Tag: chilli

June Update – trips, chillis & projects

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Hey guys, it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update, I did recently update the events and trips page with details from the trip to highlands motorsports park, all the day’s events and experiences.

Here’s a link to the you tube video i made of the day ——> link

I’ve been keeping up to date with my fitness goals, last week I ran 30km during the week and about 10km of walks too, my V02 has just gone back up to 41 which is good, so I’m getting a lot of activity happening in preparation for the Tongariro crossing later in the year. The treadmill is looking a bit worse for wear and needs a new belt sooner than later.

Chilli season has all finished and we had a great harvest this year, i ended up giving a lot away to workmates as I already have plenty in the freezer and preserved.

Carolina Reaper

I’ve been working on the cnc machine, changing over the mainboard that I’ve been using, tidying up the wiring, designing and printing up some parts.

I managed to go on a short-day trip to Auckland last month to pick up some pedals for my sim rig, on the way back I stopped in at Hampton downs racetrack for lunch and a look around their car showroom. Was nice food, not very busy on the day.

The new sim pedals
Burger for lunch at Hampton Downs

Anticipation

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Only 5 days away from my trip to Christchurch and then to Central Otago, getting pretty excited about it. The itinerary is pretty much all buttoned up, I think there is one free day and all the rest filled up, we have a full day at Highlands Motorsport Park, a 3-hour ziplining adventure, luge, paintball, gondola, a boat trip, a hill trek, daily walks, brewery trips and more. Very busy.

I’ve been a bit sick in the last month with the flu of some sort, so exercise had to slow down for a week while I recovered, back into it now, doing a walk and a run each day totalling over an hour most days. Possibly planning on doing the Tongariro crossing in November with a group, so I’ll have a goal for my fitness.

Chillis are growing well, we had quite a dry spell here, but have had some good rain in the last week, so lawns have bounced back, so far we have had about 10 jalapenos off the plants, really good sizes.

Hectic January

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January for me was flat out, exercised every day except the day I went to see the super sprint event at Taupo, check out the new “Events” tab above to see my coverage of that day.

January exercise consisted of 103km running, 54km walking, some weights days, and a few sessions on the bike and rowing machine. My V02 has gone up again to 42 which is awesome, going from 35 in December 2022 to 42 now this has also seen my weight go down approx 10kg, and my ability in running and weights improve a lot.

Chillis are starting to come in, we had the first few jalapenos off the plants this weekend in a curry, maybe we added too many as it was quite hot but still nice. most of the plants have quite a few chillis on them except for the super hots, but they are looking very healthy

Looking at going to the pools this week for my first session, I’ve been waiting for the school holidays to finish so it’s not too busy, planning on walking there, spending an hour in the pool and then walking home, maybe a 4km walk to get there, so should be a pretty active session.

Holiday to Central Otago is coming up pretty fast, with just over a month to go, getting pretty excited, we have been sorting through some of the final details this week. Looking forward to seeing the racetrack and getting out on it. Should be awesome fun.

Christmas 2023

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Merry Christmas all, and all the best for the holiday season, I am currently on a break from work, but keeping up to date with fitness, today I went for an 11km walk down by the Waikato River, yesterday I ran 12km on the treadmill, and I guess tomorrow will be another run.

I was lucky enough to get a concession ticket for the local swimming pools for christmas, so once im back at work ill start using that on my spare day each week. i guess ill start by trying to swim 500 metres or something, see how i go at working out a goal when i get into it.

The salsa from the recipe page has proven quite popular, I made a batch just before Christmas and it was all eaten pretty fast, I used serranos instead of jalapenos, possibly needing a bit more kick, but still great.

Ive put a few short videos on youtube, just walks and gardening, also did a bit of testing with the action cam at home too, while having chillis and beer, ooh and a couple of tequilas..

Youtube - @Whatnz

The link above for the youtube channel, adding things a bit at the moment

Updates

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V02 up to 41!!

Exercising pretty much everyday, however im in the office for the rest of the year, so my daily steps are down a fair bit. Weights happening a bit, but mostly treadmill or walks down the river. Been a massive year on the fitness front, i feel ive done really well and have lost a decent amount of weight, keen to keep going next year, work on running and weights.

Brocollis are all done, so ive put the rest of the chillis in, grabbed a trinidad scorpian and a carolina reaper to see how they go in the garden instead of pots this year, flower garden is going well, ive added a few more plants to it, i think in a few weeks its going to look amazing.

Lawn has been scarified 3 weeks ago, and have started on it with the reel mower this last week mowing every second day, will need a fert again soon, weather is starting to heat up so will sort watering program soon.

3 more days of work before holidays, ive only had 3 days off in the last month, as we have been super busy and running during weekends. at the same time we have had quite a big reshuffle, so have had a few job interviews happening, nothing changed yet.

Ive got a home brew kit coming for christmas, going to take a bit to set up, as will need to sort a cupbard, filtered water etc to get it right first time, ill have to do a chunk of research before the first batch.

A few pictures of the garden progress

Massive fire down the road the other day at a boat manufacturer, not far from my work, we got the stay inside alert message at home, was alot of smoke

Nobody hurt, but not much left of the building, was a power cut just before the fire, so possibly a cause.

We have had a blackbird making heaps of noise over the last week, our cat may have caught his partner? We have named him scott, he is pretty annoying and starts chirping from 5am right through to 8pm

Chillis and beer day happening this week, so i should get some content from that day !!

Recovery

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Just getting back into it this last week, due to getting the flu early in the month and it taking a good two weeks to feel good enough to get back into exercise, hurt my ankle too, so that didnt help progress either. Thankfully my weight remained pretty constant through it all.

Feeling much better now but don’t want to overdo it straight away, so currently the plan for the next two weeks is to do alternate days on the treadmill, walking and running for 30-45mins. Looking at around 6kph walking and 9kph jogging for the moment, just on a .5 incline. All treadmill workouts for the moment. Trying to take it a bit easy really.

Kinda disapointing that id only just added weights back into the routine, but will put them back in once ive done this two week cycle. I think i will have two rest days a week instead of one moving forward, but we shall see.

It’s spring here, nearly summer, so I’ve set up all the outside furniture, sails etc. It’s Very windy today but all seems to be holding up well. It will be a nice quiet area to spend hot days over the summer with the family.

Chillis are growing well, Ive got full gardens now, so untill the brocolli is ready i cant do too much beyond weeding and squishing white butterfly caterpillars. Ive put in five jalapenos as last year we didnt end up with any, hopefully the are ready for the chilli and beer day. Made a full flower garden, cant wait to see what it looks like in a few months.

Designed cut and partially assembled a new sim rig for one of the guys in the sim racing group yesterday, cant wait to see the final result as was looking really good the work we had done, managed to bend a saw blade, so that part wasnt much fun and an unexpected cost.

We have a hotlap challenge currently going in the racing group. Bathurst in V8 supercars, which is looking pretty popular, with 15 members having times so far, ranging from 2.07-2.14 ish, so fairly close.

Getting ready for spring

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Wow, what a month, nonstop. The average steps per day for the month was 18000, 145km of running, and 65km of walking, 28 days of the 30 I managed to get some exercise happening, so pretty good. This month I’ve upped my step goal to 15000 a day and started weights again this week. 3 times a week, the big 5, 4 sets of 12. I’ve managed to run 10km on the treadmill in a few minutes over an hour. V02 is still at 40, but I think the increase in activity will have it moving in no time.

Planted some chillis for this season, just the 3 plants so far, Rocoto, Jalwa, and a bird’s eye, I have a few habanero seedlings popping up too. I’ll post pictures of the progress. First spray on the lawn this week, foreign grass was sprayed on Saturday and weeds today, will need a follow-up in a few weeks, maybe after scarifying.

Designed up and made a small button box for one of the sim racing guys, pretty simple but thats all that was needed

I’ve put a few videos up on youtube, mostly testing the camera so far, I’ve got loads of work to do out in the gardens before summer, so I might get some timelapses of that. Head over to the youtube channel : whatnz

May Busy Busy

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Hey guys, well flat out month so far, chillis all harvested, chilli salt and habaneos preserved in oil the latest recipes. My poor fridge is looking empty with only some sour beers in there and you know you have to be in the right mood for them.

Shirts have been printed, i have 12 of various sizes and colours, all have a home

Ive found a 10km route around my local golf course , down the river path with great views, lots of friendly locals, uphills,stairs etc these are some pictures i have taken while out walking

My fitness journey has been going great, so far ive been for one swim, a cycle and quite a few walks aswell as every other day in the gym doing either weights or cardio. My V02 hasnt moved on my watch yet, but i think it probably has, as ive gone from barely being able to jog for 10 mins up to 40 mins today. I have been seeing progress in weightloss, shirts getting loose, some muscle definition. still a long way to go. Have set a goal to be able to run 10km in an hour, quite ambitious i reckon, but hopefully achieveable.

I went to the Hamilton waterworld during the week and did an hour of lengths, kicking one way and then arms only the other, needless to say i was stuffed the whole next day after that, i think next time i will just pick a stroke and stay with that for the whole time, great facilities, was not very busy when i went – LINK

Ive put together my current workout plan incase anyone wants to check it out, it involves a 5×5 weights routine, 5 sets of 5 reps with 90 seconds between reps, Im adding a few kg every second week, which doesnt seem like much, but over a year is 50 kilo, treadmill runs ive also been upping by 5 mins every few weeks, i think there is enough variety in this workout at the moment with the equipment we have, so am getting quite a range

download as a pdf below.

workout-plan-2-week-rotationDownload