It seems people who did this last year are keen to have another go.
I used to race bikes with a chap called Chris who did this every year. He was extremely fit and very humble – to the point where I didn’t actually know he set himself the task of exercising every day in the run up til Christmas until after he died. Chris was killed at the age of 24 in an avalance in Glencoe. A few years later his friends started doing it in his memory (and to stop us getting fat in winter). For me, it’s good training for the Strathpuffer in January (which we race in Chris’s memory, raising over £30,000 for Glencoe Mountain Rescue Team along the way).
The rules are fairly simple-
– Exercise every day for a minimum of 1/2 an hour from 16th September until 24th December.
– The exercise is basically whatever you want – biking, hiking, canoeing, swimming, running, yoga.
– It’s not serious. Apart from the first year, we have all taken the odd day off if something more interesting/important was happening in our lives.
– Your usual active commute doesn’t count if it’s fairly short. I’ll let you be the judge of what that is, but if you think it’s too short then adding 30 minutes on top of it is what my pals and I deemed appropriate.
There’s a Strava club in the link below but post on here as and when you want to update everyone, ask for motivation and complain about how tired you are/gloat about how good you’re feeling.
https://www.strava.com/clubs/551467
