Did a very wet and windy 30 miles on the road this afternoon , I would never have gone out but this challenge meant I went and now showered and warm with a beer in hand so glad I did.

Struggling yesterday and today. Lack of motivation and planning. Did a lunchtime brisk stroll yesterday, might go out for a beerienter after dinner as motivation. Otherwise it’s yoga, and a run tmrow hopefully.

Running and hiking for me this weekend. Got my fastest 10k at 46.53 on Saturday which I’m rather chuffed with! Really loving this challenge as I would never have exercised this much normally and it’s made me try loads of different types of exercise.

Another week complete. In fact, that’s now 2 whole months. Keep up the good work folks.

@ahsat when I get a migraine, vigorous exercise is one of the few things that can relieve the pain – until I stop.

I did another couple of hours road cycling at a nice, easy pace. Got a bit wet, stopped for a coffee and a scone.

I also came across a big flock of geese in a field. With one white goose amongst them. Looked a bit of an odd one out!

Went for a “lovewhereyoulive” run this morning – sun was out, ground was filthy and slidey, just great fun. Although my back is very sore since, I think from trying to keep upright.

Hopefully be ok tmrow, otherwise a stroll might be all.

Some sort of indoor exercise this evening, just winging it, incorporating elements of yoga and bodyweight fitness, isometrics, nothing too intense. Wanted to keep heart rate down after hopping about on bike for previous two days, and arms also needed a good stretch. Forearm stretches felt good as did those which made locking out elbows difficult. Core exercises, and passive hangs. Managed to break a sweat at some point. Arch of foot still an issue is problematic as to what exercises indoor or outdoor I can do.

I’ve not missed a day but a few too many recently have been 10pm beginners yoga sessions. Probably need to up the effort to see a bigger improvement in aerobic fitness, but my flexibility, core strength and posture have improved by mixing things up.

Lucky to be able to get out at lunchtime some days so I see daylight, or working days at home would be grim.

Love this thread, thanks. Not been adhering but thinking of you folks doing all this has certainly nudged me into doing more and going out when I might not have otherwise, and strava currently has me at +920 fitness points compared to last year, if I’ve read it right 🙂

Hahaha. I’ve just done a Pilates – Yoga fusion video that was so hard I collapsed in a heap laughing. My god that was tough – cycling hamstrings aren’t designed for some of those moves.

Ahsat,how did you manage to recover from the lurgy so quickly?I’ve had this cold/chest infection on and of for three weeks.Its severely curtailed my exercise choices.Without the fallback position of a brisk walk this challenge would have been over for me weeks ago.I wonder if many of you are battling on with illness and aches and pains?

Glad your feeling better.I had been wondering if worry and stress had set of my asthma a bit.My area has been in variations of hard lockdown since March.Its getting very depressing and I have noticed a number of my mates have low level illnesses.I suppose the time of the year doesn’t help either.Might try a Vitamin D supplement as well as my Multi-vits.Sadly,my local cafe has closed down again,which means I,m eating more rubbish!MUST GET A GRIP.MUST GET A GRIP.

Thanks sirr,I will try.I,m also amazed at scotroutes fitness despite having covid.I don’t know how he does it.

Met with a friend last night for a socially distanced run. So nice being outside with someone else, someone to push you a bit.
9 miles later and I was dripping with sweat and grinning from ear to ear.
Perfect Monday night run.

My back is truly goosed, I think a muscle in my hip / butt is spasmed and it’s radiating up my back. Walking is fine, so there’s that. Trying to locate the pressure point sitting / lying on a ball seemed to help short term last night but back to agony this morning.

Eek! Definitely not superhuman. It has taken me a long time to get over my illness, which was way back at the beginning of April. I know it’s not a great measure but I was looking at my (Garmin-generated) VO2 Max earlier. Last summer, it was 48 (cycling), 46 (running). In spring that had dropped to 38/38. I’m currently at 43/44. My efforts are slower than I’d like but I just pace things as I feel.

Anyway – another 40km easy MTBing today round a very wet Abernethy forest with my ex-boss. With a BIG change in weather on the way I’ll have to think about the next few days and plan accordingly.

Loch swimming in September and I was getting ice cream headaches if I put m head under. I need to get an insulated cap!

I was recently wearing a neoprene cap and a latex one on top of that. It’s also a good idea to get bigger goggles – the kind that cover more of your face. Pull the latex cap over the top and that helps keep the forehead warm(er). TBH, when it’s about dipping rather than swimming, all the locals just wear a woolly bonnet over the neoprene cap and keep their heads out of the water.

Was meant to be a bike sesh today but yesterdays gym has left my legs trashed. Will pick it up tomorrow hopefully. Went a walk instead.

Two reasons I worked up a sweat today, screwing screws into floorboards with a non motorized screwdriver. Honestly how does that make me sweat? 2nd, nearly finished a large bag of M&S habanero chilli tortillas. Earlier this evening, after dinner, scoffed 4 hazelnut & chocolate cookies on way over to house shortly moving into and the a full snickers duo 5 minutes after arriving. Oh this is the exercise thread. Closest I got to exercise today was a ultra slow walk down to the beach with the nearly four year old and the nearly two year old. Some shoulder rides & carrying to speed things up. The big one gave up riding his balance bike on the way home so put the little one on it who refuses to sit on the saddle so essentially just walks with the bike between his legs and holding handlebars. He’d wanted me to carry him at every opportunity until that point but refused to be carry once on the balance bike. So slow 😉 I don’t consider it counted as exercise, it was something, but not really exercise. So 2 days missed now.

Well this is a real pain in the butt (pun intended). I’ve been in agony overnight, every movement hurts, finding the least painful position takes a lot of moving. And then eventually I fall asleep… and move.

This was all going so well and I’m frustrated to be reduced to walking. Off to the pharmacy this morning to get some knock-out co-codamol, physio booked for Monday.