The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge
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@taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
somehow, despite eating and drinking shitloads more than normal, and doing no exercise (combination of heat and having visitors take over my gym area) I have managed to lose a kg and a bit since just before Xmas, so pretty stoked...
Dont expect my home brews are great for the waistline but they sure taste good while I watch TR Jnr mow the lawns!
Yeah somehow I lost about 4kg and I think since start of December I’ve only had about 3 days where I haven’t touched alcohol
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@jk ha yep, every day I'm like, dont need a beer tonight, gets to 4pm, ~30deg and I think, shit a beer would be nice right now!
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@taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@jk ha yep, every day I'm like, dont need a beer tonight, gets to 4pm, ~30deg and I think, shit a beer would be nice right now!
Bit cooler in Welly yesterday so had a stout instead of my usual Corona. It's all about adapting to the conditions.
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@mn5 not cooler here, my car said it was 35deg, which is usually about 3 higher than actual, and TV said 28 which is about 3 deg lower than actual...but I guess thats nothing for our Aussie residents!
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@taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mn5 not cooler here, my car said it was 35deg, which is usually about 3 higher than actual, and TV said 28 and actual is usually about 3 higher than that...but I guess thats nothing for our Aussie residents!
The heat makes shit Aussie beer taste delicious.
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@mn5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mn5 not cooler here, my car said it was 35deg, which is usually about 3 higher than actual, and TV said 28 and actual is usually about 3 higher than that...but I guess thats nothing for our Aussie residents!
The heat makes shit Aussie beer taste delicious.
it's amazing how you keep finding new ways to make yourself look like even more of a piston wristed gibbon
solid thread derailment too fellas
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
solid thread derailment too fellas
Quite impressive that one - but you've been here a while, you know how it works. Nobody is really interested in your training, but beer, tits and ass, winners every time.
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@snowy said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
solid thread derailment too fellas
Quite impressive that one - but you've been here a while, you know how it works. Nobody is really interested in your training, but beer, tits and ass, winners every time.
give the people what they want!
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mn5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mn5 not cooler here, my car said it was 35deg, which is usually about 3 higher than actual, and TV said 28 and actual is usually about 3 higher than that...but I guess thats nothing for our Aussie residents!
The heat makes shit Aussie beer taste delicious.
it's amazing how you keep finding new ways to make yourself look like even more of a piston wristed gibbon
solid thread derailment too fellas
Stones/glasshouses......I've seen what you wear and your beard makes you look 80
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Update
12 weeks to go. This week i thought i would attempt the swim distance in the pool. Put the pull buoy in a did 1.9km no worries, wasn't even blowing at the end, more bored than tired. 47 mins was a bit slower than i would like to do the event swim in, but still time to get that right.
Haven't done a really long cycle yet, but doing 50km twice a week. Maintaining an average speed of 29-30kmph over the ride though, which is good. Need to put a bit more work in to my cycling from now on. Thankfully it has started to cool off.
So, i'm feeling pretty comfortable given where i am at, and where i need to be, and how much time i have left. Big work-ons are keeping my hips up when i swim, i get very tired very quick without a bit of buoyancy help. I need to get used to swimming in my wetsuit, will head for a lake swim in a couple of weeks (still too many jellyfish and crocs for ocean swimming yet). And just need more kms in my cycling legs. 90kms takes in an awful lot of Cairns.
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Update
12 weeks to go. This week i thought i would attempt the swim distance in the pool. Put the pull buoy in a did 1.9km no worries, wasn't even blowing at the end, more bored than tired. 47 mins was a bit slower than i would like to do the event swim in, but still time to get that right.
Haven't done a really long cycle yet, but doing 50km twice a week. Maintaining an average speed of 29-30kmph over the ride though, which is good. Need to put a bit more work in to my cycling from now on. Thankfully it has started to cool off.
So, i'm feeling pretty comfortable given where i am at, and where i need to be, and how much time i have left. Big work-ons are keeping my hips up when i swim, i get very tired very quick without a bit of buoyancy help. I need to get used to swimming in my wetsuit, will head for a lake swim in a couple of weeks (still too many jellyfish and crocs for ocean swimming yet). And just need more kms in my cycling legs. 90kms takes in an awful lot of Cairns.
If you’re swimming in a wetsuit I wouldn’t worry about keeping the hips up mate. Modern wetsuits have a lot of buoyancy around the hips and will have the same effect as a pull buoy.
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Update
12 weeks to go. This week i thought i would attempt the swim distance in the pool. Put the pull buoy in a did 1.9km no worries, wasn't even blowing at the end, more bored than tired. 47 mins was a bit slower than i would like to do the event swim in, but still time to get that right.
Haven't done a really long cycle yet, but doing 50km twice a week. Maintaining an average speed of 29-30kmph over the ride though, which is good. Need to put a bit more work in to my cycling from now on. Thankfully it has started to cool off.
So, i'm feeling pretty comfortable given where i am at, and where i need to be, and how much time i have left. Big work-ons are keeping my hips up when i swim, i get very tired very quick without a bit of buoyancy help. I need to get used to swimming in my wetsuit, will head for a lake swim in a couple of weeks (still too many jellyfish and crocs for ocean swimming yet). And just need more kms in my cycling legs. 90kms takes in an awful lot of Cairns.
Just a (utterly retarded) question regarding the swimming. What is the key part of the body that has to be used to swim that far for that long? I assume it's mostly legs right? My big problem is that I tend to forget my legs and overuse my arms. But then the kick has to be economical as well to be able to last that long so what is the best technique for that?
Hope you can some sense out of that. Basically I'm asking how you swim that far without being fucked after 100 metres.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Update
12 weeks to go. This week i thought i would attempt the swim distance in the pool. Put the pull buoy in a did 1.9km no worries, wasn't even blowing at the end, more bored than tired. 47 mins was a bit slower than i would like to do the event swim in, but still time to get that right.
Haven't done a really long cycle yet, but doing 50km twice a week. Maintaining an average speed of 29-30kmph over the ride though, which is good. Need to put a bit more work in to my cycling from now on. Thankfully it has started to cool off.
So, i'm feeling pretty comfortable given where i am at, and where i need to be, and how much time i have left. Big work-ons are keeping my hips up when i swim, i get very tired very quick without a bit of buoyancy help. I need to get used to swimming in my wetsuit, will head for a lake swim in a couple of weeks (still too many jellyfish and crocs for ocean swimming yet). And just need more kms in my cycling legs. 90kms takes in an awful lot of Cairns.
Just a (utterly retarded) question regarding the swimming. What is the key part of the body that has to be used to swim that far for that long? I assume it's mostly legs right? My big problem is that I tend to forget my legs and overuse my arms. But then the kick has to be economical as well to be able to last that long so what is the best technique for that?
Hope you can some sense out of that. Basically I'm asking how you swim that far without being fucked after 100 metres.
If it’s a wetsuit swim (which most of these events are) then it’s your arms and the quality of your streamline/glide at the end of each stroke.
Kicking in long distance swimming is generally only used for balance, the speed gained by kicking hard is generally not worth the extra effort involved
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@sammyc said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@rancid-schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Update
12 weeks to go. This week i thought i would attempt the swim distance in the pool. Put the pull buoy in a did 1.9km no worries, wasn't even blowing at the end, more bored than tired. 47 mins was a bit slower than i would like to do the event swim in, but still time to get that right.
Haven't done a really long cycle yet, but doing 50km twice a week. Maintaining an average speed of 29-30kmph over the ride though, which is good. Need to put a bit more work in to my cycling from now on. Thankfully it has started to cool off.
So, i'm feeling pretty comfortable given where i am at, and where i need to be, and how much time i have left. Big work-ons are keeping my hips up when i swim, i get very tired very quick without a bit of buoyancy help. I need to get used to swimming in my wetsuit, will head for a lake swim in a couple of weeks (still too many jellyfish and crocs for ocean swimming yet). And just need more kms in my cycling legs. 90kms takes in an awful lot of Cairns.
Just a (utterly retarded) question regarding the swimming. What is the key part of the body that has to be used to swim that far for that long? I assume it's mostly legs right? My big problem is that I tend to forget my legs and overuse my arms. But then the kick has to be economical as well to be able to last that long so what is the best technique for that?
Hope you can some sense out of that. Basically I'm asking how you swim that far without being fucked after 100 metres.
If it’s a wetsuit swim (which most of these events are) then it’s your arms and the quality of your streamline/glide at the end of each stroke.
Kicking in long distance swimming is generally only used for balance, the speed gained by kicking hard is generally not worth the extra effort involved
Cheers mate
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@rocky-rockbottom said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Put the pull buoy
Modern wetsuits have a lot of buoyancy around the hips and will have the same effect as a pull buoy.
BOTH of you morans have misspelt "pool boy"
And you misspelt moron!
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Yep, that swim on tuesday was all upper body, no kick at all. Need to save my legs for the bike
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well, shit. We've just entered and Olympic distance tri in 3 fucking weeks. I haven't even swum in a wetsuit yet, but somehow i have to belt out 1.5km.
I'm actually packing myself.
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@mariner4life Happy Chaffing!
Seriously though. How many swims with wettie can you do in three weeks? 2 a week?
You can buy some seriously cool wetsuits for this sort of thing.
