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Nice one @lunge.

Keep going all. The updates are keeping me sane.

I sat on the turbo and spun my legs for 5 mins yesterday in the granny ring – literally for nothing more than to keep the blood moving (I have a DVT risk) and my arthritic knee from locking up (don’t worry; no cardio load at all). Not sure it counts but with you in spirit.

Tasha

Work’s been a total bastard this week. Just got out for s half hour walk before collecting the kids today.10k run tomorrow and MTB Sunday fo sho!

Sorry for the shoddy photo. It’s the only one I took.

Taken after the pub? Happy birthday.

A few HIIT sessions, couple of turbos, 2 6km runs, seven salads, 7 smoothies and I’m still the same weight I was in September!!

A lot bloody fitter tho so there is an up side!

Edit- And no Beer!!

Work’s been a total bastard this week

+1 I’ve been squeezing in what I can. Today was a 30min interval session at lunchtime on the turbo. Better than nothing, and it was pissing down and blowing a gale so I wasn’t too worried… 🙂

Hike along the Tees from the Transporter to Newport bridge.First half an hour my legs felt like they belonged to someone else!A sunny,cold and calm afternoon…perfect conditions in my book.I wish the whole of winter was like this.

It was about 5C so no danger involved.

Yesterday, I wanted to do some sort of 30minute HIIT like the Joe Wicks and Bully Juice follow along videos I did earlier in the challenge, but wanted to focus on legs and jumping. Tried looking on youtube for follow along jump higher videos but longest was 10 minutes, so in the end I just made it up uses bits and pieces of what I could remember for about 30 minutes. Really sweaty. Enjoyed but next time I might just do one of the follow along videos instead for a bit more structure.

This evening was intending yoga but wasn’t feeling the love for it so started flapping my arms around, then picked up a pair of 3kg barbells and flapped my arms around some more, then picked up the 8kg kettle bell and more arm stuff commenced, and a few squats for good measure. Worked up quite the sweat once the kettle bell came out. I rarely use the barbells or kettle bell, so was good to finally ‘get’ them in some way. 45 minutes give or take 5.

64km/709m of gravel today. Absolutely maginifent afternoon. Cold, clear, breathless.

Felt really strong and picked up a couple of unintended PRs to back that up.

Been wondering this for a while: what is a decent translation of “dreich” to English? I’m guessing “grim” would probably cover it, but is there a better word?

Dreich is not quite as bad as grim but can’t think of an equivalent.

Dreich is really just grey, no?

Got a decent run in yesterday but today’s MTB was a bit of catastrophe Went for a walk withe family in a local forest (10 miles or so from home) with the idea that I’d ride back. wife and kids set off, pull out of carpark. Where’s me phone and wallet? In the car. Nevermind. Did a couple of the trails and on the last corner hit a rock and punctured. Ok, had half an anchiove, got it fitted stood back and basked in my greatness then pumped it up. Hssssss. Split right on the bead. No tube, no phone, could be a long walk. Set off walking to see if I could get it to seal. No go. find a tube patch in my pack, shoved that in with loads of glue and it held. Up to about 10psi just and so rideable. So rode back at about 5 mph past all the good stuff I wanted to ride and got a bollocking for being late home. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yesterday upper bodyweight strength workout: 4 x 6 chin ups, 3 x 7 dips. The easier pull/push variants with feet elevated 18″: 4 x 8 bodyweight rows, 3 x 8 push ups – could have done many more except didn’t want to risk more elbow issues. The usual hour inc. warm up/cool down.

Trials ride today, 45 minutes, for once didn’t get frustrated or exhausted, no negativity at all, just enjoyed it. Technique slowly improving. At least a 5yo told me he liked my moves… But I thought he said boots. Then told him that and was wearing trainers. He said he had dinosaur boots and whizzed off with a big roar on his scooter.

Rode up to the top of Castlelaw to do a beerientiering stash, then on a bit to find one. Drank it, rolled down the hill for lunch and snapped my chain on the way. All good fun!

Been enjoying reading all your posts. Well done all. Thankfully it looks like I’ve had COVID mild, and I’m on the mend having only really had 4-5 days of feeling unwell. Still got 5 days of isolation ahead of me (isolating for 14 days), so no activities just yet (and when I do, it will only be short walks), but am hopefully I might join you all for the end, if things allow (don’t worry – will take it very careful).

Night hop about on the street trials bike last night, really windy, difficult to find spots sheltered from wind with street lighting and also decent for hopping about on. So I practised some wheelies, wheel swaps, and manuals, all pretty badly as I don’t often do those things.

WFH lunch time hop about on the street trials bike, only 30 minutes. Still really windy, sea getting a bit rough, but I wasn’t the only person out there exercising so that spurred me on.

Sometimes coming home cream crackered and the thought of grinding through half and hour seems daunting.

On days like that I do a beginners Yoga video on YouTube.

I’m not going to lie – I felt like pish when I woke up today. I’d arranged to go MTBing with a mate but my legs just felt leaden. I struggled round the 35km (750m of climbing) like a good ‘un and had a pretty good day out as a result.

I have some Loch swimming lined up in the morning and will likely do a wee yoga session later in the day. Hoping that gives my legs a wee break before the weekend comes in full pelt.

Anybody else starting to develop an irrational hatred of scotroutes and his world?😉

I’ve found myself feeling very envious of his rides from the door. Terrain that I can only dream of here in Norfolk!