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2004-07-04 4:27 PM

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Subject: how often to race?
i am doing a cross country+assault course race on the 25th july, but would like to race before then, just a 10k...do u think it would be ok to run a 10k 11 days before this??????

2004-07-04 6:40 PM
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From looking at your logs, it looks you would have no problem racing before that. The main thing is not to injure yourself before a race if its an A priority race. 11 days you should be recovered with proper eating and a rest day. Hope this helps and good luck at the race.
2004-07-05 5:13 AM
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cool thanks i was going to do one this wednesday, but its by birthday this week, and i wanted to go out i thought a smaller race may give my system a preparatory boost, thanks for the advice

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2004-07-05 11:04 AM
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Subject: RE: how often to race?

i second that...u have been hitting the 10k's routinely in your logs.  u can either treat the 10k as a training day and just keep it easy or treat it as a race.  but silent has an excellant point, if your cross country assualt is your focus for which u will be leaving nothing on the course, treat the 10k as a training day....keep it easy-breezy so u can properly reat and recup for the assualt.

btw...is it anything like that toughguy competition of yourse i did earliear this year?   that looked brutal.

2004-07-05 11:15 AM
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it the same toughguy competition as in january but the course is longer, i think the run is the same but the assault course is doubled, i think the winner in the january one was about 1hr 20mins, but last years summer winner was 2hr 20min! so i am preparing mytslef for a long day i think i will see how things are going by the end of the week. i think i just want to see how my 10k time is coming along, and i do tend to go flat out in races, so i will have to show some restraint

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2004-07-05 2:33 PM
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Can I ask what this "assault course" is? It sounds interesting, but I've never heard of anything like this before. What do you have to do?

2004-07-05 3:58 PM
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hehehe its great! in the winter one we had to jump over fire, swim under tunnels in freezing water, jump in and wade through feezing water, run through knee high mud, transverse 25' A-frames some of which were electrified, ropewalks, swim, climb, crawl under barbed wire in the mud, climb alot etc see www.toughguy.co.uk and my race report for more and also http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edward.griffiths7/for more pics
2004-07-05 9:59 PM
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WOW!!! That looks COOL!!! Or, well, insane......I haven't decided which, yet.......

The electrified A-frames? Are they more like, "Ouch, I got zapped" electrified, or "I think my heart just skipped three beats and I have a burn mark where I touched the thing" electrified?

You're a stud, dude.
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