Day 6: A couple of hours walking by the canal and through town, dodging rain showers.

Glenlivet Bike Trails for me today – lap of the blue to warm up (and make space for lunch), and then out round the red route. I still like their ‘ribbon of singletrack’ approach to trail building in preference to a lot of the flow trails that are currently in vogue.

Cricket for me today…I even scored some runs ?

Couple of reasonably steady gym visits the last couple of days.

Mostly getting my exercise from walking at the moment.
Guessed the wrong turn in ‘where has the contractor been working’ on one site and went to the opposite end of the block before heading back.
Today has been a couple of loops of the forestry show, which was a fair bit more than half an hour looking at shiny machines. Not enough time to have a go at the pole climbing, that looked like half an hours exercise in 2 minutes.

Started this from a not ideal point of re-habing a painful elbow (tendonitis) which means no riding of proper bikes for 2-3 weeks. Instead headed out with my wife on the hilly 5k dog walk every day, reinserting myself into the “Zwiftiverse” (turbo and treadmill) and ransacking the YT vault of saved Yoga and Pilates Vid.

Easy to get 30 mins in at home, a bit trickier when in the world’s smallest hotel room in Dublin earlier this week. Same for London next week.

Really I want to get into daily or at least bi-daily 30 min stretch/pilates/yoga. But I know I just won’t do it, so when it’ gets really dark and horrible, I’ll join the local Gym just for those classes. Not sure I’ll make the 100, but wasn’t sure I’d make a week so we’ll see how it goes.

Another early morning run, third consecutive day which is unusual for me. Followed by an hour of weights and body weight training.
I’m planning to take it easy for the rest of the day and enjoy watching the football with a beer or two this afternoon.

Nice chilled equinox ride this morning

Steady 31 mins on the treadmill today.

Day 7 – pre-breakfast run. Unfortunately, halfway around my left hammy twanged a bit. So nursed it home through mix of walking and slow running.

I need to not stretch or stretch some more.

Next few days are gonna be tough as I’m off on work travels. We’ll see what can be managed.

First time back on the treadmill since about June. We bought it at the start of the year, used it a lot (wife walked/jogged using BitGym, and I did a couple of the Zwift training progs- cycling to 10k was good) with the plan to run outside once the weather improved.

Didn’t do a lot of that, then the treadmill decided to partially eat its internals. All fixed now, but first time on some fairly easy hill sprints has me thinking it’s going to be a long 100 days!

Alternating between turbo and treadmill. Going to be very muddy when I’m back out on a bike but I’d still much rather be outside.

Still on it although today had to be easy day if 30 mins yoga as have spent most of day taking youngest to university.

that combined with lack of fitness is making me feel very old!

Body weight stuff and tentative and disappointing flirtation with the chinning bar

Day 7 (one week already!!)

Well, obviously had to come back from the bivvy.

We spent most of the night in a cloud.

Fun ride back though, even if it was a wee bit chilly to start with.

Day 7 was walking up and down the DH race track all day spectating.

Day 8 was a strength session in the gym-shed.

Bit worried about Day 9 as i’ve got to go into the office for a new job and the trains are shut down for track work so I’ll have to drive (1h 30?) and won’t get much of a day at either end of the commute. Normally i’d be able to get a 30-minute walk in between office and station. So unless it’s cool enough to go for a lunch time walk it’s looking tricky.

I was planning to go for a run yesterday evening but after visiting my family in Dunstable , which was in large parts underwater and a scary drive home, where we nearly became a stranded in a flood car family… I managed a bodyweight workout

A very wet dog walk this morning. Our normal 5k route was cut short by the hunt being in the woods, apparently having lost nearly all the hounds 🙂 A lot of very wet waxed jackets and increasingly frustrated huntsmen. Put me in mind of that Alan Partridge meme when he’s calling his dog 🙂

Filthy session at FOD yesterday. Only had a couple of hours and there was an MTB festival on so would have been rude not to look around – even though it ate into riding time.

Cleared the last table on the red jump line though. Small victory but a victory none the less.

Today is going to be rough, been hammering it down all day here. Was going to hit the uplift but honestly it was grim yesterday!

Pushed for time again tonight, so just managed a 30 minute turbo session.

As expected, weather today was grim too too. Thirty minutes of riding in a pure downpour. Fireroads only as the only trail I attempted was a river – wasn’t even a proper mtb trail! Might not have trained the body, but absolutely increased resiliance a notch.

Saw my first wild boar though, so that improved it a bit.