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Quote from: gukl on January 14, 2019, 12:42:40 pm

Weekend was rough, 3 x 13hr days with basically 0 breaks. Just about enough time in the day to stuff my face with junk before sneaking in 7 hours sleep. 

Anyway still got my cycle commutes in and I end up walking at leaks 7.5k through the day at work.

Today

Squat 75kg 3 x 5 (paused all the last, the best squats have felt in a long time)
Deadlift 120kg 3 x 5
Sl leg press 69kg x 12 61kg x 15 slower

Run 5k @ 10km/h - don't usually run after lifting but wanted to get an easy one in.

The run was awful. Hip flexor got really tight/tired which thew my form off and then my right foot arch started hurting  and I got multiple stitches. I'm never running after lower body lifting again lol. Also I wish my new trainers would bloody hurry up

yea don't run after lifting, lmao. all it does is make you go haywire and makes it easier to get injured.

i've run before lifting, feel fine when lifting. i'd do that instead if possible.

pc!

Yeah lesson learnt for sure haha

Quote from: gukl on January 09, 2019, 04:23:06 pm

When I was last really active on here you were smashing 5ks. Now you're smashing running ultras!!

yea. definitely pretty cool!

now i'm looking for more potential ultras..

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That's so awesome man. Certainly inspiring my new found love for running.

awesome man!

yea I remember you enjoyed it (trails etc), but IIRC also had some feet/calf issues as well?

i imagine trail running & even trail racing would be something you'd love.

with ultras especially, it seems like with such a crazy long race at a slower pace, might allow you to really take in the scenery/nature etc. that sounds pretty fun. not advising this for you at this point, just saying in general. marathon & shorter are fast, hard to really absorb if you're pushing it, at least from my experience. still very fun tho.

great to see that you're getting back into stuff!

peace!

You should definitely go for it, you clearly have a real talent for long endurance both from a physical and mental point of view. Did you do anything specifically to slip into that mind set of being able to run for that long, like any psychological tips you used, meditation etc... Or did it just come kinda naturally?

I do really love trails and the scenery, there's something liberating about flying through nature so yeah, it definitely appeals. It is something I kind of have on my radar for some day, I'm still only like 24 so I'm not gonna rush into them but I'd love to do one one day. I have some plans this summer to run some of the mountains in the UK with some friends so that would be a nice intro into the longer distances.

The mental aspect of it appeals, even with the 10ks the kind of meditative state you go into is so enjoyable and I imagine with ultras it gets pretty intense. My supervisor through university was into ultras, think he did some pretty big ones like tour de mont blanc and he'd talk about the mental aspects of it.

Something I've always noticed about ultra is there's always a few jacked guys, likw the guy in that photo. What's behind that? Is it just because it's not so.. Max speed dependent? I feel like we may have talked about this before in fact haha.

Sorry that kinda turned into a long post!

Bought the saucony kinvara 9 today, they're actually everything I was looking for (minus the aesthetics lol - they only had the white and gold ones in stock)

Treadmill 6k (10/11/12/12/11 km\h pace)

Won't be training till Monday as on call over the weekend 

Upper body tonight. Day off work tomorrow so had a rare weekday caffeinated late night session hehe

Chins bw x 10, 10kg 3 x 8 surprisingly easy
Db single arm ohp 24kg x 10 R 9 L, 20kg x 10, 18kg x 12
Face pulls 20kg 3 x 15
Chest flys cable 20kg 3 x 10-12
Curl 16kg x 8, 12k 2 x 12 (less second)
Tri pdown 3 x 12

Quote from: gukl on January 04, 2019, 04:13:01 pm

Been enjoying my running a lot these days and probably going to sign up to the city 10k in April. I ran my first ever 10k on NYE (55m on pretty rough terrain). Aerobic fitness is probably my priority at the moment - I'm climbing mont blanc in June so that's a pretty important goal for me and offering some motivation.

NYE trail 10k.. sick.

what was up with that mt everest photo? u climb everest??? lol.

also for your trail races etc, i remember you using some vibram-ish shoes. if so, i'd try to find some good xc flats. can really fly in those on rough terrain - way more than in vibrams.

Haha I went to Nepal for around 2 months, a month for my final placement of med school, working in a Kathmandu government hospital which was pretty mad in itself, then I spent 3 weeks trekking in the everest region, did base camp and the three surrounding High passes - it was pretty nuts. Shamedly though, as I dragged myself over 5000m I was frequently overtaken by crazy people RUNNING as it was just before the everest ultra marathon so that was pretty cool to see, some ridiculous athletes running with like 50% oxygen haha.

I actually have some merrel trail gloves which are awesome for dryish trails, not so great in mud. Unfortunately that's at my parents where I spent Christmas where there is some great trail. Unfortunately I live in the concrete jungle of an inner city so most of my running is treadmill. Looking to pick up some zero to 4mm drops with a bit of cushion, not sure what to go for though!!

Squat 70kg 3 x 5
Lunge bb 40kg 2 x 12
Leg curl 40kg 2 x 12
Petersons higher box 2 x 20

Quick simple easy... First squats in like a month so didn't push it. Keeping lower leg volume low with all the running too

5/1/19

Pull up bw 3 x 10 (tough)
Dips 20kg 3 x 10
1 arm cable row 25kg 2 x 12
Inc BP 24 kg x 12 (really crampy gave up? Dehydrated)
Db curls 12kg 2 x 12 - used to go heavier but now concentrating a bit more
Tris 35kg 2 x 12
Lateral raise 5kg 1 x 20

Most of this stuff I'm doing single arm at a time apart from pull ups and Dips OFC lol

Row 20 mins nice slow steady recovery pace

Stretch piriformis and calves

Felt really groggy today, don't know why... Drank a lot of coffee earlier in the day just sitting around reading so maybe I just burnt myself out.

amazing photo, what a clear day! the air up that high is so intense, nothing in between you and the distance. i've never gone as high as 5500m, i think highest for me is 5200. super cool.

if you enjoyed, lmk if you want to climb a mountain in northern pakistan next year. trying to get a small group together to climb spantik, the "easiest" 7000m peak (i.e. very little to no technical climbing, it's basically a very, very high trek). yes srs.

sorry late reply - yeah it was an incredible experience and i definitely want to go higher. i've read of spantik....7k is VERY high though! i'd be very interested but unfortunately im just not going to have the funds/time to do something like this for a couple of years at least.

my plan is to get some techincal stuff done in the uk in winter and the alps and progress that way as its easy enough to just take a few days out to go in a little adventure. best of luck if you do get a team together to do that though, it would be an incredible experience.