Having banished the Christmas/New Year hangover to the scrapheap, I focussed my mind on the upcoming fitness weekend at my place. With the schedule for the weekend being hectic, it was important to quantify what was needed for the main event.
The ‘five mile finisher’ definitely didn’t fail to live up to its name. With the ground thawing after temperatures down to -10, conditions underfoot were improving, and so at 11:35 today, with breezy but fair weather, I set off to see what it would take...
Well in a nutshell, it required more than I had, but completed the course in 52 minutes. This may sound terrible, but the course is not really an armchair ride. Of the five inclines, I failed to complete any of them without stopping. My calf muscles basically dictated how far I could go on the ascents, and could only endure so much!
With 12 days to go until the Fantasy Farm Fitness Challenge, my appetite has certainly been moistened. The events are being fine tuned, and I am looking forward to the tests it brings people individually and collectively. By my experiences today, I certainly need to be doing more hard training leading up to this event, and if any of the Everest team is reading this. Work yourself, it’s gonna be tough! The ‘Grim Challenge’ at Aldershot did not force me to stop, and that was 3 miles longer!
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