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normally i do something everyday but today is tough as i just do not do heat so backed out of my club ride - so huge fans and Zwift. Could be carnage.
I’m just back from a ride. Managed just 25 miles before I’d had enough of the heat.
Nice to get out but way too hot for exercise! It’s even too hot for sitting in the garden so will be watching the Vuelta indoors.
The challenge starts on 16th September
<p style="text-align: left;">Has Houns finished/started last years challenge yet?😆</p>
god I think I need this. Worse and heaviest shape of my life and new responsibility of being a dad, need to sorry myself out! Glad it's the 16th though as I appear to have pulled my back hopping a fence to retrieve the bloody cat.
I am in, naturally. The start this year will be tough as I'm on a train across Canada for two weeks but I'm sure I'll figure something out.
@monkeycmonkeydo - savage but he totally deserves it.
Only kidding!Sounds like the guy needs to do it this year.I hope you all give him encouragement.
He's a mate of mine and Scotroutes, our encouragement will be in the form of teasing.
@Houns, do you even remember how to ride a bike?
🖕🏻 meanies 🥺
Right I'm in.
In
Sounds like a good idea, I'm in. I suspect I'll mostly do yoga to get there. But hopefully it'll help battle the usual post summer weight belt that creeps on.
<p style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">Thinking of doing that 75 day hard challenge during this. I think the extra pressure might be good for me.Are at @eulach and @convert still interested.It would be nice if someone else had to go without alcohol!Dietary discipline would also be of some benefit.</p>
Hope munrobiker doesn't feel this would be in anyway disrespectful towards his mate.Neil.</p>
When I started doing the challenge I was combining it with a diet (got myself back down from 14 stone to 11 over the course of a year). Thinner is healthier and faster so it seems in the spirit of things.
Can anyone recommend a decent yoga/pilates you tube video set? My body is ****ed at the moment and needs stretching as well as making lighter and faster!! Would like to do a couple of sessions a week, so I don;t break myself, but I'll need to start at the begining and work my way up....
Yoga with Kassandra - Look for anything with "Beginner" in the title
Yoga with Adriene - similarly
Thanks,I could certainly use a good diet and no chocolate. Along with no alcohol, this may be just the kick up the backside I need.
<p style="text-align: left;">However, I might give the daily photo/ tik tok narcissism a miss.I also think, a move over to book reading instead of the depressing newspapers would be positive.</p>
I'm in. I was doing OK through the summer but I fell off the wagon a few weeks ago, skiving on the exercise, eating crap and accumulating some blubber.
This should be the shove I need to get up off my lardy arse.
Thinking of doing that 75 day hard challenge during this. I think the extra pressure might be good for me.Are at @eulach and @convert still interested.It would be nice if someone else had to go without alcohol!Dietary discipline would also be of some benefit
I was actually just thinking about the diet part. I'm not sure if it's a realistic goal. It's been on my mind for about 2 months now. The reading and photo are not a problem, the water part I've tried for the last month and is achievable, the diet is really dependant on what you choose but that's the most flexible part of the plan. No alcohol is not so much fun but I did dry January and Lent this year. Twice a day workouts will be the killer - especially since there are no rest days and I have a job and family.
<p style="text-align: left;">Define Workouts?Could be just yoga.</p>
Everyone excited for tomorrow?
I definitely need this kick up the arse. I was enjoying the weather and doing a lot of exercise at the start of summer which led to a biiiiig appetite
I then broke my scaphoid bone which put a halt to any exercise yet I kept eating like I was some sort of athlete, except maybe more crisps and beer than chicken and rice - piled the pounds on since then!
Still struggling with weight bearing on my wrist so bike and yoga (my go to “easy day” in previous years) are on hold just now but hopefully a combination of running and walking will see me through a month or so until my scaphoids fully healed…
I'm out all day tomorrow helping my Mrs with her art stall at a Michaelmas fair (Bishops Castle if anyone is near by). There's music and stuff afterwards and a few beers I suspect so not ideal timing!
So.... in order not to fall at the first hurdle I'm going to have to get up early and go for a run or walk before it's light. Motivated though so will do it. I'm struggling a bit with a knee issue at the mo so I'll start with the intention of of running and back off to a walk if necessary.
A question for the adjudicator. Or a kangaroo court of STWers!
I have an uplift day booked at BPW on Monday. Does that 'count', being gravity assisted 'n' all? I'm always absolutely bolloxed after a day there, so it feels like it should, but I thought I'd ask the floor. It's a fair old drive at either side of the day, so I'd struggle to fit anything else in, even if I was physically able to do so (doubtful).
The only adjudication is that taking place in your own head.
I know. But fishing for some validation 😁
Count me in this year.
I would say an uplift day was definitely a day's exercise. It's all part of a mix anyway.
Have a good time on Monday.
Going to Steel City Downhill tomorrow, not riding but my son is so I'm the support crew. Walking up and down the fire road multiple times is going to have to be my excuse for exercise.
Having a proper rest day today ready for tomorrow, have hit things rather hard this week (stupid timing) so legs are a bit screwed! Probably best to start slowly anyway, don't want to burn out too early.
Personal goal is to beat my previous best of 74/100 days and 11 days consecutive. I've not got a regular cycle commute or a dog walk to worry about so everything counts!
I have an uplift day booked at BPW on Monday. Does that ‘count’, being gravity assisted ‘n’ all?
Of course it does! You may not be giving your cardio system a beating but you're definitely using muscles hard, just make sure you get enough runs in to tick over the 30 mins of descending. It'll be a better workout than a walk round the local park and that counts.
It begins...
...in the morning.
OK, first one in the bank! 😁 A short run testing my knee, which behaved itself.
Day 1 and my bloody Achilles tendonitis has flared up on my left heel!! Will walk around on it for an hour and see if it eases off. Want to do park run this morning but might have to be bikes instead if it doesn't ease off.
Get the voltarol and ibuprofen out. Bloody hell!!!🙄
I'm in too, slightly late as always.
I can't bear to look in the mirror, so something's got to change.
*throws mirror in skip*
Started well for me as the 9am gym class was cancelled! Heading down in a bit though and even made a chart for my wife and me so here we go!!
Yes! Got round park run Rothwell in 31:14*. That's a decent time for me. I'm hoping to get back to sub 30 mins with more exercise.
But then I'll have to add more on for the min 30 mins!!!
*That's my Garmin time any way. Park run official will be slightly slower as it includes the walk bit to the start line....
My exercise is CX today - only marshalling but setting up and taking down is a fair number of extra steps!
Day #1 - 62 mins on the turbo. Hard work after my first mtb ride yesterday for over 2 years.
Day 1 - 40km moderate road ride. Wet, then soggy, but enjoyable nonetheless. No close passes, which was grand.
Undone my earlier good work. I'm helping my wife with her stall at a fair. There's a bakery stall by us. I've already eaten a 'giant scone' and a sausage roll the size of my head ☹️
First park run in 7 or 8yrs, got beaten by both my brother in laws, then 6 miles of Hashopoly...
Urgh - run into a snag on day one - slept in the van last night to save going home and am at work from 7.30am this morning to roughly 9.30pm tonight. No hope of getting 30mins exercise in between now and end of play. Will I get myself to do it after a 45min drive home tonight........could I fail before I even start!