Mortimer's battle logs.

[Mortimer]

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.

[Mortimer]

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.

 

[Mortimer]

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...

[Mortimer]

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...

[vicious]

8 hours ago, Mortimer said:

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...

 

This is crazy... how many years have you been running?

[Mortimer]

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.

[Mortimer]

Once more into the resevoir:

 

 

[aramis]

That's madness! I love it!

[Mortimer]

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.

[Mortimer]

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.

 

[aramis]

Is this even allowed? I mean hauling their stuff for them? 

For me, if I'd take on such challenge like long-distance run, it would be self-explanatory I need to carry all I need on me. Maybe except water on drinking stations.

[Mortimer]

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 ><

 

 

 

[Mortimer]

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.

[Mortimer]

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!

 

[Mortimer]

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.

[Mortimer]

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.

[aramis]

Cure that blister first. 

Also - did you tried do S&S on some sort of thin foam lining, like yoga mat or exercise puzzles? A bit of padding works wonders for knees and elbows  

[Mortimer]

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 ><