The Fukkin Crazy Club

"Feeling Alive!"
Welcome to the home of The Fukkin Crazy Club. Here you'll find some of the adventures of our members as they run and hike the trails of Southern Oregon in addition to other crazy exploits and workouts.
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Friday, April 30, 2010

A Crazy Lil Week In Review

To help recover from Friday's record breaking Punisher hike/run, I kept Saturday rather light with a good upper body resistance training workout and a 50 min bike ride. 
On Sunday, Clista and I spent 3.5 hours trekking around and exploring Lower Table Rock. 
Monday was started with  a couple laps of the Beast and a 3+ mile brisk walk followed by an hour and a half of hiking/running the J-Ville trails with Clista. 
On Tuesday I did a couple of workouts of circuits and intervals in addition to 2 brisk walks on Elmo with clients. 
Wednesday, I did a quickie workout in the garage and hiked Lower Table Rock with Clista....it was a little cold and windy, but the rainbows and cloud formations were awesome. 
On Thursday, I only made time for a 50 min bike ride with Clista in the cold, biting wind, rain and hail. 
And then there's today.  I decided I needed to exercise my body and exorcise my demons this afternoon, so I went to Lower Table Rock and ran up, across the plateau and back, down and around the savannah......non-stop running......that's 5 miles with a pretty gruesome climb for the first 1.4 miles.
And, as soon as I finished, I turned around and did it all over again (small disclaimer...I did have to slow down to a power hiking pace for about 20% of the uphill portion on the second time).

So, what are you doing to feel alive?

~Patrick
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General Notes and Common Terms

The Beast -- a 1/3 mile long paved mountain goat trail that my clients like to call their driveway -- difficult enough to walk up and a real killer to run.

Elmo -- a residential street that a couple of clients live on that's about as long as the Beast and, although it is a hill, it's not nearly steep enough to have the word "beast" associated with it -- thus the name "Elmo".

The Punisher -- a narrow forest trail that gains about 1500 ft elevation in a little over a mile. The full circuit includes a run/hike of about 1 mile to get to the trailhead and about a 3 mile run/hike to get back down. This makes the Beast and the Table Rocks seem like a walk in the park.

Tabatas -- high intensity interval protocol where an exercise is done at full 100% intensity for 20 seconds followed by 10 seconds of rest -- the default number of these intervals is 8 -- done properly, these will knock you on your butt!!

Various Random Activities (VRAs) -- these may include such things as gardening, housework, ADL, XST, ASA, short walks, etc........use your imagination.

Abbreviations -- DB=dumbbell -- BB=barbell -- SB=stability ball -- KB=kettlebell -- MB=medicine ball -- SLDL=straight (or stiff) leg deadlifts