Thoughts from my training schedule (1)

These were the notes I took whilst I was doing my trek Training, hopefully you will get a little laugh out of them. I just read that first entry, it seemed every Wednesday I had a lot of wind, lucky for the others i was really slow and no-one knew !

Trek Training 

9th May

7km Urban jungle walk

Incline 300 meters x 5 times twice 

So many thoughts , so slow ended up on my own, hence song choice in head, "all by myself", "one is the Loneliness number", back not to bad a couple of twinges, walked with poles, cheered on by dogs.  

Build up to 10kg in backpack sit on it for a few months then increase prior to going. On my own farting. 

3 kg backpack 

Trek Training 

16th May

Walked with the big pack girls 16kg mine was lucky to be 3kg

Did 2 hills, 3 sets of stairs, and one giant ramp that went on forever and I died at the top, fogged up my glasses and had to walk down the ramp without them, blind as a bat

Met up with the other teams as we had been broken up into teams of three

The big pack girls had to wear their pack, 8kg and above whilst the rest of us had to hold our packs over our heads whilst we did squats and lunges

We then ran 400m around the oval

By this stage I really wanted to die

This btw was after my brutal massage the day before 

Over the bridge we go

Trek Training 

23rd May

Bush wacking 6km 4kg backpack

Trek Training 

30th May

6km stairs & ramps with push ups

7kg backpack

The moon whilst doing sit ups

Trek Training 

6th June 

8kg backpack - 6km

Bush bashing in the rain, very slippery, my delicate derrière skidding down rocks finding every water well! 

Up boulders, thru muddy tracks, along paths looking at the king tide flooding the walk way. 

Trek Training 

13th June

Stairs, core, step ups, squats, walk across Sydney Uni, stair jumping, pushups

Sydney University Graffiti Tunnel

Trek Training 

20th June

Backpack 8kg -8km

Bushwalking from McMahon's Point across to Balls head. Old coal tunnel

Our beautiful bridge

Trek Training 

27th June

No walking this week as podiatrist investigating feet having scans etc

Trek Training 

18th July

Term 2 commenced but had a very sore throat so decided to give it a miss

Trek Training 

25th July

Backpack 8kg and walked in bush roughly 7km with lots of up and down trails. Stair jumping in sets of 5 so new trainer and different techniques. First time no pain in feet and I didn't double sock in my hiking boots, so think I'm on a winner in the feet department. Getting sick of the foggy glasses though so will need to investigate anti fog. 

Trek Training 

1st August 

Backpack 7.5kg urban training near Observatory Hill. Stair walking 5 ups very tough. Walked to first lookout pylon on HB. Then core work in observatory park. Runs up the hill x 10 times with pushups at each end. Sit ups +squats + lunges, hard going but ok, will be sore on Friday as have not done sits up for a couple of years now, will report on the pain scale if I remember. 

Observatory Hill whilst doing core work

Trek Training 

8th August

Trek Training 

11th Sept

Running Clontarf beach Indian file with 8kg in my backpack past drunken smelly cavemen with their dogs yapping and them cheering us on noice !!!!!

Trek Training 

12th Sept

Out of area walk coastal

11kg yeah I made it can't believe it and managed to keep up

Part (2) to be posted, i've realised there are quite a few gaps in my time line !