Spliced and diced - perhaps one day, a little shredded!

Welcome to my blog :biggrin:

:biggrin:

This is quite possible the most convoluted blog on TSR. It started off nearly a year ago with me being a gym bro, doing one body part a day and making precisely nought progress. This changed in the spring with me deciding to run a marathon with two flatmates. So I spent the spring and summer running and running some more! When it came to the marathon in September, heat and drinking Lucosade sport almost killed me; but I got there, with an awesome sprint finish. Time was 3 hours 59mins 30 seconds. I planned to run it in under 4 hours so I got there just :biggrin:

:biggrin:

I might have been able to run it faster if it was cooler and I just drank water and ate jelly babies like I did in training :tongue:

:tongue:

Anyway, returned to lifting and some cycling after a few days of not being able to walk. Was a bit of a gym bro again, not much in the way of routine. Realising that I was wasting my time, I'm now doing a bastardised SS, with pullups/chins and Tbars/pendlay/cable rows/ inverted rows instead of power cleans. I progressed was going well, however a prior back injury flared badly which led to me stopping squatting and deadlifting

I then tore my meniscus and I had surgery for that 8 months later, which meant lower body work. I stopped lifting for a while as an attempt to heal it. I also started swimming.

My knee still isn't sorted but I'm back in the gym having had another 2 months off training post knee operation. Hopefully 2015 will be the year I can train properly!

Any questions, feel free to quote or PM

Never forget - "Push yourself, push yourself until you can think there is no more you can do, then take another step and another. One foot infront of the other; there is always more in your tank, you just have to believe.
Reach your potential - you can conquer any challenge, great or small. You know it. I know it. Now do it."

AC

Current PBs as of 05/3/14

Squat 1rm 125kg
3 x 3 120kg

Deadlift 155kg 1 x 5

Pause Bench 107.5kg

Pendlay rows 87.5kg x 3

Lifting bro style from first session

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(edited 10 years ago)

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Yesterday 6.3 miles in 47:12

Best ever 10k 46:26

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3.1 miles in 23:15

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3 miles in 21:51

Getting faster :colone:

:colone:

Feeling stronger :colone:

:colone:

I will get there :cool:

:cool:

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5.1 miles of intense heat in 41:12 yesterday

Running in 20+ degrees isn't fun at all :lol:

:lol:

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15 miles in 2hour 5 min ish

I say ish as I had to go to the toilet twice on my run - which I paused my timer for, hence it probs took a little while longer

Pleased with the running though, not so pleased with my GI tract :colonhash:

:colonhash:

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2 hours of frisbee yesterday

Havent had a chance to run today... revision :frown:

:frown:

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On Wed - ran an awful 6.7 miles in 53:12

Today - lifted

Squats (I finally manned up and learnt how to do them)
Not inc bar which is around 8kg

1 x 8 - 50kg
1 x 3 - 80kg - too heavy!
1 x 7 - 60kg

Deadlift - not inc bar which was 15kg

1 x 2 80kg.. too heavy
1 x 5 50kg
1 x 5 60kg

Bench not inc bar - 8kg

1 x 10 30kg
1 x 7 40kg
1 x 5 50kg - needed spotted - felt heavy

Farmers walk - 3 x 1 50kg + bar (idk what the name of it is, you stand in it, people often deadlift with it. Its new to the gym) of about a 20 metre walk

(edited 12 years ago)

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Exams have finished! :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Sun - 40 min cross trainer run as weather was shocking

Today - 6.7 miles in 56:42 - didnt run it very well, suffered badly in the 20C!

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9.09 miles in 1hour 19 mins 23
poor show but the heat is killing me!

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On friday 6.7 miles in 57 mins - poor show! :s-smilie:

:s-smilie:

Today - 1.5 hours of frisbee

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Yesterday - 4.9 miles with 5 repeats on a hill - killer. 38:37 mins

Today - 5.2 miles in 41:11 minutes

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8.6 miles in 1 hour 10 on Thursday

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20.2 miles 3 hours 9 minutes and 18 seconds

Got lost twice and ran down a track that was meant to be a road... had to bend double and walk such was the horror of the road :lol:

:lol:

I can get that down to 3 hours no problem

953 ft of climbing.. fml :lol:

:lol:

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2 hours of frisbee training

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Tuesday - 3.2 miles in 22:35

Wed - A horrendous 5.1 miles in 42 min 26 sec

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3.1 miles in 22:11

Boiling out there, I started running before 7:45 am and its 20 C in the sun...

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Inactivity has been due to doing EMS :frown:

:frown:

However yesterday I got a bike :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Went for a 9 mile ride, it took 33 mins 3 secs :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Today ran 5.2 miles in 40:23 or 41:12 depending on which time you take from Strava!

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11.3 mile cycle ride yesterday in 44:06

For anyone interested I've set up my justgiving page :smile:

:smile:

http://www.justgiving.com/keepliving

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11.3 mile cycle ride yesterday in 44:06

For anyone interested I've set up my justgiving page :smile:

:smile:

http://www.justgiving.com/keepliving

After doing 2 halfies, I am considering a marathon... have applied to London but chances are I wont be accepted.

On your long runs, what do you eat before and after? I always got so hungry after running long distances, and if I was to start training for a full 26.2 miles then I cant imagine what my diet will have to be like!

I applaud your determination though, good luck!!!

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After doing 2 halfies, I am considering a marathon... have applied to London but chances are I wont be accepted.

On your long runs, what do you eat before and after? I always got so hungry after running long distances, and if I was to start training for a full 26.2 miles then I cant imagine what my diet will have to be like!

I applaud your determination though, good luck!!!

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depends

:lol:

Best thing I've ever eaten before a run was before my longest ever run was an omelette and a few pieces of white bread, it gave me loads of energy for the first 17 or so miles :tongue:

:tongue:

Then the wall came :tongue:

:tongue:

I eat jelly babies on my runs, I eat one or two a mile to start with and then increase to 5 or sixish per mile by 12 miles, before eating as many as possible after that!

I'm always half starved by the time I finish a long run, I try to eat something like pasta to help me retrieve some blood sugar levels. I also have something like chicken with it to give me some protein to aid recovery and reduce the ache the next day!

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