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Had another 'fail' day yesterday as I ate something that didn't agree with me resulting in me needing to be within waddling distance of a toilet most of the night. All fine now though and I have a week off so all guns blazing the next 9 days.
Day 30, turbo session using wahoo systm, 27.8 km in 60 minutes. Encouraging that 60 minutes is getting easier, as I slowly push the wattage up very slightly. This session felt good and quite comfortable.
that’s me done for today. Bloody knackered from doing this every day - going to take it quire easy for the rest of the day.
I daren't ask this on the main forum, but...
could some kind sole please explain to me how to post photographs here?!
I understand that I might have to "host" them somewhere (ie. not directly upload from phone). Any recommendations for a free and easy to use host if so. I'm looking for quick and easy here!
Thanks in advance 🙂
@stanley kayak23 posted a handy guide here
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/posting-images-on-singletrack-forum-using-postimage/
Feeling tired today, worked out I'd walked 7 miles and run 3 miles yesterday, so that makes sense. Had a big breakfast with two cups of tea to recover and a read of STW mag. Will be painting walls and woodwork for the rest of today. Hopefully pop out on the bike at some point in the day.
I've had COVID since Tuesday so that's knocked me back.
Ps. My Garmin body battery has been below 25 since I started to feel unwell.
Ride yesterday out towards Rivelin. Was going to go a bit further and extend over Stanage but feeling less full of beans and the rain came in.
A walk today, hopefully get out on the bike again tomorrow.
Bit miffed this week as I missed a couple of days due to work! I wouldn’t mind if it was my fault but on the upside I got a free trip to the Isle of Harris!!
Some Zwift and weights this week and
a wee jaunt round the Tweed valley with some mates I’ve not seen for a while.
Day 30 - shirt homeworkout app jobbie. Few little bits of walking, probability 30mins worth. Now doing some drum practice, working on speeding up and making more consistent my double base skills, whilst watching Trivium do a live soundcheck on twitch.
Decent (road) bike ride this morning, 90km with about a 1000m+. No photos though. Run tomorrow.
Another Zwift ride today plus a bit of chasing my nephew round his local street on a scooter this morning. Properly knackering chasing an 8 year old with seemingly boundless energy 😳
25km - playing with the drone again today.
Caught some of the overnight snowfall on the mountains.
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Fun run with mates this morning up a local mountain. We were supposedly following a GPS track, and we'd done the route before. Still managed to get lost 🙂
Day 31, one full month and not a day missed yet.
Todays effort swim, 2.64 km swim in 58 minutes. Bit slower today, bloody neck shoulder strain from a day or so ago.
Need more rest, as I’m starting to feel bloody knackered now.
A bit of a different one today, a walk round Burrington Combe for 5 hours covering just over 4 miles (Strava only logged 3.4 due to GPS errors and bits being only a short distance horizontally but a lot vertically) but rather than just a walk it was a Trail Truck walk touring a few different bits to do a bit of crawling!
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A decent workout going up and down paths, rock outcrops and the like. Good fun while getting some fresh air and exercise. Normally a crawl involves staying in one spot so doing the distance was new and rather good fun.
Need more rest, as I’m starting to feel bloody knackered now.
From experience, it’s very important to listen to your body and if you’re fatigued you must take measures to combat this if you’ve any chance of making 100 days. The only way I can achieve this is to have two days focused on recovery each week.
I might do half hour yoga and another half hour or so using the foam roller to iron out any niggles or massage sore muscles. Another day I might take the dogs for an extended walk or go for a gentle ride with the wife.
Don’t feel bad having an easy day, remember you only signed up for doing 30 minutes extra each day.
Day 31 - couple of slightly more difficult homeworkout app sessions, felt like I did a million press-ups in the first one and then core workout on the second.
Mrs DJ has been out of action with a ruptured Achilles since early June, so it was great to have her along for some of today’s wander up Ben Venue.
Yup,damaged achilles here to.Couple of half hour achilles workouts on YouTube are good for a recovery day.Might need to do that tomorrow.Anyway,today was 90 minute hike about and 75 minutes at the outdoor gym.
Day 31. One month gone!
I'd planned a deecent bike ride today but the weather didn't look to be playing ball so I ended up with my longest ever Zwift ride - 85km in 2h45m. That's definitely tougher on my body than real riding so I had another half hour of yoga this evening to stretch everything out a bit.
Has the OP Houns dropped out?Not much input from him.
This cold's dragged on a bit! Will tot up but have definitely missed three or four days over the last fortnight, but I'll do them when we get to Christmas to catch up. 🙂 A gentle outing with the nephews at Hicks Lodge yesterday, beautiful weather and it just felt GREAT to be out on the bike again. Still a little coughy and sniffy this morning, but I think I can start gently getting back into it. 🙂
Day 32, turbo session - wahoo systm app - 27.5 km in 60 minutes. Had to wait until midday to do this, as was just too knackered to do this early doors.
Can't wait to get out side on a bike, suspect it'll be damn cold when I can.
Day 32. On hour in the (home) gym doing weights, cardio and a few yoga stretches. Seems a bit "minimal" but probably better for me to vary it a bit rather than an hour running, riding or Zwifting.
Missed Saturday - busy with kids parties etc
2*1hr walls Sunday, 3 hours fly fishing (counting this as mindful recovery gubbins rather than exercise obviously but was lovely to be out and got a couple of stonkers too!)
7k trail run today
Weights tomorrow
A long road ride on Sunday, saw my first Hen Harrier of the winter. Followed by two recovery days.
Back out on the road ride after work for an hour tonight, making the most of a beautiful evening. Still not feeling 100% but definitely needed those easy days.
Struggled today. Original plan was to go to Llandegla and spend the day there doing a few laps with cafe stops but I really struggled to sleep after doing a Zwift race Monday evening so didn't go. Took a bit of effort to get the enthusiasm to go for a walk round Tredgar House Park on the way back from a shopping expedition to the local model shop but once out glad I did. Lovely weather and surprisingly calm and chilled considering there's the M4 a few hundred yards north and a main route into Newport the same to the south.
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Was going to go to Llandegla tomorrow instead but just seen the weather forecast, might go Thursday instead.
Day 33, light day today as too bloody tired to do exercise, the walk counts as far as I’m concerned as I didn’t need to walk and didn’t want to walk.
40 min walk 3.5 km.
Loop out from edale today. It got unexpectedly warm.
Day 32 - forgot to update. Did around an hour's mooching around in the evening, taking the very long way around to go to the shop. Body still aching from the skatepark on Thursday.
Day 33 - less aching. Around 45 mins swimming, still terrible but actually feeling better and did a couple more lengths than previous, also no cramp was nice.
Day 33. 1/3rd of the way through the challenge.
Morning was another brief swim - in a fabulous Autumnal Loch Morlich (8.5c) followed up by early lunch at the Pine Marten.
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Tonight I'm posting from the forest near Glen Eanaich. Lovely starry sky and no wind. Chilly though.
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Awesome pics scotroutes.
Still on course here including getting up at dawn on the last day of our holiday to fit a run in before our flight home. Since being back have had a Zwift race and yesterday a lovely autumnal MTB ride.
some great pics above @scotroutes @AndrewL You guys live in some lovely locations.
Day 34, turbo session using wahoo systm app, just under 28 km in 60 minutes.
Yesterday was also Wahoo systm, did one of their Portugal "On location" rides. Tough ride, but makes me want to visit Lisbon and the area again, haven't been for years.
Well, I obviously had to get back from my forest camp this morning...
While I was out shooting the stars...
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this little fella nipped into my tent.
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After I'd showed him the door, I left some nuts out for him and they were gone in the morning
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It was chilly right enough, -1c when I woke up.
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Lovely and calm though.
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Yesterday was also Wahoo systm, did one of their Portugal “On location” rides. Tough ride, but makes me want to visit Lisbon and the area again, haven’t been for years.
How hard are those on-location rides?
I'm still getting back up to fitness and if I want to complete the 100 days I've got to be a little mindful to not overdo it, though 100 days with no proper rest day is probably already overdoing it.
Lunch run, possible climbing wall later, more "on it" this week than any previous.
How hard are those on-location rides?
Check out the ride profile before you start - they all differ a bit on what they focus on, some have more of the short/hard efforts, others are more like a long climb. And of course the duration varies too. So depending on how I'm feeling (and what I've been doing recently) one ride might be easier (or at least more appealing) than another, but the next week it could be the other way round. And of course they're all calibrated to your 4DP values so (at least in theory) they should be exactly the right amount of hard 🙂
Well worth doing some of them - I like Mike Cotty's commentating (encouraging but without going full on American spinning class instructor), the scenery's lovely, and the workouts themselves seem well thought out.
... saw my first Hen Harrier of the winter. Followed by two recovery days.
Holy cow - I hope I don't see any, if that's what it does to you! 🙂
Lunchtime reservoir stroll on Monday, unexpected cycle to work yesterday when the bus no-showed, first run plus strength stuff in a fortnight today. I think we're back in business. 🙂
Mind you, flu jab tomorrow -fingers crossed...
I've managed six days out of the last week following round 2 of chemotherapy. Just local walks but I have managed to increase the distance each day. Managed a full 10km today! I might have used pie shops to encourage me however.
Hoping to get the new e-bike up and ready over the next couple of days and then, inspired by @scotroutes' pictures, I might even try a ride with a little camp out somewhere. Got to have some goals 🙂
Day 34 - few niggly sore things so a chilled walk whilst the boy was at footy training. Life will be mostly more walking over the next few days plus a gig on Friday evening will keep me very active.
Bike ride planned for Sunday. Feeling better overall, week off next week may be something to do with that though.
yesterday was tough, drove to ju jitsu to find it cancelled, somehow found the motivation to go back home and grab gym kit
today has been a funeral, so probably do me good to get out on the bike for a few miles.
Someone once suggested that we only have one decent day of weather up here and that I take all my photos that day, posting them as if it was multiple days. Just to help set the record straight...
Today was another swim trip. Train from Tulloch to Corrour, walk to Loch Ossian, short swim, walk back to the station for lunch then the return train trip to Tulloch.
As we stepped off the train at Corrour, the rain was blown in and we had a soggy walk to the YH.
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The water was a bit wild but was holding at 8.5c.
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Trying to get dried off in the rain is never ideal but at least we were heading back indoors.
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As soon as we reached the station the rain stopped.
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Fab day though!