Good effort @scotroutes. Who doesn’t love a well erected sign :)

Did the horrible run. It was, unsurprisingly, horrible. Then received message from WA group saying  the big ride is Sunday. My legs had a little cry of relief at that point!

Just got in after another missed day, but took my parents to meet up with friends they’ve not seen in person since before Covid, and as they are all in their 80s, best do these things while they can!

Semi-fail yesterday: I was on broom-wagon duties for the first part of a local ultra, which was supposed to start at 23:30 – ideal to get in my 30min for Friday, then carry on into Saturday for a twofer. Due to local weather warnings for rain they put the start back to midnight, which meant I missed my Friday bit. Not my fault, so I’m just going to ignore the fail :)

Anyway, finished about 10 and a half hours after we started, with some pretty torrential rain along the way. Just shy of 42km, and about 2500m+. Now having a well-earned beer!

Day 27: just a chilled walk up a local ski hill and back through the forest after work. Saw a pair of waxwings and a long-tailed tit.

Signed wife & myself to morning yoga at our hotel in Amsterdam, mighty hangover had me sweating and queazy was over an hour long too

Hour of Yoga always feels like about a days worth.

Easy 5km run on the Dreadmill.  Muddy hike through the woods with the doggos. I would like to add mowing the pointless vast and damp lawn but that feels like a stretch :) Cleaned my MTB so it can get muddy again tomorrow. “Drying wind” I was thinking while lowering the grass, only to put the mower away as fat raindrops went all small arms fire on the shed roof.

As expected, tricky getting anything of substance done on first day away, but we’re all tired so a stroll around Grasmere fitted the bill. (10k steps reached as a minimum measure for walking days).

Day #27 – turbo session on the Wattbike for 61 minutes at 177w indicated 30.6 km, need to work on my bike stamina, finding just an hour sodding hard work. 32 minutes of the dreaded physio exercises later and I’m done.

Day 28 was a quick hour local gravel through the forestry with Reeksy1 after breakfast with his grand folks.

Day 27: Another day of stretching and running about 6 k. My last outdoor run in Finland, I think.

@fazzini – good job. I quite fancy that one for next year. I reckon half marathons are the ideal distance. Marathons just need too much training time!

Day 6 (of the lurgy) but I was determined to get out on the bike, so took myself for a solo ride so that I could control the pace. Jeez though – Aviemore and surrounds are absolutely hoaching with mid-term holiday makers!

A wee bit of snow over the past couple of days has picked out some of the nooks and crannies of the mountains too.

Meall a’ Bhuachaille – just a dusting on the summit.

On the high track to Loch Eainich – further than I was going to go today.

The corries of Braeriach. As you can see, it’s not quite pogie weather yet.

And that’s the cliffs of Sgor Gaoith on the right.

I quite fancy that one for next year.

I’m not a natural runner. Only started running last year, and honestly, this is the first time, when asked afterwards if I enjoyed ‘that’, I could truthfully say yes.

Great work, hats off to you both @stanley @fazzini .

Day #28 – 2 mile pool swim in 66 minutes, ridiculously slow, not so much swimming as dawdling with good technique. Day 28 and I’m sure I’m getting slower.

spent the afternoon digging out and removing a eucalyptus tree trunk. It was really hard work, so I’m including it.

Spent ages cleaning the bike and kit after yesterday’s adventures. Can’t really count that as exercise, so did a yoga session with Adrienne. Much prefer doing yoga in a class, but handy when there are no classes on!

Hour on the turbo on MyWhoosh this evening.

Totally fell off the wagon last week ;(

Had a really stressful time at work last week which really took away all my energy and just couldn’t be bothered with doing exercise of any sort. Particularly annoying as had the time but not the motivation.

Followed that up with a weekend of boozing which has meant now missed 5 days.

Getting back on it this week but now target will be get in as many days out of 100 as possible so next year can aim to beat it.

On more positive note has led to hopefully a small epiphany, decided to give myself a break from trying to do too much and setting myself other unrealistic targets and routines but will just focus on doing something physical each day (might do a separate post on that!).

@stanley  Thanks – I am an “all or nothing” person so good tip re the two strikes. Think I need to rethink my whole approach to life at the moment and make sure my leisure time is more full of things I want to do rather than adding even more pressure to my life.

it snowed a bit at the top!

Show off! (wink emoji)

Nothing strenuous for me today. Legs surprisingly OK after yesterday’s run, however, just a walk in my ‘happy place’ . As much as I love the countryside, moors, mountains, forests, woods etc. I never, ever, get tired of listening to the sea. (big smile emoji)

4k hike/7k on the treadmill. Defo tired from big ride yesterday. Garmin was giving me the ‘have a day off’ advice. I don’t know how to tell it to suppress that message until Christmas Eve :)

Weights at lunchtime and an evening Zwift session. Though I’d lost weight as my jeans were loose but I’ve put 2 kgs on.  My fancy scales tell me it’s muscle.