bgvanbur Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 Main QuestPrepare for a 99 miler on August 8-9. News Year's ResolutionsKeep Calm & Play BackgroundDefinitely time to get ready for the ultra. So long runs and daily running really help that. I also want to keep an eye on what I eat and really like how primal eating works for me. I want to keep up the lifting and bodyweight. And of all the bodyweight, the handstand I really want so a specific goal for that. GoalsAttack Food Soldiers1) Made smart primal choices every day +5 CONRunning2) Run every day (40 days) +3 STA3) Run long once a week +3 STALifting4) Lift heavy once a week +2 STRHandstand5) Do 200 minutes of handstand during the challenge +1 CHABodyweight Momentum6) Do 20 bodyweight reps every day (5 seconds of non-handstand static hold counts as 1 rep) +1 WIS 3 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
Strickland5 Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 99miler! Wowie color me impressed! And now I want to play 1 Quote Half-Ork Scout Leader Running PRs : 5K 24m16s | 10K 53m32s | 15K 1h18m09s | Half Marathon 2h1m44s | Marathon 4h42m2s Past Challenges #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40 Current Challenge : TBD Link to comment
Syren Posted May 28, 2015 Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 OMG Where did you find the Donatellos! Because of course they kill off my favorite turtle in the comics -.- Quote STRENGTH (0) | DEXTERITY (-1) | CONSTITUTION (1) | WISDOM (3) | INTELLIGENCE (3) | CHARISMA (2) Syren -- Chaotic Good -- Human Druish Ranger -- Current Challenge -- Battle Log Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted May 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2015 99miler! Wowie color me impressed! And now I want to play Thanks, and you should. I play hyperstone heist and turtles in time a couple times a month with the kids. OMG Where did you find the Donatellos! Because of course they kill off my favorite turtle in the comics -.- I am disassembling (reverse engineering) the genesis game TMNT The Hyperstone Heist and they are some of the sprites I have extracted from the game Practiced some non-wall handstands outside and it definitely showed me how much a crutch that wall is. Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
Terinatum Posted May 29, 2015 Report Share Posted May 29, 2015 "Practiced some non-wall handstands outside and it definitely showed me how much a crutch that wall is." No doubt, the placebo effect is really strong. If we think just having the wall there makes things easier, than without it, you may well feel like you're worse off than you really are. ​I like the goals a lot. Really spread out, but not too ambitious as to not be achievable. 1 Quote The Way Better Now than Back Then Better Now than Later On Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 So yesterday's 5k went great! 23:18, a 30 second PR from a few weeks ago on a training run and over a minute PR from last year. Pretty happy about that. Top 10% of age group and in top 4% overall I am a huge fan of Mark Sisson and his primal version of paleo. My biggest beef with him was his take on endurance sports. But now he is working on a book entitled Primal Endurance that will be out at the end of the year which I am super excited about. In the meantime, he just released a Primal Endurance podcast and I have really enjoyed it so far. 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
Syren Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 So yesterday's 5k went great! 23:18, a 30 second PR from a few weeks ago on a training run and over a minute PR from last year. Pretty happy about that. Top 10% of age group and in top 4% overall I am a huge fan of Mark Sisson and his primal version of paleo. My biggest beef with him was his take on endurance sports. But now he is working on a book entitled Primal Endurance that will be out at the end of the year which I am super excited about. In the meantime, he just released a Primal Endurance podcast and I have really enjoyed it so far. I can haz one more sweet potato than normal? Quote STRENGTH (0) | DEXTERITY (-1) | CONSTITUTION (1) | WISDOM (3) | INTELLIGENCE (3) | CHARISMA (2) Syren -- Chaotic Good -- Human Druish Ranger -- Current Challenge -- Battle Log Link to comment
awesomesue Posted June 1, 2015 Report Share Posted June 1, 2015 Yay another great challenge to follow and podcast to enjoy. Killer sounding challenge. Quote Food Fight - current challengeYeary Bug Count 0... if you are out and about then you are probably eating bugs. 2015 - 22.5 bugs consumedChasing down the most awesome version of myself one step at a time.The Character Battle Log 1 Daily Mile Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 I made a spreadsheet. Decided for the primal goal I will grade each day out of 100. The basic score will start based on percentage primal, but I will factor in things like traveling or special occasions. The grading might be a work in progress. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16LFlF07k_4pkM_RG_6t3QDdaFa3TcaaJil9Bx7h2Qng/edit?usp=sharing 2 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
awesomesue Posted June 2, 2015 Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Love it! You even kept your TMNT guy. Now I feel my sheet is lacking but it does have graphs. 1 Quote Food Fight - current challengeYeary Bug Count 0... if you are out and about then you are probably eating bugs. 2015 - 22.5 bugs consumedChasing down the most awesome version of myself one step at a time.The Character Battle Log 1 Daily Mile Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2015 Had to spruce it somehow, and I got annoyed setting up all the value based color formatting last challenge so I didn't want to do that again. 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2015 Got my lift in this morning since have a group run tonight. Yesterday was my wife's birthday, and while I didn't eat fully primal I made some good choices out of my options when eating out My mother-in-law gave me Kohl's cash and today I got some shorts (first running shorts with side zipper pockets!), some wicking underwear (on clearance!), and an awesome tmnt shirt (feels like a tech shirt, I will give it a whirl as a running shirt: http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-2042470/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-surfing-tee-men.jsp). 2 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Last night's run was great. I went with the fast group and it was fairly warm and humid, so by the end I was keeping up with the group leaders. The new shirt was great but given the conditions everyone was sweat soaked by the end. Doing pretty good on the goals so far in week zero. Tomorrow is my wife's mega turning 30 party, so need to consciously stay away from all day snaking and sneak in a quick morning workout 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 In addition to the party I was sick over the weekend I made ok food choices but drank more than intended Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
Strickland5 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 I made ok food choices but drank more than intended This is the usual story of my weekends. Monday morning reset time! 2 Quote Half-Ork Scout Leader Running PRs : 5K 24m16s | 10K 53m32s | 15K 1h18m09s | Half Marathon 2h1m44s | Marathon 4h42m2s Past Challenges #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 #40 Current Challenge : TBD Link to comment
The Borg Queen Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 Happy birthday to your wife!!!! 200 minutes of handstand sounds... wow. Good luck! Quote Class and Profession: Level 23 Borg Queen Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 I got in 3 minutes of handstand practice yesterday, my easy run, and some bad and good food choices. I had a piece of wife birthday cake (only one so far at least), but did abstain from the ice cream that was oh so tempting and had strawberries instead. 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2015 The title is misleading since he more a primal ultra runner (which is even better in my opinion!). 2 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 So the first 2 days of the challenge have been great so far. I did my first free stand head stand yesterday kind of (I needed to wall since I kept over shooting but then could get of the wall into the head stand for 10-20 seconds at a time). It is pretty wobbly so I really need to work on stablizing that trunk and will count it as part of my handstand training since that is my weakest area anyways. And my handstands are going pretty well, on Monday I rocked out an almost 10 second one without touching the wall once (but most of the time I still hit the wall). 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 I also decided that since my primal grading will be lenient if it was based on a smart choice type stuff, then I should get bonus points for resisting old urges, so I got 2 extra bonus points yesterday, one for resisting cake and one for resisting ice cream In the past 16 hours I did three 3 mile runs (one with dog, two with jogging stroller). Nice to get out there at different times of the day. 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Trying out the title "Podless Podracer", seemed rebelly enough and runny enough 2 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
The Borg Queen Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Three threes sound fantastic. Excellent job on the handstand! Looked up the podless podracer but still am not entirely sure what it is. Online magic? Quote Class and Profession: Level 23 Borg Queen Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Podracing from Star Wars Episode I. But without the pod it would be running trails. Maybe I should just stick with my primal ultra trail runner thing 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
bgvanbur Posted June 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 A busy day. Did my lifting in the morning, no trail group run this week but did a 30 minute bike and a 2 mile run with the dog (was getting dark). Primalness is going great! 1 Quote Level 26, Primal Ultra Trail Scout, Non-Binary Robot Link to comment
The Borg Queen Posted June 13, 2015 Report Share Posted June 13, 2015 What kind of primal stuff are you eating these days? Out of curiosity. Quote Class and Profession: Level 23 Borg Queen Link to comment
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