days with a few more klicks under the belt, including two x 10km minimums. <br /><br />It's a 14 km race so realistically the average paces are:<br /><br />5:30 = 77 minutes<br />6:00 = 84 minutes<br /><br />Happy to land somewhere between those two
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<p>Right - the big race tomorrow and besides shifting new furniture into the place after the carpet was installed, I've not done much in the way of distance running.</p>
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<p>This will probably suck, especially as I had to go see the doc about the old downstairs issues again this week. Well, it'll be ticked off the list in about 15 hours.</p> -
No idea what my time was because the app kept shitting itself - should have just run a stopwatch on my phone I guess. <br /><br />Anyway, probably about an hour and a half which is disappointing but I had underestimated how much speed I'd lose running in such a big group. <br /><br />That Heartbreak Hill is a right fluffybunny.
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Yeah you've got to get qualified for the leading groups if you want to run fast. I ran in the yellow group and it was all shapes and sizes with prams and shit thrown in! Drink stations were a bit of a nightmare too.<br /><br />Anyway, it's ticked off the bucket list and now I can move onto spring training and short runs for explosive speed. Assuming to do a 4 minute kilometre as a starting point
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<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">Official C2S time was 1:30:56 - average pace of 06:29. <span>Fairly shit really as I wanted 6:00/km</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">Position:</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">30,157 of 67,527 TOTAL finishers (55.34%)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">19,569 of 33,080 MALE finishers (40.57%)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">6,862 of 9,836 MALE 30-39 finishes (30.24%)</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">My split times were</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">Start-Heartbreak Hill - 38:29 (6.2km @ 6:12/km = 9.66km/h)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">Heartbreak Hill - 11:33 (1.6km @ 7:13/km = 8.31km/h)</p>
<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">Top of Hill-finish - 40:53 (6.2km @ 6:35/km = 9.10km/h)</p>
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<p style="color:rgb(20,20,20);font-family:verdana, tahoma, arial, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:12px;">For a very brief moment I was shitty enough to want to try again next year. Then I got over it - I could beat that without a problem, knowing what I know now. Would need to train more consistently and be under 98kg but I could easily reel that in to 75 minutes.</p> -
<p>Stepped on the scales t'other day and was 101. Thought I didn't look <em>that</em> bad until I got the tape measure out.... oh dear...</p>
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<p>So last night I went for a sprint km followed by a bit of walking to get back into the groove, then followed it up with some pull ups and press ups when I got home. Official (morning) weight was better today at 98.8 but I've put on a heck of a lot of body fat in the last year since I was around 90kg as well.</p>
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<p>Back to first principles - weigh in every day, tape measure once per week (no cheating you fat fuck!) and getting the eating back on track after what has been a rough year, personally. This will be about 10 weeks worth of investment in myself, and I'll make sure to keep the maintenance up afterwards.</p>
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<p><strong>Day Zero: </strong>98.8kg, Chest 114cm, Waist 107cm, Hips 108cm</p>
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<p>sigh I've put about 10cm on everywhere...</p>
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<p>The plan is pretty simple but without the distance running component. Aim is for speed over shorter distances (up to 3km) and a lot of body weight exercise now that the weather is improving. After skipping karate this term I'll also be back into that starting October.</p>
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Pushups hurt! Thought I'd bash out 100 in sets with 1 minute rests, but it went like this:<br><br>
25, 5 - then I needed 90 second rests!<br>
10, 10, 10, 10, 10 - two minutes rest at this point<br>
5 - 1 minute rests from here<br>
5, 5, 5<br><br>
Total 100 with decent form.<br><br>
Now free squats with thirty second rests:<br><br>
25, 30, 20, 5<br><br>
Started to get pains in my right temple at this point so figured I should stop, but it was only 20 to go so gave it two minutes rest before finishing at 100.<br><br>
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<p>That reminded me of a nasty combo my PT inflicts on me before evil leg workouts.</p>
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<p>20 bodyweight squats, lunges (approx 10 metres there and back again), forward and reverse bear crawls (there and back again like the lunges). Then the punk gets me to repeat it three times! Can you spell lactic acid!!? agggghhh.</p>
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<p>Good to see you back on the exercise wagon bro. My weight has crept back up and while the strength is still there it's a bit of a downer. Nothing like getting stuck in to shed those extra kegs and get the endorphins rocking again tho.</p> -
Lactic to the max! Fucking legs have been killing me so I put in another 50 tonight to clear it (5 sets of ten with 20s breaks) as well as abs. Some of my lesser used abdominal areas chopped it hard from the pushups too and were a bit tetchy tonight<br><br>
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<p>Found a way to make ironing all the work shirts and kids uniforms less boring: pushups and squats!</p>
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<p>After every garment, 5 form pushups and 10 form squats. After 14 garments I decided to add extra pushups so that after my last work shirt, I had 100 pushups and 150 squats.</p>
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<p>Legs are getting over the earlier lactic crap, and despite some poor eating* in week 1 I'm feeling positive about things.</p>
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<p>* When presented with the offerings at the Bavarian Bier Cafe, you don't say no.</p> -
<p>Had to hang out the washing tonight. We've got a pop-up clothes line mounted right next to my chinup bar down the side of the house, so after each line filled I did some exercise.</p>
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<p>5 pull ups x 2</p>
<p>5 pull ups x 2</p>
<p>10 burpess x 3</p>
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<p>Fuck burpees hurt when you haven't done them in a while. Reckon I should get those happening 2-3 times per week then smash out that 50 burpee challenge we had on here a while ago.</p> -
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<p><strong>Day Zero: </strong>98.8kg, Chest 114cm, Waist 107cm, Hips 108cm</p>
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<p><strong>Day Seven: </strong>98.7kg, Chest 113cm, Waist 105cm, Hips 108cm</p>
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<p>Weight result was due to weekend out, but the tape measure has started to move the right way.</p>
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<p>Doing daily weigh ins has, once again, been interesting - from last Tuesday it went like this:</p>
<p> </p>Tue 98.8 Wed 98.4 Thu 98.0 Fri 98.8 Sat 98.8 Sun 98.9 Mon 99.5 Tue 98.7 <p> </p>
<p>Initial loss of fluid weight followed by cheating with the eating, and then beer on Friday and Saturday knocked my digestion out of line.</p>