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I even tried unweighted on the bed but the knee turning motion is painful to carry out. I could push through the pain and do it but likely I'll get another blood blister/skin would rip so that isn't really worth the trouble. It's been several months since I scrapped my knee and it's still ><

I am rather short of time here - I have not the time to do strength training. What I'm trying to do is just squeeze in sets of body weight exercises throughout the day. So far I've done a set of: 4x 2 assisted pull ups 4x2 assisted chin ups 2x2 assisted pull ups 2x2 assisted chin ups 1 assisted pull up 1 assisted chin up 3 sets of 3 dips 2 sets of 10 push ups I intend to do later another 10 push ups, 3 sets of 1 min hollow body hold and 3 sets of 5 assisted pistol squats per leg and call it a day. I want to do simple and sinister but I have this little problem... The scar tissue actually formed a blood blister which I promptly popped the last time I tried to do Turkish get ups. I tried wearing a knee brace over it but it's still painful put weight on that knee.

Oooh I see your TGU reps are going up=) Soon you'll be able to TGU me ^^

And it is done: https://runningguildsg.blogspot.com/p/shiok-200km-roll-of-honour.html?m=1 I am also in the shiok 200km roll of honour.

Anyway HKSG is over. I clocked like 362km in 20 days, maybe about 30+km was walking? 3rd place for team category. Now I'm going to take a long snooze break before next fun adventure - 200k this Friday!

Yep yep you're there to have fun! Think about how much mud, swinging around you'll get! If you want to maintain fitness with less time you kinda need to be more focused and train smarter per se. If I use a running analogy, you don't need to clock half marathons everyday, you can do reasonably well for anything below a HM with one speed workout on Tuesday, one hill workout on Thursday and one long steady distance run on Saturday. Ultra work you'd really want to do back to back weekend runs though , but that would only be like 20-30k runs for 2 days in a row?

Crazy load of running and not much time for posting last week, cumulating in back to back marathons on trail. (Hey, I didn't know I could pull that off lol!) And 149km clocked in a single week.

Yeah being sick sucks, I hope you feel better soon!

What run are you talking about? *perks ears

It's a virtual race so uh yeah we help out =P And because it's a virtual race - there are no aid stations. But there are still cut off times. It's sort of dumb to miss the finishing timing (45h for 200km), because you were busy queueing to enter (multiple) petrol kiosks toilets to fill up your water bottle/buy water from petrol kiosk. Yes, you can get quite the queue. Since there may be one cubicle and 3-4 people queueing to enter. Or several people at the counter manned by one person. No the route does not run through water fountains. My water consumption/10k is about 500 - 750 ml and I think I am quite the camel. A certain Norwegian ice bear would probably take a lot more... Also runners won't be able to run continuously - this is run through the city so there are traffic lights etc. If it's night and the road is empty, by all means jay run/jay walk. But there will be enough forced stops to delay you as it is. I need about 70g/dates per 10km, at bare minimum. If I were doing ultra work, I would bump intake to 100g/10km. So 200km you'd be carrying 2kg of dates? It does add up - once I'm over about 3kg load my speed drops to 7:30min/km. Not to mention at least for us not pros, we're not very sharp after a night of running. Case in point, myself: I can still run after 100km, but whether I run the right direction or not is questionable. Even at my best I'm a crappy navigator. A night without sleep makes things worse ><

Did 1 loop around the resevoir at night then went to support the 200k runners cycling about 70-80km or so. While carrying their stuff. Oof. I think I druther run 70/80km lol.

Yay glad you're feeling better 😃 I don't look forward to 6 monthly/yearly shots...

Today's runs: I ran in morning, stopped to take nephew rock climbing then did my unfinished business in the afternoon. Likely won't run much for next few days as no time...and doing support for people on 200km run.

Once more into the resevoir:

4 years. Serious training started about 2 years ago when Covid hit since gyms were closed. The marathon on trail is just the begining. Basically until December 31st 7pm,I will aim to clock as many loops around the resevoir as possible. I will run on alternate days but will aim to do 30k minimum per stretch. Weekends if I am free - back to back marathons on the resevoir. We'll see how far I can go. Last year I was doing 1-2 loops(11-22km)/day everyday, but I don't have the time to do that this year.

HKSG begins: Yes I did a marathon on trail. Elasped time was 5:25, even faster then my road self supported marathon last year. I am definitely better trained then last year, but alas, I don't have as much time...

I have completed everesting on 6 December 2021. About 2 weeks of (almost) everyday climbing up and down the stairs. Now HKSG is about to start, let's see how many loops I can make around the resevoir this year...

Also I'm now everesting. Everyday I will make my way to Fort Canning for 20 loops(should be 400m, but my seely nub watch only records 270+m). I hope I have time to finish it since it must be done by 11 Dec. I will try to pull longer shifts on weekends. I am not allowed to attempt one shot as my husband has given me a ban from ultras for the rest of the year.

Ok last sat I did forest force 50. 50k of trail work in about 8h 22 min(some parts were too muddy and slippery to run) and it kicked my ass =P 1k of elevation in 50 km >< Yesterday I went to KA13. They have a collection of spartan obstacles. I feel since I was seriously out of OCR shape, I didn't really utilize as much as I could have. Rope climb: Fail Multi rig: Fail Low rig:Fail 30kg atlas stone carry: Fail Inverted wall structure climb: Had to use side scaffolding to get over.(Not supposed to) Wall climbing: Only to what I can jump and reach from standing position. About 8 wooden planks worth. I get my hands on top of the wall, scramble to cat hang before moving feet to hands and hooking foot over. Basically this method: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLALQuK1NDrgi5ANcBQ1UfyhcrmpEvTWW Balance beam : ehh iffy Hurdle: Meh until I was told not to get my knees on the hurdle. Then I used parkour safety vault. Went a lot smoother Tyre flip(100kg) - Yes, I can flip a 100kg tyre but my technique leaves much to be desired. Apparently I don't keep my back straight when doing the flip. 20kg rocks bucket carry: Yep I can carry a bucket filled with rocks weighing 20kg and walk around with it. Again I did practice before with a bucket of soapy water... Anyway on Sunday I'm back to....zipping down roads as fast as I can go. Sub 2h Half marathon. Yep, I always wanted that one. With pacer help. Impossible without.

Lol to get to Poland it'd be more then a jog. I think a lot of swimming would be involved which for me is uh no go. The cookies would likely go bad/or more likely greedy guts me would have eaten them up somewhere along the way. I'm not very good with the food thing when I'm running...

And it is done: Had support crew and it was really really helpful or my timings wouldn't have been that good. Weather too.

Went to the gym last Friday(finally managed to book gym) and did: Deadlifts: 40kg x 12, 3 sets Back squat: 25 kg x 10, 3 sets, superset Overhead press: 20 kg x 8,3 sets Chest press: 25kg x6, 3 sets Front squats: 25kg x8, 3 sets Farmers walk :1 min 08 s with 15 kg weight plate. Workout kicked my ass anyway. And I'm going to collect my house keys on 8th November. Once we get it rennovated we can move in. Finally!

I'm still around but mostly on discord. Have an audit coming up this Tuesday, so keep fingers crossed and see how it goes. Going to office has actually gotten me more disciplined on exercise. They changed the gym booking timings to 9am, so I've been logging in at noon and got no slot. That being said I've been doing body weight stuff...the usual: 7 assisted pull ups 7 assisted chin ups 5 assisted pull ups 5 assisted chin ups 3 assisted pull ups 3 assisted chin ups 5 sets of: 20 dive bomber push ups 5 assisted pistol squats/leg 20 pike push ups 1 min hollow body hold 3 dips(on an L shaped table) Simple and sinister on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 10x10 1hswing @11.8kg dumbell 10x 1 TGU@ 10.8kg dumbell Yeppers I backslided and I can't do pull ups or TGU at full weight now. Some occasional running. Saving up for 110k attempt come 23 Oct.

Still having a bad exercise week. Monday I did 3 sets of the following: 20 divebomber push ups 20 assisted pistol squats 1 min hollow hold 3 dips Bleh I'm really out of shape. Tuesday: 11km of running. Fast. Pace is between speed interval and tempo. Weds: 7 assisted pull ups 7 assisted chin ups 5 assisted pull ups 5 assisted chin ups 3 assisted pull ups 3 assisted chin ups 5km of speed intervals. I did manage to settle my monthlies problem by seeing a different Chinese doctor. I'm currently having my time of the month now, so that's one problem fixed. It had nothing to do with me over exercising (like everyone keeps trying to pin the blame on) or getting enough sleep(well I'd still like to get more of it) The next thing is I've been called back to work from office due to producing shoddy work at home. I'm not looking forward to next week's lecture. Yep mental state isn't very good of the late but this time it's all of my own making.

Entire week: Rather busy at work so quite some stress eating and a bad exercise week. Tuesday: Ran 11km slackishly Weds: 3km of slow jog Thursday: 9km of hill work Sat: 15km pacing duty (unfortunately my 200 mile pacee DNFed due to GI issues) Sunday: 10km in 1h 26 min and 53 s - I was pacing for my friend who ran her very first 10k. 8 min run at 8 min/km pace with 1 min walk/stretch/hydrate. Final 2 intervals my friend needed 2 min break for recovery. Ran around 3.8km the wrong way at 5:37 min/km pace. I cannot do Turkish get ups atm due to my stubbed toe - it's still painful. I can run on it on flat ground fine but it sometimes twinges downhill. And strangely enough sometimes when walking as well ><