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Got out for a 40 odd mile road ride up to Carsington, where I undid the good work with a lovely lamb and mint pasty.
Also took my lad out this morning for his first driving practice in our car. 35 minutes sitting in the passenger seat with a heart rate of 145 would count on its own?
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Dragged the fam up great Burney this morning, a fairly mundane afternoon followed by a last gasp of daylight MTB raid, where my freehub pooped it's pants 😭. Apparently bicycle maintenance is a thing? 🤷🏻♂️
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Does your Mrs want you to get fat?
"Pook that sounds grim, hope a fix is found soon."
Cheers, I'm pretty sure it's just a bug though. A sod of a cold up in there somewhere. Mrs Pook had a dose last week too but wasn't so bad on the headaches. Still a dull ache now. My head, not Mrs Pook.
Anyway, I'm still doing more per day than I normally do and that's what it's all about, isn't it? Just not getting the intense exercise in. It'll come. Only 11% in!
Covid?
Nah. Kids back to school swirling round in the fetid swamp of kiddie bugs.
Good weekend here: swim on Friday, then a couple of hours on the road bike in what felt like a gale on Saturday, and yesterday went out with my trail running club up some of the local mountains:
Weather wasn't ideal and it's clearly not always sunny in Spain 🙂
I've rattled off the last few days, it's easy when I'm on holiday. Not much of it is productive in terms of fitness - the real work for me starts now. Or this evening. With a short tootle because I'm tired... THEN the real work starts!
7/100 - paddle boarding around the bay for an hour
11/100 - paddle round to look at a wrecked boat
12/100 - a walk round St Anthony's Head in Cornwall
The rest was just pedalling - some hard stuff, some recovery stuff. I bloody love riding my bike.
Booked myself in for a dose of C19 for supper tonight (obviously hope not!). Got a one hour slot booked for the gym at our leisure centre so it will be interesting to see how it goes.
You have to book and pay in advance for a one hour slot, half an hour between each slot for cleaning, and turn up workout ready with your own water. No changing rooms, showers etc available; just turn up, work out and go. If I'm lucky they won't have any god awful music pumping out too if pubs etc cant have music?
Nice pictures there Munro.
My cords fit! Alright I look like a total dork wearing cords but....THEY FIT!!!
5 - and a bit- km run at lunchtime will be enough for today.
Was a swim with the kids on Saturday. Well I say a swim more tarting around in the pool. But it was on Strava so counts 🙂 Then yesterday for a family walk.
Will be out on the bike today after I've finished work. Save the running for the wet days.
Picked off 3 Munros yesterday, ok it was the 3 of the easiest ones but they all count and the weather was superb! 😀
Zwift this evening, joy!
A couple of 10k runs, a ride round Dunkeld and a terrifying run down Fort Bill DH track in the last week! Hopefully some less frightening rides this week!
Another Bosley Cloud walk today. No dog, but one girlfriend moaning about her new hiking boots 🤣 In her defence she was pretty attached to her last pair having done literally all of our hiking adventures in them!
Struggle today as my legs feel like lead after a huge day out yesterday. Feel like this week might be a bit if a slog.
I’ve got a nerve stuck in my glute or something (not full blown sciatica). Was the same yesterday whilst out walking. Think it’s going to have to just be stretching and gentle Pilates tonight as a result.
Picked off 3 Munros yesterday, ok it was the 3 of the easiest ones but they all count and the weather was superb!
Me too. What ones did you do? I was at Meall Garbh and Meall Greigh and An Stuc. Day before was a walk up the windfarm with the kids and today was a bike to work and back. Legs are feeling a bit leaden now mind you.
Because the challenge means you're supposed to do something every day, I wonder if my exercise pattern is changing - so as to not wear myself out for the next day. Only did a quick hour on the bike today. Bit as the nights are drawing in I had to go out straight after to walk the reluctant hound immediately afterwards. More for our benefit than his, he's a lazy bugger, sorry I mean economical with his energy output...
To be honest if I want to go hard, I go hard. The next day can be a day of light exercise. Maybe...
Half hour walk across rural land under thread of the urban at lunch time. Got back on the trials bike for 55 mins after a couple of months break to practice some pretty basic stuff this evening. Forgotten what riding obstacles in the dark under dim street lights is like.
Survived the public gym experience last night. The centre was well managed, lots of sanitising and wipes about, and not crowded. Not sure if I'll be back though as it's not really an equipment set up I like there.
Off for a lunch time ow swim today to hopefully loosen off, may be a steady zwift spin this evening depending how I feel.
Completed my first ever Strava challenge yesterday, 7500m climbing in a month.
https://www.strava.com/activities/4123333253
Wondering whether to sign up again for October, was a good motivator.
Struggled with time and motivation yesterday but eventually did a session of circuits and stretches.
Got out early this morning for 11 miles round the local country park. Ended up 11th on the leader board of a segment I didn't know existed. I think that may be enough motivation to make that a more regular early morning loop going into winter.
Me too. What ones did you do?
The 3 Cairnwell Munros of The Cairnwell, Carn Aosda and Carn a'Gheoidh. Definitely felt like cheating as you start so high but we were still out for 2 1/2hours so I'll take it 😀
Because the challenge means you’re supposed to do something every day, I wonder if my exercise pattern is changing – so as to not wear myself out for the next day.
I suspect that depends on where you're coming from - for me I'm used to doing 6-7 days exercise/week anyway, so on hard days I'll go hard, knowing I've got an easier day coming up. (The challenge for me is maintaining the streak, not so much the exercise itself).
Day 14 done....I did a run. I've run once (Parkrun) since leaving high school in 2002. I now feel sick, had to do some stretching to make up to 30 minutes as my run only took 18! (Left my car at our renovation project yesterday)
I was out riding for 5 hours on road and moorland gravel tracks filling in VeloViewer Explorer squares.
Feeling much stronger this week. On Friday I had to force myself to do 30 minutes on my static spin bike in the garden and surprisingly felt good on Saturday so went out on the road for 2 hours in near gale force wind. Same again on Sunday but yesterday I felt sore so took the dogs out around the woods for an hour. Just got back from an hour out on the road bike after work and starting to feel the benefit of daily workouts. I’m fully aware that while we still have light in the evening it is easy to get out but I fear for the dark nights when this really does become a challenge. Keep on keeping on!
Well done.I,m still recovering from Sunday's weight training session.Age and lack of fitness make this a tough challenge for me.In my 20s this would have been a doddle.
My turbo died the day before it's third birthday, so I'm going to be doing body weight and kettlebell exercises until it's fixed/replaced. The smoke from the wildfires was so bad here over the weekend that I had to shelve my planned ride. Hoping to get out this weekend now.
Flare up of injury means walking for me.....trying to get in a hour minimum on the fell, enjoying it and the challenge s a good focus for the recovery bit
Hours walk for me at lunchtime. I’ve lived here nearly 4 years and I went an explored a nearby park I’ve never set foot in before! And found some basketball hoops which might mean digging out my ball and trying to remember skills from 20 years ago!!
Medium fast commute in this morning due to shorts + t-shirt in drizzle, and fast flat out commute home, 16 minutes, 3.7 miles, 151 avg hr, 175 max, not done that for a while, but it doesn't count so some sort of undefined recovery exercise this evening. Some core stuff. Some stretching, a pinch of yoga, more core, etc. Plank to downward dog type thing with bent arms & legs. I read somewhere once you can do core stuff every day so it's easy to fit some in. Stuff half remembered.
I find yoga videos really difficult to follow. When I did do some classes I'd be listening to the instructor telling me what to do but doing something completely different!
Snap.
Ahsat,does your local park/parks not have an outdoor gym?That could also be of use to you.
I’m fully aware that while we still have light in the evening it is easy to get out but I fear for the dark nights when this really does become a challenge. Keep on keeping on!
I've got ring fit adventure for the switch, proving perfect for me on days like today where I've been in front of a monitor for 12 hours and can't summon up the motivation to go out on the bike. I didn't think I'd enjoy it, but it's like an RPG with a big range of exercises to move you around, do stuff and fight enemies. I know the areas that I need to focus on and it's easy to bias your effort towards these.
Just want to say cheers to the OP for flagging this, definitely increased my effort so far. Have a little spreadsheet showing daily, cumulative and daily average, bit of extra motivation there too 🙂
Short local 14 mile spin on the MTB after work today. Expect a run will happen tomorrow in the dark when it's raining.
@10 where are you if you're suffering from local forest fires?
I did a short 50min sort of recovery ride yesterday - I wasn't purposefully keeping the watts down to anything calculated like 65% of FTP or anything, but instead just went out for a spin and taking it easy. It was lovely weather for it, just warm enough to wear full summer kit... can't see many more outings like that this year, unfortunately!
Training later with the club, so looking forward to that.
Thanks for posting those vids Jimmy.Will attempt them later if I can still move.
Day 15 done, standard walk up Bosley Cloud with the pooch in the rain.
Really enjoying doing this. The headaches have lifted thankfully so I can start doing stuff again.
It's little changes I've made, like walking the littlest to nursery instead of driving "cos I need to be back". That plus the school run means I'm doing a few miles before breakfast. Then a ride in the evening makes for a happy pook.
Walk yesterday and gym today.