Chit Chat post

guy_27

Matt said:
Your choice of wheel colour?

They are my track wheels. Just temporary.

Sjdickso said:
That didnt take you long at all, how is it running, the colour is a bit funky.

60 hours on mechanical to get it running.
Colour will be changing soon. Wheels will be silver body Tiffany blue.

Running very smooth and quite which is great.

Matt

Half way through my week of nights now

guy_27

How's it going?

Matt

guy 27 said:
How's it going?

Tired! For some reason, I can never seem to sleep past midday when I'm on nights. I try and do everything like a normal day, so I go for a run in my lunch hour etc, but getting in bed at 07:30, without fail, I will wake up at 12:00 and not be able to get back to sleep.

Luckily it's been fairly quiet so far, and hoping the rest of the week stays the same.

guy_27

ouch, thats gotta hurt getting that much sleep.

Matt

guy 27 said:
ouch, thats gotta hurt getting that much sleep.

It's not ideal. It's always been the same though. Started doing shift work in 2005 and have always struggled on nights. I thought it might have been different now I've lost weight and got healthy, but no. Done 3 X 10km runs so far this week in my lunch breaks, and I know today will be exactly the same.

guy_27

Fair enough. How long does it take you to do 10km?

Matt

guy 27 said:
Fair enough. How long does it take you to do 10km?

I've been taking it steady this week, as I'm focusing on getting my distance up for 7 days. Did it in:

Monday : 48 minutes
Tuesday: 50 minutes
Wednesday: 52 minutes

Will try and do a quicker one tonight, go out again Friday, Saturday off, and then out again on Sunday. Want to try and get as close to 60KM as I can.

guy_27

Nice times. I've never been a distance runner. I've just managed to get my 10k down to 50minutes. That's my limit at the moment. A couple of months back I was doing 5km in 30 so pretty happy with my progress. I'm sure if I stopped smoking it would improve quicker.
I'm doing a tough mudder this year with a friend and thats 20km of hell. If I can get through it in under 3 hours I'll be stoked.

Matt

Excellent, I've done a 20km trail run last August....and I hated every minute of it!

My fastest 10KM is 44:18 and that was part of a half marathon, so I was really pleased with that.

I'm only going to be doing 1 more half marathon this year (middle of May), and then a 10KM race in September.

guy_27

Don't think I could ever do a half marathon. My body would hate me.

Matt

It took me about 18 months to get up to that sort of distance.

On the plus side, I managed to sleep in while 14:40 today!

Matt

Did another 10KM tonight......so treat myself to a curry 😉

evocarlos

40.8km in a week o_O
i have trouble running to the loo lol

Matt

evocarlos said:
40.8km in a week o_O
i have trouble running to the loo lol

I've been averaging about 35km a week for almost 18 months now. Managed to do 1,600km last year.

Matt

Fell asleep at 8pm last night, and woke up at 10:30 this morning 🙂

PowR_Remap

Long sleep! I fell asleep at 12.30 last night and got up at 10.30 and feel like i've had too much!

Matt

I normally don't get more than 6 hours, but last week of nights (plus I didn't sleep yesterday day) really caught up on me

guy_27

Another decent storm tonight and power has been knocked out again 🙁

Matt

guy 27 said:
Another decent storm tonight and power has been knocked out again 🙁

Rain storm?

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