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Hell and Back from scratch. I must be mad.

  • 29-09-2014 8:29pm
    #1
    miss no stars
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    Riiight.

    So I may have gotten myself into a situation of agreeing to do hell and back. I'm not fit at the moment and not really a natural runner. Going to sign up for the 10km one at the start of February.

    Live on a hill with plenty of off-road trail type paths I can run on.

    I'm not overweight or very unfit (like, I can walk for hours quite happily). Have I bitten off more than I can chew? I have college exams in January so basically my fitness needs to be there by December and into maintenance mode. I've fairly average strength.

    I just want a sanity check on what I'm planning to do.

    I'm thinking I'll start by running 1km twice, then add 0.5km on the 3rd run...? and keep going up in 0.5km increments every 3-4 runs.

    Core wise, I'm targeting 3x60 second planks every day.

    In terms of upper body strength.. I'm not sure. I'm thinking it needs to be more functional than simply being able to do bicep curls or push ups. I know it sounds bizarre, but would doing a little bit of weights & press ups combined with climbing about 6ft walls be better than doing more weights & push up stuff?

    Planning on doing it with a friend so will hopefully have some moral support going through it!


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  • #2
    tenifan
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    haven't done it before.. but anything is do-able with enough training.
    You really need to focus your training around what is done on the hell and back course.. in other words, train to be good at hell and back. Probably looking at running twice a week to get your running up to speed, plus whatever strength/conditioning training is necessary for the obstacles another 2 days a week.


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