Two rides today (to/from, not commute) total 18.7 miles, on the hardtail, doorstep, cross country, link-lanes, muddy in places. Intending to keep effort low, but needed to get places after the rides but wanting to go places during the rides and windy and tired from exercise yesterday evening. Summer really definitely over now.

Bern stumbling through lazy walks the last few days so feel like I’m cheating a bit

It’s not a race. We’re only on day 26 🙂

Lovely pictures Munro biker.
I’m out for a bit, just had surgery. Docs say nothing strenuous for a month. My last effort was a five mile run and 1km North sea swim on Wednesday.
I’m going to claim that technically I’ve prepaid this month, cos I started my exercise every day in mid August knowing this time would come. Hope you’ll have me back when I’m allowed to exercise again, will be back to starting from scratch with gentle walks.
One thing I have been doing is reading about training, and found some useful stuff on this sort of challenge in a Joe friel book.
Apparently, mental toughness is made up of confidence, commitment and patience, and the biggest threat to consistent training is a lack of patience. It’s going too hard too soon today that’s most likely to scupper tomorrow’s session. So stay steady, all. 🙂

Nice pictures munroe.Not convinced your wife needs to be on a diet though!Jimmy,what on earth is indoor bouldering?Where would that take place?

@munrobiker that is awesome.

I miss the wall and I’m wondering about making it my one thing I’m prepared to mix with people for. That said, they fall under gyms so if Leeds heads the same way as Liverpool, they won’t be open for long.

7 Teams meetings today…think it’s time to head into the garage for some kettlebells.

25 minutes go at some weights.Will try to do some more later.Felt a bit tired after the weekends mild cold like symptoms.Didnt want to push it with my asthma.I also think,not having music blasting in my ears tends to make me a bit bored.

things no other mountain biker gives a shit about – trackstands

Ah thought you said you can barely do that type of thing? It’s a fundamental building block of trials. Could probably build a fairly decent beginner trials park in that loft 😉

A 5k run for me today, with a little walking either side to warm up & cool down.

Loganlea then left and straight up the side of the hill to the top of Carnethy

Oof. I’ve never biked up those hills as I thought it’s mostly unclimbable… Until last week. Went from the col between West Kip and Monk’s rig around the Kips (Northside, not over) then lurched up alongside the felled trees on the forestry path up to the col an up Scald Law. The slippery grass caught me out near the end (was pissing down). Needed all the gears for that.

The loft looks great, good work.

Struggled today, busy at work, being audited 😵, eldests birthday tomorrow so flying about sorting that plus domestic gubbins. Gone 9 by the time I could even consider it. Didn’t fancy gearing up and going for a run or a ride so stuck 20kg of weights in my rucksack and went for a walk up and down the hill. Weird but good. Turns out you can also drink beer while doing it. Win.

Dragged myself out first thing for a walk whilst it was sunny. Thank goodness I did as another 11+ hour work day followed. Thank goodness for this challenge as otherwise I’d easily not leave the house!

Attempted to do the Bodyweight Warrior’s PNF Full Body Flexibility Routine today. Struggled with the hip flexor stuff

Got the rarely used gymnastic rings out this evening and did half an hour off basic support holds, hangs, and planks, and hangs with different grip on the pull up bar.

Yesterday I was struggling for motivation after a busy day of working then sorting out some leaking plumbing so wasn’t able to do anything until 10pm. Didn’t help that it was lovely and sunny in the morning whilst I was stuck at my desk working and then the rain descended around 1pm 🙁

So dug out some resistance bands, which I’ve never used before, and did a YouTube video for half an hour. Was quite good fun but I definitely ached when I woke up this morning. Probably due to the fact that I never do any upper body work.

Back at it today, a nice sunny walk up Bosley Cloud with the pooch.

Been keeping 1/2 an eye on this…

Not missed a day as yet but seeing as i have dog that needs 60-90 mins of walking per day, I’m pretty unluckily to miss a day unless i get sick/injured.

I have also been doing 3-4 garage gym sessions (powerlifting and bodybuilding work) a week too since i sorted out the garage, however I really must get out on the bike more as I have been very slack in that regard!

Thank god for Zwift is all I can say, 31 days of at least 30 minutes exercise now in the bag, no way would I have managed if I had to go outside, not when I got home at 9pm on Sunday after clearing my mother’s house anyway, but was able to grab a 30 minute Zwift workout.

Stayed in all day yesterday waiting for covid test results for son who had a very high temperature Tuesday. Felt a bit tired from exercising so decided to wait until the evening when kids in bed, to do yoga. Instead I spent the whole evening trying to get a Windows laptop to print to printer plugged into a Linux desktop. Annoyed with myself because I missed the exercise and didn’t even get the IT stuff working.

Test results thankfully negative arrived this morning which we expected after his temperature had returned to normal yesterday.

Will be out on bike(s) today.

It was a one to one lesson and I was exhausted after only 30 minutes, swimming is hard work!

@claudie if you’re swimming on your own (ie not a lesson) it’s worth slowing down and focussing on the technique, thrashing up and down the pool might make you feel like Phelps but long run you’re better off getting it right and making it look effortless 🙂

Last night’s training session was hard: the coach had promised “a surprise”, and that turned out to be a circuit – 3×50″x8 stations (with 10″ to move to the next one), things like skipping/standing jumps/running round cones etc. Nothing too hard individually, but the cumulative effect is a different matter. And then despite my “effortless” comment above, the swim was anything but. Felt great afterwards though!

@mogrim – something we started during lockdown. The idea is to take a can of beer, hide it, take a couple of photos and then post these on a Facebook Group we set up for the purpose. The photos ideally give a (not too obvious) clue to the location. Adding something in the text might be handy too. Then, other members of the group try to find it. It worked really well as a means of getting folk to explore some of the less visited areas around us when travel was restricted.

My own “rules” are only one beer per ride* and beer must be drunk where found. 

You want to keep the numbers in the group to a manageable size and best if you know they are all responsible types, so Invite only/Closed group. . We prefer no bottles (risk of damage), though beer has occasionally been supplemented by miniatures of whisky.

IIRC there are currently 20 caches up and down the Strath waiting to be retrieved.

* I made an exception to this on one bivvy ride when I picked up 2 cans en route to the 3rd, which is where I bivvied.