The Barnya Half-Marathon Challenge (on again)
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I am deadly serious, and I have no idea why OZ don't import them from wherever NZ do. [/quote]<br />
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Contractual obligations I believe. A lot of domestic growers are contracted to overseas markets as fucking stupid as that sounds :tickedoff:<br />
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Also, those domestic growers who are contracted to Australian supply are pushing the price as high as they can because its a seller's market. fluffybunnies. Up around Coffs Harbour there are guys driving up into the hills with a ute and a machete and nabbing whole bunches of bananas, currently worth their weight in marijuana!<br />
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The reason they're charging $18 per kilo in Potts Point is the various nancy boys using them for indescribable activities. Out my way they're only $13 per kilo and pretty good quality. -
Sorry to interrupt, but this is a thread devoted to me and the vicissitudes of my journey towards half-marathon running nirvana. So please take your banana-related grievances elsewhere.<br />
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Guys I've got fucking bad news, my left knee is killing me! It must've been aggravated by the 5 hours sitting in the back seat over the weekend. Imagine a constant dull ache in my kneecap combined with the occasional excruciating stabbing pain that makes you sit bolt upright in agony, and you've got a fairly close description of what I'm going through. I could barely even walk earlier, which was unfortunate as I was doing ushering work at the time.<br />
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To make matters worse my calf has joined the casualty list as a result of some drunken shenanigans last night, I'm picking up injuries at the moment like embarrassment clings to John Campbell. Am going to make a doctor's appointment in the morning.<br />
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Oh and I was pissed all weekend and stuffing my face up to my eyeballs with delicious home-cooked meals. Southern hospitality, you just cant beat it.<br />
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Yeah, even though MvJ is of the get hard school, it's obvious even to me that you shouldn't be running on it. Find something else, and please do not go aqua-jogging in speedos.
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[quote name='Barnya']<br />
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Any advice at all would be much appreciated.<br />
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Cheers<br />
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cut down on the 5% beers. Sub in 4% instead,<br />
honestly it works.<br />
Last year I stuck to normal 4% beers at the end of<br />
the footy season and it helped to defect the inevitable<br />
stomach encroachment that follows a reducement in<br />
regular excercise.<br />
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Not sure about your beer theory Barnsey, doesn't that just mean I'll drink more beer to achieve the same level of drunkenness?<br />
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15/8/06: went for my first run in 10 days, 8km in 50mins! A new PB and achieved running into a pretty stiff breeze on the way back and the thermometor showing 7 degrees. This time I went out hard and kept up the pace all the way, as opposed to my last PB starting off slowly and building up. Not sure which is more beneficial in general...<br />
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Heard something alarming from an Institute of Sport guy on the radio: apparently your physical shape at 16 or 17 pretty much determines how much you'll weight through adult life and it's hard to change that weight. Wish someone had bloody told me at the time! I was pretty skinny in my early teenage years, turned into a tubby prick at 16-17 then lost all the weight when I was 18. So going by this guy's comments I'm fucked. Can some of the older Ferners shed some light over whether this is true or not?<br />
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Breakfast: two slices of wholemeal toast with marmite.<br />
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Lunch: chicken and apricot filo pastry and a mini pizza snack<br />
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Dinner: beef and vege casserole.<br />
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[quote name='Barnya']<br />
Heard something alarming from an Institute of Sport guy on the radio: apparently your physical shape at 16 or 17 pretty much determines how much you'll weight through adult life and it's hard to change that weight. Wish someone had bloody told me at the time! I was pretty skinny in my early teenage years, turned into a tubby prick at 16-17 then lost all the weight when I was 18. So going by this guy's comments I'm fucked. Can some of the older Ferners shed some light over whether this is true or not?<br />
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I was a tubby kid. Tubby early teen, then around 16 and 17 got into fairly decent shape to try and get into the Military Academy. When that failed, I thought "fuck it" and went to Uni to laze around and get pissed <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> Now I'm a fat coont. Deal!<br />
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Nah I reckon that is bullshit Barn - its the habits you develop in the research he's talking about. Your fate is always in your hands, and the human mind can overcome anything. -
I was 53kg in my last year at school, and ballooned out to 81.8 by the time Fatbusters started, 10 years later. So it's crap.
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[quote name='Miller V Jackson']<br />
I was 53kg in my last year at school, and ballooned out to 81.8 by the time Fatbusters started, 10 years later. So it's crap. <br />
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Yeah, I think what the guy's argument may point to instead is the influence of school sports, judging by what some of you have said and my experiences. Our coaches used to push us bloody hard in training and I thought it was excessive at the time but now that I look back on it we were super lean and super fit. Once high school was finished, I wasn't playing competitive sport, didn't have anyone to yell at me and push me to breaking point, it became a matter of self-discipline and this is much harder to maintain.<br />
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Whereas I guess people who were fat inactive bastards at high school don't have much chance of turning it around because they grew up in an environment of laziness and disregard for one's health so unless they have some sort of mid-life epiphany (like Bart) they'll carry on drifting that way. Pretty big generalisations I know but I've heard lots of stories along these lines. -
[quote name='Miller V Jackson']<br />
I was 53kg in my last year at school, and ballooned out to 81.8 by the time Fatbusters started, 10 years later. So it's crap. <br />
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concur - i was 65kg last year at school, 76 about 3-4 years later, then hit 86 at 25. about 5 months ago i was 96 at 29yo, but am down to 86 again. -
mid life thingy, why you little...<br />
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Although it doesn't take long for the weight to go on - you think that you are 'just a couple of kilos' over your playing weight, and enxt miunute it is 14 kgs... Now am about 7kg below playing weight. WOuld have been very easy to go way fatter, but am now addicted to rowing like I was to rugby, the discipline is back, and lvong it!! -
I might have to get back into the rowing machine Bart, I used to do it regularly at school but not at all since. The machines are always unoccupied at the gym for some reason.<br />
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What are the things a beginner has to think about? All about rhythm right, and push off with the knees and let the arms follow?<br />
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[quote name='Barnya']<br />
I might have to get back into the rowing machine Bart, I used to do it regularly at school but not at all since. The machines are always unoccupied at the gym for some reason.<br />
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What are the things a beginner has to think about? All about rhythm right, and push off with the knees and let the arms follow?<br />
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And what's a good time/distance to aim at first up?<br />
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Wander onto the rowing forum, there are some good tips on there about form etc. I need someone to compete with at the beginners end of the scale too, Bart's times are scary. -
16/8: A quiet day, was going to go to the gym and do the rowing machines but had to have a meeting with my supervisor instead. Did 50 sit ups and 50 push ups and some wrist exercises.<br />
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Left knee very very painful from walking downhill to uni, but went away once I rested it up again.<br />
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Breakfast: spaghetti on wholegrain toast<br />
Lunch: 2min noodles<br />
Dinner: chicken and vege pasta, no sauce<br />
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Snacking: apple, two toffee pops, some Sakata crackers.<br />
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[quote name='Barnya']<br />
some wrist exercises.<br />
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Make sure you keep your fluids up as well <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> -
yes, that the best thing about rowing machines - you can turn up in the busiest times, and there will always be a rower free. Local gym has 5 machines, and they are usually all empty, or a few people coming on and doing a 5 minute warmup before wieghts or something. not many sad bastards jumping on and rowing for half hours!!
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