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. <br />
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My sister was over from Auckland two weeks ago and I had to actually take her to the supermarket and show her the prices as she refused to believe me. -
Drinking water is one thing I never struggle with, I suck down plenty of that shit every day.<br />
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Bananas are cheap, plentiful and delicious over here. I never liked Aussie bananas anyway, sometimes they were hard and gritty and just feral.<br />
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Capsicums, courgettes and the like are bloody expensive at the moment though due to the freezing winter I presume. -
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Anything under 2 hours would be fantastic. Just finishing is the goal <br />
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Monday ran 7km in about 47min, today 6km on the treadmill in 40min. I don't want to push it too much at the moment because I'm getting some aches and pains. After my runs I get intermittent stabbing pains which run through my knee like a lightning bolt. It's fucking painful but dies down after a few hours.<br />
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Doing 50 sit ups and 50 push ups a day too.<br />
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Just listening to Cameron Brown on the radio, this guy is simply phenomenal. Swims 3.8km, bikes 180km then runs twice as far as I'm going to, and is the best in the world at it. Fuck a duck! -
2/8...8km in 51mins, taking five minutes off my PB! I busted my balls on this one and boy it felt good.<br />
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There's two key factors to a successful run I reckon:<br />- Don't go out too hard. If you axe yourself in the first 500m, it sets the tone for the rest of the run. Go out easy and build up your pace.<br />
- Think positive! Don't think about what a bitch this is and how far you have to go. Get your mind off it. The whole way today I was thinking about my triumphant Saturday night (she was a bangin' hottie) and before I knew it I was home!<br />
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Breakfast: N/A<br />
Lunch: Roast beer and salad baguette<br />
Dinner: Lasagne with veges<br />
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Snacking: a few bits of chocolate and an apple.<br />
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Will try and update this daily now in order to guilt trip myself into exercising and eating well every day.
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Lunch: Roast beer and salad baguette<br />
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Lunch: Roast beer and salad baguette<br />
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I may have meant roast beef. You can see what's on my mind though :shifty:<br />
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My left knee's at it again, now it's a persistent dull ache behind the kneecap. Ouch ouch ouch. Mother fucker! Looks like I'm going to have to scale it back to one day on, one day off. The local pool is just up from my place, might be worth going up for a swim on my off days? Or even just aqua-jogging, it looks gay but I've done it in the past and it's fun and a full body workout. -
You need to rest as well as run. <br />
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You don't only get fitter during the actual exercise or activity. Your body continues to adapt and does that more efficiently when it is not being continually stressed - i.e. when resting. That is why your programme at the beginning of this thread looked suicidal. Aerobic fitness is one thing, but leg strength is another altogether and you will need to let your legs recover after each sesssion, certainly in the early days of your regime. <br />
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Your idea re swimming/ aqua jogging is very good. I would also add cycling in there either on-road or on an exercise bike. Cross training is the answer rather than just running. Remember: running makes you fit, but it does not make you strong. An alternative exercise (cycling, swimming, weights) will help achieve the correct balance. A personal trainer mate of mine swears by leg strengthening exercises like lunges (backwards and forwards) and squats (including single leg squats). These also build up the muscles that control your stability when running so you are not wandering all over the place and wasting effort.<br />
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Finally, Runners World magazine ran an excellent feature which showed that runners could lower their Marathon and HM times by running less. The regime was just three sessions a week but split into the following: Hill or speed reps; a tempo run (A shorter run at 85% capacity) and a long run at race pace (lower than tempo). By combining with cross training, the results were impressive with most people at least running the same times or less than their previous intensive training regimes.<br />
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Thanks for those times - they look pretty good. Rest might be the key for you knee, and regular icing. The swimming sounds like a good idea - its still fitness - and hard work as well, but you will be keeping the weight off your knee.<br />
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Like the motivation thoughts - I agree, really found they help. Thinking about the pain is not good, you need to push the pain to one side, and find the reason why you are running.<br />
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Fuck you guys are legends! I didn't know any of this shit when I started out...I'm glad to have finally swallowed my pride and joined the legion of the fat fluffybunnies.<br />
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Running buddies - yeah I've got three but they keep such different timetables to me that it's hard to coordinate. My knee has recovered and is ready for more punishment tomorrow...I don't care if it falls to bits after the HM, I just want to finish that goddamn race.<br />
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Eating could've been better today...<br />
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Breakfast: got up at 8 but didn't have time to have anything as I had somewhere to be. So, none.<br />
Lunch: six slices of pizza. My mate told me that one slice equates to 7 Jenny Craig Points, and you're meant to eat no more than 20 a day. So I ate twice as many just at lunch. Well in! It's free though, so you can see the bind that I'm in.<br />
Dinner: chicken and salad foccacia with rice.<br />
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Will be [i] incommunicado [/i] for the weekend as I am going to Southland and they don't have the internet there, but here's my rough schedule:<br />
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Saturday: game of poofball in the arvo, leftover vege pasta for lunch, bangers and mash at the Waikaia Tavern for dinner, and a crate of DB Draught.<br />
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Sunday: hangover recovery, possibly an aqua-jogging session if I feel up to it, leftovers for lunch, tandoori chicken for dinner.<br />
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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.