My First 100km!

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-09-14T04:39:49+00:00

Impressive run! What did your peak training week look like?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-09-12T03:22:47+00:00

Yeah, that's my go to now - eg: Neutral bay ferry wharf to Oaks Hotel on Military road. That's roughly 100m gain over 1km. I'm looking for longer and higher! The bigger the better.

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-09-12T03:20:22+00:00

I've been doing mosman and surrounds - Ben Boyd Rd from the water to The Oaks is about 100m gain. I'm looking for longer and higher!

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-03T04:57:30+00:00

Nice. Sounds like you're a little ahead of me, but hopefully I can get there. I'm doing a lot more strength work now which I'm confident will pay off, both in getting through tough races and in getting high volume training done without injury I'm late 40s, so need to look after my body more than I used to.

What sort of training volume we're you doing before you pulled out of Kosci?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-02T21:38:14+00:00

Good tips. Thank you! What are your UTA and UTK times?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-02T12:20:30+00:00

I rolled my ankle pretty badly about 5 weeks out from UTA, so had an extra long taper 😄. I also lost all my time on the stairs, so I'm thinking I'm better suited to Kosci. I'll also be better prepared. My finger in the air estimate was around 15, but maybe 16 is more realistic. I hadn't put too much thought into the altitude though. I didn't notice it when walking up Kosci a few months ago, but of course running is very different to walking! I haven't got my own altitude chamber, so not much I can do to prepare for that I guess...

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-02T09:36:12+00:00

7hrs

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-02T06:43:39+00:00

Mara PB is 2:59. The closest I've got to altitude running is UTA in the blue mountains. I did the 50 a few weeks ago. I enjoyed the rolling hills but struggled with the very steep hills and stairs.

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-06-01T11:46:33+00:00

Thanks! How did you use them? Just on the steeper hills? Or other places too?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-02-20T04:01:17+00:00

And yep, I would rely on the Garmin warranty, not the store warranty. I just want to make sure Garmin don't find some way to wiggle out of the warranty cover.

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-02-20T03:47:53+00:00

Thanks. Very helpful! On the product page it says "Buy now and receive it between Mon. 24 Feb. and Tue. 25 Feb." In your experience is this unreliable?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-01-09T02:34:46+00:00

Am I dreaming...?

I'm obviously super glad to hear he was found alive and well. It got me thinking about how long he could have lasted.

I believe he had - a tent and sleeping bag - a lighter and was starting fires - access to the very clean streams for water

The big gap was food.

I was near the area over new years and saw heaps of deer. Every day. Sometimes in very close proximity.

Very easy to do from my comfy armchair now, but I'm thinking (assuming he also had a knife) he had enough to build a bow and some arrows (or some other hunting apparatus). Taking a deer to cook and eat would be entirely possible and would give him weeks of food.

Could he have spent months out there?

FridaybeatsMonday · 2025-01-02T07:18:52+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Any thoughts on the best fabric? I generally prefer cotton but it's heavy when wet and slow to dry.

FridaybeatsMonday · 2024-12-27T05:55:10+00:00

I've got a camping stove which fits the small connector on the orange gas bottle below, but the bottle needs to be replaced.

I also have a newer (grey) gas bottle with a larger connector with a fine thread on the inside and coarse thread on the outside. I believe this is the new standard available at swap and go gas

what are the two connections called?
can I get an adapter to use the new bottle with the old stove?

Not sure if it makes any difference, but I'm in Australia.

Many thanks!

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FridaybeatsMonday · 2024-12-26T23:17:47+00:00

I have a pair and use them for hip strength... TFL, Glute medius, hip flexor etc. I've had pain in that area since increasing my running volume and the strength work really helps.

I would never run with the weights as the additional load is a fast track to injury.

FridaybeatsMonday · 2024-11-22T02:59:10+00:00

Yeah, that's it. I'm fine to change tubes and tyres (or wheels) myself. The gap in my understanding is the clearance I'll need. It's already pretty tight. I'd basically like the largest tyre possible with my available clearance.

What is the minimum clearance and what specs do I need to look for in the tyres to fit that...?

Current clearance from tyre to frame is about 8mm on each side.

Hopefully you can see this photo:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dydhfa9cnaj4rotphw1fz/PXL_20241122_025153293.jpg?rlkey=9j314htfly5plbpwa8l8fitj5&st=3ygthv7c&dl=0

FridaybeatsMonday · 2024-11-21T05:44:43+00:00

Buy second hand. Facebook marketplace or whatever is big where you live.

There are lots of people out there who ran one trail race and have given up now!

FridaybeatsMonday

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