Tough Mudder

[youngbuck]

Hey, I know you will enjoy this:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/...dder-by-a-curmudgeonly-55-year-old-vermonter/

Thanks, I just gave it a read. A friend of mine wanted me to join him at a Tough Mudder sometime next year. After reading that article, I think I'll have to decline...

 

[Suzanimal]

Hey, I know you will enjoy this:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/...dder-by-a-curmudgeonly-55-year-old-vermonter/

I get to do it for free, Dos Equis is a sponsors a team for the bar. You don't have to do all the challenges and it's not a race but I want to do well.


On the training front... It's getting too cold in the morning to run so I've just been doing the elliptical.:o I'm going to have to put on my big girl pants and get my butt out there.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

with symptoms like bloody diarrhea, fever and vomiting

Oh, have no fear! If this happens to you the federal or state government will give you a 21 day all expense paid vacation in an unheated tent where you get to wear uncomfortable paper scrubs and are fed water and granola bars. That is of course after a long string of people come in and interrogate you and then leave you locked in a room for 7 hours without telling you what's going on.

But I mean all expense paid vacation! How cool is that!

-t

 

[Suzanimal]

I haven't updated this in awhile...

I've been running about 3 or 4 times a week but I'm still only doing 2 miles.:o I haven't been doing the monkey bars because I've been doing a lot of shoveling around my yard and my arms have been exhausted. I figure shoveling's a good arm workout. We'll see, I'm going to do the monkey bars today and I hope to see an improvement.
That's about it..

Root, check out this race - I thought of you when I saw it.

Cue the ‘Chariots of Fire’ Theme, With Burps

In preparation for his big race Wednesday, the Canadian runner Corey Gallagher followed a strict regimen: go home from work, chug two bottles of water, devour four sandwiches and chug two more bottles of water, chasing it all with a 10-mile run.

Other days, Gallagher, a 27-year-old mailman in Winnipeg, Manitoba, turns his treadmill to top speed for a mile and downs four bottles of beer — one per quarter-mile — each in less than eight seconds. Then he tries not to vomit.

Gallagher competes in the latest novelty in the running world: the beer mile, in which runners chug a 12-ounce beer and then run a lap on a track, four times. Throw up before you finish and you have to run an extra loop or are disqualified. No one, it seems, agrees on the best way to train.

“You have to drink when you’re gasping for air,” said Jim Finlayson, 42, of Victoria, British Columbia. “So in training I’ll run 400-meter repeats and hold my breath for 10 seconds at the end of each rep. It’s brutal.”

That is one way to do it. Finlayson’s method will be tested Wednesday when he, Gallagher and more than 150 others compete in the first beer mile world championships, in Austin, Tex. The prize for the elite men’s and women’s races is $2,500, which will be doubled if someone sets a world record.

The top entrants are Gallagher, with a personal best time of 5 minutes 1 second, and Chris Kimbrough, a 45-year-old mother of six who set a women’s world record of 6:28 on her first attempt at the event last month.

Canadians are credited with coming up with the idea of the beer mile in the 1980s. It then spread to New England colleges and beyond, spawning a devout subculture. Recently it has gone mainstream, though its fan base shows its support mostly with Internet views. Beermile.com, the event’s makeshift regulating authority, has tallied 185 beer miles so far this year, up from four in 1990. Races have been staged worldwide, from Singapore to Ghana.

When James Nielsen ran a world-record 4:57 in April, he astounded the 1.3 million viewers who scrutinized the video online. The performance stirred a debate. Did the cans really contain proper beer? Did Nielsen really empty them? Can a regular guy really run one of these things in less than five minutes?

By convening a formal championship, the organizer of the event, Flotrack, an Austin sports media company, is pitting top beer milers against one another for the first time, can to bottle, on a single track. Each elite runner decides which beer he will consume, though it must be at least 5 percent alcohol by volume.

In the men’s elite field, Gallagher and Finlayson have eight challengers, including an Olympian, an equity analyst and a couple of students. They are competing less for money or fame than for a special sort of glory, in the rare footrace that rewards more than sheer speed.

“I could never keep up with these guys in a regular mile,” said Gallagher, a 185-pound former hockey player. “But as soon as you include beer, that’s where I seem to excel.”

Not everyone does. Lance Armstrong recently tried to qualify for the championships but dropped out after the first lap. Afterward he said, “That was not what I expected.”

Those who did make it relied on varying training strategies.

Finlayson said he kept carbonated water on his night stand and set his alarm for the middle of the night. “When it rings, I have to sit up and drink the water as quickly as possible,” he said. “Without thinking. Without preparing.”

To simulate drinking fast while deprived of oxygen, Finlayson holds his breath for a minute, and before breathing again he downs a pint. Other days he sprints 100 meters out and back and chugs a bottle of beer between repeats.

....

Elite runners in the beer mile can drink any brand they choose, as long as it contains at least 5 percent alcohol by volume.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/03/sports/cue-the-chariots-of-fire-theme-with-burps.html?_r=0

 

[Suzanimal]

I've been slack as hell this month but I'm getting back in the groove. I went for a run today - all the way to the playground and did the monkey bars. I got some funny looks, the playground was crowded - schools out and the weather was beautiful. Anyway, I feel like I worked off a little of the Christmas cookie bloat I have going on right now.:o

 

[Working Poor]

Don't forget to breathe thru your nose. You loose a lot of energy if you keep your mouth open. Drink Fiji water.

 

[Suzanimal]

Don't forget to breathe thru your nose. You loose a lot of energy if you keep your mouth open. Drink Fiji water.

Me, running.

 

[Working Poor]

Me, running.

NC is right you are a pussy...

 

[Suzanimal]

NC is right you are a pussy...

Yeah, I am.

Oh, this goes here. The Atlanta 2015 teaser.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I was just screwing around. Heh...

I'll tell you what, though. Here is a great workout. Find a really steep hill. Meh. Maybe one that has a 100' drop to the base or something. What you do is you crabwalk down the thing and when you get to the bottom you run up the hill to the top and then crabwalk back down the thing. And then you just keep repeating it. Maybe do it for an hour or so daily. I do that with my son a lot and we usually sprint back to the top but you don't really have to sprint back up. Just work within your means. That'll build strength in places that you never knew that you could. It does wonders for stamina too. Or maybe find some high bleachers at a high school or something and run up those for an hour or so. You know? Like the big football stadium type bleachers? You won't get the benefit of the crabwalk but it's something out of the ordinary.

It sounds tough but, really, its not. I mean not too steep. You don't want to end up rolling down the fukin hill and whatnot. Heh. Just steep enough to make you have to use your body to resist gravity.

The first week or so, you'll feel it, though. Oh, yes, indeedy. Especially the next day. But after that, you'll be a rock.

 

[presence]

Find a really steep hill. Meh. Maybe one that has a 100' drop to the base or something. What you do is you crabwalk down the thing and when you get to the bottom you run up the hill to the top

Reminds me of going to get the mail in when its sleeting out for some reason.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

My new "cute" shoes are working out pretty good. I liked the way the Nikes looked but I ended up buying the New Balance because they felt better. Ya hear that tod evans? Functional AND cute!

I think I hurt myself today. I fell off the monkey bars and on the run home my right arm started aching and now the right side of my neck is bothering me. I think I may have pulled something.

My new cute shoes...

Yep, I'm getting stronger.

They issued New Balance in Boot Camp. Only they called them "Go-fasters"

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Suz, add lots of burpees into your training. They suck but will help you in the long run.

I'm all, WTF is a 'burpee?' Back in my day we called those "Squat-thrusts." I love innovation, but I think I'm sticking with the olden days on this one.

 

[Working Poor]

Yeah, I am.

Hey smile when you say that okay. I am just funning with ya.

 

[Suzanimal]

Hey smile when you say that okay. I am just funning with ya.

I know you're kidding but y'all are right - I'm a pussy.

I'm all, WTF is a 'burpee?' Back in my day we called those "Squat-thrusts." I love innovation, but I think I'm sticking with the olden days on this one.

Burpee/Squat-thrust, I call them torture.

 

[Working Poor]

I know you're kidding but y'all are right - I'm a pussy.

There ya go!

 

[Suzanimal]

I hate Burpees. I've been looking for a challenge that seems fun to get me into doing them. I think I found it...

and to keep it interesting, I might use the Moulin Rouge version...

 

[Suzanimal]

I haven't updated this thread in awhile. :o I've been running when the weather's not too bad but I'm still only doing 2 miles.:o On bad weather says, I get on my elliptical at home and do it for 30 minutes to an hour - depends on what I'm watching on tv. I bought some 10 lb weights to do a few exercises at home and started going to the gym a few days a week to work on my upper body. I'm not sure the gym days are effective. My girlfriend has been going with me and we end up going out for a pitcher of Margaritas afterwards - I'm not sure if that's undoing all the hard work I put in at the gym. As a matter of fact, I'm meeting her in an hour for "Muscles and Margaritas".

This 95-year-old man just killed the 200-meter sprint and set a world record

Fair warning: This story may make you feel a tad bit inadequate.

A 95-year-old retired dentist turned runner, rower, bodybuilder and all around champ has set a new world record for the 200-meter indoor race in his age group.

Shorter: Charles Eugster is a not to be messed with.

Seriously, look at him go!

On Sunday at the British Masters Athletics meeting in London, Eugster broke the world record set in 2013 by another 95-year-old man of steel, Dallas resident Orville Rogers. With a 55.48 seconds time, he was 2.4 seconds faster than the previous record. Respect.

Feisty, fit and still incredibly sharp, Eugster is a vocal advocate of old age. His secret boils down to three things: work, diet and exercise. “In that order!” he said at a Tedx talk in 2013.

“The continuing ageing of the population is one of the mot remarkable success stories of the human race in modern history,” Eugster said. “But man has destroyed the wonder of aging, by transforming it into an age of degeneration and disease!”

Remarkably, Eugster actually took up exercise relatively recently. When he was 87, he realized that he was tired of looking old so he started exercising seriously. (We’re not making that up.)

“I hoped getting fit would stop me ageing,” Eugster told the Telegraph in 2013. “It was pure vanity, really. I looked a mess and I was having a late-life crisis. My body was degenerating. I thought: ‘Who knows about muscles?’ So, when I was 87, I joined a bodybuilding club.”

Seems like that worked out really well for him. The rest of us will just spend our time trying to catch up.

Watch the video posted on YouTube by the Silver Grey Sports Club which, naturally, is dedicated to supporting the extreme sporting endeavors of the 50 and over club:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...eter-sprint-and-set-a-world-record/?tid=sm_fb

 

[Ronin Truth]

Hello Mudder, hello Fodder! Here I am at camp Granada.

 

[Suzanimal]

I've been making it to the gym every other day to work on my upper body strength. I start off with a stretch and a brisk walk around the indoor track. Then I do 30 minutes on the elliptical hybrid. I've been using the muscle endurance mode, it gets my heart rate up and gives me resistance. It alternates the resistance in the arms (pushing/pulling) and the legs - it also has you do everything in reverse.

I go around to all the machines 3 times. I can't do all 3 sets in one shot, my muscles need to rest for a bit.:o

flys (3 sets of 10) set at 30 lbs
curls (3 sets of 10) set at 20 lbs
mystery machine 1 (I can't remember the name but you push your arms straight out in front of you - 3 sets of 10) set at 30 lbs
mystery machine 2 (you sit on a bench and pull down - 3 sets of 10) set at 40 lbs
inner/outer thigh machine (3 sets of 10 for inner and 3 sets of 10 for outer) set at 50 lbs I'm going to bump this up to 60 lbs on Monday
crunch machine (3 sets of 20) set at 40lbs

Then I run a mile and walk a 1/4 mile to cool down.

I think I'm doing pretty good the only part that's a little sore are my pecs and they're not really bad, I just notice them. I'm also noticing when I flex I see a little muscle popping up and it's pretty hard.