Tag: Sim Racing

June Update – trips, chillis & projects

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

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

Recovery

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

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

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

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

V02 movement

Posted on by Baron in Monthly Blog

Hey guys, finally ive seen some more movement in my V02, up to 40 as of the start of this week, since getting back from the Invercargill trip Ive been either on the treadmill or out walking/ jogging tracking just over 100km so far in 2 and a bit weeks. Back into weights next month, decided to just do the walking & jogging only this month. But obviously still putting in the effort.

Waikato river on a nice winter morning, once the fog had lifted

The Invercargill trip was awesome, but quite a whirlwind tour, didnt get much time to relax, straight to the smelter after landing, back to the hotel for dinner and then back at the smelter at 7.30am and then flew out at 4pm.

The Tiwai facility was huge and took quite a bit to work out where everything was and how it all worked, the staff were really amazing, friendly and informative, and you could see a real sense of pride in the workplace and the area as a whole. So much information was packed into such a short time, got to spend some time with the quality control people and also some time on a ride along in one of the machines they use to transport the molten aluminium. Really amazing how the whole process works, we saw ingots and logs being produced, walked through the whole process, from molten aluminium to finished product. Attended toolbox meetings, checked out health and safety procedures. Really cool time, enjoyed it alot. We managed to get up to Bluff hill and to Stirling point, was really windy when we went, but still enjoyable.

The sim racing group is going really well, getting about 10 racers most weekends. Ive been working on some mods for my rig, added an improved button box, and currently working on a flag/shifter light. Join the facebook group if your interested in participating, mostly Assetto Corsa, and all levels of skill Sim Racing Barons. We have discord chat etc, mostly short races 10 min qualify and 5 lap races, so we can get in about 6 events in the 2 hour block.