Saw this thread last week, didn’t get chance to say “I’m in” but made sure I did stuff. Managed to sneak on a good 8KG than I should have over the last year and just getting moving has become more difficult to just get on with lately. I will be setting my bar quite low in terms of what counts as exercise each day, or I just won’t do it.

Friday: In the office so avoided the lift in our 6 floor building and stairs it up and down a fair bit throughout the day
Saturday: Covered a good 6.5 miles of walking whilst helping out at the kids cycling club
Sunday: Covered another good 6.5 miles walking around at Silverstone (Ferrari Challenge day)
Monday: 46.6 miles on the road bike, not really touched the bike much over last 2 months so this hurt by the end

The elder boy will be stealing my road bike for the next 2-3 weeks for his bike club, once I get that back I’ll be getting my Zwift setup out which will help fill days.

would normally just pop round in the car

Yep, I did a lot of that last year – walking or riding to do trips I’d normally have driven. I just wish I’d kept it up more after the 100 days but that’s when we’re into quite shitty weather so it’s less appealing/convenient.

Managed a 8.5 mile walk today.

Still in the lakes, a bit more hazy today, especially this morning.

Loop from staveley round to langdale and back over the ferry.

Just done a 40 minute walk round Roath Lake and it’s left me pretty breathless! A bit of a shock as I used to walk into town regularly without any issues.

Still, good to get out and about amongst the ducks and geese.

Really struggled for any sort of motivation today. No idea why. At least I managed a walk to the shop and back after work to get my 30 mins in. Would have been better if the bloody shop had had what I needed 😳

Cycled into the office on Mrs Pondo’s e-hybrid, first time in ages – really nice 14 mile round trip through pleasingly horrendous traffic. Must do more of this. 🙂

Friday: In the office so avoided the lift in our 6 floor building and stairs it up and down a fair bit throughout the day

Ah-ha! Saw a BBC article about eccentric exercise, very smugly took the lift up and walked down. 🙂

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/58nQv4YHBQvMsvhRYcQR2qn/building-body-strength-might-be-easier-than-you-think

Day 5, around 45 mins in the local swimming pool. I’m a poor swimmer and can’t do more than 1 length without rest, add to that some awful cramp in my toes after a few more lengths. Managed about 16 in total which I’m pretty sure is more than I’ve ever done. Making this a weekly thing with the other half, free session at the pool to take advantage of!

Was vid+ but only for 3 days so did very easy stuff. Today was first venture outside exercise. 8.3km in 50mins with a few walking bits to find breath. Feel better now but goosed.

Yoga tonight. I found another channel that had some specific poses for “runners legs”. I’m hoping that might help alleviate my current ankle pain issues.

I’m giving this a go as a way to make me do the extras like yoga, walking that help with my various aches but I don’t normally get round to.
16th- swim early, tt bike ride, into a short jog
17th- rollers and short jog with my son
18th- Nantwich sprint tri
19th- 1 hour recovery ride to enjoy quiet roads and long walk with friends
20th- yoga before coffee and 5km zone 2 jog
21st- yoga before coffee and gym later

So far so good but both my kids sound like they have colds already!

Did easy swim on the outdoor pool at our hotel. First swim in years. I just kept going back and forth the best I could. Only a 20 m pool and 2 lengths was taking about 2 minutes so I reckon I did 600 m total which is easily the farthest I have ever swum. Big MTB ride around the island today so looking forward to that

30 minutes walking round town. I might summon up another 30 minutes later on.

C25k week 1, run 2 this morning. Hopefully out on the bike early tomorrow morning before work.

C25K W4R3 done – I have a sports therapist cousin who tells me the first couple of weeks are good, but the progress ramps up a bit too steep in weeks 3 and 4, so I’ve been repeating them on her advice, will start a second go at W4 on Friday. 🙂

Day 6, 2.64 km swim in 58m6s (recorded to garmin / strava). Must check to see if it’s visible to all on the Strava group, or if I need to update the privacy settings.

This challenge has all the makings of being killer difficult around the halfway mark, but it is encouraging me to get up and do something when otherwise I’d not do any activity.

Rest of today is teams meetings, but I do at least stand up for them.

Original plan for today was to go riding with a mate. However, he had to call off so that left me with the opportunity to do a bit of exploring without the responsiibility of potentially spoling someone else’s fun. It started well enough as I found two lovely sections of maintained trail. However, the third bit lookslike it’s not been used in maybe ten years. It’s overgrown and difficult to find amongst the deer tracks. Still, the bits I found will provide an alternative route to/from Carrbridge.

Day 6 – walking around the football pitch my lad trains on for an hour. That’ll do.
I noted that of the many adults in attendance, I was the only one moving for any period of time, other than coaches.

First week nearly done 🥳🥳. 90km on my bike and some fast walks. Breaking myself in gently as I don’t want to risk this knee flaring up. Hopefully manage some runs by the end of this!

Was hoping for an evening paddle with wife but it didn’t happen, did do longer than standard dog walks though so over 15k steps.