Training Log Archive: Mess Engineer

Last opportunity to sort out maps for next weekends 'First Time Setter' event.
At Kurri Kurri with Denis.
1/2 to 2/3 of the time was sitting in back of station wagon going through everything on laptop.
Moved 1 or 2 controls slightly.
Added 2 new ones to sort out issue with too many competitors going to same control at start.
Distance a guess.

Denis has now :
- vetted every marked control location.
- vetted every control placement on the map.
- vetted every control description / symbols.
So I can now confidentally tell any whinger on the day where to go
(assuming I put the correct number at each location).

Will have to finalise and send off maps for printing Master copies.

Found that the road out to the event partially blocked with huge concrete blocks.
Passable but means have to drive in the centre of the road.
We were both happy to come back to the start to find our cars hadn't become burnt out wrecks while we were away (there was a burnt out car (and signs of another removed) on the way in).

Jackhammering at twin brothers on his staircase project.
He had hired an industrial scale jackhammer twice as big as the 'kanga hammer' borrowed from work so we took turns using each.
He had been at it since 8 am but my interest level ran out after 2 hours (didn't want to aggravate left shoulder or lower back).

Legs were on fire from yesterdays efforts so struggled.

Straight from Cycle Class to treadmill.

Continued to struggle.

Climbed up and down 39 times.
So 39 x 2 = 78 Stories.

Like yesterday the first 10 minutes seemed easy.
But today the extra 10 minutes got hard and the last 3 minutes was a total sweat fest. No intervals afterwards today!

Today I had a very small pack of playing cards in right hand and dropped one in a bucket at the top after each lap so I know I counted correctly! Next time I will write a number of back of the cards so I can count down.

So the challenge is to run out of cards.

And there were 4 extra stories walked anyway - 2 at the start to put the bucket etc at the top and 2 at the end to go and retrieve it.

C • preparation 3

Was walking with dogs to do a loop around the back and I could see an animal from about 100 m away which looked sort of like a big hare.
As a joke I pointed in its direction and said to the dogs "go and get it" but they did nothing.

When I got down there (by the trench) it turned out to be a koala which rapidly climbed the tree whilst I stood in front of the dogs blocking their way since they wanted a piece of it.

It stayed on about 2 m up initially but by time Partner came down it was at the very top of the tree.

Been looking for other morning ideas since it is too dark to run on back streets and parks.

Gym 2 Story Carpark.
Stairway has 8 steps, landing with 180 degree turn, 8 steps, landing with 180 degree turn (First Floor), 8 steps, landing with 180 degree turn, 8 steps then landing to Second Floor.
So 32 steps in all.

Run up and down approximately 25 times (so 50 stories).
Not as tiring as I expected but was hard to remember which number I was up to.
Need an abacus or something at the top to mark each one off.

Would have been a good exercise for the heart monitor but found battery was flat when I picked it up.

My "first ever" attempt at Sprint Intervals.

On First Floor of Gym Car Park under decent lighting.
Almost no cars as majority of people park on ground level ... or turned up prior to 6 am opening time.

Sprinted from one end to the other and then walked back.
Using geodistance on satellite image said 0.0936 km so for simplicity will claim as 100 m.
Repeat 10 times. Really felt the last one.
Not sure how long it actually took and no recovery apart from the walking time back.

17.13
17.06
16.89
15.41
15.59
15.53
15.77
15.90
15.52
15.29

C • Intervals 1

Mix of weights from 30 kg, 25 kg, 20 kg, 15 kg depending how shoulder was playing up. Returning to 20 kg for chest was a killer.