Sheddy has great experience as an athletic mentor, and it all sounded good when he suggested that we need to ramp up our training with a consistent base building phase followed by a 2 week taper before we depart.
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| Sheddy tries to hot wire the roller.... |
He offered to email us a training plan including nutritional advice with 1 hr weekly web chats, and he also promised to occasionally turn up and beast us to keep us on the straight and narrow.
So today we headed to Dent in the Yorkshire Dales with our eyes on a 10 mile walk under Shed's strict advice, even though the forecast was wet. We loaded up our packs to simulate the trek, I packed 8kg, Abi 7kg (well starting slowly).
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| Lovely views over Dent Dale (Sheddy is imparting some training advice) |
When we got to Dent and parked up ready to set off on the 10 mile walk, Shed wimped out and decided he didn't want to walk at all, and wanted a cream tea in the cafe. I couldn't tell if he was serious, or whether this was a test of out mental strength. We managed to convince him to walk, and ended up walking about 9 miles. It was wet, but we were in the zone, and in Sheddy'd training program for the long haul.
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| By this point Sheddy has quit as our coach |
We did have a cream tea at the end, and Shed has quit as our coach, I think we broke him today by pushing on further and faster than he was comfortable with (and he lost interest). Great day in the Dales.
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