Your biggest test of strength/endurance

[killa]

Just looking outside at the rain at work and it reminded me of the time I was travelling Poland.

I booked a Hostel on the internet for about 25 euro’s a night, near the Czech boarder. The reason I booked the hostel was the online picture, I didn’t actually believe the photo, it was what looked to be a log cabin on a mountainous range with a huge lake behind it.
To cut a long story short, it was just as the picture described, i was stunned TBH. But to get there was the killer.
The guy in the taxi stopped in pouring rain when we reached what seemed to be a few hundred feet above sea level, past the houses, past the tourist shopping village. He was trying to describe to me that he could no longer drive up and that I’d have to walk the rest of the way. What at first sounded like “2 minutes long” actually meant “2 hours walk”. I had with me my Burgan (think that’s it, large army rucksack) full of all my stuff. In the range of 20k I imagine.
The walk consisted of path ways and rocky areas up a ridiculous degree of climb. I’m not in the army, far from it. In fact I’d never faced anything like this in my life. Every corner I turned I saw a rocky path that led up this mountain until i couldn’t actually see it anymore....I didn’t know the route, occasionally i found blue markers which the taxi driver had said to follow but when you can’t actually see your goal this becomes mentally tiring.
Being hot because of the work involved, wet because of the rain coming down and the ground conditions, i started to go a little mental at one point. I had no food or water so my mind started to wonder....WTF am i doing?
When I finally rounded a corner on a rocky path (after about 2hours of walking) i could see the hostel about 2 miles away, in the distance. During the last couple of miles my knee started to give me some grief, it’s from a past martial arts injury and my other knee’s not much better from a bike accident. With no one around to help if needed this is where i needed to push. I found a fresh water stream, took a bit of water to drink from that and then set about doing the last couple of miles.

The scenery was stunning, I’ve never been a walking holidays person but i can see the appeal. When i finally reach my destination I’ll always remember taking off my kit and jacket to sit down in the cafe for a hot chocolate. It was no Everest but then I’m no explorer, to be faced with such a task having no idea initially, was probably one of the toughest things I’ve done.

(The hostel shown is not where i stayed but very similar)


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https://ajt.iki.fi/travel/poland_tatras/img_2166_forest_river_medium.jpg

https://ajt.iki.fi/travel/poland_tatras/img_2244_pieciu_stawow_hostel_medium.jpg

So have you guys got some interesting stories about your biggest test for yourself??
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[Itchy]

Huang Shan China, 2002

Took a very very long time on the Bus to get to the base of Huang Shan. One of the cable cars was being serviced so I took a 5 hour bus to the back cable car. This was scary in itself as the bus driver appeared to be suicidal and would slide the rear of the bus around drfiting around corners, where there is a 300-600metre drop on one side its scary.

I noticed a huge queue which did not appear to move even though several cars came. I noticed a lot of tough stocky blokes carrying stuff up the mountain on their backs. I figured well if these blokes can walk UP the mountain carrying a filing cabinet on their backs. I can walk up just carrying a backpack. I mean it didn't look higher than the peak in HK which takes 2 hours to walk up.

I got to a stelios pass type arrangement up 1000s of stairs constantly being overtaken by tough blokes carrying 20 cases of beer and such like and would stop buy beer/food off those guys and continue. 3 days later I arrive at the top..... and it was cloudy as hell so you couldn't see a smegging thing. Though there was this cool bit where you would see clouds drift towards you and disperse.
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[chris-red]

Probably doing 60 miles on the London to Brighton (push) bike ride most of it on my own on the hottest day of the year. My friends, there where about 6 of us stopped after 9 miles or so due to ill health, broken bikes etc. I kept going on my own. I was also right at the bike of the group to the point that the marker posts where being packed up as I was going past due to me having to wait around for ages at the start getting friends into ambulances and trying to get parts for bikes.
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[The Original Muzza]

Once ate a really big pie.

Like, really big.
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[N cee thirty]

going to germany and not doing the goose step or salute ;D
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[MarJay]

1994. Wales. The three peaks challenge.

Nuff said.
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[Hazylogic]

Probably getting arm-pump on my 6th/7th run down Fort Bill downhill track. Was near enough physically impossible to pull the brakes.

Coincidentally, I'm setting off to go there in the next hour. Rain all weekend; it should be good.

[chris-red]

[Fawbish]

Lake Garda, Italy - Hull, Yorkshire in around 30 hours, with about 3 hours sleep and a few rests, on a fully loaded up Speed Four (no wind protection)


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[Visitor Q]

London to Hailsham in a blizzard, at night, wearing only summer leathers without ever having been there before.

Hypothermia... fuck me I was damn near catatonic. Nigh on bludgeoning motorists for making me creakingly use the brake of clutch.

If you mean physical endurance, working Mozambique. Long hours, next to no food, and around christmas we were doing 3 launches a day. So set up, load boat, launch boat, do dives, roast in sun, unload, swap gear and start again. And after each dive you really just want to sleep anyway.

Ooh that reminds me though. I did all that one joy, but with a cold a few times. Ever had a reverse block from a 30 meter dive, then been forced to go back down on the next one? You need a day off certainly afterwards, but the pain is exquisite I assure you.

Quote diving safety regs, I fucking dare you.
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[D O G]

2007 New Forest & Isle of Wight On & Off Shore challenge. 120 mile pushbike ride in a day (road bikes) - 60 miles round the island, 60 miles round the Forest.

Started at 8am, at around 3pm, after 80 miles or so my rear derrailieur went into the spokes of my back wheel, destroying the derrailieur. Bodged it by shortening the chain, and stretching it (ever so slightly) around one sprocket on and the big chain ring. Thaving so highly tensioned meant that the effort to rotate the pedals was crazy, but kept going, solo, as everyone dropped me, for the last 40 miles. It rained for 30 of them.

I was shattered from effort, lack of energy due to being poorly prepared with not enough snacks, it was getting cold and dark and I had no lights. Netarly had a head onb crash with a acr as I just didn't clock it I was so fucked. I eventually made it to the finish at 8pm. I've never suffered so much on a bike before or since, or had such an appetite.

That's probably the worst physically, but attending the births of my two kids definitely represent the most arduous 24hours of my life.

[Gone]

Finland to England, stopping only for petrol, 2 days, 2600km on a tired, unfaired, GT750 Kawasaki. Probably do it again next year, with a better bike and a sleep break or two on the way.

FD

[Gazz]

I ran 3 miles at the gym last week.

I had never ran in 9 years (since I got a car at 17 years old).

The only reason I went to the gym in the first place was because I started to get pains right in the centre of my chest when I done even a brisk walk, so thought I'd better do something about it.

Still got the pains in my chest at the 3 mile mark, but at least it is better than my 0.01 mile (that I got the pains at on my first day at the gym).

***Probably done a lot better strength/endurance stuff in my years, but cant think of anything recently (apart from my 3 mile run).

[benjami]

Currently trying not to get pizza crumbs on my bed sheets, its pretty intense.

[DanceLikeAMon...]

Me and my mate went to the Great Wall of China last year whilst in Beijing. Walked up and down the wall for about 2 hours in 30 odd degree heat (and some of the ups were very steep). Thought we had almost reached the end, until we walked through a guard house and saw this:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/dance_like_a_monkey/CIMG0847-1.jpg
I'm pretty fit (albeit fat ) and do walks a few hours long every few days, but the mixture of heat and hills almost killed me.

Here's the sweaty after photo:
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/dance_like_a_monkey/CIMG0849.jpg

[thx1138]

walking to the all night garage for some maltesers when I was stoned

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[Hetzer]

[mad4it028]

i just carried a zx9r engine 500 meters without a stop thats the worst ive done in a while..lol i really must get a sack barrow..lol
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[FURBAR]

Fitting new handlebars .. three weeks ..
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[Jayy]

In a serious test of mental power and physical strength and endurance, I once went up and down my stairs 12 times whilst carrying books from the bottom floor to the second floor.

That's just one of the many accomplishments of my life.

[FURBAR]

[Flip]

[FURBAR]

Yes, and new motrax grips & bar ends ....... and three clutch levers ..

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[Chris750]

Mine was pushing an old gsxr-750 with a flat back tire 3 miles home in the middle of the night. The route was up a very long steep hill that went on and on.
I was fine for the first bit by by the end I was nearly crying and considering leaving the bike at the side of the road.
I was doing a few metres having a break then a few more, like that, for ages.
I was so tired when I got to my town I was only 400m from my house but I couldn't do it any more so when I saw a bloke pulling into his drive I asked him extremely nicely if he would store my bike in his garden till the next day.

Another occassion when I was young me and 3 mates drove to wales in a mini and stayed the night on the spur of the moment. We slept in the car, which was cramped and cold so I got very little sleep.
In the morning we found the biggest mountain we could find on the map and decided to climb it for some views.
This was very difficult, trudging up very steep slopes through bracken up to our waists.
It took hours and nearly killed us.
When we finally got to the top, there was loads of old people with walking sticks and women carrying babies up there and we thought WTF.
We soon realised our mistake, if we came from the other side, you could drive most of the way up and then take a gentle stroll up a paved path from a car park.