Thursday was the local group ride with added delivery of a parcel slightly on route. Absolutely destroyed myself coming back up the hill to home and still ended up 15s off my PB from a couple of years back.

Wednesday the best I managed were 3x 10 minute sessions of stretches and body weights in between meetings.

Day 18: Feeling good enough to try some yoga again. As a change to Kassandra I tried Man Flow Yoga. It’s not the same, but the session I chose was actually pretty decent for my needs. It turns out he does a huge variety of yoga sessions towards a variety of aims.

(Apparently full members can upload images!)

No, this wasn’t my session, and please don’t break the internet!

Day 19: a 45 min walk around my workplace for one last time before leaving tomorrow. Another 10k steps today. Still coughing.

30 minutes with Kassandra again

Finally rode my MTB. Elbow was pretty good. Not fixed tho hence me typing this with an icebag calming things down. Going to get back up there tomorrow and see how it feels. Was so good to get back outside even tho I was very tentative.

An hour walking on Cow Hill path in the dark. Was fine till the rain came on . Might have to take a look at Kassandra. Does she do tai chi?

Wasn’t feeling it today so decided on a local bimble. Had a go at riding with a camera in my hip pack, workout out alright, didn’t really feel it much but meant I could get a few shots on the canals.

Photo rides are now a thing, love my small cameras :)

Day 20…didn’t really go to plan. Supposed to be a big day at a favourite park. 10km in one of my mates got bucked and was out cold for a few mins. 4×4 ambulance arrived fairly quickly considering. Broken ribs, scapula…hopefully his head’s ok.

The rest of us did another 30km and he told us to come see him tomorrow.

Park run this morning 29:57. First time since COVID I’ve been under 30 mins. I’ll do a couple of dog walks today as well so it still counts!!

Park run too – took it steady after a big week on the bike cycling from Glasgow- Edinburgh – Jedburgh -Corbridge – Horton in Ribblesdale – Leeds.

I’ve been following your adventures @ton. Looks like a great trip, especially when the weather here has been a bit dodgy at times.

Second ride in as many days. This does not feel like a chore. Lovely conditions and a beer in the sunshine to finish. 3.5 hours in the woods, prob 2.5 riding. Elbow is okay but painful on steeper stuff. I have a fun afternoon booked with the lawn mower and then a couple of ice packs!

SS

Family walk in the Pentlands today. Thought I saw Munrobiker coming down off Carnethy, but he didn’t make any attempt to ride up Turnhouse so I doubt it.

Day 20: 50 mins in the hotel gym. 10 min or so stretches for runners followed by 35 mins on the tread mill – 10 mins warming up to a 25 min easy run.

Big travel day coming up tomorrow..,

Playing catch up today, so a 2.5k swim, followed by a 45 min yoga class this morning. Then out on the gravel bike round Whitelee this afternoon, just over 31 miles door to door. Oh, and the regular 3 dogs walks… my Garmin suggests a rest tomorrow..

Day #20

Wee ride round the Uath Lochan area checking out the state of the tracks and paths. Windy, but a bit blowy.

Loch Insh below, showing the amount of climb.

The steep drop down to the Uath Lochan

Ross making headway towards the pub

Bit better today.

A nice hour before breakfast to deliver some panniers I have sold to a fella off ctc forum.

All good ?

Pretty tired after overdoing it yesterday so some floor stretching and a very brief gentle Wattbike leg spin

Long dog walk/hike this morning, just missed the rain

Easy Treadmill run as that was what was on the Zwift programme and I was very happy with that, after two days back riding MTBs and some ’emergency gardening’, my legs were toast. Might do some stretching later, but after a slap up Sunday Roast I may instead opt for some ‘recovery snoozing’ on the sofa.

Plan is for four runs and an outside MTB night ride next week. Whether than plan ‘survives first contact with the enemy’ is something else entirely!

Another day on the bike, today was messing around in the woods with a couple of mates.

Started with three back to back winch up plummet down runs so I could tick the ‘this is exercise’ box before heading to the sketchier stuff.

Photo of the bikes because the riders looked miserable AF despite having loads of fun!!!