So for my penultmate day on holiday my activity is (once again) in Forest of Dean.
Today I had a blue day with a lap of the blue followed by a ride up to descend countdown & launchpad.
All before the rain started, which is nice. Just got to decide what my final fod outing this visit will be.
Day 8: >10,000 steps, mostly in Istanbul Airport. That’ll have to do as I was travelling for about 22 hours.
Day 9: Floor exercises and stretches following work (internet was out, so ad-lib). On my feet most of the day at work.
Day 10: 30 mins Kassandra action (internet is back). I found out there’s a gym here, so hopefully use that a bit going forward.
So far, it's been running mainly for me, but I am technically 'in training' for the Hadrian's Wall half marathon. I say running, it's more like quick shuffling really (laughing emoji) Today might be another run, or it might just be a walk! Depends how knackered I am after work (crying emoji).
Day 31 for me (because I started early!).
A few hours on local trails. Still ended up being about 40km with 1100+ metres of climbing. Really enjoyed it.
Feeling pleased, as I've managed to do two extended motorbike trips, whilst having the lurgy, without missing a day of the last 31
It’s strange how you can feel completely drained one day and then suddenly on it the day after.
Today I did my usual morning run followed by 30 minutes of sit ups and press ups all before 7.00!
Worked all day then went out for a bike ride, an hour and half along the river, tranquility, wildlife and most importantly, no traffic.
Came across Minty and a few of his mates
@munrobiker @scotroutes great pics, where is that @munrobiker ?
Day #10. Full day at work, woke up feeling very unwell, but was ok enough by lunch to go swimming. That’s the magic of this challenge, as normally I’d bale on exercise when feeling like this.
swim 2.52 km in 52 minutes, sounds slow, but wasn’t, kept up-ish with a good club swimmer for the first km. did 1.01 and 1.11 for two hundreds, and now with hindsight I may have overdone it.
@walowiz...
I'm guessing that most of the Edinburgh contingent will have a photo taken around that spot.
Not happened today, been busy doing various jobs around the house but not enough to claim it as exercise
I've had one missed day (Monday) because I had mega leg cramp from a run on Saturday followed by an evening walking about London with some mates and then an ambitious Zwift session on the Sunday.
Pummelled my legs with the massage gun, stretched as much as I could and flopped into bed early instead, sometimes you just need rest and recover rather than push for an injury.
I'm playing by my own rules through and I reckon I was already well in credit as plenty of my sessions have been 45mins to 1hr so far.
Otherwise it's just been Zwifting Galore and I am starting to notice some minor improvements in both strength and recovery.
Day 11 and my weekly ride with a mate...plus another that rarely makes it (and had a slow puncture)
Only actually did an hour of movement but got a PR on a segment I've ridden hundreds of times...think I found an inside/outside line that made a few seconds different.
I have my 'busted elbow' excuse and am flexing it mightily when being offered outside activities 🙂 Two more weeks before I can ride MTB if improvement continues (and I do exercises/icing)
Hotel Yoga at 7am was dull. But got it done. Then came home, found my new 'middle aged jogging daps' had arrived so jumped on the treadmill for 30 mins at 9pm! Never would have done that before the challenge. Also wanted to meet my step goal as now has a run of 12 days - a record and I've had a Garmin for about 10 years so I'm taking that as a win!
Day 11: got the lurgy (bloody air travel!) so was looking for something easy. Sacked off a Pilates video with Iso Welly after 15 mins as it was too much effort (my head was throbbing) and found something more fitting with a YT search for “easy yoga video”.
The plan was to ride this evening but having got soaked while working this afternoon, the last thing I wanted was another.
Decided to do an hour of weights instead.
Busy gyms are rubbish
Ah, the joy of an early afternoon session. All the OAPs are done and gone home for a nap, everyone else is at work.
loads of people walking on the good ones!!
Had they cranked the gradient up to max then hang off the rails and lean back to negate the steep gradient, that’s very popular around here!
I strolled into town earlier (I've mentioned before that this challenge caused a wee bit of a lifestyle change for me, encouraging me to walk rather than drive short distances) then did a couple of hours on the turbo this afternoon.
Day #11 - busy work day with a silly early start, so squeezed in a hour turbo ride mid morning using TrainerDay at 185w indicated 33km. Bit boring tbh, can’t fathom how you can do 2 hours on a turbo setup.
might have a go at Zwift or TrainerRoad or the swoosh one.
Not particularly enthusiastic gym session today. Should have gone earlier.
Minimal effort today but at my mum's so went for a walk with her and the dog at lunch. Doesn't hurt to have an easy day, easily could have not gone out in the miserable weather.
Proving difficult as I’m in the middle of house decoration so that’s taking a lot of time up. Again resorted to the kids ring fit switch thing and did 35mins in that, getting elevated heart rate at least.
Im sort of realigning the expectation and if I can close all the rings daily on the Apple Watch, that will be a good marker. Exercise ring was coincidently completed after 31 mins on the switch.
Busy gyms are rubbish, had to use one of the shit treadmills
After much dithering, we bought a Reebok "smart" treadmill in last years sales. Having done around 8 years of winter Zwift (including a nearly 1000km Jan a few years ago), I'm so bored of the turbo, I struggle to manage more than 45 mins (and I can't be bothered with racing anymore). Having the treadmill ready to go (on Zwift to an old TV) and a training programme that mandates three runs a week is doing the job for me.
I really do not want to sit on the turbo three times a week even in my non outside riding state.
Having said all that, the treadmill took the space/cash we had put aside for a pool table! Still not sure we made the right decision.
Good to see everyone cracking on in this thread. 10% done already!
It would be nice to have a decent treadmill at home, but I don't have anywhere to put one. TBF the shit tredmills at the gym are still bloody good, just not as good as the big fancy new ones they have there that have the telly on and videos of Barcelona as you're running....
Going camping this evening so forced a run in this morning, struggling a bit after last nights gym session and didn;t quite hit the 5k mark. 4.92km I'd just had enough. Was going to take a bike with but it's all getting a bit faffy so will do a couple of runs Saturday and Sunday morning. Although if I'm hanging they might be run/walks...
My wife uses BitGym which runs native on the android TV and 'talks' to the treadmill for speed etc. She does fast walks/jogs around some great locations - I like the coastal ones. Quite immersive really considering it's just a front facing camera shot.
I didn't want a treadmill with a big TV tho as I run a massive fan in front of it. My better half firmly rejected a suggestion to mount the fan on the wall 🙂 The reebok was the only one with a very minimal display. Very happy with it although it's had the engineer out twice having developed a clanking sound under use which I reported as 'my treadmill is haunted' 🙂
