Fitness Program

The Extended stay program involves daily exercise every morning at 7 o'clock. we do a variety of training: running, power training and various vfgames. The length of runs varies from 3.4km at the least and 11km at the longest. Power training involves short sharp running for agility training etc. When we're not running or doing power training we play games like football or soccer.

Times, Distances & Comments (Running)

Friday, 3.4km: 21mins 30secs
First day of running was really hard. I'm really unfit so i was panting and wheezing all the way. Plus it was ridiculously cold so i decided to run with a fleecy- terrible idea. I got to about halfway and decided i was on fire and in hell, despite my foggy breath. Finishing the run was a big relief but then we had to do push-ups :(

Saturday, 3.4km: 18mins 15secs
The second day of running was a great improvement from the first day. Three minutes of improvement to be exact! I began running with Dale and he really pushed me to the limit. Just running next to a few guys who were of a slightly better fitness level really helped me to run faster for longer and learn to try and ignore the pain. After the run i found myself quite unable to to many sit-ups due to my abs being ridiculously sore from the day before (i did quite a few sets of 20).

Sunday, 5.5km: 30mins
Today the run felt so much longer than before; there were more hills and they were higher (the hill from the jetty back to the main road was a killer). I ran with Nidehgsdghdsck Krantz for most of the run and he helped me to keep going just by running beside me and competing with me for every metre. Before we left Dale said to us that any time under 32minutes was a fairly alright running time so the fact that i beat that was quite pleasing. Jack threw up right as he was finishing the run. I was priveliged to witness Jack trying to stop the vomit with his hands and failing: misserably. It was rather giggly.

Monday, Game
We played a variation of soccer today, well actually it was more like gailic football towards the end. Basically the rules were like soccer except that when you score your entire team has to be over the the halfwayline or you loose points and vice versa. The game was kinda bad cus i didn't touch the ball much and i didn't do very much. Yerrr.

Tuesday, Power Training
I hate sand. Power training was located on the beach which we had to run to and then indian run back (person at back runs to front of group & next person at back runs to front of group ad infinitum). There was heaps of seaweed and it smelt like vomit in vagina. To begin with we had to run up to a line and touch it and then run back and touch the line over and over -all this we're sprinting mind you in really soft sand- and then we did the same thing except you had to do pushups and then finally we had to do races in the seaweed which my partner failed in - Nick Krantz fell and screwed up his ankle- but all in all it was rather amusing but only because of the seaweed run.

Wednesday, 8km Run