Right I am going outside. I may be some wet 🙂
I'm sure "in the old days" I just jumped on my bike and went. Current pre-ride routine is "Ice elbow, tape elbow, take nurafen" followed by 10 minutes desultory stretching before wondering where I put my bike lights that I only set down about two minutes ago. Repeat for contact lenses. And car keys. Dither over how much clothing to wear "Have we entered Trouser Season?" I ask myself aloud, before 3 or 4 trips to the car because this is now tradition 😉
Another extended dog walk last night after a second day of hard labour! I have total respect for roofers, very physical job and out in all weather.
Felt totally broken first thing but decided to go for a run and weirdly felt energised after having breakfast.
Hoping for an early finish tomorrow finding time for a nice ride in the afternoon.
Day 25 of the challenge and day 3 of the lurgy. While it is important to be kind to ones body, the mind also needs to be considered so I, unusually, took myself off for a wee drive in the van today.
I'm a bit of an aficionado of the Wade (and Caulfield) military roads in Scotland and while viewing some satellite imagery, recently spotted an "orphaned" bridge on the road to the Corrieyairack Pass. It's not mentioned in Walking the Scottish Highlands by Tom Ang & Michael Pollard (my usual bible for Wade roads.), so I took myself off on a micro-explore.
The bridge wasn't too hard to find.
The restoration is holding up well, though I could find little trace of the old road leading up to the bridge itself.
By way of contrast, this bridge was installed a few years ago to assist in the building and maintenance of the Beauly-Denny pylon line. I doubt it'll last as long, or that anyone will care enough to resore it in 200 years time.
A better-known orphaned bridge beside Melgarve bothy.
I'd taken my drone in order to get some aerial shots of the bothy but it was a bit too breezy for my sub-250g Nano+. The wind did mean that the skies were cleraring though.
I got the drone out at Garva Bridge so might upload a couple of stills from that later.
I totalled about 90 minutes of gentle walking but enjoyed sitting in the van listening to the river and the rutting stags.
For those that might wonder, my photos sometimes appear in canmore.org.uk (the online catalogue to Scotland's archaeology, buildings, industrial and maritime heritage) and/or geograph.org.uk
25/100 Had an easy day but brisk stroll in the Autumnal sunshine here today. Bloody love Autumn don't I.
Away on family holiday from tomorrow which makes fitting opportunistic exercise in a bit tricky, so hopefully will be able to keep this up - enjoying it so far.
Day 25: snowed overnight (wet, slushy rubbish) so sacked off any idea of going out after work. Just a 30 minute yoga video with Breathe and Flow.
Gym night. Elliptical, rowing machine and spin bike thingy. Christ I sweat a lot! ?
We rode some of the Wade Road about 15 years ago. From memory one of my wettest ever rides!
Feeling a little more MTB fit but need a big ride this weekend to get the legs back in the groove. Not as wet as advertised, but that is not to be confused with dry 🙂 I'm not sure the Yeti with its posh Switch Link really likes mud season much. Still was a fun ride with a welcome pint to finish. That's 2hr30 extra today. Hard run planned tomorrow, might leave it to the end of the day...
Day #25 - turbo session on the wattbike 1 hour at 179w indicated 30 km. I’m still a way off cycle fit level from just a few short years ago. Later 39 minutes of stretching and physio exercises.
Another short run and stretching.
Day 26: early start after a rainy day yesterday. Turned out beautiful though and enjoyed the grip on a favourite singletrack loop...until.
Chainbreaker was forced into action again. Lucky I have a spare goat link waiting for use in the shed.
Boring old lunch run yesterday except I did some "sprints", which were as horrific as they were pathetic. Strength stuff today but as its beautifully sunny will do it in the garden and an evening walk with the boys too. Onwards and upwards!
I have sprints in the plan today. 5x400m. Not sure I'll be hitting the kph target for all 5!
Stunning weather for dog hike this morning. Went a bit further as the sun was out. Still blooming muddy tho. Step count done so I can sack off that run later if I really don't fancy it. Especially if someone says "fancy a beer" at 5pm !
Day #26 - woke up sore as hell and feeling super tired all morning. Was going to go outside for this challenge today, but really didn’t even feel up to doing anything at all.
So boring lunchtime pool swim which I really thought would be total rubbish, but once I got going I just kept going to 3 km in just under an hour. So that worked better than expected.
Day 26 (day 4 of lurgy)
I spent three hours digging a hole and planting a signpost this morning. The glacial till of Glen Feshie made for some bloody hard work. I'm calling it.
Is that 750mm deep yet?
Did you think these things grew on trees?
Good effort @scotroutes. Who doesn't love a well erected sign 🙂
Did the horrible run. It was, unsurprisingly, horrible. Then received message from WA group saying the big ride is Sunday. My legs had a little cry of relief at that point!
A beautiful afternoon for a bike ride, I can see these Poets day rides becoming a bit more commonplace between now and Christmas.
A nice easy jaunt out to the Fens and some shopping on the way home.
What chain lube for sluice?
along the river
Semi-fail yesterday: I was on broom-wagon duties for the first part of a local ultra, which was supposed to start at 23:30 - ideal to get in my 30min for Friday, then carry on into Saturday for a twofer. Due to local weather warnings for rain they put the start back to midnight, which meant I missed my Friday bit. Not my fault, so I'm just going to ignore the fail 🙂
Anyway, finished about 10 and a half hours after we started, with some pretty torrential rain along the way. Just shy of 42km, and about 2500m+. Now having a well-earned beer!
Day 27: just a chilled walk up a local ski hill and back through the forest after work. Saw a pair of waxwings and a long-tailed tit.
Signed wife & myself to morning yoga at our hotel in Amsterdam, mighty hangover had me sweating and queazy was over an hour long too
40 minutes on the turbo on MyWhoosh last night and 1250m in the pool today.
Hour of Yoga always feels like about a days worth.
Easy 5km run on the Dreadmill. Muddy hike through the woods with the doggos. I would like to add mowing the pointless vast and damp lawn but that feels like a stretch 🙂 Cleaned my MTB so it can get muddy again tomorrow. "Drying wind" I was thinking while lowering the grass, only to put the mower away as fat raindrops went all small arms fire on the shed roof.
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Family stuff and house work all day so just grabbed an hours walk over the fell with spectacular sunset
As expected, tricky getting anything of substance done on first day away, but we're all tired so a stroll around Grasmere fitted the bill. (10k steps reached as a minimum measure for walking days).
Day #27 - turbo session on the Wattbike for 61 minutes at 177w indicated 30.6 km, need to work on my bike stamina, finding just an hour sodding hard work. 32 minutes of the dreaded physio exercises later and I’m done.
Hadrian's Wall Half Marathon today. It was cold. It was muddy. No, not muddy. It was clarty. It was utterly beautiful. I'm utterly spent. I'd love there to be lots of stunning photos, but if I'd stopped to take a picture I'd not have finished! (laugh emoji)
Day 27: Another day of stretching and running about 6 k. My last outdoor run in Finland, I think.
@fazzini - good job. I quite fancy that one for next year. I reckon half marathons are the ideal distance. Marathons just need too much training time!
Day 6 (of the lurgy) but I was determined to get out on the bike, so took myself for a solo ride so that I could control the pace. Jeez though - Aviemore and surrounds are absolutely hoaching with mid-term holiday makers!
A wee bit of snow over the past couple of days has picked out some of the nooks and crannies of the mountains too.
Meall a' Bhuachaille - just a dusting on the summit.
On the high track to Loch Eainich - further than I was going to go today.
The corries of Braeriach. As you can see, it's not quite pogie weather yet.
And that's the cliffs of Sgor Gaoith on the right.
Day... 28 is it? Was at a Go Ape alike on Windermere followed by 2 hours running and bouncing on tree top nets. I was going to squeeze something in this evening but I'm pretty sure I'll ache after today, so I'm counting it. More to the point, I'm already recovering.
Mildly full of asthma, but wanted to do a proper all day ride. Been nearly two months since I'd do a 50km+/1000m+ climb day due to elbow rehab, and a week with the uplift truck. Eased myself back in gently 🙂 Blimey tired now. Also means my 10,000 steps per day record of 27 straight days is over. I'm 4000 short and there's no way I've got that in my legs! See if I can beat that stretch before the challenge runs out.
