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Still going but falling apart!

decent ride round the local trails with my eldest 2 on Saturday, yoga on sunday

Halfpipe on the skateboard on Monday

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did a kettlebell workout yesterday evening but

I had an otb crash on a nightride last Wednesday, some pretty big slams skateboarding on Friday evening, and 1 fall on the halfpipe.... not sure which has dome it but my right elbow is stiff and very swollen, a doctor in work is adamant i need to go to a&e, so ill try and get in early and beat the queues for an x-ray 


 
Posted : 17/12/2025 9:18 pm
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Are you sure your niggles aren't due to tiredness @scotroutes?I think my various niggles are.
Anyway an easy day today comprised of Weights, stretching and some essential massage.Truth be told I've had enough now and would like a week of now.


 
Posted : 18/12/2025 12:38 am
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I haven’t been able to get as much outside riding as I had hoped, but thankfully the variety of gym, yoga classes and outdoor pool have kept it going and the niggly knee is slightly improved. 

I have had to fall back to longer dog walks on a few days. 

off to gym in half a hour and then a lunchtime yoga class, so all good 🤞👌


 
Posted : 18/12/2025 10:40 am
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Managed an easy 5k run this morning. Started with a bit of a hobble but my leg seemed to be ok once I'd warmed up a bit. I'll try not to go overboard in the next few days. 


 
Posted : 18/12/2025 3:46 pm
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Circuits and TRX back to back last night. I think the only part of my body that isn't sore is my left ear 😉

Looking back at my Strava for last Dec, (also 100 day challenge), I did a lot more miles/riding but that's pretty much all I did. I'm sure outside of the headline numbers, switching between swimming, running, gym and riding has more all round benefits. That's what I'm telling myself looking outside at the rain anyway.

If I want to meet my arbitrary target for kms, I'd need to do a lot of turbo between now and the new year. Can't see it happening.


 
Posted : 19/12/2025 8:09 am
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Did a "light" turbo session last night, the third of the week and know that something is not right. I think I have had some sort of low grade something (bad sleep, slightly elevated HR) and the power in my legs is just gone. I have a weekend of not much planned, but I'm goign to be taking diog out for a longer walk at lunchtime today and will get some weights in tomorrow and sunday, see how that feels.

Got asked if I was going to be skydiving this weekend, but it's December FFS!


 
Posted : 19/12/2025 9:21 am
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Swam yesterday but seems to be a pattern that I don't sleep well the night after a swim - chlorine reaction I guess. So after lying awake for some time in the night, I'm tired again today. It'll be lunchtime yogalates I think.


 
Posted : 19/12/2025 9:49 am
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Popped out for a ride. Very wet and slippy (especially on those tyres) but the sun was out for the first time in a week. Legs felt battered tho, hope they improve for tomorrows proper ride.

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Posted : 19/12/2025 4:15 pm
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Winter Solstice run with the running club this afternoon/evening. I loosely organised it so that folk would set off to do either 10km or a half marathon but choose their own start time and pace and aim to meet back at the car park. 

I did a 10km, running in the opposite direction to the others, then provided food (well, home baking) and drink (hot ginger) back at the van. 

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Posted : 21/12/2025 10:01 pm
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this has been a write off for me this time round.    had a shocking december so far. health issues and hospital trip and such.   feeling a bit brighter so should end the year with a few rides hopefully.  well do to all who have achieved it.


 
Posted : 21/12/2025 10:06 pm
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Still going and not missed a day yet(a few brisk walk days mind).Today was outdoor gym plus 23111 steps.Bit of sunshine would have been nice.Going to try and finish off in style.Well done everyone!Not been an easy challenge in Monsoon conditions


 
Posted : 21/12/2025 11:03 pm
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Done a lot better than previous years but still no where near 100% mainly due to getting that rotten cold at one point, getting out for a ride each morning has been great 👍 plan to keep it up in 2026


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 9:15 am
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Hope you're feeling better soon @ton

Decent ride out Saturday. Legs started tired but didn't get any worse. No top end power tho, but not quite limp home mode 😉

Yesterday I went for the run on my 10k event prep programme. Was thankfully a easy recovery run, but it didn't feel easy. Glad there are only a couple of days left. Circuits tonight, by which time i'm hoping the lingering effects of last nights MTB riders curry have eased a bit! Forecast looks okay here, so I think a ride and a run will see me through to the end. 

Maybe I'll do one more Yogalates as well. My plan to do 4-6 a week never survived first contact with reality. Will also ride xmas day as I always do, and we've a big Wales loop planned for 28th. Between the two tho, nothing but cheese, pigs in blankets, assorted booze and guilt free sloth.

Well done all, however much you've done. It's a tough thing to keep going even if any individual day isn't that hard.

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Posted : 22/12/2025 10:38 am
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Well a kettlebell workout on Tuesday did my elbow no favours so trip to A&E on Wednesday morning had an x-ray- no breaks! Still very painful so no ff road managed a 20kride that evening round local bridalways and gravel, a 5k run on Thursday (which involved a lot of puddle jumping) a lunchtime skatepark session with lots of pads on friday, took the boys on a 20k bridelway loop on Saturday- ran into a pagan solstice celebration:

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Hungover yesterday, cycled with the youngest 2 to pick up the car we'd left at a friends the night before and then cycled into the city centre to pick up some xmas presents


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 11:14 am
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Bet that White Rabbit was a bit browner by the time it got home.!


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 2:41 pm
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I ran round yesterday's 10km route earlier, collecting the bits of reflective tape I'd left discreetly marking the route. Quite a few walkers and cyclists around. 

 

My niggly leg has returned 😡

 

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Posted : 22/12/2025 3:02 pm
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A S&C session this morning that was a lean half hour and an hour of Zwifting just completed. Niggly knee still niggling.. 


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 3:55 pm
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75 Kms road ride. Might do similar tomorrow. It's amazing the bounce back you get after being ill. 


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 4:37 pm
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After a late booze on Saturday I went for a walk yesterday and did some yoga today (plus riding round here and pump track a bit).

Travelling tomorrow and if I don't manage to get out for a run before we set off I'll be failing at the penultimate hurdle.


 
Posted : 22/12/2025 9:40 pm
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Be a shame to fall at the last hurdle @jimmy - having said that, missing a couple of days hardly matters if overall you've significantly upped your daily exercise.

At least two of my "activities' barely justify recording. Some rubbish Yoga in a hotel room, and a long walk from same hotel room following night.  And I'd packed my running kit, but I couldn't be bothered!

Plan was for a 5k run today and muddy ride tomorrow. Felt good on the run so kept going. First 10k I've done since end March. May affect bike ride tomorrow 😉

What's everyone got planned for the last official day. I know a few here will carry on, but I'll still be toasting the 100 days with something appropriately unhealthy!


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 2:05 pm
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Today e-biking along the Tees to SBC Library. Tomorrow the Lord above on high only knows Probably weights


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 2:11 pm
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Well done Alex.I realise you've really put your back into this


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 2:12 pm
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Chilly damp penultimate day but I thought I'd best put in a bit of an effort so I popped down to The Apiary in Dalwhinnie for a bite of lunch. 100km round trip at a fairly relaxed pace. 

 

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Tomorrow will be a bit more subdued as my daughter is with us for the festive season and exercise will be taking more of a back seat. 

 

 

 


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 4:01 pm
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Jesus,a 100k trip out would be a summer special for me.I guess this challenge is all about levels.


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 4:11 pm
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I got a decent run in this morning. Only 6km but it was still dark and I loved it, felt like I was galloping along.


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 4:18 pm
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2.5k in the outdoor pool this morning at David Lloyd, it was pretty deserted 👌😁.

Hopefully a couple of hours outdoor riding tomorrow, if not it’ll be a Zwift Wattbike spin to finish it off.  Been a good challenge. 


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 4:37 pm
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80 Kms road ride but it caught up with me as I could barely get up 5% hill near at the end. Walk the dog tomorrow.


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 4:46 pm
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10 km trail run today, slightly longer than intended but I was in an unfamiliar area and got slightly lost 😜

I haven't got a bike with me so tomorrow will either be another run or walk and explore.


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 5:07 pm
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45k 1,000m vert road ride today, all being well a short blast on the hardtail tomorrow to finish the challenge. I've managed a ride or walk outside everyday which has been nice but challenging due to the crap weather at points.


 
Posted : 23/12/2025 9:05 pm
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Last day activity is sponsored by "too much red last night" so I'll be riding with my spooneristic "Hadley Bungover" alter ego later.

Excuse to test the MTB win wing. I am somewhere between curious sand dubious on marketing v reality. Certainly got the local trails to test it.

 

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Well done the survivors, you're all better men and women than I


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 11:22 am
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Well that’s a wrap 👍

Hour and a half zwifting then a 30 min s&c session.  Time for a dog walk then a beer 🍺 


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 11:24 am
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Isn't there 1 more day to go? I've got a Christmas swim in the Atlantic tomorrow as my show stopper.


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 12:23 pm
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^^, nope, today is day 100


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 12:25 pm
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100 and out, 1hr15 blast on the HT round some local trails, have a good Christmas everyone.

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Posted : 24/12/2025 12:36 pm
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All done. 5km  50/50 trail/road run to finish. I might have a day or two off now.


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 1:03 pm
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Nurdles a single into the covers, ambles a run and retires with a century 🙂

1hr30 checking out the logging in one of the local forests. Extensive! Definitely tired today.

Right well done all, happy xmas and let me at those pigs in blankets!

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A dog walk around childhood stomping grounds today, and done. Not much of a flourish to finish and there's been a few days like this, but 100 and done.

Happy Christmas to the 100(+, [Colin]) club, well done everyone.


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 3:17 pm
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last night tool my eldest 2 on their first proper night ride, chose an easy local route , but they said it was too easy

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well done everyone, if you managed 100 or 10  its all good

 


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 3:18 pm
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Sunny walk up Torr Alvie with Mrs S for day 100 (932).

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Merry Xmas and all that.

Well done to all the participants. Maybe it'll have created a new habit for some of you and you'll keep it going? 

 

 


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 3:55 pm
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Just popped by to say well done to everyone who stuck with it. Kudos to you all.

It was a disaster from the start for me, but I’ll be back for a more earnest go…

All the best.


 
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They think it's all over.It is now!🍾🎆
Finished of with a walk after a big day yesterday'.Well done all and thanks for @scotroutes for keeping this going.


 
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So,what have I learnt this time around
1)Getting the lurgy in August before the challenge started was a good thing.
2)Turbo mode on any of my e- machinery on the paths and roads here is a bad and painful Idea.
3)You can manage your way through injury and still complete the 100 days .
4)Diverse activities and easier days are crucial for getting through.
4)Where is @tjagain?😀
Seasons Greetings and hopefully see you all again next year .


 
Posted : 24/12/2025 10:14 pm
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Well done everyone who took part. 

Enjoyed the start of it, mostly running every day, it also led to some great rides and got my kids involved too.

Went wrong for me mid October, knee ligament injury playing 5a side football. Couldn't even walk for a bit,  but getting mobile again now. Also back on the bike now, but not off road yet. Hoping to get running again in the new year, and feel like I owe it 60 days.


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 5:55 am
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Rotten luck mate.I,m sure it will be back next year.


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 10:42 am
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Well that was a little peripheral shrinking. Just had my Christmas swim in the Atlantic.


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 12:28 pm
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Merry Xmas and all that.

And to you. Love the photos from the Highlands, and from everyone else. I've not managed a full 100 this year, but when I add up the activities, even with missing days, I'm at 116. 

Traditional, for me, solo pedal this morning, Boxing Day Pudding Run tomorrow, then who knows??

Merry Christmas one and all. 


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 2:25 pm
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Blue skies, went for a run. Not sure calorie deficit is going to be a thing tho...


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 2:35 pm
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150 minute hike on day 101!😀Addictive this exercise thing.


 
Posted : 25/12/2025 5:47 pm
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Got my 10k steps in, so still going technically


 
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Well done to those who managed it. Might try next year but always end up breaking myself.


 
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^ Start slowly and get slower.Thats my method


 
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Double weight training session yesterday😊Guess a few days of and no aches and pains helped.


 
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Did the Edinburgh NYD triathlon today which was my motivation for the 100 days. Enjoyed it for one, but made a pretty good stab at it as well - felt well out of depth amongst all the dry robes, deep section rims and iron man tattoos to start with.

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Posted : 01/01/2026 4:16 pm
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As long as you looked good in your budgie smugglers!


 
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^ That would have been chilly today.


 
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As long as you looked good in your budgie smugglers!

They're my new biking get up of choice, will surely go down well at the Golfie.


 
Posted : 01/01/2026 6:48 pm
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In the unlikely event that anyone is interested, today I reached 1,000 days.  


 
Posted : 02/03/2026 9:04 pm
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Impressive, that's almost like ten times 100 days 😀 and I really don't know how you maintain that consistency 👍


 
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Hats off scotroutes! 

I reached 1! 


 
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