When I’m away, I’ve been setting my alarm 30 mins earlier and “enjoying” a pre-shower Yoga or Pilates YT. It’s never fun, but I always feel good that I’ve made the effort and maintained my streak.

I need to buy a fan for the trainer. Despite the bike being in the unheated part of the house, I have no airflow and even 30 minutes on it at a moderate pace means I need a towel.

It’s raining and I can’t be arsed with the weekly MTB night ride so I’ve fired up the turbo trainer for the first time since spring. Managed 30 mins on it and it’s just as shit as I remembered it was?

EDIT when are emojis going to work again?

Feeling even grottier today so it was a repeat of yesterday – 2 hrs of Z2 on the turbo and post-ride stretches with Ash.

I’m determined to get out for something tomorrow, even if it’s just a drive and a wee walk.

@walowiz – I’m not pretending it’s not hard. I have to keep one eye on the heart rate at all times to prevent myself from regularly drifting into Z3, especially when there are hills. FWIW I use the Tacx software. You’re basically riding along looking at a video of the road you’re on. I find it more engaging than the repetitive and cartoon world that is Zwift. More like the sort of riding I do In Real Life.

Another failed day here, caught out with family and Scouting commitments. Need to be more proactive and “assertive”. Suspect that I will arrive at tomorrow nights Trustee board straight from the gym, as they are opposite sides of the sports field!

quit booze entirely to give me the best chance of recovering from the constant daily load. Seems to be helping so far. Still bloody knackered though :)

@walowiz – this challenge is 30mins a day, no? You’ve done that with a walk and then swam and ran. Calm it doon!

Wednesday hill running in the Pentlands here. Just about 9km, cold and windy.

Chest infection cleared so a bit of catch up with 4 hours walk around the lake, over the hill and back.

Hour and half up the climbing centre too.

Work tomorrow includes walking a forest boundary, so probably another couple of hours walking rough ground there.

D24 feeling a million times better than yesterday, but a yoga session was harder than usual, so clearly not 100%

physio tomorrow evening, then unless directly advised against it, the routine thursday night bike ride

Half an hour on the bag

Impressive stamina! ;-)

Rained most of the day here but got an hour of gravel/black top around the farms this afternoon.

Little catch up post.

So far this week 2x yoga sessions, bodyweight session and an extra dog walk.

Today was supposed to be a ride but is now looking like I’m working late. Sad times.

Right I am going outside. I may be some wet :)

I’m sure “in the old days” I just jumped on my bike and went. Current pre-ride routine is “Ice elbow, tape elbow, take nurafen” followed by 10 minutes desultory stretching before wondering where I put my bike lights that I only set down about two minutes ago. Repeat for contact lenses. And car keys. Dither over how much clothing to wear “Have we entered Trouser Season?” I ask myself aloud, before 3 or 4 trips to the car because this is now tradition ;)

Day 25 of the challenge and day 3 of the lurgy. While it is important to be kind to ones body, the mind also needs to be considered so I, unusually, took myself off for a wee drive in the van today.

I’m a bit of an aficionado of the Wade (and Caulfield) military roads in Scotland and while viewing some satellite imagery, recently spotted an “orphaned” bridge on the road to the Corrieyairack Pass. It’s not mentioned in Walking the Scottish Highlands by Tom Ang & Michael Pollard (my usual bible for Wade roads.), so I took myself off on a micro-explore.

The bridge wasn’t too hard to find.

The restoration is holding up well, though I could find little trace of the old road leading up to the bridge itself.

By way of contrast, this bridge was installed a few years ago to assist in the building and maintenance of the Beauly-Denny pylon line. I doubt it’ll last as long, or that anyone will care enough to resore it in 200 years time.

A better-known orphaned bridge beside Melgarve bothy.

I’d taken my drone in order to get some aerial shots of the bothy but it was a bit too breezy for my sub-250g Nano+. The wind did mean that the skies were cleraring though.

I got the drone out at Garva Bridge so might upload a couple of stills from that later.

I totalled about 90 minutes of gentle walking but enjoyed sitting in the van listening to the river and the rutting stags.

For those that might wonder, my photos sometimes appear in canmore.org.uk (the online catalogue to Scotland’s archaeology, buildings, industrial and maritime heritage) and/or geograph.org.uk

Day 25: snowed overnight (wet, slushy rubbish) so sacked off any idea of going out after work. Just a 30 minute yoga video with Breathe and Flow.

We rode some of the Wade Road about 15 years ago. From memory one of my wettest ever rides!

Feeling a little more MTB fit but need a big ride this weekend to get the legs back in the groove. Not as wet as advertised, but that is not to be confused with dry :) I’m not sure the Yeti with its posh Switch Link really likes mud season much. Still was a fun ride with a welcome pint to finish. That’s 2hr30 extra today. Hard run planned tomorrow, might leave it to the end of the day…

Another short run and stretching.

26: early alarm (well, an alarm) for some mobility and isometrics before breakfast and holiday err day.

I have sprints in the plan today. 5x400m. Not sure I’ll be hitting the kph target for all 5!

Stunning weather for dog hike this morning. Went a bit further as the sun was out. Still blooming muddy tho. Step count done so I can sack off that run later if I really don’t fancy it. Especially if someone says “fancy a beer” at 5pm !

Still on track… 8km walk this morning, that may have included a cooked breakfast, then an hour of yoga.

Another Glorious Gravel event tomorrow and, hopefully, a short ride on Sunday :-)

Day #26 – woke up sore as hell and feeling super tired all morning. Was going to go outside for this challenge today, but really didn’t even feel up to doing anything at all.

So boring lunchtime pool swim which I really thought would be total rubbish, but once I got going I just kept going to 3 km in just under an hour. So that worked better than expected.