Day 53, turbo session using wahoo systm app 28.3 km in 60 minutes.

Likewise the turbo setup has been invaluable in staying on track through this.

Also walked the dog for 1/2 hour & then did the blasted bloody physio exercises for 15 minutes. Neither of which I was interested in, or wanted to do.

Day 54, very early doors swim – 2.2 km in 48 minutes. Overall pace about 10s per 100m fast than normal. But I felt quicker this morning, despite exercising every day for approaching two months.
Quick look at the metrics recorded by garmin and ok, 500m of this swim was at 1m 45s pace, not olympic standard or remotely “fast”, but much quicker than I have been going.

This kind of goes against the widely held belief that you should have frequent genuine rest days in-between training days. Now I know I’m on the road back to fitness and all that, but I’m still surprised. I’ll take the win though.

Very atmospheric pic @thestabiliser

A severe lack of photos here from the last couple of days, but I’m still in it. There have been a couple of days where I’ve been doing 30min recovery rides, but as I’d almost certainly have just taken the day off I’m counting them. Otherwise it was a 60km road ride on Saturday, and a tough 32km trail race on Sunday. First time I’ve had a bib number on since July and it was great 🙂

The day started off badly. I’d planned a ride from Rhynie to Dufftown and back – for the magazine I write for. However, the road was closed at a bridge and they were pouring concrete today so other plans had to be made. As a result, we did two wee loops from Rhynie – one to the Cabrach and one to the Suie. That’s 730m of climbing for 43km of cycling.

This evening I joined Mrs S for her dip-a-day. We’d been planning a moonlight swim for a while and it all came together tonight. Full moon, calm, not too cold (air 8.5, water 7.3)

Day 54 – squeezed in a session of my calisthenics app workout on the pull up bar. I should stop calling it calisthenics cos it’s really just bodyweight workouts until I become strong enough to actually pick myself up. Started on the next level of difficulty and not too bad, don’t want to push my luck though as my wrist is still recovering.

I can also sense frustration kicking in now, as per previous attempts at this. This is normally down to putting these sessions of exercises before doing anything very hobby specific i.e. drumming. I simply don’t have enough time to do both most days. Maybe I need to find a way to do a more physical drum workout to get my cardio improving alongside the drumming.

Day 55, still going – mainly squeezing in sessions around work and children. Today was a turbo session using the wahoo systm app, 28.5 km in 60 minutes.

Great pics @scotroutes, moonlight swim – that has to be the winning entry for this week. Some great looking gravel routes up there from the looks of yours and @munrobiker ‘s pics?

Belated update. Glad to see everyone getting out and about, some lovely photos above.

Have managed to do something every day, recently quite a few walks, but have been off to the climbing wall and getting some rides in too.

After further DIY managed to get out towards holmesfield and then back over big moor and totley moss.

Getting quite used to my lunchtime 10k cycle. Don’t manage everyday but it feels like some effect.

Joined a call today and people commented I’d slimmed down a bit.

Overall it’s good. Don’t half get through some kit tho!

Love that photo. Reminds me of my first night riding experiences in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh.

A lovely message from Garmin popped up on my watch earlier this evening, telling me what a good boy I’d been by not excercising today, thereby reducing the recovery time from the last couple of days to a mere 61 hours 😂

I thought I’d best not upset my watch so it was some late evening weights and yoga.

Day 56, after the physio treatment yesterday, for some reason my body refused to move today at 5:30 am, so I missed my slot to go swimming. But thankfully the tube strike presented a unique opportunity to use going to work to get some good long walking in to get to the office.

So from Waterloo to work in the morning and tonight back from the office to Waterloo, two 45m quick-ish walks of about 4-4.5 km. Job done.

A fail day today as I managed to whack my left hip against a solid object at work and it’s a bit sore so decided it best to let it rest. Thankfully it’s just a bit of bruising but it wouldn’t take too well to being in the saddle or a walk. Sore enough just moving around!

I’ve got the Norovirus!At 8.00pm, I managed to drag my self to the shop.Got back after a 35 minute stroll soaked in sweat.I think the purchase of toilet roll could be useful shortly. Its my first fail to be honest.😔

I managed to drag my self to the shop.Got back after a 35 minute stroll soaked in sweat.I think the purchase of toilet roll could be useful shortly. Its my first fail to be honest.😔

thats a pass, surely. 30+ minutes of moderate exercise. If its not then I am really not doing as well as I think I am

Day 57.  Mrs S is a bit under the weather with some sort of cold but I wasn’t allowed to miss my morning dip.

Water temperature has actually risen again to 8.9C and as I had my neoprene back on for the first time this season I almost swam to the crannog.

Followed that up with a leisurely 10km run later this afternoon. The weather has been wet and wild and I thought it might get better. It didn’t. One thing about running in the rain though – it’s better when it’s dark and you can’t see it 🙂

@keefezza – I retired (for the second time) almost four years ago.

Day 58, early turbo session using wahoo systm app, 28.5 km in 60 minutes. Followed by a lunchtime walk with wombat and daughter No.2, 3.35 km in 48 minutes. Done for today.

Definitely getting fitter.

Though I can’t shake the feeling that whilst this is all good, looking back I’ve just been constantly knackered / fatigued for the last 2 months and those 2 months have flown by in the blink of an eye because of that.

25km / a couple of hours exploring some local singletrack and piecing together new loops. No photos today.

Day 58 – mostly just walking to places I would ordinarily drive to. Around 2 hours ish in total.

I hope you aren’t referring to me, I’m still mid 30’s 🤣

I would hope most could do, though I suspect a lot won’t because they’re too busy watching TV.

68km / 2.5 hours on the road bike taking advantage of the unseasonal weather to be out in short sleeves and shorts. It’s easy to forget we’re less than 7 weeks from the solstice – until the sun dips suddenly behind the mountains and the temperature plummets!

No photos again – sorry.

FWIW – it might just be my local “bubble”, which I recognise as not being completely typical, but all the over-40’s I know could (and most do) easily walk for a couple of hours.