Days 24-28 Easter Burnies!

Easter Burnies

Well, what a weekend - spent with my amazing wife! We did heaps of fun fitness activities, and had lots of quality time together. I love my wife, she's my One in a "Minion"... lol :)

My Awesome-ly NERDY Wife!

Climbing

So, Good Friday, was really good. Winnie and I woke up, went for an early run, nothing crazy just a nice easy 5km run. I t was good to get a nice leg blast first thing in the morning. Took us just over half an hour (31:03) and we were running at a fairly comfy pace of 6:03 per km (9.9kph).

Nice Wake Up? Cool Running Pants!

After a nice breakfast (huevos rancheros) that I prepared for my awesome wife, we headed over to St Peters to the  Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym, for some climbing fun. We decided this would be an ideal way to catch up with Mr Hon and and his bro, so we met them there and got straight into climbing and catching up with whats been going on for us over the past few months.

I wanted to upload a video, but blogger seems to be struggling post easter...I will add to Facebook / you tube at some stage... or if I can Blogger - I may need to edit it to be a smaller movie.... sad face :(

Just so you know....The video I had put together was edited, but I'm not great at that, and was pretty shaky due to the Go Pro being on my hand (goodman handle) whilst climbing or belaying. 

Climbing Video Link

Between this climbing session and the last (pre NEOC) I have increased strength considerably, last time I struggled to do some of the climbs, and especially hauling my fat ass up the overhangs! This time, I made light work of most, but some tested me still. Winnie and Mr Hon made all the climbs look easy!

It was good to catch up and do something active at the same time. Good upper body workout, lots of sweat and a few slips due to sweaty hands.... fun fun fun!

Ocean Swimming

Saturday morning, Winnie and I met up with our Bruv - Ironman - and  went for a little ocean swim. Initially, we were due to swim at Malabar, but weird swells and rips made it look like a washing machine...interesting for my first proper ocean swim! So we headed over to La Perouse for a gander there... the bay, inside of Botany Bay, near to the cafe on the beach (the boat shed) was ripply but calm enough to have a go.

Of course, Ironman was in his triathlon swim wetsuit, whilst Winnie and I were in out bathers - oh yea I hit the ocean in my speedos! I swam, rather struggled to swim 1km, which was 4 lengths of the bay, in pretty chilly water (reminiscent of ocean temperatures in summertime in the UK) in 36:58 which wasn't too shabby - but way slower than my normal Cerberus pool lap speed!

It was good to get our training done early, so we could enjoy the new Captain America movie at IMAX in Darling Harbour. A great afternoon wind down!

Killer Arms

Sunday morning, well most of sunday was spend doing fitness and fun fitness. In the morning, Winnie took me to Maroubra Junction Fitness First (on a guest pass). In return, I pushed her and I through a long arm workout, using the cables and free weights. We worked triceps and biceps to death!

A short while after returning from the gym, we picked up Winnie's  dad to take him with us to Centennial Park. He set off on a walk around the perimeter whilst we went for a run. We did 8km (just over two laps) in 47:20 at an average pace of 5:51 per km (10.2kph). It was good to get the extra kilometres on my legs, and practice my slightly slower than normal pace for long runs... although Winnie thinks its slow due to running with her, but I disagree! I'm trying to get my pace and heart rate to be consistent on long runs - My heart rate didn't exceed 145bpm and my pace was slower, so next run I want to see if I can push my heart rate up a touch without going too much faster....I know what I'm trying to achieve.... I think!

Crank It Suspension Fun

After a light snack with the Fong-Girls (and Archie), I set up and started trying out our new Crank It Suspension training kit. Its basically a slightly improved TRX set up and so we did the usual stuff then Ms Pole and Winnie were doing some Pole moves using the kit, then Ironman was demonstrating some fancy strength moves... We were having quite a lot of fun, whilst getting an all over workout.

Ironman being Ironman

Me trying to be

Me doing a weird chest press..

When I got home my arms were throbbing, and I was feeling a pretty good ache to let me know I'd given myself enough. I dosed up on BCAAs and some aminos and ate some yummy food (sushi) with Winnie and her dad.  A great way to finish our easter holidays!

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