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No specific workout today but that's fine - couple of hour wrestling with car stuff and moving bits around ready for my holiday feels pretty taxing.
Hopefully have chance for something tomorrow once I'm down in FOD but getting extra exercise for the following few days should be a tad easier 🙂
Had only half an hour today but took the mountain bike up the nearest hill and did some hill reps and sprints, and rode the DH track that's reopened on the local hill a few times.
Pre-breakfast 8km run from hotel in Leith. I thought about ringing TJs doorbell but took in some of the local delights that the area is famous for instead.
The beautiful sea views.
The arts and culture.
The world class cuisine.
I thought about ringing TJs doorbell but took in some of the local delights that the area is famous for instead
TJ isn’t one of the local delights? 🙂
Day 5: some stretches then into another 5 k run at lunchtime. The sky is looking purple and broody. Weather inbound here in SE Wales.
I thought about ringing TJs doorbell but took in some of the local delights that the area is famous for instead
Best game of knock and run ever - any STWer in Edinburgh plays it, whenever they visit...
You see these are the days where this really is a challenge!
4 hour meeting at work spanning lunchtime, left the office at 3 to get home early and log back on, but it took me nearly 2 hours to get home and We've got a guy in putting new internet in so can't do anything yet, daughter needs dropping off at a birthday party at 6:30, dog needs walking, we're going out tonight and the pub quiz starts at 8. Need to fit a gym session in somewhere!!
Day #5 - pool swim 2.44 km in 50 mins, physio later and that means nothing more until tomorrow. Done
Meeting our antipodean relatives for lunch today, so an outdoor bodyweight ‘core and glutes’ session at the campsite, then a wander with the dogs at the Linn of Dee this afternoon.
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Some weights, a rather nasty shock to the system! Needed a recovery beer
Didn't get to the gym but made it into the garage for 20 mins on the rowing machine and 10 minutes sit ups, push ups and various weights and stretches. I was sweaty and puffing so definitely put the effort in.
Oh and we won the pub quiz!!
Yesterday was a struggle, had a bad work day then family things to contend with. Then the Tesco delivery for tea was delayed leaving us without grub. We’d always just jump in the car and nip to the local store but motivation to tick this challenge off saw us leave the keys and “power walk” to the next nearest in the opposite direction.
So still on it. Going to be difficult today too as pretty much a full day planned so it might be half hour with the kids Switch Ring Fit game thing.
[Geordie accent] Day 6 in the 100 Day Christmas Challenge...[/Geordie accent]
47.5 miles on the road bike. Tail wind and flat for the first half, headwind and lumpy on the way home. Worth it for the excellent coffee and the lemon curd/fresh cream Victoria sponge at the halfway point, which I got to enjoy despite the distraction of "Robert" a mental but lovable Staffy at the next table.
Just done a 100kms road ride - pleased with that. Some fast riders pushed me.
Took JimmyJnr bouldering this morning and paid myself in to make use of the time. Did a few "warm up" does in the kids room (warm up, sure) and then some adult routes and circuits. It'll do for today because I'll feel it tmrow so that counts, right?
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Little mtb ride round the back yard. Really really unfit, feel like I'm basically back to zero so just nibbling at stuff for now. One climb, which is short but pretty ferocious had to put a foot down twice. Bit depressing but a bit motivating too.
I managed to get out this afternoon for a couple of hours, a bit of a history/mystery tour.
Along the river Nar, then I found a very broken concrete strip which turns out to be a Second World War decoy runway for nearby RAF Marham and then Pentney Abbey which is unfortunately private access.
Very nice afternoon to be out!
Mrs 100th did a breeze MacMillan ride so I drive her there then pedalled back the hard way. 1000m climb in 32km even the golferists seemed cheery as I rode across the course.
Heading to the tops of duchess drive on the xc bike.
Glenlivet Bike Trails for me today - lap of the blue to warm up (and make space for lunch), and then out round the red route. I still like their ‘ribbon of singletrack’ approach to trail building in preference to a lot of the flow trails that are currently in vogue.
Skatepark with the kids this morning
Mostly getting my exercise from walking at the moment.
Guessed the wrong turn in 'where has the contractor been working' on one site and went to the opposite end of the block before heading back.
Today has been a couple of loops of the forestry show, which was a fair bit more than half an hour looking at shiny machines. Not enough time to have a go at the pole climbing, that looked like half an hours exercise in 2 minutes.
Started this from a not ideal point of re-habing a painful elbow (tendonitis) which means no riding of proper bikes for 2-3 weeks. Instead headed out with my wife on the hilly 5k dog walk every day, reinserting myself into the "Zwiftiverse" (turbo and treadmill) and ransacking the YT vault of saved Yoga and Pilates Vid.
Easy to get 30 mins in at home, a bit trickier when in the world's smallest hotel room in Dublin earlier this week. Same for London next week.
Really I want to get into daily or at least bi-daily 30 min stretch/pilates/yoga. But I know I just won't do it, so when it' gets really dark and horrible, I'll join the local Gym just for those classes. Not sure I'll make the 100, but wasn't sure I'd make a week so we'll see how it goes.
Another early morning run, third consecutive day which is unusual for me. Followed by an hour of weights and body weight training.
I’m planning to take it easy for the rest of the day and enjoy watching the football with a beer or two this afternoon.
Nice chilled equinox ride this morning
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Legs are hanging after a ride up the non easy side of our local volcano.
Off to give blood, although I'm not sure it'll flow.
Day 7 - pre-breakfast run. Unfortunately, halfway around my left hammy twanged a bit. So nursed it home through mix of walking and slow running.
I need to not stretch or stretch some more.
Next few days are gonna be tough as I’m off on work travels. We’ll see what can be managed.
First time back on the treadmill since about June. We bought it at the start of the year, used it a lot (wife walked/jogged using BitGym, and I did a couple of the Zwift training progs- cycling to 10k was good) with the plan to run outside once the weather improved.
Didn't do a lot of that, then the treadmill decided to partially eat its internals. All fixed now, but first time on some fairly easy hill sprints has me thinking it's going to be a long 100 days!
Alternating between turbo and treadmill. Going to be very muddy when I'm back out on a bike but I'd still much rather be outside.
Day 7 was marshalling the SCX round at Camperdown Park. Thought I'd bag 10k steps but only got to 6k so stopped en route home for a 40min 4k steps stroll round Roslin Glen.
(As an aside, woke 2hrs early at 4am so feeling like I deserve a medal for the extra stroll after 6hrs on my feet banging and cheering).
I missed the start but would be great to join in - has been a couple of years of very limited exercise, and the kids have been calling me 'spherical'...
So will aim for Equinox to Solstice rather than the 100 days.
Started today with 2 laps of Two Bridges Loop on zwift plus a bit extra to take it to 30 min. Also a walk with the youngest to get blackberries, made 10k steps for the day.
Day 6 - walk/swim/walk
Lovely Lochan na Beinne. Much more peaceful than the better known swimming spots on a holiday weekend
Cake was involved
Water was a balmy 13C
Then headed out for a hilltop bivvy with Piemonster
Day 7 (one week already!!)
Well, obviously had to come back from the bivvy.
We spent most of the night in a cloud.
Fun ride back though, even if it was a wee bit chilly to start with.
Day 7 was walking up and down the DH race track all day spectating.
Day 8 was a strength session in the gym-shed.
Bit worried about Day 9 as i've got to go into the office for a new job and the trains are shut down for track work so I'll have to drive (1h 30?) and won't get much of a day at either end of the commute. Normally i'd be able to get a 30-minute walk in between office and station. So unless it's cool enough to go for a lunch time walk it's looking tricky.
I was planning to go for a run yesterday evening but after visiting my family in Dunstable , which was in large parts underwater and a scary drive home, where we nearly became a stranded in a flood car family... I managed a bodyweight workout
Day 7 nearly didn't happen yesterday, family day out, wife then took over the sitting room so my space was lost, continuous rain outside...
Eventually got half an hour with Kassandra in when MrsMC went to bed.
Suspect it might be the same today. Or open water swimming in the garden.
A very wet dog walk this morning. Our normal 5k route was cut short by the hunt being in the woods, apparently having lost nearly all the hounds 🙂 A lot of very wet waxed jackets and increasingly frustrated huntsmen. Put me in mind of that Alan Partridge meme when he's calling his dog 🙂
Filthy session at FOD yesterday. Only had a couple of hours and there was an MTB festival on so would have been rude not to look around - even though it ate into riding time.
Cleared the last table on the red jump line though. Small victory but a victory none the less.
Today is going to be rough, been hammering it down all day here. Was going to hit the uplift but honestly it was grim yesterday!
As expected, weather today was grim too too. Thirty minutes of riding in a pure downpour. Fireroads only as the only trail I attempted was a river - wasn't even a proper mtb trail! Might not have trained the body, but absolutely increased resiliance a notch.
Saw my first wild boar though, so that improved it a bit.