Health and fitness

[bonehead]

3 hours to do a 10k section. Looks like another brutal uphill stretch in the dark of the early morning. Sun coming up now so hopefully he gets a chance to stretch out on a nice downhill. So long as his legs have anything left.

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how's our lad tracking Gerg?

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[gerg]

3 hours to do a 10k section. Looks like another brutal uphill stretch in the dark of the early morning. Sun coming up now so hopefully he gets a chance to stretch out on a nice downhill. So long as his legs have anything left.

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how's our lad tracking Gerg?

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I just went out for a 20 to support him. But checking back in he is still pushing on. 21 hours and around the 100k. He's probably got about 3 more hours of daylight, dusk running/hiking and then a long night. I think the worst climbs are on the first half of the course but after that long on the course any climb is tough.

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[gerg]

Man what a beast.

The first checkpoint he's coming 2335th position and I'm sure inspired by Ricky himself, Coastal is showing some grit your teeth toughness, bleeding green and getting into the grind. He has been consistently climbing the standings, gaining in 13 out of 18 segments. He is up to 1460th position now at the last huge climb. Bring it home buddy. A nice stretch of about 10k of downhill now. Nine more segments to tick off.

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[bonehead]

Go hard Coastal!, the Albert Hopoate of gritty grinders! Never buried

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[Dr Zaius]

In support of Coastal, I did a 7 stop Bar Hop through Sydney on crutches. I hope that brings him inspiration. It has bought me sore hands and a sore head.

[gerg]

In support of Coastal, I did a 7 stop Bar Hop through Sydney on crutches. I hope that brings him inspiration. It has bought me sore hands and a sore head.

Haha. Finely tuned athletes. After my 20 I guzzled down 4 Smirnoffs. Feeling a bit stiff this morning.

He is now at the 146k point, 33 hours. He has 3 (comparatively) smallish climbs left. It's just before 4am. This last sunrise should be awesome as long as he's not hallucinating too much.

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[bonehead]

inspirational Doc

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[bonehead]

160km mark, appears to be alive and beast mode to catch kickoff

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[bonehead]

6.5kms all downhill to the finish, what a weapon

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[Dr Zaius]

Jebus it really puts it in perspective that he is still going....

[gerg]

Final few kilometres. What a legend.

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[bonehead]

finished, well done Coastal extraordinary

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[Dr Zaius]

Machine!

[gerg]

They cut away from the finish line a minute or two before he finished.

He must have finished nearly 30 minutes ago. I can't believe he hasn't drafted up his race report for us. Pretty slack effort.

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[Coastalraider]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

[Dr Zaius]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

Well done mate. Can't wait for the run down

[bonehead]

Holy hell crew, that race is on a completely different level. I haven’t quite got my head around it yet. That’s going to take a while to get over.

Well done mate. Can't wait for the run down

I doubt he's running anywhere for a while Doc

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[bonehead]

You alive Coastal?

Back on the bike yesterday after a bit of a lay-off due to lack of time (Boneyjr bought himself another car that needs some setup) so just a quick sprint up the hill and back was a nice 58min 19km 200m climb loop top 3'da heap of segments

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[Coastalraider]

Still alive lads, back in Australia after eating my way through Italy!

If you want a bit of a run down, here’s a chat I had last night:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t ... 1079773478

[gerg]

Thanks for sharing coastal, was a good listen. Roughly what does the week in chamonix cost? I'm tempted by this race but probably more tempted by the location. I think I'd prefer to fastpack it over 5 or 6 days. Some of the tour groups I looked at were 3500 euro and that's a little too much for my tastes.

In the podcast you hinted at not quite being done with the longer distances, so which races are you plotting in the back of your head? Western States?

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[Coastalraider]

Thanks for sharing coastal, was a good listen. Roughly what does the week in chamonix cost? I'm tempted by this race but probably more tempted by the location. I think I'd prefer to fastpack it over 5 or 6 days. Some of the tour groups I looked at were 3500 euro and that's a little too much for my tastes.

In the podcast you hinted at not quite being done with the longer distances, so which races are you plotting in the back of your head? Western States?

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I’d say race week would comfortably be the most expensive week of the year in Chamonix, a huge percentage of their annual revenue is generated by that race now. Slightly off peak I don’t think it would be ridiculous, I got a decent rate at a good hotel for around 2,500-3,000 Aud for race week so I could concretely say off peak you could do somewhere small or cheap for near half that. It can be tricky finding reasonable places to eat - everything is fantastic but $30+ eu bowls of pasta for example are pretty common - we found some really nice baguette places for very cheap so not every meal was a blowout. Dont know what the refuges on the loop charge though, that where it may get expensive as you only have so many options.

As for what’s next; I think I need a bit of a break from super heavy training so will take a while to make a call on the next monster challenge. States is a maybe but a long term play, really hard to get into. I also think I’m better at the hard slog stuff than outright pace so things like hardrock may be up my alley. And I got a familiar shiver down the spine watching Tor de Geants last week, and I fell in love with Italy after Chamonix….

[Dr Zaius]

I walked today for the first time in 12 weeks. It's more of a hobble really. Fairly limited how much I'm allowed to do and still largely dependant on crutches. A mate did the Surf Coast Century today. Watched his progress. Seems a world away.

[bonehead]

good stuff doc, I ran 1km 1st time in years

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[Dr Zaius]

good stuff doc, I ran 1km 1st time in years

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You eat an elephant one bite at a time Boney. You'll be doing UTNB in a couple of years.

[bonehead]

good stuff doc, I ran 1km 1st time in years

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You eat an elephant one bite at a time Boney. You'll be doing UTNB in a couple of years.

i was at cricket training yesterday, nice 2hrs of fielding and nets after the initial laps around the oval. Backed up into a 30km ride today with 15 or so ebikers (no battery for me i go old school) I was pretty happy to survive the 750m of climbs in the first 15kms.

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[Dr Zaius]

good stuff doc, I ran 1km 1st time in years

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You eat an elephant one bite at a time Boney. You'll be doing UTNB in a couple of years.

i was at cricket training yesterday, nice 2hrs of fielding and nets after the initial laps around the oval. Backed up into a 30km ride today with 15 or so ebikers (no battery for me i go old school) I was pretty happy to survive the 750m of climbs in the first 15kms.

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Nice work mate.

[gerg]

@Dr Zaius @Coastalraider, or other frequent travellers

We're all set to fly to Jeju Island an Wednesday night, overnighter. Race is Saturday morning. I haven't been able to sleep on planes even for long haul flights overnight for a long time. I also really hate sleeping pills so don't really want to do that. 2330 departure 0630 seoul transit then 1030 arrival at Jeju.

Any tips? I'm setting myself up to be tired for raceday whatever I do.

My training has been all over the place. First month was okay at 213k, but then crook for about 5 or 6 weeks. I racked up 67k and 165k in July and August. September was good and I think it was close to the biggest month I've ever done at 336k. From late August I had good weeks - 73, 82, 89, 92, and then taper 50, 44. So I had a decent block in there. I went a bit further than normal because of there being no elevation here to train on.

Weather looks perfect at Jeju. According to the app it's 18 to 22 degrees every day there for the week. Not too much wind. Perfect running conditions. Really excited to go through an ordeal like this with my wife though I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up (PI). She takes this **** a bit too seriously for my liking. She did the whole training program. It'll really hurt to keep up with her



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[Coastalraider]

@Dr Zaius @Coastalraider, or other frequent travellers

We're all set to fly to Jeju Island an Wednesday night, overnighter. Race is Saturday morning. I haven't been able to sleep on planes even for long haul flights overnight for a long time. I also really hate sleeping pills so don't really want to do that. 2330 departure 0630 seoul transit then 1030 arrival at Jeju.

Any tips? I'm setting myself up to be tired for raceday whatever I do.

My training has been all over the place. First month was okay at 213k, but then crook for about 5 or 6 weeks. I racked up 67k and 165k in July and August. September was good and I think it was close to the biggest month I've ever done at 336k. From late August I had good weeks - 73, 82, 89, 92, and then taper 50, 44. So I had a decent block in there. I went a bit further than normal because of there being no elevation here to train on.

Weather looks perfect at Jeju. According to the app it's 18 to 22 degrees every day there for the week. Not too much wind. Perfect running conditions. Really excited to go through an ordeal like this with my wife though I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up (PI). She takes this **** a bit too seriously for my liking. She did the whole training program. It'll really hurt to keep up with her



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Good luck mate! Not all training goes perfectly, in fact it rarely does - but you’re much better going in slightly underdone that burnt out. Temps sound great, how’s the humidity?

As for sleep I’ve never slept well on a plane in my life, I’m well over 6 foot so it’s always been a challenge. I just try my best to be calm about it… have a good neck pillow, eye mask and headphones - even if you can’t sleep put on some music or a pod and wind down as much as possible. I also read an interesting article somewhere recently about how the airline’s timing of cabin lights and meals is designed to assist in adapting the body to the destination, so just go with the flow as much as possible. Sounds like landing times is actually great to get boots on the ground for the day and stay up until a decent hour for a solid first nights sleep, I find that’s key.

Keep us up to date, really keen to see how you both go!

[Dr Zaius]

@Dr Zaius @Coastalraider, or other frequent travellers

We're all set to fly to Jeju Island an Wednesday night, overnighter. Race is Saturday morning. I haven't been able to sleep on planes even for long haul flights overnight for a long time. I also really hate sleeping pills so don't really want to do that. 2330 departure 0630 seoul transit then 1030 arrival at Jeju.

Any tips? I'm setting myself up to be tired for raceday whatever I do.

My training has been all over the place. First month was okay at 213k, but then crook for about 5 or 6 weeks. I racked up 67k and 165k in July and August. September was good and I think it was close to the biggest month I've ever done at 336k. From late August I had good weeks - 73, 82, 89, 92, and then taper 50, 44. So I had a decent block in there. I went a bit further than normal because of there being no elevation here to train on.

Weather looks perfect at Jeju. According to the app it's 18 to 22 degrees every day there for the week. Not too much wind. Perfect running conditions. Really excited to go through an ordeal like this with my wife though I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up (PI). She takes this **** a bit too seriously for my liking. She did the whole training program. It'll really hurt to keep up with her



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Looks like it's going to be one hell of an adventure.

Sleep wise, if you don't like pills you could try loading up on melatonin. Otherwise, it's the pills...

[bonehead]

Not a great day today, Boneyjr at 17yo got told he's on track for Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis, effectively immune disease arthritis - it explains the last 9 months of pain at least

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[greeneyed]

Very sorry to hear mate.

[Dr Zaius]

Sorry to hear that Boney.

[Coastalraider]

Oh mate -
Really sorry to hear it.

[bonehead]

not a great diagnosis on top of ligament issues and scoliosis but treatment can be a big game changer apparently

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[Coastalraider]

@Dr Zaius @Coastalraider, or other frequent travellers

We're all set to fly to Jeju Island an Wednesday night, overnighter. Race is Saturday morning. I haven't been able to sleep on planes even for long haul flights overnight for a long time. I also really hate sleeping pills so don't really want to do that. 2330 departure 0630 seoul transit then 1030 arrival at Jeju.

Any tips? I'm setting myself up to be tired for raceday whatever I do.

My training has been all over the place. First month was okay at 213k, but then crook for about 5 or 6 weeks. I racked up 67k and 165k in July and August. September was good and I think it was close to the biggest month I've ever done at 336k. From late August I had good weeks - 73, 82, 89, 92, and then taper 50, 44. So I had a decent block in there. I went a bit further than normal because of there being no elevation here to train on.

Weather looks perfect at Jeju. According to the app it's 18 to 22 degrees every day there for the week. Not too much wind. Perfect running conditions. Really excited to go through an ordeal like this with my wife though I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up (PI). She takes this **** a bit too seriously for my liking. She did the whole training program. It'll really hurt to keep up with her



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How did it go Gerg?!?