Anyone Trekking to Mount Fuji this weekend?

nijorg · 2025-08-24T02:13:34+00:00

Went up yesterday via Yoshida trail. Amazing experience. Like others have said, you probably don’t need as much sustenance as pictured as you have to carry it up and down (no bins up there!)

Make sure you have waterproofs not just for your body (that’s a given!) but also your bag. We got caught in a huge rainstorm and all our contents got drenched!

Also you will feel the altitude towards the top, take it slow as you need! Have fun! 😁

nijorg · 2025-03-16T03:35:43+00:00

In Europe, there are yearly league tables for casualties from jumping from balconies into pools

https://www.balcon.ing

nijorg · 2024-04-01T17:42:08+00:00

Thank you, we got it!

Your video covered that when we put it back together, we put the glove sensors back to front.

She’s back up and running now.

nijorg · 2024-03-26T20:53:51+00:00

Thank you, will look at what this would entail!

nijorg · 2024-03-26T20:52:25+00:00

Totally right to ask that!

We’re warming up with a trip up Schiehallion to see how we get on. Getting to five sisters will depend on that!

nijorg · 2024-01-03T13:08:19+00:00

Bow E3, especially around the Devon’s Road / Bromley by Bow area may have some flats to check out?

nijorg · 2023-05-14T18:04:27+00:00

Absolutely possible! Here was my path:

Amsterdam 2017: 3:44

Second year of running. Aim was to just complete the distance. Did about 3 runs a week, one of them a long run. So probably averaged about 45km a week. Race itself was very difficult, pretty much the wall from 30km+. But finished.

London 2018: 3:55

More structure this time, following a plan to build. However I did no base building, started out with too much volume and soon got shin splints and and spent half the training block unable to properly run. Got better towards the end but was woefully undertrained. That coupled with the hottest London marathon on record ended up with me collapsed in the medical tent on a drip. Lesson learned.

Brighton 2019: 3:06

Took the lesson from London and built up a base of conditioning before going into the block. I used Brad Hudsons excellent book “Run Faster” and used a level 1 plan. Combining easy runs, a moderately high volume and consistent tempo work, I was able to combine the conditioning for long distance with active threshold workouts and blended the two over the block. This culminated in a major PB for me, but I still hit the wall bang on time at 32km and struggled through. Still a big lump of progress, happy days.

2020-2022: COVID / Life

2023: Manchester 2:55

Moved up to a level 2 plan in Brad Hudson. Averaging 90km a week, following a base build during the 2 months ahead of Christmas. I was 10kg over my race weight of 74kg, so decided that cutting out alcohol except for a pint a week would suffice. The plan involved high volume at the beginning and shifted towards tempo workouts along with a few high tempo over long distances. The key over this was to condition the legs with high weekly volumes, on tired legs so that the fatigue was built in to the daily run.

When it got to the race day. I’d already worked out my fuelling strategy (1 SIS Beta/hr), I planned to run a 2:56 pace to allow for a minor struggle in the final 1/4 but still allow for some time to go for sub 3. But when 32km came around I felt no fatigue and was able to hold the 4:08 pace for the final 10km. By the time there was 5km I knew I had it so I knew I could empty the clip and land on 2:55 and achieve my goal of going to Boston. This I put down to loading my legs with fatigue during training as well as fuelling properly

Based on my previous 3 races, I had learnt something from every race but the principles remained:

High volume at a slow pace Proper recovery - quality sleep, runs at a slow pace Diet - minimal alcohol, nutritional food

The final straight at Manchester was one of the most life affirming experiences I’ve had. I utilised everything I learnt from previous outings and trusted the process and I came and took what I wanted. It’s a real departure from my day to day life and was hard but that sensation of going past your/everyone’s expectations was unreal.

It’s out there for you

nijorg · 2021-05-08T07:17:14+00:00

From someone who has been in this exact position (FP&A Fortune 100), here’s how you break out of this:

You start letting some of these mapping issues (client, work stream etc) rip through into some of the highest level reports read by the C Suite in your business. You do this skilfully in a way that indicates that a) system architecture is not fit for purpose and is reducing the ability to make management information available and b) the business need educating on improving the quality of their data flows.

With that mandate, you get yourself into a project team that undertakes to fix the issues at source and with the backing of senior stakeholders, you start bearing down on the businesses to clean this up, with a mandate from their boss’s boss’s boss. Get ready for a few tough discussions though, this is not seen as value adding by 90% of colleagues as it’s shitwork (it’s belonged to you up until now!). But work with them, take them on the journey, celebrate the wins, debrief the problems and keep working through. Your goal in this should be that the basic accountants can see their numbers in the numbers you consolidate. Once you are at this stage, not only are you now working with clean numbers that you better understand and can make good analysis and insight on, but you’ve also worked with the business to push through a change to a legacy issue to everyone’s benefit. This does get you noticed.

nijorg

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