10,500 steps still in it.Unlike you folks my lungs are fine but my left knee/elbow are giving me pain.Just gonna blast through then collapsed at the Doctor's in January
it's very easy to follow my rule* of no alcohol in the week other than after a night ride.
A brilliant excuse to night ride 8 days a week!
I'm still rolling along. Rides, walks, home gym sessions. 35 degrees yesterday so different (probably easier) issues to contend with.
Yesterday was Yoga and a walk. Today, bouldering this evening.
I've entered the Edinburgh New Year's Day triathlon as motivation to get some swimming in and hopefully capitalise on the mad gainz.
Still going, though I've barely been on the forum due to the ongoing shit show it has become.
I've had a couple of running events at the weekends (got a 10k PB) so my overall exercise has reduced a bit. I've been mixing it up with yoga and strength stuff to keep the streak going.
Weather is obviously turning now so I'll be trying to make the most of the next few weeks.
90 minutes Z2 in Watopia while it rained down outside…
Two hour hike in pleasant sunshine around three parks.Followed by a pint if John Smith's.Painkiller for my knee.
Right today is the first one in a week or so I've not felt I've been phoning it in.
Still not 100% recovered, but good enough to get out for a few hours. Forecast suggest something indoor tomorrow 😉
Illuminator 15 miler completed last night, my final "event" of the year. That should mean I'm freed up to do a bit more leisure riding rather than concentrating on training and recovery.
Did a 55 Kms yesterday but was a little slower than normal. Forgot what a pain in the bottom wearing winter gear on the bike is. Felt like I was riding wearing a duvet.
Dogs obviously demanded breakfast/walk at their "normal" time so we were back from a long dog walk by 830am! Doesn't feel like a proper "exercise event" even tho we were out for over 5kms. So I think it's time to return to the Turbo this afternoon.
^ I’m also taking the piss a bit. I am so shagged out from cramming in gym sessions last week just so I could join a group ride yesterday (which nearly finished me off) that today’s ‘exercise’ was a walk from the cafe where I had a big fat breakfast to the seafront for a coffee and pastry then back again. I’m almost ashamed of myself.
Lots of weights this weekend both indoor and outdoor, with hiking and stretches thrown in for recovery .Was starting too feel a bit weary but I just blasted through it.
did kettlebell workout monday evening, yoga on Tuesday, 20k gravel ride on Wednesday night in the rain , then a 15k post storm night ride in the woods on Thursday, lunchtime skatepark on friday- fell over got asked 'if i was a beginner too' by a kid, then skatebowl with the kids yesterday morning and a bit of skating this morning and just finished 40mins of yoga
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Yesterday was an early morning to marshall at an SCX race, then went for a brisk walk up Arthur's Seat to get a sweat on and make 10k steps.
Today, my training for NY day triathlon started with an early swim. Haven't swum since holiday in July... and it showed. Thankfully have 2 months to sort that out.
I may be pushing the boundaries of what qualifies, but it is exercise outside my usual routine, so I'm claiming
If you're doing something you wouldn't do except for the challenge, then that's both the rule and the spirit for me 🙂
After a week wrestling the snot demon, I'm mostly back to what passes as full fitness. Nearly 5 hilly/woody miles with the dogs yesterday followed by a 50 min swim. Same today and hurty/nasty circuits class later.
Dusted off the Turbo on Sunday for the first time in about 2 months. Absence has not improved the experience:(
I really must get back to the pool.How do you guys motivate yourselves for it.I like outdoor swimming in summer but this seems a chore
How do you guys motivate yourselves for it.
the gym I use has a 25m slightly heated outdoor pool. It’s open all year round, only closing if weather particularly nasty, or if ice is on the paving slabs.
Kids aren’t allowed in it apart from weekend slots and similarly in school holidays and it’s not warm enough for a splash about, so it’s never too busy. I normally have a lane to myself and regularly am the only person in the whole pool, so it’s not a chore to use..
That plus the cost of David Lloyd membership provides good motivation!
^Not the choice I face unfortunately.Just have to MTFU and head to the Dolphin Centre.Not sure if sea swimming is a sensible option at this time of year.
Well, I injured myself. Strained my back putting a light suitcase in the car. I'm not sure if it was general fatigue contributing to it.
Anyway I took 5 days and did some gentle stuff. Nothing I'd count for this, but keeping the body moving. Then a few 30 min walks.
My back is feeling better so I've had some gentle football over the weekend, walking to see some bison and then balance board and some bodyweight exercises again.
.How do you guys motivate yourselves for it.I like outdoor swimming in summer but this seems a chore
My wife likes to swim. She's a better swimmer than me as well so that's my target 🙂 I started because it was good shoulder rehab and although I don't love it, it's a good 45 min workout for me and if it means I can skip a turbo session, then it's done the job. I've never swum outside other than in the sea, and while the Wye is basically next door, I'm not swimming in that! Indoor Pool all the way.
I missed a week at the HIIT gym circuit through illness. Seems to have got about 50% harder while I was away!
2.5k in outdoor pool
Man I wish I had an outdoor pool nearby, it's somehow so much better than indoors.
Hill running tonight, just woke up on the bus coming home from a rare office day so need to energise somehow.
Man I wish I had an outdoor pool nearby, it's somehow so much better than indoors.
yeah, it is a luxury for sure, and no horrible chlorine smells and stuffy air. Sometimes it’s a bit challenging if wet and windy, but the water is usually high teens so decent,
an expensive luxury, but I use it a few times a week, plus yoga classes and the gym, and it’s all inclusive in the monthly membership fee.
Yeh....was wondering if the stuffy air and chlorine smells might irritate my asthmatic lungs.Hopefullly not.
Train to Corrour.
Walk to Loch Ossian.
Swim.
Walk to Corrour.
Lunch.
Train back to Tulloch.
Quite a successful trip..
Still going.Out on the e-bike for a trip along the Tees to sunny Stockton.Bloomin cold after dark.Weight training tomorrow.
Still going, however becoming a challenge as have knee pain, which is getting physio treatment this week coming, so giving the bike a break. Combination of swimming, yoga, some body weight stretching, plus dog walks will have to cover it for now..
I may have technically failed on Friday. Only managed a lunchtime walk and while I was out the house for 45mins I spent time with the kid so moving time was less. Heh-ho, the intention was there.
Climbing yesterday. Today has low grade options.
Still going. Lots of different activities; swim, ride, gym, gym circuits, Yoga, shoulder rehab, treadmill, turbo and some hilly hikes. Definitely enjoying it more this year due to a bit more variation. Next week looks the same. Probably need to get some longer rides in, but having a bit of a post dry trails motivation crisis!
Not really run much lately due to a troublesome knee. But strengthening in the gym and lots of pre/post run stretching, back up to 5 miles with no pain so far. Going very steady tho.
Oh and risked the scales this morning. A KG gone since the start of the challenge. Although I suspect that is more a consequence of knocking booze on the head in the week, and then not caning it at the weekend. Still need to lose another KG to get back to my pre-splatter bone weight. Should be doable by the end of the challenge.
Knee,elbow and occasional shoulder issues here to.Lol.The joys of aging.
Got out for a 10km run while girl was at hockey. Lovely autumn conditions put a spring in my step and inadvertently dropped some hilly segment PBs. As expected my ITB started niggling at the end but stopped before it came to much, so hopefully a good conditioning run in that sense.
Off geocaching now!
Good outdoor pool session this morning, finished just before the rain started 😁. Good to be back at it after a bare minimum weekend as resting the sore knees. Half way tomorrow…. 🤞
Knee,elbow and occasional shoulder issues here to.Lol.The joys of aging.
Yeah i'm falling to pieces here too, got locked in to a jumping battle with the coaches down at Manchester BMX, 4 of us , with a combined age of about 206 trying to be the first to nail all 4 jumps on the 3rd straight. My knees were in tatters yesterday and no better today, pump track with the lad on Sunday probably didn't help.
Nice night ride round the woods last Monday, a bit of rain had the trails running perfectly
Ketlebell on tuesday evening
Yoga on Wednsday
Then afternoon at Northampton bikepark with the family on thursday
20k on Local bridleways with the eldest 2 on Friday morning
Saturday 2.5hrs in the pool with the kids at the halloween inflatables disco , despite being hell on earth I managed to get 30 lengths in
Yesterday skateboarding in the morning
And yep got a dodgy knee and now elbow that hurts every time I pull up on a jump!
Perhaps next year,we could do the old cripples 100 day challenge.
Swam this lunchtime, 1.5km in various "reps". Was good.
I'm out, flu for last 10days. Totally flattened. Leaving it another week while my coughing subsides
Snot demon popped back in, but dragged myself onto the treadmill last night. Swim and Gym circuits today.
Read an article in the Guardian about how your exercise regime needs to change as you get older. It made a lot of good points, but it was a bit depressing so I won't bother linking it 😉
