So we all woke up on the Sunday with hangovers and a realisation that in 18 months time we would be climbing the Worlds Tallest Freestanding Mountain! Oh Fuck! What had we agreed to?!
Me being me, went online and immediately paid my deposit so I wasn't backing out of it and then told anyone that would listen that I was doing it, again so that I couldn't back out of it. "Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway" was what I kept and keep quoting.
We had talked, whilst drunk, about how we would train together and do a Munro every month for 18 months and by then Mt Kili would seem like a wee mole hill! Eh well those 18 months have passed and we are just over a week away from the climb and we failed to climb a munro together in the whole 18 months - shit or what? To be fair we have all walked a couple of munro's separately and done a few wee walks together but we were much better and far more organised at turning up for the Kili Crew Drinks and Dinners. If only drinking and eating were the main goal of this Mountain! We would definitely SMASH it.
Having climbed Mount Kailash (5,700 metres) 5 years ago I have a vague idea of the torture we are about to put ourselves through so in the last 3 months I have trained quite hard with the help of Vince, my amazing Personal Trainer!
I hate the gym and particularly hate cardio but he made tossing tyres and carrying a 32kg kettle bell in each hand from one end of the gym to the other seem fun! Vince then got me dead lifting and that is where I became fully engaged in my fitness. It was me versus a bar and various weights and how many reps I could do before the bar beat me - I don't take being beaten well so I pushed myself beyond what I thought my body was capable of doing to the point where I deadlifted 92.5kg - 1.5 times my own body weight! Who knew I was that strong?! and I actually enjoyed it! or did I enjoy that I got to have 5 minutes rest in between reps and although it is a total cardio work out it didn't really feel like it because I didn't really move?!!! Anyway Vince has started something that I will continue. We did move on to rack lifting in our last session where I lifted 150kgs - afterwards I had black bruising from the top of my knee to the top of my thigh as I dragged the bar all the way up my body - it was a tough lift but I definitely felt I had more to give with the rack lifting!!
Who knew that my love of Geoff Capes and the Worlds Strongest Man in my youth would lead me to weight lifting in my forties!!! LOVE IT!!! Wonder what Mr Capes is up to these days - is he still alive? Off to Goggle..... PHEW it appears he is still alive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Capes
So here I am able to lift a f'ing mountain but can I climb it?! We will know in a couple of weeks!!
I will do my best to blog every day, there will be times when I don't have internet or signal so there may be a few blogs get up loaded at the same time but please keep checking back for up dates.
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| This was early on in my Deadlifting training - think this was 70kg |
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| This was the night I reached my PB of 92.5kg! This pic shows me doing 80kg I think. |
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| my 150kg rack lift! what a maniac! do you think the girls watching in the background are jealous or just waiting for me to fail?!! |
