Day 8 www.manlyfire.org.nz 10 day challenge
SAS Training! Today’s training was at Big Manly on the beach, perfectly flat sea and lucky for us, high tide was 5:05am so by 5:45, the beach was still pretty hard from the out-going tide. When they said SAS training, they meant it and a trainer from the base in Papakura came to train – two teams, 12 sandbags each and 6 tyres – hit the beach.
You could tell from the start “nice guy” but knew something about training – and I should know although now [almost needed a calculator] 22 years since the army training days. Instead of the beach we had river beds, either way it was going to be a challenge.
Few warm up exercises then competition time between teams.
First getting the bags filled – losing team 20 pushups - ha, we won. All gear down to the end of the beach, think around 300m. Sandbags must have been 20kg’s at least – we had 4 guys, 3 ladies and 4 kids – so moving 12 20kg+ bags and 6 tyres meant we had to work pretty hard. The idea, get 1 bag& 1 tyre to the end quick-get back to last person & help. Lets just say everything we did included sandbags and tyres, oh and also carrying somebody sitting IN the tyre.
Halfway through my calf decided to “ping” right at the top but this is SAS training, no tears boy! Ok, that’s what my head said with a flashback to second phase training in Hoedspruit [training camp northern part of South Africa for non-saffa's]. Got literally pushed in the last showoff which kinda hurt, so we’ll have to see how it acts up later today. Couldn’t resist a swim in our swimming pool in between some boats heading out for the morning, one going for a family ski.
Now this training I could do often_body going to be pretty stiff for ballet [yup, I know] tomorrow morning – sure hope no camera’s or video
