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Cue national anthem, quivering top lip and solitary tear rolling down a jubilant cheek. Here at Outdoor Fitness we’ve enjoyed that emotional, top step of the podium feeling every morning for the past two months as we’ve opened your letters and emails. Thank you, thank you for your amazing feedback on what we’re already calling the world’s greatest outdoor fitness magazine. We’ve been touched and humbled by your compliments, blatant flattery and constructive criticism. This may still be a work in progress, but it’s crystal clear that there are hundreds of thousands of us who feel exhilaratingly alive outdoors, who want to train with sky above, and who love working towards a challenge. As part of this wave of Modern British Adventurers (we can add an MBA to our names!) we all want to stay in shape, stay fit and test ourselves, whether our odyssey is to run a first 10K or take on a desert marathon, try a triathlon or row the Atlantic. This month I teamed up with a couple of friends to take on an almighty cycling challenge, and genuinely I don’t know which I enjoyed the most, the anticipation, the ride or the sense of achievement afterwards as we raised a glass of ice cold beer to the mountain we’d climbed. There’s a great line in this issue that sums up this whole philosophy. “Life shouldn’t be a journey to the grave in which you arrive in a well-preserved body. Rather, you should skid there sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, ‘woo-hoo, what a ride’.” Enjoy the magazine.

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With more ascent than Ben Nevis, the Three Peaks CycloCross is demanding, especially with a bike on your shoulder

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This year sees the 49th annual Yorkshire Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross Challenge, a bruising 38-mile ride over the mountains of Whernside, Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough. With almost 5,000ft of ascent, there are sections so steep that riders have to get off and shoulder their bikes. “The course is unique,” says eight-time winner Rob Jebb. “The key to success is fitness over the hills but it’s the descents that can kill you. Mountain bikes aren’t allowed and cyclo-cross bikes have no suspension, thin wheels and drop handlebars, which makes them tricky to control. “As a fell runner I don’t find it hard to make the switch to cyclo-cross events in the winter, but before the Three Peaks I will put some extra work into my riding, smartening up my technique over rough terrain.”

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SHARPEn youR tRAInInG RoutInE Consistency is the key to training, according to Rob Jebb, eight-time Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross champ and four-time winner of the equivalent fell race. If you want to progress, he reckons it’s vital to find regular spots in your schedule to dedicate to fitness: “I cycle to work every day and then run in the evenings when the kids have gone to bed, over Potter Fell or the Kentmere tops in the Lake District.” Lucky Fella.

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step up a distance Your first 10K, first half-marathon and first marathon

slice through waves

Expert open water swimming skills

TRAINING plAN

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hoW cross-trAiNiNg Will get You 75% fitter iN just 12 Weeks

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lose weight fast Metabolism myths exposed

‘outdoor fitness changed my life’ Inspiring true stories

james cracknell

choosing your next challenge

‘i’m afraid of heights’

Sir Ranulph Fiennes confesses

cadel evans’ bike

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‘my greatest challenge...’ cycling Get fit as a triathlete

sport science sport science

your first your first sportive sportive c y

cycling

get out, get boost your fitter, live more boost your staying power staying power

stamina psychology of stamina The psychology ofThe

12-week training plan for your first 100-miler plan 12-week training c l I N G for your first 100-miler

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| Jonny wilkinson |

James ride of Your life CraCknell 48-hour

Bull’s MaRk WeBBeR: cyclinG, runninG and kayakinG – my FiTnEss rEGimE

Three epic mountain Why outdoor adventures climbs in one day open water swimminG

Grab your mates, your rucksack your riding Team Sky training your rucksack& Go! secrets for every cyclist & Go!

Issue 1 aug-sept 2011

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distance | mont ventoux

cyclinG | metabolism

world’s harshestenvironment environment

awesome races t r a i n i n g triathlon

37 essential tips to p l u s hoW guarantee a great debut

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skills

jonny wilkinson’s training secrets

How to boost your intensity

and win

lose weight fast Metabolism myths exposed

‘outdoor fitness changed my life’ Inspiring true stories

james cracknell

choosing your next challenge

NGER STRONGER STRO

myths

plus

‘i’m afraid

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less tissue that needs to be oxygenated with blood, so your heart can focus on supplying your muscles. A lighter load also reduces pressure on your joints and risk of injury. Losing weight requires dedication but is in principle simple; just burn more calories than you consume. But here’s the problem; how many calories do we actually need? This all depends on our metabolic rate – the rate at which our bodies expend energy. It slows as we age and is slower in people with more fat, but its rate can be increased by, for example, regular exercise or building more muscle. Metabolic rate is measured in calories and there are three kinds: Resting Calories (the calories burnt at rest); Activity Calories (those burned through usual daily activities such as your job); and Exercise Calories (those burnt through exercise). Way back in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War, James Arthur Harris and Francis Gano Benedict published a monograph entitled A Biometric Study Of Basal Metabolism In Man. It was never a riveting bedtime read, but it does provide a set of formulae used to calculate an individual’s Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) based on their height, age, current (or ideal) weight and gender (see panel, overleaf). continues over>

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or runners, cyclists and other athletes, reducing weight carried has a massive effect on performance and ultimately success. The sports industry is forever finding new ways to shave weight off what we wear and ride: Nike’s Mayfly running shoe weighs just 135g, one third of the weight of normal running shoes, but has a life span of just 100km (runners can return the shoes to Nike to be recycled). In the world of cycling, kit and groupset addicts can spend thousands of pounds on reducing their bike’s weight by mere grammes to help shave vital seconds off their times. Scour online cycling forums and there’s even debate around the benefits of saving a handful of grammes by upgrading from steel to ceramic ball bearings. But for most of us the most sensible place to consider weight reduction is ourself. It’s certainly cheaper. To lose 0.5kg of body weight costs nothing but time and planning, whereas to lose 0.5kg from your bike could cost a month’s pay cheque. If you want to move faster for longer and increase your endurance and stamina, the less excess body weight you carry the easier it will be – and that applies to everyone at every level of fitness. Less fat also means

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Medal-winning triathlete Simon Hoppe squeezes 12 hours training a week around work and family commitments

triathlete fit in just 3 months Words Claire Maxted Pictures Matthew Roberts

Want to improve performance in your favourite sport? Train like a triathlete. Tap into their skills and drills across the three different disciplines to reap fitness benefits in strength, speed and stamina Strong, fast and enviably lean, triathletes are arguably the fittest sportspeople on both wet and dry land. Why? It’s very simple – training for three disciplines rather than one gives them an edge. “Triathletes achieve their exceptional level of fitness by spreading their training load between swimming, cycling and running,” says award-winning long-distance triathlon coach Simon Ward. “This allows them to train harder for longer than anyone focusing on just one sport. For example, if you do 10 hours of running a week, you put repetitive stress on the dominant muscle groups involved. Divide those 10 hours between the three tri disciplines, and you get the same cardiovascular results but also a whole-body workout, with much less wear and tear on your joints, boredom, burn out and injury.” Olympic hopeful Alistair Brownlee manages to train 20 to 35 hours a week by

cleverly alternating disciplines. OK, so he’s a young pro without kids whose job is to train, train, then train some more but, happily, triathlete fitness is also firmly within the grasp of those tied to the rat race. Age-group bronze-medallist triathlete Simon Hoppe (pictured left) has a wife, two children and a daily four-hour commute to London, but he manages 12 hours’ training a week. “Crazy, isn’t it?” he says. “Early mornings are the secret, and commuting by bike wherever possible.” Training like a triathlete does take discipline and time-management skills but the fitness is achieveable. “I know people who have completed triathlons after heart bypasses and cancer, and an 80-year-old Ironman completer,” says Simon Ward. “The only thing stopping you is you thinking you can’t do it.” Getting as fit as a triathlete really is yours for the taking. Read on to find out how.

MeeT SiMon wArd Simon coaches elite, age-group and Ironman triathletes and is a strength and conditioning specialist. He won 220 Triathlon Coach of the Year in 2009. Find out more at www.thetriathloncoach.com

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paris Marathon – the sense of achievement from running further is a powerful motivator

our body is an amazingly adaptable and versatile machine. Even if you’ve never run before, with the right approach you can soon train it to cover 10K, half-marathon or even full marathon distance and beyond. The feeling of accomplishment from stepping up in distance and the extra motivation a new target gives you is immense. Plus there’s the undeniable buzz from the raised eyebrows and “You’re going to run how far!?” comments from friends. “Running is one of the most powerful and time efficient exercises to stay in shape,” says running coach and former England athlete Ben Pochee, director of LGN Wellbeing. “However, to realise your body’s potential and take advantage of its adaptive qualities, we need to be prepared to challenge our physiology. Running at the same speed over the same course each week is a great way to maintain current fitness, but after a while, fitness improvements will plateau.” This is where stepping up a distance comes in. “Simply running for longer will have a hugely positive effect on your body and fitness,” says Ben. “Moving up in distance is one of the easiest ways to give your body the physiological cues to begin adapting to a fitter future.” increasing your distance Will trigger the folloWing positive effects on your body: 1. Your cardiovascular pump, aka your heart, will become bigger and stronger allowing more blood (and energy via oxygen) to be pumped to your muscles more quickly. 2. Your lungs will increase their ability to hold more oxygen and distribute it into the bloodstream. 3. Your capillary network - responsible for delivering oxygenated blood to your muscles - expands and increases in efficiency. 4. VO2Max – your body’s overall ability to use the oxygen from each breath – will increase.

These positive adaptations take time, and when you’re moving up in distance you need to give your body plenty of opportunity to adjust to the increased demands you’re placing on it. The temptation is to set a target then go all-out to achieve it with body-shattering Rocky-style killer training regimes. If you attack your new distance like that you not only risk injury, there’s also a good chance you’ll lose motivation because you’ll not actually be having much fun. So, to run for longer, take the long view… over the next six pages we’ll show you how. You won’t look back! continues over>

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“I’m starting to think that retreat is the only wise option. If we do get some good weather and we keep pushing, we’re just digging ourselves deeper into a hole.” Outside Leo Houlding’s flimsy portaledge it’s -20°C, the wind is howling at 50mph, and for 10 days he’s been pinned to a 3,000ft rock face in the Arctic. “Why?” seems a fair and obvious question. The answer is because Houlding, a flamboyant 30-year-old climber from the Lake District, wants to make a high octane documentary about what it’s really like to climb one of the biggest, coldest and most serious cliffs on earth. He wants to film the stark reality that is the north face of Mount Asgard. Then, in the style of James Bond, he wants to jump from the top with a wing-suit and a parachute. At least, that’s the plan. Right now, though, he’s stuck in an ice storm several thousand feet up an Arctic cliff. “Oh shit,” he says, face exhausted and gaunt from a week of endless graft. “It’s all gone to shit.” Although Houlding’s Asgard project didn’t start out quite this badly, not much in the previous weeks had been going to plan. Even before his international team of

climbers and filmmakers arrived in Canada, they were beset by difficulty. Just three months before departure Houlding sustained a crippling knee injury which required intensive physio. Then the international courier lost most of their climbing gear en route to Baffin Island. Next, unusually high polar bear numbers scuppered their plan to skidoo in supplies, forcing them to charter a DC3 to airdrop everything onto the glacier. But perhaps it’s only fair that such challenges should define climbing Mount Asgard, which in Norse cosmology is home of the gods. “That’s kind of what it felt like the whole time,” says Leo. “The gods kept toying with us, and just when it was looking impossible they’d give us a lucky break.” Although the $10,000 cost of the DC3 didn’t seem particularly lucky, it turned out to be a highlight of both the trip and Houlding’s remarkable movie account of it, The Asgard Project, made with filmmaker Alastair Lee. “The skydive to the glacier was the coolest thing I’ve ever done,” Leo says. “You’re supposed to slow the plane down to its absolute minimum flying speed, but we all bailed out at cruising speed… and continues over> oct-nov 2011 outdoor fitness |

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the test team JohN WEStlakE, 44. Swimmer for 35 years, ex-triathlete, now concentrating on competitive open water swimming. StEVE hoPE, 49. triathlete since 1985 who’s completed 11 ironmans. trains regularly in open water.

what to look for 1 Fit, Fit, Fit this is, by a huge margin, the most important factor when choosing a suit. the trickest materials and latest coatings count for nothing if your shoulders ache after 400m because the suit doesn’t fit. Buy from a shop so you can try on a few; if you buy over the internet, make sure you try it on VERY carefully - fingernail marks mean you won’t be able to send it back. 2 NEck

Whether it’s high or low, make sure the neck feels comfortable when your head is looking slightly up (ie your natural swimming position). if there’s any hint of discomfort in the shop it’ll be an abrasive nightmare swimming. if the neck is too loose, you’ll get a refreshing sluice of cold water with every stroke.

3 ShouldERS & uNdERaRm

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You should be able to operate this solo, albeit with some fiddling. if it’s impossible, the suit is too tight or has a badly designed flap.

5 matERial

90% of suits are made from Yanamoto rubber. there are three different grades, ranging from the old type 38 to the latest 40. type 39 and 40 are similar and superb; type 38 is mostly seen in budget suits.

6 WaiSt & thighS this is where the suit will be thicker, to give it the buoyancy necessary to lift you higher out of the water and help you to swim flat. Very strong swimmers (who swim flat anyway) and women (who have more natural buoyancy) should get suits with less buoyant lower legs. 5 coatiNgS

Yanamoto ScS is the most common. it’s claimed to be faster, and also helps protect the rubber from fingernails.

7 FoREaRm gRooVES

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