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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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Pre-training boring info

2/15/2013

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The weight the bergen has to be is a minimum of 35lb (almost 16kg) plus food plus water, if I lose a bit of weight personally i.e. a stone, and also get stronger through hard training then compared to now it'll be like carrying 21lb (almost 10kg) which is easy! (trying to justify it to myself!)

Right now I weigh 12 stone 13 pound so I'm going to aim for 12 stone or less.
I have a cross trainer at home which I will be using to measure my fitness level analytically, with as few outside influences as possible e.g. wind, rain, heat, wet ground, all of which will affect times. With the cross trainer this will be eliminated. The best way I have found to actually measure my performance on this machine is by counting the calories used within a particular time, because the distance will not increase by putting it on a higher level.
Yesterday I did 1032 calories in 20 minutes and nearly threw up! OMG I'm unfit, that would have been easy when I was fit 20 years ago.
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Kevin Whyte
03/05/2013 9:53am

Hi, good to see people blogging about their training exploits. Its testament in itself that you've signed up for the event. Many talk about it, but never put the money where the mouth is and follow it through. Sounds like you've got a good approach to the training and the cross trainer is good for the early stages of the fitness, but you need to get out with your bergen on your back. Its the only way to prepare fully and don't underestimate the savageness of the hills. Hill reps, with weight and in boots is the only way to train for these events and you'll be fine. It was a really good event in the Winter, held by Avalanche Endurance Events and there was a real sense of Espirit du corps throughout the load bearing field. Folk sharing water and food half way up Jacobs ladder is a memory that'll stay with me for a long time. Looking forward to keeping up to speed with your progress. We're travelling down the night before and staying in Brecon, purely for an admin point of view. I think the summer event will start earlier in the day, due to headcount of tourists etc.

Keep it up.

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Kevin Whyte link
3/5/2013 09:53:40 am

Hi, good to see people blogging about their training exploits. Its testament in itself that you've signed up for the event. Many talk about it, but never put the money where the mouth is and follow it through. Sounds like you've got a good approach to the training and the cross trainer is good for the early stages of the fitness, but you need to get out with your bergen on your back. Its the only way to prepare fully and don't underestimate the savageness of the hills. Hill reps, with weight and in boots is the only way to train for these events and you'll be fine. It was a really good event in the Winter, held by Avalanche Endurance Events and there was a real sense of Espirit du corps throughout the load bearing field. Folk sharing water and food half way up Jacobs ladder is a memory that'll stay with me for a long time. Looking forward to keeping up to speed with your progress. We're travelling down the night before and staying in Brecon, purely for an admin point of view. I think the summer event will start earlier in the day, due to headcount of tourists etc.

Keep it up.

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    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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