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I had to go and check out a footbridge up Glen Tromie as part of a path survey so today was the day. I could have driven down to the foot of the glen and then cycled in the 9km or so to the bridge location but I thought that, in the spirit of the challenge, I should ride it from home.
Well, the bridge is no more.
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I suspect the path on the other side of the river isn't used at all now. The Tromie would have been difficult to cross today and it's not been that wet.
Took a wee detour up another (newer) track to have a look. This one could make an interesting link to the A9 🙂
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Autumn has finally arrived, bringing with it a change of colour, so I popped by the Uath Lochan on the way home.
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69km round trip done.
The kids kindly gave me their snotty lurgy, then decided to keep us up half the night so 10 miles of bicycle commutes and a minimum 30 min lunch time walk. Was almost disappointed to discover someone else had pruned the rogue brambles I'd planned to do since they started drooping down too low to ride under.
Monday was a cycle into town and back plus a couple of exercise classes.
Yesterday, running club.
Need to sort out my sleep - I may have to harden my heart and boot the dog off the bed at nights 🙁
Monday was a very wet walk, if it hadn't been for this challenge I'd have definitely stayed on the sofa so mission accomplished there...
Yesterday was a muddy spin on the gravel bike, maximum concentration required on the now muddy sections after all the rain. I think there'll be more MTB miles from now on, or what gravel tyres for mud? 😉
I get more picky about my gravel routes at this time of year, interspersing road sections to avoid the worst bits. I'm still using my Teravail Rutlands and plan to keep them on. If the conditions look shit then it's the Occam or the Fatbike
Yeah I was defiantly starting to go sideways in the wooded bit of my ride home last night on my Gravel kings - thing is they were ideal for the other 98% of the ride.
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Anyway yesterday was a fun run round a the headland of Ross bay near Kirkcudbright round to brighouse bay then back to campsite. 9.5km in total with a bit of crouchy one hand on the grass vertigo running. Forgot how much stopping climbing has affected my fear of depths, I'm ok looking up at heights it's looking down that buckles my knees and these cliffs are probably only 20m.
Today was extended dog walk.
Looks like there is still an outside world! Nice photos all. I’m getting back on it tomorrow, after a spell of being ill and looking after the ill (at the same time).
Today's all over work out was ripping out a damp bathroom. 😪
One hours easy ride along the river today.Trying to calm down a bit from my current anxious state.I seem to have very twitchy calf's at the moment.Any of you suffered from this?I think it's either stress or to much weight training.I really can't be bothered to bother my GP.
Yoga yesterday, 7k local trail run today.
Monkey are you eating as many bananas and oranges as usual? I've had odd calf stuff when deprived of my usual daily banana. Otherwise ???? try ten mins yoga a day to see if the legs just get the hint?
Weights class tonight. Very first world problem, OH has been blithely ignoring the "your key battery needs changing" alerts... only upon arriving at the gym it was flat and we couldn't lock the car (too new to have actual keyholes on the outside). Cue a frantic return home to pick up my key which --FX smug FX-- was NOT flat, while I stayed and enjoyed the legs section 😉
Thanks stripey.I'll give yoga a go.I have bananas and satsumas everyday.Maybe, I need to eat alot more.
Monkey - if you can, try some Epsom salt baths which can help with muscle relaxation. I had bad restless legs post COVID and they really helped.
Good to hear you are back Kelvin.
Oh I was so close this evening to not making it - most of the day working and then 5 hour drive to Somerset. I’ve just squeezed in half an hour of Pilates and stretching.
Group ride out to Loch Insh area and back, then a couple of beers at the Bothy Bar. I'm not going to lie, those beers (and the socialising around them) are as important to me as the ride at the moment 😉
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Felt too rough yesterday evening so taking bicycle commutes for yesterday's effort. Feeling better for a good nights sleep and working from home today. Yoga at lunch time, kicked off with picking up kids building blocks off floor. Quite enjoyed this one, wasn't too taxing - although not without challenge! Started standing then onto balancing. Was familiar with difference between strength of left/right lower legs but this really made it prominent! Will probably do another half hour yoga this evening.
Been missing from the thread for a few days, thanks to a long weekend in Malta 😎
Despite being on holiday I managed to keep up with a 30min run daily - I must admit they weren't the fastest of runs, but then again I was on holiday!
Since getting back it's been the usual stuff - weights, turbo + outdoor riding, running, swimming...
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Ya dancer. Anyway photo of the lighthouse off Ross bay on my run a few day ago. Today was 5miles on the road into a stinking headwind.
Am out, chinah virus has struck down the househoold, might try and pick it up on the other dide but weak as a kitten now. Knackers.
Keep the faith peeps. Last years years was awesome unti i rolled my ankle, think of all that extra cheese you can eat at christmas!
Been a tough few days workwise, so I have missed a couple of days:
Monday - did some stretching and bodyweight exercises after kids in bed, probably not quite 30 minutes
Tue + Wed - did a few goblet squats and kettlebell swings in between zoom calls / chapters, less than 30 mins each day, but at least something
Thurs: 10 miles on the roadbike.
Have been really missing it, should be back to doing a bit more from tomorrow.
Yoga again today
Thursday isn't an easy day, nigh on 11 hours at uni, managed what turned out to be a really nice 5 mile run out the canal to the botanic Gardens and back.
I never managed out at all yesterday, just ran out of time. Off over to Gairloch for a few days this afternoon so kayaking may feature as my exercise of choice 😁
Some proper weather this morning, about 10 degrees colder than yesterday, and a good frost in the garden.
Magic, bring on some more!.
Walk yesterday in glorious sunshine around a very long zoom day.
Today some really great mtb in the Quantocks. First time I’ve bought a HT, and got some PRs both up and down. Maybe there is a hint of fitness there.
Update:
Thursday pre-sleep yoga session with Kassandra. Tried a different "beginners" exercise and struggles with a few of the poses. However, I know it's worth persevering.
Friday was a 2 hour walk with Mrs S, taking advantage of the "up" cycle in her wellness. In the evening I headed out for a bivvy. Not far (22km) but another spot I've passed a few times and contemplated. Finding a pitch was only complicated by the fact there have been cattle in the area do I needed to avoid piles of shit. Lovely night though.
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Saturday morning return from the bivvy. Might manage something else later.
Looking back to my campsite in the morning
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That's the first month done. Well done to everyone joining in. To those who have fallen by the wayside a little; remember that the benefits still accrue even if you've had to skip a bit due to illness, time, priorities etc. Keep it going and lets see what you've been up to. Knowing how much other folk are doing helps keep me going too.
5k run Friday afternoon after finishing work. Was lovely and cool and an hour before sunset, so lovely to get out.
Walk with the family today in the Peak District.
One thing I am finding is that whilst this challenge is a good motivator to get out, because I'm exercising more frequently than usual the duration is shorter, so a lot more running than biking. Need to get out on the bike a bit more.
Yesterday I got back on the balance trials bike. Still wasn't feeling very energetic so decided to ride it to the local skatepark rather than the usual trials skill obstacle practice (aka trials) in back garden. 20 minutes to do 2.5 miles! 20 minutes at skatepark, then a bunny-hop attempt over a cut out section resulted in snakebite puncture to rear. But only a short 1.6 mile walk home. And on a sunny afternoon, along countryside footpaths, was quite pleasant.
Short ride this morning, just a quick spin to get a bit of fresh air. There's a longer run planned for tomorrow, hopefully get some photos to rival @scotroutes 🙂
4 mile run in the rain just before dinner, magic.
Short but hard ride today with the dogs, got 3 out of 4 pbs missed the last as i stopped to pick some tasty Boletus edulis (cep, penny bun, porcini) which went into the boulangere potatoes which cooked under the roasted lamb shoulder with anchovies for tonight's dinner.
Back on it today with a steady 25 miles on the road bike to loosen up the legs. Some kettlebell squats and swings in the evening.
Went climbing at Ratho EICA today. Have only been sporadically in the past few years and I might not have actually been on a wall for 30mins total but I'm sure going to feel it tmrow.
Leisurely family walk in the park with kids and their grandparents this afternoon. Another yoga for climbers youtube this evening (while OH has gone out leaving me with kids).... forgotten how difficult I find straight arm side planks, and other balance challenges. Oh and an different way to end than I've seen so far.
A weekish in London has had me doing a few runs and a couple of walks as well as traipsing over the city. Culminated in the park run yesterday which was nice(ish), beers burgers and back to back runs left me off the boil a bit. Drive home today so will try to fit something in tonight.
We haven’t been doing this but are doing the gym version of MTB fitness, the last time my partner did it the results were impressive so I’ve joined her and already seeing a big change in bodyfat loss. Especially around the stomach area, fat burn really works!
Fully recommend it, you have to put the work in for sure and we struggle to do the riding part of it as just isn’t the time but we have a gym near us so the warmup is the run to the gym and then 45-1hr of exercises then walk back, week 7 and feeling good!
Managed to get a 40 mile ride in yesterday, first ride after a week of walking and YouTube yoga.
Currently taking a break after an hour and a half painting, another hour to go with the second coat. Whether that counts or not, I'm going to need 30 minutes of fresh air when it's all finished!
Helped a local group pull out pond weed from a swamp to restore it as a pond for 2 hours earlier. Proper hard work at times lifting years worth of matted roots up. That'll do for me, back will be in bits tmrow.
I don't recall previous years entries including so many lame excuses... 😂
My legs were feeling it a bit on the way back from my bivvy yesterday morning so plans to do something else yesterday were dropped.
I talked myself into trying a wee run today - just see how it took me. Keeping to an easy pace, I somehow popped in a leisurely 10km. It looked dreich but was actually very mild and humid.
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Have been tapering so lots of Walking The Dog and Cycling to Town.
Actually did the HM today and fastest I've covered the distance in years - not fast AT ALL, don't get me wrong! - but a combination of parents dying and lockdown and PF and weight gain and a crumbling knee have had exactly the effect you'd expect.
I've been doing strength and circuits classes and losing weight and actual training (as much as I can stand) and rested up before this event and had gels and (1 set) paracetamol during, and managed to run all the way and to speed up at the end. This may well have been my last half but at least I'm happy that it wasn't a complete mess and I made a decent workmanlike effort on the day.
Had a "funny turn" later that afternoon but that was just a post-race BP drop and a spell of head-between-knees and then brisk walking about sorted that. Very common and this is why the ends of big races are like being the ball in a pinball machine, to keep people moving - I had been moving all day, and then I sat down for lunch and five minutes later ...
Nice one Stripey. Great work.
I don’t recall previous years entries including so many lame excuses… 😂
Don’t worry scotroutes - 32 properly logged pieces of exercise for me. Even if they include some walks and Pilates 😉
Yesterday another mtb ride. Super pleased to do two rides back-to-back and got up a couple of short steep climbs. Today a misty autumnal walk before heading back north to Yorkshire.
Garmin shows that as my highest CV volume week for over a year. Either my HR is way too high 😂 or I am actually finally getting fitter 11 months on COVID. Whoop.
Busy work week ahead - hoping for a couple of off-road commutes (given I normally get the train!), some gym and some core/Pilates work.
I’ve been avoiding looking at the thread as reading about everything everyone has been doing would add to the depression I’m suffering as a result of having this terrible lurgy for three weeks now.
I have tried a few road rides but it just wipes me out so I have just been doing short walks with the dogs so at least I’m getting some fresh air and a little exercise.
I still have a chesty cough and it’s not shifting so just going to have to tough it out.
Jogged junior park run with the youngest this morning, his first and he loved it. Wants to do some training before the next one so I think I am going to be on a couch to 5k.
30 minutes kettlebell and bodyweight core workout in the evening.
TBH feeling a lot better having had a (much) lighter week, intend to get a mix of rides, turbo, rower and running in this week.