Saturday, October 22, 2022

A New Beginning

 

Margaret River weekend 11 September run

Running on Sand Margaret River September 2022


Murray Street Mall at the end of run on a weekday In August

John Forrest NP August Long Run


John Forrest Park Falls August Run

Kings Park in the evening after run

 

 It has been 8 months since Delirious and I have had a 4 month break from running .I started my training again at the end of July with a slow return to running. It has been good to have a break.What has continued uninterpreted has been meditation.Increasing the time spent meditating to at-least an hour a day.Partly on my commute and then at lunch and in the evening.

Starting with 7 hours of running with a 2 hour run in the hills and building slowly in August to 4 hour run and 75km in a week with an easy week after 3 weeks.

In September the training really started to mount with the plan to do a long run at the end of the month on a Long weekend from 24 September to 25 September 2022. 

The long run on the 24 September was a good test .Had a heavy pack as I had all my bars and food. I started at 7am with Lindsay and Judy running with me to Helena .That was 11 km from Perth Discovery centre. I then continued to Waleigh and Beraking Shelters where I had water from the tanks and a break . From Beraking there was a diversion because of the back burns and so there was no shelters accept for a temporary open camp with a toilet and some cans of water. That was about 45km into the run and then I turned at about 55km and then worked my way back to Beraking with the Intention of having a short sleep .I got to Beraking at about midnight and it was cold I had slowed the amount of fluid I was consuming as well as food but felt OK .I had a survival body bag I was hoping would keep me warm in the shelter but it did nothing .The temperature was about 7C but felt colder. There were 2 hikers in the shelter and unfortunately my rolling in the body bag probably woke them up.By 1am I decided to just keep moving so filled up my flask and headed back on the bib to Discovery Centre. It got light by 6am and I managed to get back about 9.30am .I was exhausted and with the cold and lack of sleep hallucinating a bit. But it was a good test I know the amount of fluid I have to take even on a cold night.I think if I can keep up to 35gms of Carbohydrates per hour I will be good. Even the salt intake seem ok. 

It was the longest run in 6 months.



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September 2022

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Cross Training: 0.0 km ~ 4:39:28 // Run: 52.0 km ~ 6:57:57 (8:00:00) // Meditation: 4:48:00 (1:10:00) // Strength Training: 0.0 km ~ 54:00 // long run: 22.2 km ~ 3:45:13 // Total: 74.2 km ~ 21:04:40 (9:10:00)
Cross Training: 5.0 km ~ 5:30:03 // Meditation: 4:20:00 (1:10:00) // Strength Training: 0.0 km ~ 1:02:53 // Run: 59.1 km ~ 8:34:09 (8:50:00) // Total: 64.1 km ~ 19:27:05 (10:00:00)
Cross Training: 0.0 km ~ 4:01:35 // Meditation: 4:12:00 (1:10:00) // Run: 38.6 km ~ 5:55:12 (6:00:00) // Strength Training: 0.0 km ~ 1:33:05 // Total: 38.6 km ~ 15:41:53 (7:10:00)
Cross Training: 0.0 km ~ 4:23:34 // Meditation: 2:05:00 (1:10:00) // Run: 120.4 km ~ 27:55:58 (21:30:00) // Total: 120.4 km ~ 34:24:32 (22:40:00)
Cross Training: 0.0 km ~ 5:03:51 // Meditation: 4:27:00 (1:10:00) // Run: 27.8 km ~ 4:31:27 (6:00:00) // Total: 27.8 km ~ 14:02:19 (7:10:00)


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Monday, April 11, 2022

Mindfullness , Meditation and ultra running Lessons I have learnt

 

 

History & start and meditation

 Briefly I started training for a miler in November 2020 with a Mindfocus Running course with Rob learning to meditate .This has mushroomed into a concious daily exercise of at least an hour a day and I have done a few coursera courses including Buddhism and Psychology by Robert Wright .That was very instructional in explaining some scientific basis for the buddhist view of the mind and meditation.

I then on 1 April did a 3 day course at the Jhana Grove Meditation centre .Had a lot of opportunity to meditate and learn about meditation. 

These are just some of my notes on the weekend and the 2 sessions recorded and on the Buddhist Society of WA You Tube site.

At the Buddhist retreat I attended 1-3 April 2022 at the Jhana Grove meditation Center at Serpentine I managed to increase the amount of meditation I would do.For the week I managed 14 hours .

 

Lessons learnt in Meditation and trying to reach the deep meditations or Jhanas all aim for

  1. practice , practice and more practice.It will not always be perfect .Learn loving kindness or metta for your self .
  2. Have compassion and loving kindness for self not forced meditation
  3. follow the 8 fold path 

    The Noble Eightfold Path

    • Right understanding (Samma ditthi)Right thought (Samma sankappa)

    • Right speech (Samma vaca)
    • Right action (Samma kammanta)
    • Right livelihood (Samma ajiva)
    • Right effort (Samma vayama)
    • Right mindfulness (Samma sati)
    • Right concentration (Samma samadhi) 
  4. Practically the whole teaching of the Buddha, to which he devoted himself during 45 years, deals in some way or other with this path. He explained it in different ways and in different words to different people, according to the stage of their development and their capacity to understand and follow him. But the essence of those many thousand discourses scattered in the Buddhist scriptures is found in the noble eightfold path
  5. (see the article on Tricycle The Noble Eightfold Path ,The Buddha’s practical instructions to reach the end of suffering By Walpola Sri Rahula)
  6. live a wholesome and virtuous life , as a drug dealer can't reach the deep levels of meditation bliss
  7. be in the moment
  8. do everything mindfully leads to doing your best in everything
  9. Ajahn Chah "always put 100% in everything you do"
  10. Ok to be sad , angry and cry in the moment but not dwell on it ,always learn to let go 
  11. no quick way to samardhi 
  12. try all techniques ...there is no one path to mindfulness meditation


Ajahn Santuthi mentione an often cited story of Ajahn Chah ( Ajahn Branhm mentor and teacher is the  Mango tree analogy ,  monastics have to wait for the mango hanging on the tree  to fall to the ground not climb the tree  Takes time to reach jhana or deep meditation states

 In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit: ध्यान) or jhāna (Pāḷi: झान) is the training of the mind, commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, and leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhā-sati-parisuddhi)."[1] Dhyāna may have been the core practice of pre-sectarian Buddhism, in combination with several related practices which together lead to perfected mindfulness and detachment.[2][3][4]

Wikipedia

 It is a Marathon not a sprint

 

 

Dharma Talk By Ajahn Brahmali

 

Dharma Talk

 

   

 Dharma Talk

  

Article in Trcycle on self and ego 

 

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