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Avalance Endurance Events, Special Forces Fan Dance Race for Everyman Cancer Campaign

24km, Bergen weight 35lb minimum weight not including water and food, around 4-4500 feet of ascent in total.

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1st run after being ill and injured

4/6/2013

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I fell ill after my last entry on this blog with sinusitis, then just as I was feeling better and going to start running again I tripped over a rock whilst wearing a 15kg bergen wild camping and bent my knee too far backwards, injuring it enough to stop me running for another week.
Today instead of using my daysack with three 5kg disks to make up the weight I packed my old military bergen with clothes that we were going to donate to a charity, sorry Barnardo's you'll have to wait until July. The bergen packed with the clothes weighs 15.3kg. I cannot believe how much easier it is running with a proper bergen instead of a daysack with no hip belt and the weights banging against my spine!
The run I did today was through local woods with some relatively steep climbs, covering a total distance of 4.13 miles and having a total elevation gain of 449ft. I managed to do this in 52 minutes 38 seconds, though I did have to walk some parts of it. The part where I walked was the steep hill marked in blue on the elevation profile shown below. I ran as much as I could but couldn't manage it all so I walked about 50 yards ran again until I couldn't, then walked about 50 yards again and so on.
I did have one big upset on this run. My faithful old ankle weights which I bought in 1989 and have been on my ankles for about 75% of my runs since then finally gave up today and one of the cells split. I may continue to use them but I'll have to empty one of the cells on the other ankle weight to make it even. I was thinking of increasing the weight on my ankles instead of reducing it!
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    Author-Baldy

    I plan to do this race with my brother 'Strider' (Link to his blog above) on 20th July 2013, mainly to see if at 44 I still have the 'stones' to be able to do it.
    The reason I am making this public is to ensure that I actually go through with it and do not back out, because I know that the excuses for not going out training will start, like "I have too much college work to do", "My gout is playing up" or "It's raining".
    So by putting my intentions on here and making it public I will be more determined not to embarrass myself by "wimping out".

    This blog will mainly consist of what I am doing to train for the event and how the training is going.
    I will not have as much time as I would like to train as I work two jobs, am studying in college and have a family that I spend as much time as possible with, so please don't expect superhuman feats of physical endurance... I'm just an unfit average Joe.

    The other reason I want to do the race is because "I want that patch sewn on my bergen!"

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    Troserch oval once

    Distance 4.13 miles
    Total elevation gain of 449ft.
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    Troserch oval Twice

    Distance 6.97 miles
    Total elevation gain of 837ft
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    Burning calfs hill

    Burning Calfs Hill climbs 194 feet within a distance of 0.39 miles giving an average slope of 9.2%.

    Troserch figure of 8

    Distance 5.95 miles total climb of 743ft very muddy and treacherous single track, some parts up to mid calf in mud and crossing through 3 rivers.
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    The FAINT red line is the track I took.
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