Getting fit for adventure

Terry’s all psyched up after years of average fitness (blamed on the young children) and recently 6 weeks off running due to injury… he’s back in the saddle and motivated to get fitter than ever.

Goals:

Off road half marathon, mid October in under 1hr20mins.

Deans bank 12hr MTB ride, Labour Weekend. (Either 6hrs hard with a mate or 12hr steady solo)

Southern Lakes Multisport Club 24hr Adventure Race, 19th November. (Top 3 finish)

Northburn100 (as the race director I cant do it on race day 24th March 2012 but would like to complete it in under 30hr about mid December this year)

I’ll be keeping a training log on our facebook page and using my not-so-secret training weapon bHIP.

Update: 12th July – after starting back into training nice and slowly for two whole weeks I then  went and ran 10ks per day for 4 consecutive days and noticed niggles appear back in my stress fractured feet. Damn, just too keen. So since then I’ve been running no longer than 5mins at a time with 3min walking/stretching and doing about 3-4 reps 2-3 times a week. Also been doing some reasonably steady MTB sessions and a couple of bigger MTB/RUN/Tramp session in my nice ridged soled tramping boots (I can do anything in these awesome Gronell boots and not stress my feet) -

I’ve incorporated a wobble board into my training – have it set up in the office and when ever I’m on the phone (cordless) I just wonder over and stand on it for a few minutes at a time.

Did some good hill work yesterday climbing up the old cromwell reservoir track (basically steps straight up for 4 mins then a rough track through some rocks for another 4 mins) x 3 reps. Ran an easy flat 12mins 3min walk/rest and another 12min run home (in running shoes) – longest run in running shoes for nearly a month, I stretch it out with a good steady 10min MTB before and after.

At least I’ve been consistent – the most consistent I’ve been in 7 years! Only taking one or two day off per week.

So fitness will still be improving enough for my 10hr MTB and 24hr challenge goals but my 80min half marathon may have to get put back a couple of weeks…

Update 25th July: Feet feel fine – did a 10k today, first 5ks in 22mins then eased off on the way back, still walking the odd short steep section just so as I don’t push too hard. Running 4 days per week, biking 2 other days, one run mid week is  steep hill reps. Longer run in the weekends all hills. 2 other mid week runs are the flat trail vid below.

My regular 10k ‘flat’ run from Old Cromwell Town to Bannockburn Bridge and back…