I have just registered for this, my little 2011 challenge

Somewhat concerned about being eaten by something

Let training commence

God how I hate running with a passion

Assume you’re doing the ultra..?

Crazy man!

<iDave response>how quaint</iDave response>

😉

impressive stuff, i await the inevitable tearing to pieces of the website from other STW members.

Yes doing the 100km, got to get my moneys worth.

The Kenyan school girls are going to kick your arse at running. If you do it I will donate £1. If you get eaten £2.

To be fair scruff 12 year old Kenyan girls live at altitude and run 20km to school. Which I see as an unfair advantage.

How cool is that…….. I’d love to be able to do something like that (but without the effort obviously)

Scruff: Cheers 🙂

Good luck iDave!!
I’d like to do some long runs . I’d really love to do the Ridgeway challenge, but am a long long long way off the right physical and mental attitude yet 😀

Incidentally I got sent this link yesterday, I was reminded of you.

http://www.dn.se/mat-dryck/reportage/ferrys-guldrecept

This article is in Swedish about an Olympic Gold medalist, Bjorn
Ferry. He won a gold in biathlon in 2008. He mentions in the article
that his low carb diet contributed to making him a faster skier than
he ever was before. Due to his celebrity status in Sweden and success
with his diet, he co-authored a low carb cook book that just hit the
Swedish stands, “Ferry Food.”

Here’s a tidbit from the article with the help of the google
translator so please excuse the stranger sentences:

Eat like an Olympic winner. Biathlete Björn Ferry was a better athlete
since he changed his diet, he argues. Now he has written a book along
with diet Adviser Cathrine Schück. For elite athletes, there has
always been important to build up carbohydrate stores before a race.
Bomb the body with pasta and other carbohydrate-saturated. Prior to
the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in Canada in 2010 did biathlete Bjorn
Ferry, on the contrary – on the sly for the management and racing
buddies, he started eating a diet with few carbohydrates and more fat,
the so-called LCHF diet. Bjorn Ferry managed that he had not done
before – he won Olympic gold. Ferry will not say it was only dietary
change that gave him the gold. There were many factors that played a
role.

Good Luck iDave.

I’d love to join you, but ain’t no way I’m spenidng my 32nd birthday running away from a Lion.

Let us know what your training plan is for something like that!

Dave, you can bleat excuses all you like but face it, you are going to get your arse kicked by a 12 year girl wihout any shoes on. And she’ll probably be rolling a hula hoop.

scruff – Member
…you are going to get your arse kicked by a 12 year girl without any shoes on.

At least it won’t hurt then…

Olympic Gold medalist, Bjorn Ferry

I presume that was after Roxy Music…… talented chap.

I’m a long way off being fit enough, which is why I entered.

Last (only) 100km run I had only 5 weeks to train, this one is thankfully 5 months. It’s not about being good at running, it’s about being good at not stopping.

Cool article Ian, Ferry isn’t the only one using low carb, great that he’s promoting it.