100 Day Challenge 2020 – exercise every day til Christmas – Page 29 – Chat Forum

munrobiker · 2020-09-07T11:03:00Z

It seems people who did this last year are keen to have another go. I used to race bikes with a chap called Chris who did this every year. He was extremely fit and very humble - to the point where I didn't actually know he set himself the task of exercising every day in the run up til Christmas until after he died. Chris was killed at the age of 24 in an avalance in Glencoe. A few years later his friends started doing it in his memory (and to stop us getting fat in winter). For me, it's good training for the Strathpuffer in January (which we race in Chris's memory, raising over £30,000 for Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team along the way). The rules are fairly simple- – Exercise every day for a minimum of 1/2 an hour from 16th September until 24th December. – The exercise is basically whatever you want – biking, hiking, canoeing, swimming, running, yoga. – It’s not serious. Apart from the first year, we have all taken the odd day off if something more interesting/important was happening in our lives. – Your usual active commute doesn't count if it's fairly short. I'll let you be the judge of what that is, but if you think it's too short then adding 30 minutes on top of it is what my pals and I deemed appropriate. There's a Strava club in the link below but post on here as and when you want to update everyone, ask for motivation and complain about how tired you are/gloat about how good you're feeling.

jimmy

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Well done Monkey!

I was out on the bike last night in the snowy Pentlands. Just beautiful. I've done Hogmanay rides before but I'm thinking of just going for a walk tonight - be up a hill for the bells and watch any fireworks popping across the Lothians. I missed doing anything on Tuesday - was just too tired and realise that its those days, when I'd have done a Yoga sesh during the challenge, that will drop off after it. I'm fine with a break between Christmas & NY, though.

Posted : 31/12/2020 9:47 am

ahsat

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Well done Monkey 👍

Posted : 31/12/2020 9:58 am

sandboy

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Well done Monkey! Really pleased that you made up the days you missed. I’m still hoping to ride every day before returning to work on Monday but will have to wait a little while for the roads to thaw before I get out today.

Posted : 31/12/2020 10:08 am

monkeycmonkeydo

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Thanks all!

Posted : 31/12/2020 2:23 pm

scotroutes

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You still got 100 days in before the end of the year so good job!

After a couple of zero days I've been out riding in the snow. Felt really strong last night which maybe makes the point that recovery time is important too.

Posted : 31/12/2020 2:27 pm

monkeycmonkeydo

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Day 101,nuts and wine up here in the canopy!

Posted : 31/12/2020 4:24 pm

mogrim

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Well done Monkey! After Christmas day off, normal service has resumed. Here's a photo from today's admittedly short run, when a few of us headed up a mountain to toast the New Year:

Happy New Year!

So Happy New Year 🙂

Posted : 31/12/2020 6:10 pm

stripeysocks

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@monrobiker I have started a new thread - I know you said you won't be doing it yourself, but can I ask you over as a "guest of honour" to the new thread to "open it" and say some words about Chris?
He is the catalyst for this and (I'm not very good with words always so I hope this is coming out right) it would be nice to acknowledge this and remember him at this point.

90 day exercise every day challenge to take us up to april 1st

Posted : 01/01/2021 11:42 am

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