Yesterday I was struggling for motivation after a busy day of working then sorting out some leaking plumbing so wasn't able to do anything until 10pm. Didn't help that it was lovely and sunny in the morning whilst I was stuck at my desk working and then the rain descended around 1pm 🙁
So dug out some resistance bands, which I've never used before, and did a YouTube video for half an hour. Was quite good fun but I definitely ached when I woke up this morning. Probably due to the fact that I never do any upper body work.
In the garage at 8 am this morning with the dumbbells. I never had to sweep the floor at Nuffield before I worked out... ha! Getting bored of a limited dumbbell and kettlebell range after 7+ months. Thinking of investing in a Olympic bar as I don’t see myself back at the gym for a long time (plus my garage is more convenient round work!).
Back at it today, a nice sunny walk up Bosley Cloud with the pooch.
Still going here - yesterday was one of the last few midweek after work rides, if we're lucky it'll be this week and next before the clocks change. Then it'll be back to the turbo (or skive off work during the day...)
And it was a good ride, too 🙂 I went out with my mate Carlos on the road bikes, we gave it a bit, nicely cooperating as one flagged the other took over, and managed a few new PBs and a new PB average speed for the route.
Run+swim tonight.
Been keeping 1/2 an eye on this...
Not missed a day as yet but seeing as i have dog that needs 60-90 mins of walking per day, I'm pretty unluckily to miss a day unless i get sick/injured.
I have also been doing 3-4 garage gym sessions (powerlifting and bodybuilding work) a week too since i sorted out the garage, however I really must get out on the bike more as I have been very slack in that regard!
This challenge has got me swimming again to add a bit of variety to my activities. After about 10 sessions I thought I would get myself a lesson as it had been about 40 years since the last one - turns out there is definitely room for improvement, I stop kicking when I rotate to breathe and need to slow my arms down and stretch them out further amongst other things. It was a one to one lesson and I was exhausted after only 30 minutes, swimming is hard work!
Thank god for Zwift is all I can say, 31 days of at least 30 minutes exercise now in the bag, no way would I have managed if I had to go outside, not when I got home at 9pm on Sunday after clearing my mother's house anyway, but was able to grab a 30 minute Zwift workout.
Had planned to ride into Edinburgh yesterday and do a 7Hills route. However, it was hosing down so messaged my pal to say I'm not doing it, leaving it suitably open-ended so that he arranged to come to mine for midday. He got the worst of the day's rain riding through and then we went up the Pentlands for a proper soggy round. Great fun.
After running, climbing and biking, goosed today but got an hour's yoga in this morning to clear the rest of the day.
I managed to sneak in the 8-9pm dry weather window yesterday and did a ten mile loop at about 85% effort - I seem to struggle to get the gravel bike past the 19mph mark but it was fun to go for a bit of a burner, I might make it a weekly thing.
I've tracking 3 days behind at the moment but plan to 'buy them back' by getting out twice on a few days over the next week or so.
This is harder than i thought with work commitments, looking after kids and deteriorating weather.
Glad i'm doing it though.
Stayed in all day yesterday waiting for covid test results for son who had a very high temperature Tuesday. Felt a bit tired from exercising so decided to wait until the evening when kids in bed, to do yoga. Instead I spent the whole evening trying to get a Windows laptop to print to printer plugged into a Linux desktop. Annoyed with myself because I missed the exercise and didn't even get the IT stuff working.
Test results thankfully negative arrived this morning which we expected after his temperature had returned to normal yesterday.
Will be out on bike(s) today.
40km on the fatbike yesterday. Rode up to the Cas car park (always a joy 😉) for a hot chocolate and stashed a beer for our local beerienteering group. Colours are turning, especially the birch.
It was a one to one lesson and I was exhausted after only 30 minutes, swimming is hard work!
@claudie if you're swimming on your own (ie not a lesson) it's worth slowing down and focussing on the technique, thrashing up and down the pool might make you feel like Phelps but long run you're better off getting it right and making it look effortless 🙂
Last night's training session was hard: the coach had promised "a surprise", and that turned out to be a circuit - 3x50"x8 stations (with 10" to move to the next one), things like skipping/standing jumps/running round cones etc. Nothing too hard individually, but the cumulative effect is a different matter. And then despite my "effortless" comment above, the swim was anything but. Felt great afterwards though!
@scotroutes wtf is this? "stashed a beer for our local beerienteering group" ? Sounds great 🙂
@mogrim - something we started during lockdown. The idea is to take a can of beer, hide it, take a couple of photos and then post these on a Facebook Group we set up for the purpose. The photos ideally give a (not too obvious) clue to the location. Adding something in the text might be handy too. Then, other members of the group try to find it. It worked really well as a means of getting folk to explore some of the less visited areas around us when travel was restricted.
My own "rules" are only one beer per ride* and beer must be drunk where found.
You want to keep the numbers in the group to a manageable size and best if you know they are all responsible types, so Invite only/Closed group. . We prefer no bottles (risk of damage), though beer has occasionally been supplemented by miniatures of whisky.
IIRC there are currently 20 caches up and down the Strath waiting to be retrieved.
* I made an exception to this on one bivvy ride when I picked up 2 cans en route to the 3rd, which is where I bivvied.
That's something I could do with my trail running club, there's enough of us to make it viable... might have to suggest it.
Oh, we don't restrict it to cycling either. Can be walk, run, paddle, swim etc. A couple have been placed on islands.
If you want a suggestion, set up 3 Topics in the Group;
Beer to be chugged
Chugged
Missing
When someone creates a new post, they use the first topic. When someone finds one they add a photo of themselves drinking it as a reply to that post and then the original poster changes the topic to Chugged. If someone finds the location and the beer can't be found then they report that on the post and the original poster changes the topic to Missing. This makes sorting the posts out much easier and you can filter the Group by Topic rather than just seeing all the posts in chronological order.
I hqve to say im finding this quite tough. Its not that i have to do 3.5hr of exercise a week, Its the everyday part.
A day shift for me is up at 5am and home just before 6pm. So getting out on the bike is a bit of an effort.
On the plus side, once out i may as well do an hr as a 30min ride. That then means clean bike, shower, supper and bed for 9pm.
It is a little easier to strava a dog walk but ive only had to do that 4 times so far.
I have added not drinking alcohol for the 100 days too, and whilst i love a good IPA or a single malt im now over it and can walk past bottles of beer without it being a personal challenge to drink them.
Im guessing this challenge is really doing me good, but im waitimg for fatigue to turn into fitness....
Hope you are all having fun.
Ian
I personally know I am not pushing myself hard, but importantly for me it’s getting me moving around work and being stuck in a WFH rut. Yes it will probably translate to some fitness, but after 30 days of doing something every day I know overall I am better for it. No doubt some of you will come out a lot fitter. Everyone’s challenge is their own.
Today we walked 4.5 miles along the Somerset coast. Quantock biking tomorrow 🙂
(See also the hillwalking thread).
3 hours up and down a wee hill near Loch Laggan. Hard work through the grass and heather bog as it was remarkably pathless.
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After the general fatigue of last week I decided to take this week pretty easy. I've really only been doing the minimum each day. Yesterday was around 30 mins on Zwift with Diesel Dan. Just really working on improving my cadence, which has been slowing down a lot lately.
Has anyone tried the 10,000 kettlebell swings workout? I'm tempted to have a go but it seems like it will probably be pretty uncomfortable! It'll probably take a month, and each workout is around 30 mins (depending on effort!).
Has anyone tried the 10,000 kettlebell swings workout?
No. Sounds painful, but tell me more...
Has anyone tried the 10,000 kettlebell swings workout?
No. Sounds painful, but tell me more…
FTFY- No. Sounds painful, but don’t tell me more… 😱
Had my lowest day yesterday after a tough week (for me). Rode back from the garage (about 20mins) and went for a 20-30min walk. Essentially, put no additional effort in to my day, but it was needed. My body is feeling a bit done in.
Going for an easy ride now to loosen up for an hour.
Its the everyday part
Yeah, me too I failed for the first time on Monday, work plus a couple of evenings out after a massive gardening effort on Sunday had me beaten, but on the whole it's def doing me good.
I would count your massive gardening effort dickyboy.
Cycled along the Tees, somewhat quickly for me.As I,m shaking of last weeks lergy,this might not have been a great idea.Will head home later in the dark(which I like).Suns out folks!
We've been on holiday in Fife for the last week. Managed to get out a dedicated walk each day as well as the other wanderings with family. Ready to chuck myself back into it when we get home, I'm starting a program on the Wattbike hub which will take me into the start of January. Hopefully this will motivate me through and ebbs hereon in.
17 miles of mtb in the Quantocks today. I’m tired and could have jacked it in earlier but we just took our time and had a nice day. It was pretty quiet and there was even some sunshine.
Sounds painful, but tell me more…
It's this right here. Basically do 500 swings a day for a month (couple of days off a week). I did a little tester the other day and it was definitely unpleasant! But I do need some hip work and this seems like completely the most extreme way of getting that!
On a less bad idea, I rode on Zwift for a couple of hours last night. Felt better than I have recently, was able to complete a workout, then kept on riding. I think the last week of gentle exercise was a good idea. Now where did I leave that kettlebell..
Edit: I have maintained so far at having missed 3 days.
Took a walk up one of our local wee hills, Ord Ban.
It has some relevant history.
Stretched the 45 min trot around Kinnoull Hill to 60 mins with half a dozen HI sprints.
Been doing it every day since 1 September and will keep going for the rest of the year, illness permitting. It’s not mega taxing, but keeping it up day in day out is paying out.
Game over.
After running every day since lockdown began I went out today and within 0.5 miles my knee was in agony. No idea what I’ve done to it. Walked to another 20 mins but that was it.
Going to get in the bike tomorrow and then try to run again in a weeks time.
I’m not happy.
Game over.
Walking still counts. As does swimming. No reason to give up yet.
Yep walking, swimming and gym still count. I've done a couple of tension band YouTube workouts at home when I've been short of time.
Anyhow went out for a 10k today to pickup my Garmin edge explore from the PSA thread. Nice to get out for a slightly longer run than the usual 5k that's squeezed in.
Nice gentle ride round the Pentlands this morning. It was so still and peaceful.
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Puffin like a steam engine after a couple of sprints on the bike.Pray to god it's not covid.
A hardcore sledgehammer workout today. Went at it a bit too furiously to begin with, and kept stopping, then kept thinking there must be an easier way. Left wrist has been a bit sore the past couple of days and left shoulder aching last night in bed. After I found rhythm & technique with it it wasn't so bad. Shorts & t-shirt job.
Days 32 and 33.
Out for a bivvy last night.
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Road bike ride this morning, watch ran out of charge mid ride and didn't save. Does it count? 🙂
18 mile Exmoor mtb epic yesterday (800+ m of climbing in first 8 miles, including two descents!!!) resulted in a 8 mile walk today. Time to head home ready for the anticipated lockdown. Think tomorrow will be a leg light day.
However the 5 weeks straight exercise on Strava (I had a couple of rides the two days before) is very satisfying. Thanks all for the mutual support 🙂
@YoKaiser - of course it counts. If you want the clean sweep on Strava just log a manual entry.
Family stroll up a hill in Ambleside today. With 17kg of daughter occasionally on shoulders.
5 mile run today.
I’m back.
Was not happy my running, which formed the largest part of my work, was out due to injury.
But, I’ve had a word with myself and it’s not over yet.
30 miles on the fixie yesterday and 30 on the roadie today.
Going to set the turbo back up in time for tomorrow and will be going for long walks with my camera too.
Just need to drop my food intake down a touch as the calories used will be going down as well.
@ahsat, I'm just kidding. This is mostly a personal target, I don't really feel that if it's no on Strava it doesn't count 🙂. Mind you I did nip out for a walk(I'm also trying to record at least 10k steps a day too) and recorded it. Maybe I protesteth to much.
