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Sure, I didn't buy new runners for nothing!
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11-09-2012 8:45pm#1Right, I thought Id try a log again. I am amazed so many people here keep it up, well impressed with a lot of the dedication and progress people have made, so I am now inspired.
The usual goals...Lose weight, firm up, be healthier! I will update stats during the week......they are not good
Monday: Cycle to work 18.5 Km in 44:32.
"Run" 5.3 Km in 32 Mins
Cycle home 18.5 Km in 43:26
Tuesday: "Run" 4.2 Km 23:36
So far, so good. Its a start.0
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Well holy f.uck I'm bolloxed!
Great day was had. I got up at 0630 and left got picked up at around 7.15, stopped for an essential brekkie sambo and a can of Monster. I am very surprised and happy with my performance overall. Lough Dan has some lovely scenery.....in between bouts of sweaty eyeballs. 130ish people turned up, it was a solely military event.
I haven't got my official split timings yet but the rough ones are as follows.
8 Km run cross country: -40 mins.
The terrain was tough enough, started off with a very steep hill on tarmac, levelled out a bit. then it was cross country up and over another steep as feck hill/mountain thing, down through gorse, leveled out for about 500m then to the kayak station.
2.5 Km Kayak: 30 mins.
Well, that freaked me out a bit. I am a non swimmer
, and I dont particularly like water stuff. It was a 2 person kayak, so me and a mate of mine hopped in. We were pushed out and off we popped. Never having kayak'd before I was nervous but that drifted off once we got going. There were a few rocky to be dodged and a few panicy moments negotiating the wakes that were made by the passing safety RIBs.......so now I am Kayak master! 
Straight out of the kayak to the bike station.
20 Km Cycle: 50 mins.
Started off with my mate, straight away into a steep climb, my quad locked and I had to get off the bike and run up the hill with it. Once it levelled off a bit, straight back on. It was tough enough of a cycle, a fair few steep hills. I regularly cycle to work (22 miles total) but have not done any hill work, so I found it tough. The Military Police were out at all the junctions dircting us, i took one of the turns which immediately turns into a fairly steep climb but I was stuck in the highest gear....more running uphill with the bike
. I passed a couple of guys out, so Im happy with that. A couple of guys had some bad falls though. Straight off the bike and onto the obstacle course.
2 Km Obstacle Course: 32 mins.
I was fecked by the time I got to this. Ran for 500m into a forest and to the first obstacle, which was some sort of tyre to squeeze through. Run again to a rope bridge thing. I had to hold onto a rope above my head while standing on another rope and shimmy across without falling into the river. Next 10ft high log wall to get over. Next cross a boggy river. At this point both my calves seized and I was just lying there in the river in agony..
A few more smaller things to negotiate while going for the last 1 Km. The last Km consisted of a 700m uphill forest track with various obstacles, then 300m down hill to the river. Once we got to the river we had to wade out...nipple deep for some, go aroung a bouy and back to the shore. At the shore there was a 40ft container with cargo netting, up the cargo net then jump off the other side and sprint to the finish.
Total time of 2 Hrs 33 Mins.
What did I get out of the day? A brekkie sambo, 2 seized calf muscles, a buff (some sort of hat thing
) and a bit of pride. 0 -
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