After the initial walks up Fleshwick and the aches and pains after them it soon became obvious that a "strict" training regime would be needed to make these events actually possible!
I therefore bit the bullet and signed up for the gym, and sat down with Bratt to come up with the following weekly routine. Should keep us in some sort of shape until we break down!
Monday - Spinning class (exercise bikes for 45 mins) & gym
Tuesday - Squash/swimming or a walk
Wednesday - 7-a-side footy then quick gym session
Thursday - Hockey training & walk back home (approx 5 miles)
Friday - Spinning (45 mins) & gym
Saturday - Hockey match
Sunday - Walk/footy
So far it's the end of the second full week of the regime and my body has stopped screaming at me but it's still non-stop complaining! I also managed a whole week of the schedule before my big toenail completely came off......(bet you wanted to know that!). The regime will be updated though if we find that we are not walking enough or have no toenails left! The general idea now is just to stick to it as rigidly as possible!
Today for our Sunday walk we decided that we will man up and go up the sloc, as this is deemed to be a pretty tough part of the Parish Walk with a pretty relentless uphill gradient. It wasn't quite as bad as I had imagined but I reckon it will be 100 times harder when we've previously walked 20 miles just to get there!!!! Forgot to bring our cameras again but we will be uploading pictures soon!
Along with the training, it's been a pretty busy couple of weeks with the administration side. We have had business cards printed to advertise the event, Bratt has been designing t-shirts and sorting out the printing of them and we've applied for a bank account to collect any donations we raise. Plus we've been setting up this website and trying to make sure everything works! Hopefully now everything is in place and we can start advertising and trying to raise as much as possible!
We've also been recruiting and anyone who has expressed an interest in the Parish Walk will be being chased up to come out on a Sunday morning and get training up in the hills with us. Don't worry you know who you are......
Also since I’ve started training have managed to lay off the booze but as it was my mate Graeme’s birthday had to go out to see him dressed as a woman! I tried to walk briskly between pubs in order to keep up the training, but then Marky B outdid me by running home from paramount…..what can I say I guess he was taking his “training” that night much more seriously than I was!
Right I better get some rest, the best thing about this regime is you appreciate sitting with your feet up so much more!
Dave.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Thursday, January 14, 2010
The start of a long road.......
Hello, I thought that I would write this blog to give me and anyone else interested an insight into what will be a big challenge for me and Marky B and to see how this trip up a mountain & round an island develops and the training etc!!!! I haven't really got a clue what I'm doing blogwise so please ignore any rambling (boom boom!).
After a pretty hectic Christmas & New Year and visit from four uni mates I decide to knock the beer on the head and start the training on the day they left (6th January 2010). After only a week of training my body is already a wreck, I have a split toenail and I am starting to realise what a long road this is going to be towards June!!
I started my training by going up and down the Fleshwick hills for approx 5 hours on the 6th Jan, talk about running before I can walk (or should that be walking before I run?)!
Since then I have been a model of determination (!) walking home from Ballasalla (7 miles) after work, swimming a couple of miles on a Tuesday and going up and down Fleshwick as much as possible. The only break I have is playing football in the snow on Sundays and Wednesdays, good job I don't run too much at footy! I think I'm on the edge of a burnout and I have barely even started!
The plan for the next week is to join the gym at Mount Murray and outline a training regime with Mark that I can actually stick to! Am also in the process of fitting this all round moving into a new flat in Douglas so it is a hectic time to say the least! Unfortunately it is a ground floor flat so I don't even get the exercise of going up and down the stairs!
I read some other blogs on Kili and the Parish walk and have already started to think I've bitten off more than I can chew!
Dave.
After a pretty hectic Christmas & New Year and visit from four uni mates I decide to knock the beer on the head and start the training on the day they left (6th January 2010). After only a week of training my body is already a wreck, I have a split toenail and I am starting to realise what a long road this is going to be towards June!!
I started my training by going up and down the Fleshwick hills for approx 5 hours on the 6th Jan, talk about running before I can walk (or should that be walking before I run?)!
Since then I have been a model of determination (!) walking home from Ballasalla (7 miles) after work, swimming a couple of miles on a Tuesday and going up and down Fleshwick as much as possible. The only break I have is playing football in the snow on Sundays and Wednesdays, good job I don't run too much at footy! I think I'm on the edge of a burnout and I have barely even started!
The plan for the next week is to join the gym at Mount Murray and outline a training regime with Mark that I can actually stick to! Am also in the process of fitting this all round moving into a new flat in Douglas so it is a hectic time to say the least! Unfortunately it is a ground floor flat so I don't even get the exercise of going up and down the stairs!
I read some other blogs on Kili and the Parish walk and have already started to think I've bitten off more than I can chew!
Dave.
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