Volcano practice
I’ve got the Volcano Challenge coming up on Sunday and I’ve never been up two of the volcanoes so I decided that I would go for a recce today as part of my run.
The weather was a bit better than it has been although it was drizzling very lightly when I left. I got caught in a very heavy shower about 3/4 of the way through but then the sun came out and dried me out so overall the weather was good.
I actually went through three volcanoes today. I hit the Auckland Domain first. Then I ran to Mt Hobson which is very close to where I live. Funnily enough I’ve never been to it even though I’ve driven past it many a time. I wanted to have a good look at different routes to the top so I ran around it having a look. The ground on the volcano was extremely muddy as we’ve had rain pretty much every day for the last 3 weeks (at least it feels like that – maybe it’s only 2 weeks). I suspect the mud will be bad on the weekend as well.
The next volcano was Mt St Johns. This one looks very small but it was surprisingly high and the view from the top was pretty good. I didn’t take my camera along but I will for the actual race on Sunday.
I then thought about hitting Mt Eden as well but I needed to get back to work as I had quite a bit to do.
I have to say that I’m very fortunate to live in a place that has all these interesting places to run to and around.
In other news I did week 02 day 02 of the essential abs program. This wasn’t quite as tough as day 01 of week 02 for some reason.
I also did the week 04 exhaustion test for the 100 pushups challenge yesterday afternoon. When I first started I could do 25. After two weeks I did 35 and this week I managed to do a very respectable 45 pushups in a row. I wonder if this increasing by 10 at a time is psychological? Never mind. This keeps me in the dreaded column 03 – I’m still amazed I’m in this column! I’ll do week 05 day 01 in the gym tomorrow. I suspect I’ll be doing week 05 for about 2 months! It looks really hard.
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Wow! Just being able to say you claimbed three volcanoes sounds very impressive.
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You certainly are lucky … what a great place for hill training!
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You do have some frickin’ awesome places to run around! Although hills are a killer sometimes.
WD on your pushups btw, you’re doing so well, much more dedication to your goals than I have at the moment!
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I will admit that sometimes I am not the most observant person in the world, but I didn’t know you were from NZ.
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Great job on your pushups test! Good luck with the upcoming Volcano challenge!
Volcanoes? Tre’ cool. I’m in column one for week 5 and you are right – it looks tough. In fact, I probably pysched myself out of doing the program last week because oif that – which isn’t going to help when I try to get back on board for this week.
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I’m so jealous of your exciting places to run! Michigan isn’t nearly that exciting!
Great job on the pushups, I’m restarting the program this week because week 3 was a little much for me to handle. But I did another exhaustion test, and it really is amazing how many more pushups I could do, even after only two weeks!
In Re your comment on my blog. I think it sounds like we have similar goals, and similar strategies to maintaining the weight that we’ve lost. I enjoy hearing your perspective on things.
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Lucky you! What a run!
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WOW 45 push ups! Fantastic!
And, yes, you ARE lucky to live in a place with such interesting places to run. I’m v. envious!
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‘Picking volcanoes to run’ sounds really funny to someone who’s thousands of miles from one.
You’ve given me the nudge I needed! I’d forgotten that I planned to start the push-up challenge once I’d recovered enough from surgery. Now is the time.
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And I thought the areas I got to run in were beautiful. I’m jealous of your great choices for run routes. Although, I am not jealous of all the uphill running you have to do.
Good luck on Sunday. Sounds like it should be a good challenge.
Running around volcanos… now there’s an exciting run! Congrats on the 45 pushups. You are on you way to the big finish!
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I would have to say your workouts are so cool!!! Not many people ever come close to a volcano
You are blessed!
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Oh gawd, I have had many a nightmare about Mt St John – our PE teacher used to make us haul our sorry asses up there; I was always the last one to get back to school! >_<
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You do have awesome places to run!
Excellent job with the pushups! You’ll be at 100 before you know it!
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Wow-running up and down volcanos! Very cool indeed!
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Running up volcanoes? That seems so amazing… what a cool workout. All I get to look at is buildings and a baseball field. I can’t wait to see pictures from the top!
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