My hip has been ok for over a week now and today I was thinking that a gentle jog around the village might be on the cards very soon. I love it but find that it gives me more niggles than anything else.
Today I’ve just suffered an hour of weights and I cycled over to look at a job earlier this afternoon. Lovely weather again!

Day 31: very early walk in the cold and dark (thanks insomnia)

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Squats. Lots of squats

Very steady 30 mins in the gym today after a heavy weekend.

I’ve done that, made worse by the saddle having a cutout made the quick recoil just as painful!

Went out on the Ridgeway above Cardiff today, only a short up and down as the wind on the ridge was rather strong!

Apart from the wind it was a perfect temperature, cool enough to keep sweat to a minimum but not cold enough to warrant anything more than a windproof long sleeve and a base layer.

Only managed a walk tonight, still got back sweaty though, so it’s done something. Bike tomorrow I reckon.

Still on track even if a couple of days have been longer dog walks. Last night was the first MUST have lights ride. Need to put helmet mount back on.

That’s rough luck, 100 days of chilling and mending for you.

lunch walk and 30 mins weights here, off for recovery pie and peas now 🥧

Concussion is not to be taken lightly, can lead to all sorts of issues if you stress the brain out again.  I’m living with the effects of doing just that and have done for 12 years now and it’s not exactly pleasant!  Rest up, do whatever gentle exercises you feel like doing and come back to full health ready for the New Year.

Just another Zwift session for me, weather forecast was horrible all yesterday evening and this morning but never arrived!  

Yesterday was a recovery day with extended dog walks and thirty minutes of stretching in the evening.
Just got home from a damp and windy ride out along the local river bank on the fatty. Not ridden it in a while so was good to get back on it. First proper night ride of this autumn.

33. Feeling a wee bit brighter this evening, so headed out into the dark and lashing rain of Storm Babet with the pooch for an hour’s walk. It was very dark, especially under the trees near the river. So much so that I almost bumped into a sizeable cow (it was black) that was sheltering from the rain.

I hope to do something a bit more strenuous tomorrow.

Day 33: walk to shop (further than nearest shop which wouldn’t have been 30+ minutes)

Well I failed yesterday. I’m absolutely gutted.

I thought I was getting over my cold/flu/covid thing from last week but yesterday I went backwards. Literally passed out at lunchtime, with my lunch on my lap and my phone in my hand. Woke up an hour or so later in exactly the same position. Dog had left my lunch alone, which is good though. Just so tired yesterday and could’nt do anything, was also suffering with stomach cramps and diarreah through the day.

I’m going to keep going though, will try and get out to do something tonight after work, and try and get to chrismas having only missed one day. I am really gutted though. I thought I was going to do it this time.

Yeah, just pee’d off as I though I was over the worst of it, but it just seems to be dragging on!

I’ll get out for walks over the next few days and see how I go. I want to keep going with it, I’f I can keep it down to one missed day then I’ll still feel thats a massive achievement after the last couple of years of letting myself go….

This is a great way of getting your mojo back, keeping it intersting is the key and the hard part sometimes, but finding new things to do or places to go makes it fun.

Haven’t checked in for a while, so quite the war and peace update.

day 23 – eMtb ride 31 km in 1 hour 40 mins, great fun.

day 24 – swim 3.5 km in 74 minutes and a 2 km walk with Willa for 30 minutes

day 25 – indoor turnpbo session 28 km in 55 minutes

day 26 – swim 3 km in 63 minutes and later walk with Wombat 2.3 km in 33 minutes 

day 27  – indoor turbo session, using the wahoo ride app which fubared itself on the stupid lock icon on the screen, failing to write the fit file correctly. But 52 minutes and 25.8 km, so all good-ish.

day 28 – had to take it a bit easier, 4.2 km walking in 41 minutes.

day 29 – walking with wombat 3.2 km in 45 minutes

day 30 – eMtb ride (pic below) 26 km in 1 hour 25 minutes, great blast round the trails and walked wombat later.

day 31 – indoor turbo session, 31.5 km in 1 hour.

day 32 – fail fail fail. An immensely insane day at work, not a moment to myself, constantly talking to multiple people all day long, left work stupidly late and no energy left for a damn thing apart from holding a beer.

day 33 – swim 2.5 km in 55 minutes, dog slow rubbish swim.

day 34 – swim, same 2.5 km as on the 18th oct (day 33), but in 50 minutes, 5.5 minutes quicker.

Still in the challenge, but max I’ll get is 99 days, which is still pretty good. Sometimes life just gets in the way, hey ho.

Got out for a reasonable walk tonight. Was knackered whilst walking but I actually feel a bit better this evening. 🤞