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Name:Scottie
(Tony Scott)
Firedepartment: Auckland Airport Rescue Fire, New Zealand
Age: 33
Position:
Sports: Stair climbing, Scuba diving and Fishing
Hobbies:Cartooning and riding my motorbike.
scottie@scottart.com
There is a bit of a story to the training, The training for the last
Seattle trip in March 04 we started months out in Mid 2003. We feel we
didn't focus on the right things. We spent too much time climbing sets
of stairs with heavy packs thinking that it would make it easier for the
climb, we didn't do to bad, but saw from others that good what we call
good times, that it also comes down to higher fitness. We sort of focused
more on strength.
So this time we are running longer distances in the earlier months leading
up to climbs with stairs carrying weight twice a month, and closer to
the events Running harder over a shorter distance, Example, if you think
you will take 20 minutes to do a certain climb run for about 25 minutes
on a hilly course so to get the body into the mode of working for that
distance.
Six to eight weeks out up the stairs with weight to once a week and start
wearing turn out kit, start with just the coat and build up, the heat
factor comes into play. When doing stairs run some in just running gear
to work up speed, don't do it all with weight, leave two to three days
between stairs to give you body time to recover.
Consult someone in the know about Ply-a-metrics (check spelling on that)
and how they can help you.
We noticed that runners and tri-athletes did really well, If you only
do one climb a year start five to six months out with a slow build up,
if you are doing climbs year round, build up closer to each event.
Hope this all helps and please check my spelling!
Scottie
P.S. For more information email Scottie
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