7km of wandering today between ‘walking meetings’ and supermarket run…

Not happened today, been busy doing various jobs around the house but not enough to claim it as exercise

TRX body weight stuff again tonight. Probably need it as nowt in my legs. 5 miler tomorrow as it’s “fake it ’til you bake it” and I know there’s some really good millionaires shortbread coming in.

I’ve had one missed day (Monday) because I had mega leg cramp from a run on Saturday followed by an evening walking about London with some mates and then an ambitious Zwift session on the Sunday.

Pummelled my legs with the massage gun, stretched as much as I could and flopped into bed early instead, sometimes you just need rest and recover rather than push for an injury.

I’m playing by my own rules through and I reckon I was already well in credit as plenty of my sessions have been 45mins to 1hr so far.

Otherwise it’s just been Zwifting Galore and I am starting to notice some minor improvements in both strength and recovery.

I’ve been ill since monday, so mave missed 4 days….

back tomorrow, fingers crossed

Day 11: got the lurgy (bloody air travel!) so was looking for something easy. Sacked off a Pilates video with Iso Welly after 15 mins as it was too much effort (my head was throbbing) and found something more fitting with a YT search for “easy yoga video”.

The plan was to ride this evening but having got soaked while working this afternoon, the last thing I wanted was another.

Decided to do an hour of weights instead.

40 mile into Blois….. into a horrible wind and rainbthe whole way. 8mph average.

2 pints of chouffe and I am ruined.

Busy gyms are rubbish

Ah, the joy of an early afternoon session.  All the OAPs are done and gone home for a nap, everyone else is at work.

loads of people walking on the good ones!!

Had they cranked the gradient up to max then hang off the rails and lean back to negate the steep gradient, that’s very popular around here!

Day #11 – busy work day with a silly early start, so squeezed in a hour turbo ride mid morning using TrainerDay at 185w indicated 33km. Bit boring tbh, can’t fathom how you can do 2 hours on a turbo setup.

might have a go at Zwift or TrainerRoad or the swoosh one.

Not particularly enthusiastic gym session today. Should have gone earlier.

Had they cranked the gradient up to max then hang off the rails and lean back to negate the steep gradient, that’s very popular around here!

Yeah, I’ve seen that a few times. Wondered what that was all about!

Filthy 10k in the rain round the local trails streams while my son was at scouts, had to hose down myself and the bike

45 mile ride planned today and it is lashing it down here in France.

Putting damp soggy gear on will be nice.

Busy gyms are rubbish, had to use one of the shit treadmills

After much dithering, we bought a Reebok “smart” treadmill in last years sales. Having done around 8 years of winter Zwift (including a nearly 1000km Jan a few years ago), I’m so bored of the turbo, I struggle to manage more than 45 mins (and I can’t be bothered with racing anymore). Having the treadmill ready to go (on Zwift to an old TV) and a training programme that mandates three runs a week is doing the job for me.

I really do not want to sit on the turbo three times a week even in my non outside riding state.

Having said all that, the treadmill took the space/cash we had put aside for a pool table! Still not sure we made the right decision.

Good to see everyone cracking on in this thread. 10% done already!

My wife uses BitGym which runs native on the android TV and ‘talks’ to the treadmill for speed etc. She does fast walks/jogs around some great locations – I like the coastal ones. Quite immersive really considering it’s just a front facing camera shot.

I didn’t want a treadmill with a big TV tho as I run a massive fan in front of it.  My better half firmly rejected a suggestion to mount the fan on the wall 🙂  The reebok was the only one with a very minimal display. Very happy with it although it’s had the engineer out twice having developed a clanking sound under use which I reported as ‘my treadmill is haunted’ 🙂

Yesterday’s… Vigorous walk to the pub, 4 pints and a packet of crisps, drunken trudge home.

I needed an easy day… it was ace!!

@ads678 -that’s our friends mad (aren’t they all) Spaniel. Roxie goes from white and fluffy to brown and matted in an hour of diving into muddy streams. I’m taking her for her first ‘professional’ groom next week. I expect we’ll be barred 🙂

Lovely 4k walk on Irvine beach this morning