Excellent pics @reeksy. If I tried that I'd be sat in the car on the bike having gone through the roof 🙂
7am on the treadmill this morning. Feels good to get the mandatory exercise done before breakfast and anything else is a bonus. Eyeing up one of the nastier workouts on Zwift later.
Weighed myself for the first time in a while. That last kilo was hard to shift but I'm <---> close to my target weight. Extra motivation to go at it hard for the last few days!
That last kilo was hard to shift but I’m <—> close to my target weight. Extra motivation to go at it hard for the last few days!
Now that's impressive!
I'm about 10 kilos away...but then I haven't ever been my target weight as an adult!
Pentland Hill Running tonight. Christmas jumpers, sweets and a fiery moon.
hours walk yesterday. was short of time.
Didn't do second cardio yesterday. 30 mins of weights and stretching instead. Not doing anything today until what I expect will be a very muddy and tough night ride later so saving myself for that. Tomorrow is MTB curry night starting at 5 in the pub and I have an all day teams meeting (!) from 0830. So it's going to need to be an early alarm and probably treadmill run to get the 30 mins in.
Saturday I expect will be a 'phoning in it' activity with a hangover!
I have an all day teams meeting (!) from 0830
Worth 10 days of exercise surely!
Day 94 was a busier one again. 17km walk round Loch Ard with Mrs S then some weights, my daily 5km run and a bit of (pool) swimming to round it off.
Me in camouflage mode
I think she misheard.
Run on Tuesday evening, 6.23k, Yoga last night.
Motivation is a struggle at the moment, not sure why being so close to the end. I was hoping to ramp it up a bit but think the cold I had has knocked me back a bit. And its just dark aaaalllll the time, well, when I'm not working anyway!!.....I wanted to do a 10k in under an hour on Christmas eve, but I'm working and don't think I'll have an hour spare, as travelling to inlaws as well....
I haven't lost any weight! I'm still 105kgs and was really hoping to lose a bit, but I my diet isn't great at the moment. Was talking about this with the wife last night and we're both feeling it. Struggling for time and motivation with meals, kids are a pain in the arse and say no to anything we suggest but won't actually say what they want to eat. Think I'm going to go back to vegetarian for a while in the new year to try an improve my diet.
I'm really hoping I keep up the excersice after christmas, I want to, but also know what I'm like. I'll keep goin to the gym throgh the winter and I want to run a couple of times a week as I'm enjoying that and getting better. So hopefully, if I exersice 4 times a week min and with a better diet, I'll shed a few kilos and improve everything fr the warmer months.
I haven’t lost any weight!
If it's any consolation, neither have I, but I wasn't really expecting to. I'm one of those folk for whom exercise is really just an excuse to eat.
If it’s any consolation, neither have I, but I wasn’t really expecting to. I’m one of those folk for whom exercise is really just an excuse to eat.
Lol. That makes me feel better! .....sends my son round the shop for some mince pies.....
30 miler today. cold and cold.
fuelled by black pudding and dripping butties.
Wanted to go for a run but I'd left my trainers in the garden and they were soaking!
Went down the gym instead and did 6k on the treadmill in 33 minutes.
5 to go!
Night ride not as muddy as expected. Still medals were earned and beers were drunk 🙂
6:30am alarm call to get a run in before the dreaded all day teams meeting.
Day 96: gravity uplift morning was brilliant. Kids still had enough energy for a couple more runs (13km) after lunch too.
Went for a walk at lunchtime, 2 miles / 40ish minutes. Ticked the box, might do some yoga in a bit. Biking tmrow, don't know about Sunday, hope to run Monday and Tuesday and then it's Mince Pies on the sofa.
Morning weights and treadmill again.
And then an after-lunch walk on Loch Katrine after the worst of the rain had passed over.
Riding MTB at Glentress today. Place has changed so much with the new holiday cabins (more like houses) but the trails still make big smiles.
Running club Solstice Half Marathon, done in some incredibly wet weather and on trails that got wetter as we ran. Still, a good turn out and a catch-up at the Balavoulin over beers and nachos.
3 days to go and I suspect tomorrow will be done indoors!
Day 97: half day drive to the next campground so only time for a 45 minute walk on the beach.
Sneaked a 8km run in between day long meetings and MTB curry evening on Friday. Yesterday, as expected, feeling a little delicate and a long windy hike with the mutts followed by some beer-curry sweaty Pilates was all I could manage.
Thinking about MTB today, but pretty windy out there and everything we ride is in the woods so it might have to be a couple of hours on the turbo and postpone the ride till tomorrow.
Always enjoy @reeksy pictures but they do make me pine for summer!
a day of walks yesterday.
3 mile in the storm in the morning the 2 short walks to and from the pub in the icy cold evening. all good.
1hr30/50km on the turbo, 30 min "proper" Yoga afterwards (never want to do it, always feel so much better when I have) followed by late athlete's breakfast of bacon and egg sanger 🙂
Also Garmin registered a FTP upgrade (after slogging up the 'grade' in zwift) to 246. That's only 8 off my best ever. I've not been trying to improve that, but it's come up 20 during the 100 days.
@piemonster - it's very sociable in pace and chat but has been great for me to have a regular slot in the diary. My running has come on in leaps and bounds (no pun intended). Give me a shout if you're planning to come along. Whereabouts are you?
Always enjoy @reeksy pictures but they do make me pine for summer!
Good thing I didn't post the photo of that beach then!
Day 98 was brilliant. Gravity Eden bike park. 350m ascent over 9km of lovely climbing for a long swooping blue downhill. Then a repeat climb with the eldest lad so we could hammer a natural janky black trail. Then a sneaky uplift so we could do that track again it was so damn good.
99 Not Out 🙂 And out but not out out. Sloppy fun, just deciding what to do for the 100th day. Maybe risk a run off the treadmill.
Managed to fit in some proper re-hydration as well. Dirty Boar Burger just out of sight 🙂
The last week has been a bit of a mixed bag, with Jnr home, we’ve got into a habit of running first thing each morning but I managed to get out on the bike for rides on Monday and Wednesday and I have also had a couple of weights sessions thrown in the mix.
We’ve had family here since Thursday so it’s been difficult to get out, but we’re now family free over Christmas which is unusual. I’m now considering starting the Festve 500 tomorrow as I have a decent chance of completing it. Weather here today is perfect so I’m hopeful for the same tomorrow.
Ended up out and about a bit more on foot as days off seemed to coincide with mega winds.
Out for a bit of a run this lunchtime after braving the supermarket. Currently cooking some home made veggie and a set of tomato sausage rolls.
Working tomorrow but will get out in the evening for finale!
100km on the road bike today; pretty much all of it in zone 2.
It's my 56th birthday tomorrow, so a gentle social ride to a cafe with friends ?
