Day 1 Weights and road ride.
Day 2 Kettlebells
Day 3 Stand up paddle board

Day 4 Feel sick. No cardio for me. Free weights it is…

stretching routine after

Can you film this for us next time? 😂

After being on the verge of declaring my hatred of road riding due to commuting on busy roads, I felt like an easy ride was about what I needed today. A nice relaxed easy pace. Looked like rain when I left, and it did rain, just not on me, which was nice. Took the long route along country lanes to my parents (21 miles), took the short route home (3 miles).

Much preferred your seafront badlands photographs.

If you’d like to pay for our family to move back where we used to live I’ll get some more for you.

But in the mean time here’s this

The sea is behind you in the bottom left pic, and to your right in the top right 🙂

The “official” exercise was an hour of cycling with a local group before peeling off as I had to be somewhere and it was starting to rain quite a bit. Also went for a couple of walks.

Exercise classes booked for tomorrow. I got DOMS from all the abs stuff on Weds but should be OK now!

Had a gentle start dog pedal to check the sloes (none bush look knackered) the easy run day 2 day 4 was turbo.
But
Loved day 3. Easy walk with dogs at glentrool (broke phone so expensive) the mrs100th drove back to borgue and I rode the 70km mostly on forest roads via clatteringshaws. Was reasonably happy with 3hrs considering, gave the lauf its first big ride.

Last week:

Thursday – aborted swim in local spot as levels gone down so much there was a sea of mud to get to water, ended up with mountain bike ride in the evening

Friday – road ride to pick up car from MOT

Saturday – at a friends wedding in wales, tagged on at back to run up Y Lliwedd and back which seems to have done some harm to my legs! Paddle back at campsite before afternoon ceremony.

Sunday – recovery stoll half way up Siabod and bracing swim

Couple of photos, first ones cheating as they were warm up Wednesday trip out on train to ride some of the way home through the Peak.

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If you’d like to pay for our family to move back where we used to live I’ll get some more for you.

MonkeyC: After some thought I feel my comment above was maybe a bit unfair so I’ll settle for a new 27.5″ wheelset, 142 rear, HG. Afterall, we only moved 8 miles away.

Anyway, today, half an hour of punning hardcore for a shed base, followed by 35 minutes of trials – testing my nerves a bit. Here’s a pic

Will be going back out for more punning after I’ve sat on backside eating lunch perusing STW long enough.

30 mins of HIIT using this.

https://www.downdogapp.com/

😂

5k wi the wife earlier, she’s had right bother with PF recently, first run back in about a month, went with her, 5k. Going back out on bike after tea.

MrsMC has agreed to do this evenings taxi duties, so I’m attending the club’s off road ride for the first time in 2 years.

I may die…..

This is great, thanks!

2 hours at the climbing wall three times last week and then again today (which prob only equals 30 mins climbing as with a partner and swapping lead but that’s okay, huh?), four 3 hour plus rides since last Monday, and 30 minutes on the erg or ski erg on days in between. Feel no benefit at all, just tired, but enjoying myself immensely!

45min in the gym at lunchtime, then a 30min stroll with the wife this evening that I can’t really class as exercise. A pleasant walk, though 🙂

Did a couple of exercise classes tis evening which add up to about an hour.

Still have spaghetti arms, perhaps should do daily press UPS and tricep dips as the 1 min plank every day has paid off.

Day 5 of a headache so afraid it was “just a walk” for me again today. But where I probably would have just gone plop on the sofa, this did get me out of the door for an hour – which my head did benefit from (even if I didn’t have energy for anything more).

Along the river to Stockton with a bit of dirt jump thrown in at the end.Chilly on the way back.I,m really struggling to get excited about the challenge this year.

I’ve started the Garmin MTB training plan. It seems to just be a road plan with a simple “go MTBing” time block thrown in every now and again, which is fine by me as short muddy rides are too much of a PITA in winter. So the scrap bike is on training duty. Let’s see if it sticks when the nights are cold, dark and wet.

45mins on Zwift last night, first time I’ve been on since early June I think. Blimey I’d forgotten how sweaty and how much work it can be. Covid has definitely knocked the top end off…

which got me thinking I never have time to listen to podcasts

Gossip mongers Jimmy, tremendous fun!

Just done a pretty awful 7km run, hoping my legs are full of DOMS and it’s not an injury. Easy day tomorrow, will probably just do a Z1-Z2 spin on the turbo.