100 days of exercise until Christmas 2023

62. An evening walk in the darkness by the river for an hour with the dog. Despite the mizzle it was nice to have the solitude. I saw nobody.

Day 62.  Morning 10km run on Lewis before we headed back to the mainland.
It was pretty chilly but very clear and calm.

@ads678 - well done. It’s not easy getting out when the weather is continuously plop, or life gets in the way. Good effort though: 25k steps is solid.

Jeez, are you sure that’s Lewis?

Blue skies 👌

I’ve only ever been there in horizontal rain.

Still going here although this week has been mostly faffing around in the gym so need to ride or run more next week.

lunchtime skateboard session yesterday

the toughest times for me are all the xmas parties in work

ive been invited to 3 and its hard to fit in exercise on those days, have to get up early i think

Missed Monday - work and stuff  the rest of this week  - 3 days of bike commuting - 1 day of walking with Mrs Olddonald - today Park run at Oakwell - muddy but fun.

Cheers @bonni.

Park run done. Now got to go and put some insolation into the MIL loft.
No, no, no! That's not a euphemism!!

Day 63. Club gravel ride. Started off wet and got wetter. Tracks were minging. A high level of stoicism was deployed but I took an executive decision (I was leading the ride) to cut out one of the hillier off-road sections - including a river crossing - and jump onto the road for a while. Inevitably, just before we hit Aviemore the skies cleared and a warm sun put in an appearance 😂

Still, 45km and 500m of climbing done. 

Scraped a 30 min zwift session for D63 - not much, but enough to keep me in the game!

Thursday had to fall back on a lunchtime walk

two days of lumberjack action today and yesterday, big tree cane down on Tuesday and have been lopping it up, about 2m3 of firewood so far and about two tonnes of brashings to figure out what to do with. Knackered.

Day 63 (somewhere before this I’ve posted two entries for the same day 58 by mistake)

turbo session as weather looked too grim to mtb. 40.6 km in 75 minutes at 185w. Boring but done.

Not missed a day yet: 80k road ride today. Oddly enough I'm sleeping well.

63. Semi-fail. Spent a couple of hours underground in an old mine. Was not very strenuous. Rest of the day was travelling (a lot).

Swimming this morning. 1600m again, 3 minutes faster this week!

I'm still in! Day 60odd can't quite believe that.  An hour on the Zwift machine today. Weather was dreich so no go for outdoor cycling.

A habit has definitely been formed, if only I could stay off the beers and bread sticks and Houmous I'd be laughing.

64. Gym sesh.

It’s been a few days since I last reported in, Most days I have been out on the bike. Friday, my legs felt like lead so had a recovery day with a long dog walk. Yesterday was back out on the bike and this morning did an hour of weights.
I seem to be in a zone at present where I don’t really think about it, just have to choose what ever I feel like each day then find the window of opportunity. It’s definitely become more habit than chore.

half an hour of mini skateboard bowl in the rain yesterday

couple of hours round the slick cobbles of cannock today

More log splitting this morning, bit of chinning bar and kata tonight 

Day 64 - overslept so missed the best swimming slot, so did a turbo session instead 38 km in 71 minutes at 183w. Boooooring but done. Walked Willa later in the rain 2.9 km in 42 minutes.

Day 64.

Long lie. 🙂

An hour in the gym and an hour of Zwift.

The sun made a rare appearance on Scotland today so 84 miles on the road.👌

Day 65 - super friggin tired today, but managed a swim 2.84 km in 60 minutes, seriously slow.

walked wombat later 2.2 km in 31 minutes. Done, done, done.

Finally some nice weather here so I did a break from Rouvy and went out for a short and a bit windy autumn ride outside. And now another workout to clean my bike before going back to a trainer tomorrow.

Day 65. Did an hour on Zwift this morning and then a 10km run with the club tonight. Nice tight group of eight of us running through the forest.

65. Supervised youth football training (they were untamed today!), walked dog for 30 mins, then 15 mins stretching, followed by 20 mins yoga with Kassandra.

About 50 minutes on the turbo with a new (to me) zwift-a-like free app called mywhoosh.
First ride crashed about 15 minutes in and didn't save, WiFi is iffy in my garage so I'm blaming that. Second 36 minute ride saved ok.

2.84 km in 60 minutes, seriously slow.

Bloody show off! Takes me nearly an hour to do 1600m. I am fat and shit at swimming though....

Day 66 then.

Some more snow forecast so I took off up a local Munro before it arrives.
I guess this should really be in the "incessant snow" thread.

More of a hard frost along the summit ridge.

Big icy puddles to avoid.

Big drop to Loch Eanaich

Just a trace of pink as the sun drops

I'd stupidly forgotten my torch and had to abandon a second summit I wanted to visit.

66. Short walk and then 45 mins doing the same program as last week on an indoor techno bike at the gym. I took it up a level but it was still a bit tame.

D66. Just a 4km run/walk, mostly jogging honest but it's late.

Yesterday was karate - grading next week, yoinks!

tonight - weights and kata

XC bike ride today, gym yesterday, HIIT class Monday. Feeling good!

Day 67.
Fatbike up to Ryvoan

Supposedly 13c but felt a lot chillier in the wind.

I'll be hitting the gym for weights and yoga later.

2km in the pool this morning - enjoyed it . Gregg coffee afterwards.....

no idea what day we are on.    it is all becoming a chore now.

walked 3 mile this morning....... forgot to turn strava on.

walked 3 mile this afternoon....... strava on but dark cloud over my head did not lift.

6k run tonight

my 5k time is very slowly improving 

Mix it up ton, game of frisbee with the grandkids or something. Take Mrs T ballroom dancing
5k of hill repeats tonight with a 25kg pack, “rucking” apparently, it’s a thing!

Gym tonight. 45 minutes of rowing, running and cross trainer thing. Then some weights stuff, but no idea what I'm doing on those!!

67. 30 mins yoga with Charlie Follows.

Still struggling to find time to do much. Loads of work on and a heap more coming my way in December. Je suis dans la merde!

68. Just a couple of walks today, totalling about 90 mins.

Walks today about 16km along the river Ouse, then dog walk when I got home.

Couldn't take dog on first walk as that was at work!

Day 68. 90 minutes of Zwift this morning, and then a brisk walk into the village for lunch. 

Meh - I lost count of the days...!!

This is day 70 (24th November) and it's my birthday.

Did an 11km run before breakfast

and came back to pressies, a cake

and a card from my daughter

She knows me well!!