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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>
Still, should be clear of the pain by tomorrow. Once I'm clear of the restart pain I can work out a weekly routine to stick to -
<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>