Day 60: Fitted some new bars first thing then headed to some forestry I haven’t been to for ages. Pine trees, pineapples and while I didn’t see any interesting wildlife I did have a low speed dismount into the least friendly of spikey plants.

5km stroll at lunch.

The weekend and week has caught up on me today. Tired.

Day #60 – early doors before work turbo session on the Wattbike for 56 minutes at a constant 175w, indicated 28 km.

Day 61: Ran my 6km loop again. In the opposite direction. Getting slightly quicker… still a lot slower than i’d like.

I’m a couple of days behind…

Yesterday was a yoga session with Kassandra (thought she might be missing me) and am intervals session on the turbo, trying to help my VO2 Max.

Today was a weights session in my gym and then a walk up/down a local hill trying to spot/develop a descent for running. Fairly successfully I think.

We should see the hills changing colour early next week as the temperatures are due to plummet.

Eek!

Day 62: 25km of wet single track up at Noosa. Grip for days, except on the roots. Got home to find 93mm in the rain gauge!

A random discussion last Monday evening was enough to make me organise an ad hoc club run today, from Kingussie to Dalwhinnie. 26km of mostly good track, including some old military road. Surprisingly, 8 other idiots signed up for it too and we had a grand day out, with one very short shower but mostly just a bitterly cold headwind.

Cleaned and oiled my Saturday club ride bike yesterday but tried a Zwift race instead. My goodness they’re intense. Been sat on the sofa ever since.

@scotroutes it was as a gravel ride I did it, after breakfast at the newtonmore grill (obvs)

Been a shocker for me this week. Floored by a bug (no energy, brain fog, aches, snot!) so missed 3 days.

Day 56: Played football for 35 mins with U15s; coming down with something.

Day 57: Lunchtime walk for an hour, feeling grotty.

Days 58-60: Out of action.

Day 61: Out with the dog for about 5 k. Plus a bit of wood splitting.

Day 61 was yoga in prep for a 10k on day 62.

Day 62 10k run up and down the canal tow path.

@reeksy love Noosa, spent a lot of time there, lovely part of Aus.

It’s a great spot but overrun with tourists these days. We only really go there for mtb as the Tewantin trails are good fun.

Not much time today but went for a walk while the girl played hockey. Went down Polton Glen and matched back up to put some strain through the system. Back to running tmrow evening, all being well.

Day 64: 30 mins of strength. Squats, chin ups, good mornings and bodyweight rows. No time for anything aerobic today which I think I will miss.

I had to rest yesterday, my legs (and sit-bones) were telling me that I had been spending a little too much time on the trainer. Ended up doing a bunch of kettlebell work to try and persuade my arms, shoulders and chest not to give up on me.

Tonight: More cycling.

@ads678 I’m sure there’s a typo – Fortunately it was‘nt a heart attack. Glad your mum seems to be ok though. I’m sure the stress caused would have raised your HR by a few notches too!

I’m still suffering despite a course of antibiotics! Still full of snot and breathing is not easy. The last few days the dogs have enjoyed at least one two hour plus walk which although isn’t what I would consider to be “exercise”, it’s still doing me good to get out amongst the wildlife in the fresh air.

The good news is that I have managed to get out on the bike today, just out for some shopping but it felt good to be turning pedals again.

Day #64 – pool swim, was meant to be a bike day, but will in the office most days, so had to switch it all about today. Which was annoying, as I did a very long swim yesterday, so today’s swim didn’t feel good and wasn’t good from the garmin stats. Interestingly garmin is now telling me that over the last 2 weeks, I’ve been taking it easy on the pool and not pushing myself. That my sessions have been lighter than average and my HR is in the low brackets. Which is interesting.

so anyway pool swim 3 km in 60 minutes. Done.

Day 65: Slept in a bit so kept my ride to 27km this morning. An easy forestry gravel lap. The recent rain has brought the Roos out for the fresh verge grass. Normally they stop and stare at you until you get just too close then they turn and hop away. This morning one acted differently – it just sat munching and looking at me with one ear cocked like a dog. I went past it and slowly looked back and it was still doing the same. Eventually it hopped off, one ear still at a strange angle as if it couldn’t do anything about it.

Mobility & Isometrics today. Looking forward to a ride on frozen trails tmrow.