The 55 done, had an amazing week in Wales, maintained training and weight balanced!  I'll take that, but ready to go again.  I'm now trying to build my overall body strength and keep the mileage.  Yet again I'm back to my same issue of weight.  I'm trying to focus on 'Body Fat %' so my efforts are going to be towards increasing muscle mass and decreasing body fat.  Ideally I want to get my weight down to 82kg and presently I'm 84.5kg so just a little bit of focus and effort will get me there.

So in Wales on a family holiday, what better to do but use my time there to build strength and endurance.  In a very close proximity of our site, which was as good as a valley, we had a superb hill with a trail traversing across it towards Abersoch.  The hill was steep enough to make you work and get your heart rate up but nothing to silly, I could even run a good part of it. So I did!  I made it my goal to do it every morning and evening whilst we were there so I could maintain my fitness training without going overboard on holiday.  This turned in to a morning run/walk up the hill and to the outskirts of Abersoch, join the road and head back to the site which was 3.5 miles, then in the evening I just went up the hill and back totallying 1 mile but I got the hill done!!

Whats my plan now?

I'm starting to get my plan together for the Hardmoors 160, timings and locations almost are done but now I'm starting my mental strength planning! Love this stuff, makes me feel alive and striving forward trying to achieve something that very few other people have ever done.  I'm trying push myself to the edge and find out if I've got enough!

 Great few weeks with the Hardmoors 55 ticked off and training going well.  The 160 is only round the corner now with 9 weeks to go.  So its full steam ahead, back to the training and focusing on getting more fat off the body weight to reduce by another 3kg. During the 55 my legs felt amazing as I was pushing on and trying to get as near to the 134 hour mark as possible.  I rocked up at 13 and half hours which is definitely respectable as it was 1 and a half hours quicker than last year so I now know where I'm at which was the idea.

The plan now is to keep up good mileage and build a bit more strength physically and mentally.  I need to start planning my mental strategy for the race providing insights to what tactics I'm going to use to get the job done!  I'm going to attack it, and finish this beast.

I've started adding some pack training and weighted vest work to build more stamina in my legs and core.  I also want to increase upper body strength and mid body strength.  I've got back to my Dalby Forest training runs and feel like they are really benefiting with the long hills, I'm really loving these runs they make me feel like I'm really getting somewhere.

In my post today I talked about the 'Power of Now', this is related to not putting this off, not letting things roll on to the next day, not letting up.  Get it done NOW!!!