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Blast round the local country park on the XC bike, sort of hill reps, 4 times up the hill with different descents each time.
Strava only says 36 minutes moving time, but I was out for 50 od minutes and didn't stop apart from when I had to turn round cos the trail was too over grown! Need to check my settings...
Half an hour each of weights and yoga today. I'll see what tomorrow brings along with Storm Agnes.
Day 11 - turbo session before work, 38 km in 71 minutes, 30 minute walk with wombat early evening. Done for today.
Here is Wombat.
Day 9 turbo bit of a struggle tbh. Will persevere.
11. I have just finished 30 mins of yoga and stretching which I needed after muscle stiffness after a gym sesh last night. I guess I had a mildly active evening helping to run youth football too. But still no cycling.
Assuming I was signed up to this
D1 - 1hr 24m weight machines @ gym
D2 - 42m walking, presumably more than just moving about as picked up by watch, but no planned activities
D3 - 1hr 14m weight machines @ gym
D4 - 1hr weight machines @ gym
D5 - 2hr emtb ride
D6 - Nothing of note
D7 - 2hr 14m normal MTB ride
D8 - 1hr 17m weight machines @ gym
D9 - 1hr 17m emtb ride
D10 - 1hr 14m weight machines @ gym
D11 - nothing yet, but emtb ride tonight
Not too bad at keeping active really
30 minutes easyish leg sesh in the gym today, working around some knee pain. Then 20 minutes of static bike intervals.
Rode to and from the folk’s last night, 14 miles each way at a nice steady pace and just finished an hour of weights.
Hoping to get out off road tomorrow.
Unexpected visit by friends meant a change of plans. Walked into town to meet them and just finished 40 mins of gym. MUST get out tomorrow!!
Another Zwift training session today although unexpended it by 30 mins to get another route badge.
Actually feeling a positive benefit now from all this activity, mainly in my endurance which has been a real weakness for me for a good year. Keeps the motivation up to build on that!
managed to go for a run this evening
I really suck at running
Slooow 5k tonight. Everything hurts!
Tomorrow and Friday might have to be extended dog walks, so my legs recover for park run on Saturday. It's a special one as one of the marshalls, a lovely old guy that's been doing it for years died last week.
Core and strength training yesterday and a run today. All good.
12. 30 mins of Beginners Pilates with Nicole. Confirmed what I knew from doing yoga videos: I am about as flexible as a fridge-freezer.
Given the weather tonight an indoor session was necessary, dusted off the turbo, fired up the drum and bass and only just managed half an hour. I hate the turbo.
Day 12 - had to take today as a recovery ish day. Lunchtime Walk along the thames 4.3 km in 47 minutes.
you know it’s funny, without this challenge I’d keep working, taking calls etc and work straight through all day. But for these 100 days, at lunchtime ish I just get up, walk out the door and go do something for at least 45 mins. The minds a strange place sometimes.
No wombat pics today.
@walowiz - I think I said in a previous post that doing the challenge in the past gave me the incentive to walk into town, shops etc and that change of routine has sort of stuck with me. Hopefully it will have the same effect on you!
@bonni - thanks. I might give that a go on the next "slack" day.
My second 5k on the treadmill today. I haven’t looked forward to Christmas this much since I was a kid 😀
But for these 100 days, at lunchtime ish I just get up, walk out the door and go do something for at least 45 mins
Win win, I’d say both the exercise AND taking a proper break from work are good habits
Last track of days but Zwift intervals late on tonight mean I'm still going.
Recovering nicely from a nasty wee cold. Tuesday was 2hrs on the ebike just bashing round local loop/fields.
Last night was a couple of wahoo strength and mobility workouts
Realised I got my days wrong - 11 should have been 12.
Anyway, took our chances with Agnes and got lucky - 15.3 miles, 2000ft, 1hr 49 mins on the eeb. Was steady away with my leg powered mate, so I turned the power down to 20% assist, 50% peak power
Well days 8-12 were a complete write-off due to some horrible flu-like thing I’ve had. Managed to walk the dog and that was my lot, even then it was only because my other half was even worse than me!
Back to it today with a 45 minute pootle on the MTB. Nothing strenuous as everything is hard work still.
Onwards and upwards!
I've only managed walks - I have covid again 🙁
Get well soon @fazzini.
Out on the bike after work Tuesday which quickly turned into a night ride.
Trot about after work last night, it was very mild. The storm was very underwhelming in the Peak.
Today rootled out on the commute bike and heading out bouldering later. The weather seems very dull and humid again today.
Day 13 - Storm Agnes came to nowt really so it was off for a bit of a hike today
Up to a loch
For a bit of a swim
Water temp 11.4c - same as the air.
And then did a 5km run round some local woods scouting out a route for running club on Monday
Day #13 - early swim 2 miles in 69 minutes, later a walk with Wombat 2 km in 30 minutes.
Did these today, along with yoga they'll be my filler days.
Listed them out on paper, 1m each x 2
Ì'm in Ayrshire for a bit storm agnes turned out to be dry but windy . That's my excuse for taking 80 mins to do 11 miles on the road bike.
Dog walk up Embsay Crag yesterday, on my own and at reasonable pace, upper body work out today.
2 hours 45 mins on the gravel bike this evening. Im a broken man.
13. After supervising football training, I did a gym sesh for around 50 mins.
Still no cycling but got my lights out and charged them.
Absolutely nothing today, apart from a walk around site. Only done 4.5k steps.
Having the day off tomorrow and planning a 40 miler on the e bike and maybe a gym sesh. Then hopefully leg powered bike Saturday morning.
We'll see if any of that actually happens
Alcohol consumption has been cut to almost zero though - doing three months of little to no booze
I’ve never been too bothered about exercising, I’ve had a number of jobs over recent years that meant I was on my feet and walking a lot every day. Now I’m not, but issues with my knees means any significant bending, or kneeling is out of the question, just the thought of kneeling on a hard surface makes me feel ill!
I have taken up a sport since August, but it doesn’t really involve moving around much, in fact keeping as still as possible is pretty much a requirement. Until you have to go and retrieve your arrows from the target…