How I train for the Goat Tongariro
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- So you've entered The Goat and everyone just says "You can't know what it's like till you've done it".
This isn't Wellington Round The Bays. It's not Te Whiti Riser. It's not even the Xterra Wellington Long Course. It's much, much, much harder than all that.
Here are some training tips and a list of 7 tracks around the Wellington region that I think will help get you ready for race day!
The tracks:
Makara Beach loop
Yeah Gnar - Makara Peak (I suggest going on a weekday morning)
Zealandia firebreak track
Baked Beans Baitline at Belmont
Dry Creek Waterfall track
Stellin Memorial Track at Te Ahumairangi
The Butcher track at Catchpool/The Orongorongos
See you on the start line at Whakapapa in January!
Looks like a lot of dedication and hard work for a awesome end result 👍🏻 Are you going to start carrying some of that cookie dough around for some 'resistance' training?😛
I think 2kg of cookie dough is more likely to provide resistance by way of sad unwanted body fat, rather than an upper body workout at this point ;-P
I'll see your Macra Beach run, and raise you a Makara to Owhiro Bay via the Gold Stamper... with a Steel Frame Milazo MTB... Carried up cliff faces on a shoulder, rope repelling at the far south of Makara coast... and generally pushing the bike for about 1/3 of the 60 something K... Arriving in the dark at the Red Rocks quarry.
Luxury...
I don't think I'd want to be abseiling around that coastline even without a bike! Nice work!
@@trailbogan Abseiling sounds like we had some form of proper equipment and training...
We had a huge rock with a piece of old fishing net stuck in a crevice... and it didn't reach all the way down so we had to hook the bikes on it and try and unhook then from the other side... (and jump the last few feet ourselves...
Then climb up the (steeper than 45deg) fence line with the bike on out shoulders, one hand on the fence and using the sheep ruts as steps...
Then there was that time we went through the Mungaatooks on the same bikes... lightly dressed... in winter... from Trentham via Haywoods, coming out at the Akka's at about 9pm (It got dark at 5)... Oh and we had no torches.
@TheButlerNZ Sounds absolutely amazing / mad 😱