Déjà vu? Or just the peak of our programme?
Same place, same challenge - how to make three long days of consecutive training both interesting and beneficial.
Hmm .. variety!
4 hours plus early Wednesday finds us tracking across the salt flats. This time, with no need to make it all the way to Prophet's Seat, we simply potter around, up and over the bowl of small jebels there.
A glorious morning: cool-ish with a gentle breeze to start.
As the boys natter away ahead like little old ladies indulging a plane fetish; I enjoy my iPod and the joy of space.
We stop here and there to rejoin. Share JellyBellys. Banter.
Relaxed. Comfortable. Yes, fun!
Tick.
Next?
Thursday sees us up and eating even earlier (4.15 am)!
This ridiculously quiet pre,pre-dawn hour usually reserved for those on TGV returning home, not those out to exercise!
Today it's the Pyramid Jebel for some climbing/descending practice along its loftily crumbly ridge. And with its big fat bottom wedged into deep red sand and plate rock the terrain will easily eat up today's 5 hours.
Lungs stretch to capacity, calves burn and sweat crawls cheekily into eyes. I am now passing the one third up point and easy section of the ascent!
Don't flinch at the sheer drops or shaley surface crunching nervously underfoot. Breathe deep, work the power squats, climb and do not label that lump of something your throat. We scale the precarious walls.
The peak. The joy of the view. Spectacular 180° vistarama ..
Friday's mixed bag tries to liven up the 4.5 hours on the compound
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I feel bored reading this but now it's done .. Tick! Tick! Tick!
Joyously home to Compressports, pizza and that all-time classic, inspirational sport phenomenon .. DodgeBall!
There is a god and he loves us!
A glorious morning: cool-ish with a gentle breeze to start.
As the boys natter away ahead like little old ladies indulging a plane fetish; I enjoy my iPod and the joy of space.
We stop here and there to rejoin. Share JellyBellys. Banter.
Relaxed. Comfortable. Yes, fun!
Tick.
Next?
Thursday sees us up and eating even earlier (4.15 am)!
This ridiculously quiet pre,pre-dawn hour usually reserved for those on TGV returning home, not those out to exercise!
Today it's the Pyramid Jebel for some climbing/descending practice along its loftily crumbly ridge. And with its big fat bottom wedged into deep red sand and plate rock the terrain will easily eat up today's 5 hours.
Lungs stretch to capacity, calves burn and sweat crawls cheekily into eyes. I am now passing the one third up point and easy section of the ascent!
Don't flinch at the sheer drops or shaley surface crunching nervously underfoot. Breathe deep, work the power squats, climb and do not label that lump of something your throat. We scale the precarious walls.
The peak. The joy of the view. Spectacular 180° vistarama ..
..
- 1.5 hours pace run sees us nippily shooting laps of the compound. No sign of tiredness from recent days is heartening to all.
- 1 hour heavy packs
- circuits finished off with a dash of treadmill mayhem. Max incline. Good pace.
I feel bored reading this but now it's done .. Tick! Tick! Tick!
Joyously home to Compressports, pizza and that all-time classic, inspirational sport phenomenon .. DodgeBall!
There is a god and he loves us!
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