Day 64: 30 mins of strength. Squats, chin ups, good mornings and bodyweight rows. No time for anything aerobic today which I think I will miss.
Back from 3 days MTBing in North Wales. Friday 16km/550m. Saturday 36km/1200m. Sunday 20km/500m. With lots of lovely food and drink in between. Pretty lucky with the weather. I rode Thursday as well at home so was pretty much done in at the end of the old Red Bull at Coed-y-Brenin yesterday.
If I can raise the energy, proper in person yoga class tonight. Failing that it'll be a YT version. Nothing in the legs for any cardio,
I had to rest yesterday, my legs (and sit-bones) were telling me that I had been spending a little too much time on the trainer. Ended up doing a bunch of kettlebell work to try and persuade my arms, shoulders and chest not to give up on me.
Tonight: More cycling.
Bit of weird one this weekend. Did the 10k on Saturday morning and then drove down to Leicester for my BIL's birthday.
Ended up spending Saturday night in A&E as my mum was having severe chest pains and we though she was having a heart attack. Eventually got to bed about 7:30 Sunday morning.
Fortunately it was a heart attack, but we're none the wiser as to what was causing it.
Anyway, got home yesterday about 9:30pm and took the dog out for a brisk 30 minute walk. Bit lame but I kept the pace up so I was sweating a bit.
Oops! Yeah wasn't a heart attack!!
I’m still suffering despite a course of antibiotics! Still full of snot and breathing is not easy. The last few days the dogs have enjoyed at least one two hour plus walk which although isn’t what I would consider to be “exercise”, it’s still doing me good to get out amongst the wildlife in the fresh air.
The good news is that I have managed to get out on the bike today, just out for some shopping but it felt good to be turning pedals again.
Another hockey run tonight, but noticed one of the dads disappearing away for a run a few weeks back, got chatting and now have a well matched run buddy for Mondays. 7.7km down Roslin Glen in the dark, booriful.
Day #64 - pool swim, was meant to be a bike day, but will in the office most days, so had to switch it all about today. Which was annoying, as I did a very long swim yesterday, so today’s swim didn’t feel good and wasn’t good from the garmin stats. Interestingly garmin is now telling me that over the last 2 weeks, I’ve been taking it easy on the pool and not pushing myself. That my sessions have been lighter than average and my HR is in the low brackets. Which is interesting.
so anyway pool swim 3 km in 60 minutes. Done.
Bloody cold Monday night club run. 10km over Moor of Feshie at minus 5C. Mind you, it was the fast crew so I absolutely had a bit of a sweat on regardless of the temperature.
Clear sky, lovely moon, stars everywhere and the tracks and plants glistening with frost. It really doesn't get much better.
And I got home to an early birthday present of a bottle of Dalwhinnie Distillers Edition.
Day 65: Slept in a bit so kept my ride to 27km this morning. An easy forestry gravel lap. The recent rain has brought the Roos out for the fresh verge grass. Normally they stop and stare at you until you get just too close then they turn and hop away. This morning one acted differently - it just sat munching and looking at me with one ear cocked like a dog. I went past it and slowly looked back and it was still doing the same. Eventually it hopped off, one ear still at a strange angle as if it couldn't do anything about it.
As I suspected, lunchtime Yoga with Charlie Follows followed (!) by an early night. Not sure if there are any exercise benefits of 'Zombie Mode" - but if so I put in a good shift yesterday! Back on the electronic horse today- finished the cycling to 10k plan and now going for some shorter, harder runs. Be easier to fit in around other stuff, and I don't think I can do another month+ of 50-60 minute drags on the treadmill. 6 weeks takes me close to the end of the challenge I think.
Decided to put off re-joining Gym until next year. I expect I'll regret that based on everyone elses new year resolutions....
Mobility & Isometrics today. Looking forward to a ride on frozen trails tmrow.
I've been taking it easy yesterday and today (still done my 30mins+ though) as I'm visiting the Manchester Institute of Health and Performance tomorrow for some physiological testing. That will involve various thresholds and VO2 max. I'm doing this as I'd like to get fitter, but also to better control my cancer. I'm beginning to understand that I need to regulate my lactate production as this can increase blood acidity which the cancer loves. So knowing when I produce it will hopefully be helpful! Just wish I was a bit sharper so that I could better retain and assimilate all the information and research I'm reading.
Day #65 - early doors turbo session on the Wattbike before work, all I had time for was 51 minutes at 181w indicated 26 km. also went for a walk at lunchtime for 34 minutes. The early morning starts are starting to get tiring.
Day 65 was 90-odd minutes of Disc Golf in Inverness. It was fun, but next time I'm taking my own Frisbee. The provided discs don't fly very far. Horror of horrors, I was actually meeting up with my old boss for a catch-up and lunch. I know that will freak out some on this forum.
Day 66 was a Pie'n'pint ride to Boat of Garten with some pals. Lovely crunchy snow along the Speyside Way was great to ride on. Bloody cold nighht though.
Day 67: Rain finally stopped but the gravel was pretty soggy. Couldn't be arsed with crossing a 40cm floodway so shortened my ride a bit to 25km-ish.
Instead I narrowly skirted Death and got to see the wonky-eared roo again (i'm calling it Twitch).
Hoping to get a big ride in tomorrow.
33 according to Garmin. I’m 48 so happy with that
Bastard! I'm 41 apparently ... even though i'm younger than you!
What's your VO2 max?
That's great - you can definitely be happy with that.
Mine is about 8 under my actual age. Still a rather big number 😉 VoMax is 49 or 50 but really only every get that on the turbo so it's basically cheating. Still not missed a day but lost zero weight in the last 4 weeks. Pretending it's muscle mass 😉
Also having trumpeted my ability to achieve a zen like state on the treadmill, one of next weeks workouts looks a bit challenging. That's going to be a long time going nowhere quite slowly. I did manage a 55:30 10km at 1% incline last week. It hurt tho, this one I think is going to be fully testing and possibly overwhelming my boredom threshold!
@scotroutes - 10km was the longest I've done and I was counting down from about 7km in! If I can't do it/get bored then I'm not going to beat myself up. I've run more this year than ever before mostly because we bought the treadmill and I wanted to get som use out of it. But I'm not going to be a slave to the workouts.
Much prefer the shorter ones, like hill sprints and farlek and even over/unders. They are hard but they get it done in around 30 mins.
I like to use the treadmill in the gym to try and improve my speed outside by doing intervals. Takes a bit of the boredom away as well, mixing it up. Usually do 3 or 4 minutes of running fast (for me i.e. 5mins per k) then a minute walking at 6kph/10mins per k. I even managed nearly a k at 14kph which is something like 4.15min per k. Did 5k last night on the TM in 27.26 mins, and actually think I could go faster.
If I can take some of the speed or raise my pain threshold outdoors by going harder indoors then i'm happy. I guess I'll really see next spring when you get the warm sun on your back. Got to keep it up til then though....
I'm enjoying running, but I know that at over 100kgs, I have to take it easy so I don't kill my calfs or knees!
What day are we on now? 70ish?
Brisk 30 min walk, 30 mins going reasonably hard on the turbo, 30 mins Yoga. A day of 30s 🙂
Proper ride tomorrow so that's Friday-before-the-pub sorted.
Weekend weather suggests turbo/treadmill are going to see some action.
@scotroutes - I see on the other thread you're getting a treadmill? Mind me asking which one? We spent ages trying to match our requirements to our budget!
Adidas T19i. As usual, I was caught in analysis paralysis so ended up just picking something that looked OK, wasn't TOO large and not ridiculously expensive. I had a budget, found myself looking at treadmills about 50% more than that and then actually buying something a bit cheaper. I looked at the Sole F63 too, and a couple of others.
So, Day 67. Planned longer ride was postponed due to the snow conditions
I had a walk into town for some errands, then did some weights, stretches and yoga in my gym for a couple of hours.
I'm definitely missing my cardio this week.
@munrobiker I'm trying to determine whether your frosty trail ride was at the West End of the Pentlands - the Kips towards Spital Hill? But it looks more barren than that. I think.
Just a stroll today. After a pedal strike yesterday I bounced off my saddle and landed on my cocyx. It was remarkably sore and is causing me some grief today.
Nice pic @sandboy and @scotroutes that's proper snow you've had there!
We didn't need a folding treadmill so that narrowed the field a bit. Still went full rabbit hole on YT reviews etc. We really didn't want one with a big screen as the plan was to cast to the spare big TV as I knew I'd be using Zwift so didn't need anything on the treadmill. That meant we were left really with just a couple of choices. Ended up with the Reebok FR20Z which was their lowest "smart" model.
Did have an issue with the incline thing, but the support (from Sweatband) was surprisingly good and engineer came and sorted it in a couple of weeks. It's fine to run on, doesn't feel that much 'different' than Gym/hotel versions. In build programs are pretty weak but use zwift/garmin for that. Must have done 300km+ on it since Jan. And it was only used as an expensive clothes horse between about April and September:)
5k with the dog this evening for me. Slow as I have to keep stopping to see which bit of the woods she's buggered off into. Or rather which bit she pops out of!!
Bloody cold out there though and I didn't have my gloves on...
no idea what day we are on...... still not missed.
12 mile monday with mrs t.
34 miles tuesday in the snow... horrible wet stuff
14 mile yesterday in bitter cold wind
40 miles today mostly offroad, up to Emmerdale farm set. icy bitter cold ride. proper cold.
I had to wait at home today for a delivery so missed the chance of getting out in the decent weather spell before Bert arrives.
However, the delivery was my new treadmill, so I got that built up and did a couple of runs on it - a 10km and a shorter run to set it up with Zwift.
It's a bit of a beast, and fills the remaining space in my gym. I hope Mrs S gets good use out of it!
