Anyone know what happened to him? I'd like to get in contact.
Also, anyone out there on the course/going on the course in the future?
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depends some are brutaly fast some are well paced get used to both you may do a short fast one (5 miles) with sprints or you may do a longer steady (8 miles) with circuits thrown in firemans carry's etc its up to whom ever takes you for phyz that drill night we tended to do circuits at TAC then sprint to local park for fireman carrys relay races etc etc or some times just a game of football
dont get hung up on running speed its not important the course is gradual and what you can do in shorts and trainers has little bearing on what you can do with boots, bergan and a few ks of steep buckets in front of you
for training though id get used to doing intervals as these are excelent for building the cardio fitness requierd for indavidual and pairs F and M on continuation lots of the donkeys struggle with this as all they do is stamina training you NEED power and speed too.
dont get hung up on running speed its not important the course is gradual and what you can do in shorts and trainers has little bearing on what you can do with boots, bergan and a few ks of steep buckets in front of you
for training though id get used to doing intervals as these are excelent for building the cardio fitness requierd for indavidual and pairs F and M on continuation lots of the donkeys struggle with this as all they do is stamina training you NEED power and speed too.
hi mike, feeling i know you mate
quickie. i only ever practised running 5 miles in 35 mins and 8 miles in an hour. the rest i did on a bike....
the hills is just different and the only way to train for them is to walk them. you'll find blokes are often going down to brecon on the spare w/e's to learn the routes and get some hill time....
quickie. i only ever practised running 5 miles in 35 mins and 8 miles in an hour. the rest i did on a bike....
the hills is just different and the only way to train for them is to walk them. you'll find blokes are often going down to brecon on the spare w/e's to learn the routes and get some hill time....
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CptStabbo
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Hi Mike,
I can't remember whether you were going for 21 or 23 (or even if you're on this course?) but either way i believe the southerners are now going for the 'two day-marches' option rather than the one day, one night and bergen run.
With this in mind i wouldn't worry too much about the fartlek/interval training unless you need to be increasing your 'ol lung capacity pronto.
You're better off as Walter said getting on the bike and doing longer, slower endurance building sessions. Especially as the course progresses and the marches get longer. There is no way to build the hill fitness required than on the hills in question. Knowing the routes won't hurt you either. Especially not as everyones favourite valley is now back in (north AND south).
That in mind though - you do need to pass a bleep test (level 10.5) to even get on weekend 1 so maybe a few intervals in the weeks leading up to this wouldn't go amiss.
F*ck it - just do everything.
Hope this helps.
CS
I can't remember whether you were going for 21 or 23 (or even if you're on this course?) but either way i believe the southerners are now going for the 'two day-marches' option rather than the one day, one night and bergen run.
With this in mind i wouldn't worry too much about the fartlek/interval training unless you need to be increasing your 'ol lung capacity pronto.
You're better off as Walter said getting on the bike and doing longer, slower endurance building sessions. Especially as the course progresses and the marches get longer. There is no way to build the hill fitness required than on the hills in question. Knowing the routes won't hurt you either. Especially not as everyones favourite valley is now back in (north AND south).
That in mind though - you do need to pass a bleep test (level 10.5) to even get on weekend 1 so maybe a few intervals in the weeks leading up to this wouldn't go amiss.
F*ck it - just do everything.
Hope this helps.
CS
yup drive down from TAC on friday night tab all day sat then bugger of to camp and eat, eat, eat, eat, eat, and sleep a little some times lessons then tab all day sunday p**s off back to TAC clean wagons, gats, kit, etc debrief and feck of home for bath, whiskey and a blowjob of the missus has been that way for past 3 years not always in camp though night tab was done away with for "health and safety reasons as in folks walking over outcrops in the dark wooooooooo scareeeeee (h and s its SF selection fer farks sake) and speed march was done away with to lower risk of lower limb injuries and recruites leaving due too cause well to be honest some of them are just whinging little girls and die hard mickey mouse book club fans.
marches tend to be longer than they were previously though and speed is at 4 k an hour so alltogether a much better course and with the tactics phase before the hills even start it means the civvies joining have an even better chance of getting through skills phase and the quality of the guys getting in is also improved. longer course (as it should be for SF) a year in total now with some fantastic stuff after battle camp
so get up them farking hills work on nav grow your sidies and get going man.............
marches tend to be longer than they were previously though and speed is at 4 k an hour so alltogether a much better course and with the tactics phase before the hills even start it means the civvies joining have an even better chance of getting through skills phase and the quality of the guys getting in is also improved. longer course (as it should be for SF) a year in total now with some fantastic stuff after battle camp
so get up them farking hills work on nav grow your sidies and get going man.............
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sneaky beaky
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This might sound a bit pedantic but at what stage do you fit in the 50k + march?
walter_1 wrote,
walter_1 wrote,
Sneakyyou do a longish march on the sat, and a speed march on the sunday. there maybe a night march, more of a insight than anything else and there probably will be a 50+ km endurance march in there at some point.....
Former RM of 23 years.
yeah fair one, the usuall routine for the w/e is scrapped. you drive up on fri night and start at 7ish on sat morning. then walk till late sat night/sun morning, get a little kip and then your off home. it's not a particullarly nice route and the weights are quite high. however this is very near to test week so your a bit of a ninja by then
there used to be the squadron long drag to be done before you went on to test week how ever seeing as its now training team north and training team south at start then both later on on course you dont do this anymore
also long weekend format has changed too so grapevine tells me used to be that before test week only marches you could fail was high walk and weekend 9 (the biggie tada)oh aye and on some courses they also done the fan (ie 22s highwalk) have to speak to current RRTT to find out
but its all imaterial the course changes all the time so all you really need to know is that you should be capable of hitting 4k and hour over arduous terrain in all weathers and you will be fine
its not just fitness and nav thats the underpining force in selection its determination and self belief just get the fitness and confidence up with out worrying about what weekend or where such and such is done the thing with selection for a lot of ppl is the more they know about it the more they let it bottle them out i never listened to all the gossip,rumours and flapping of fellow jeo's and never worrie4d about what was coming next i just cracked on with task at hand trusting that i was giving it my all
just a thought
also long weekend format has changed too so grapevine tells me used to be that before test week only marches you could fail was high walk and weekend 9 (the biggie tada)oh aye and on some courses they also done the fan (ie 22s highwalk) have to speak to current RRTT to find out
but its all imaterial the course changes all the time so all you really need to know is that you should be capable of hitting 4k and hour over arduous terrain in all weathers and you will be fine
its not just fitness and nav thats the underpining force in selection its determination and self belief just get the fitness and confidence up with out worrying about what weekend or where such and such is done the thing with selection for a lot of ppl is the more they know about it the more they let it bottle them out i never listened to all the gossip,rumours and flapping of fellow jeo's and never worrie4d about what was coming next i just cracked on with task at hand trusting that i was giving it my all
just a thought
