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18. Short sharp ride up and down my local hill. 1hr 10 mins. 👌🏻
@scotroutes - Nicole knows how to administer the pain! Kind of glad it’s not just me she’s hurting.
Day 17: walking round Munich (any fitness gains immediately drowned at Oktoberfest!)
Day 18: Reimer parkrun (Oktoberfest-affected)
Chances of me completing this challenge i.e. doing 'some' exercise every day: 51%
Chances of me getting the day numbers correct: 49%
Day 18 was a ride at Afan, the Penhydd trail. Every time I do it I'm reminded that they've not maintained the thing at all since the rebuild after the 10 year closure so the drops on Revelation are now crap as you land on a mess of jagged rocks. Knew I should have just done Blue Scar twice instead!
Now then, where did I get to?
Saturday was weights I think, Sunday was busy with dutiful son in law shenanigans so just an hour or so walk with the fam. Last night was wobbling as karate was cancelled again and I just couldn't be arsed with the weights or turbo and was too wet in the fields for a run so stuck about 30kg of rocks in a rucksack and did half a dozen hill repeats up the drive (250m ish). Tonight was 40 mins of weights/bodyweight and a bit of kata to warm down. Noticing a slight improvement, am on reps of 4 chin ups now as opposed to 2-3ish at the start (as opposed to 12-14 two years ago :\ ). Still totes swole, though bro... around the middle. Not lost any weight yet at all which surely can only be explained as fat morphing in to cast iron muscle
Sunday - Digging and mattocking at community garden and a walk
MOnday - out on the bike
Tuesday - finished work late so an evening walk
Today - managed to get out on the bike again up to Stanage.
40 mins or so of easy-ish running this afternoon.
20 mins swimming with Mrs S in Loch Pityoulish. First time in a wetsuit for aaages. I'd forgotten about the bouyancy, which felt really weird in the wee waves being kicked up by the wind.
My easiest day to date, half hour walk. Back at it tomorrow with more effort. Going to be a long haul.
Swim this morning 06.30 - try to do one swim every week - bike commuting Thurs and Fri.
I did my first session since March on the indoor rollers last week. I strangely quite enjoyed it. It was only a 40 odd minute sweet spot session but was quite impressed with my 32km distance (45km/h average speed).
Well done everyone. Keep up the good work.
Day #19 - woke up with a stinking bloody cold and very unwell all round. Properly pi@@ed off, so I went swimming anyway. Jesus H that session was hard work, 3.12 km in 66 minutes, nothing to do with technique or fitness just stoopid bloodymindedness.
walked wombat after work in a bit of a daze for 30 minutes. That felt like a slog uphill through treacle.
17 still at it.
Zwift for 45 mins entered my first race and was dropped immediately.,😅
Tour of Watopia for day 19, didn't hit it hard but definitely worked up a sweat.
One fifth done!
I thought it was still day 19. 😂
Mrs S is doing the Aviemore 10km at the weekend so, as her coach (😉), it fell to me to force her out for a wee run between showers.
Finished that off with an hour or so of yoga/stretches and weights.
Day #20 - 3 km swim in 62 minutes, felt very very slow, as fatigue and a cold set in - and there was yet another fekwit in the pool swimming the wrong way and not really getting how the fast lane works. There are muppets everywhere.
Rubbish 5k run tonight. Why am I always rubbish at running in the evening?
Day 20 and a few hours spent having fun at Windhill Bike Park. 10 laps and pedalled backup the hill for 6 of them, one was to the sound of the hippos being fed 🤣
An hour of weights yesterday and tonight, one hour twenty out on the bike. Had a close encounter with a hare, green woodpecker and a barn owl when heading home. Makes it worth the effort!
I've been trying to go steady most days to avoid burning out but after an hours upper body with my PT yesterday I was pretty tired today. Managed 40 mins in the gym though with some interval runs and a bit of core.
Hour and a half on the cx bike, while the youngest was at cubs. Black as pitch, blowing a hoolie and chucking down. Loved it!
Conishead priory/manjushri centre
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Isometrics yesterday, dog strolling today. Visiting mum after her spine surgery - mighty impressive results!
Day 19: lunchtime walk
Day 20: run
Day 21: walk to/from work (technically only walked to work at this point but I'm not planning to stay the night)
D21
Little run. Couldn't get out on tarmac due to complete road closure so went off road. Don't like it! 😆
Day 21, a gentle walk into Abergavenny and back while getting mum's car MOT'd. Rather nice to have an easy day and use up dead time.
Well after today's mini-mooch, the Parkrun may have to wait another week. In better news, I saw my first ever 'local' red squirrel today, so that's made up for me feeling like cack 😁
Day 21. 25km run to Grantown on Spey along the Speyside Way. Felt remarkably good.
Still some bonnie flowers around 
Met this wee chap on the path
Finished off (after cake and coffee) with 20 minute stretching with Ash (Can throughly recommend his YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@RunBetterwithAsh)
25km run
You ran 25k?? 🤯 (jealous of location (and ability 😉))
21. Another gym sesh. Avoided legs as we’re on the bikes tomorrow.
Day 22: parkrun shocker - had to stop running after ~1km and walked most of the rest. Even when walking my HR and breathing took ages to come back.
I think I may be going down with some form of 'lurgy' - if I have to take some days off the challenge through proper illness I will and then keep going again once I'm OK to carry on (although tomorrow's plan is walk to/from junior parkrun and I'm reasonably sure I can do that).
I've had a bit of a lurgy, all of us in the house have had it, wife had it worse though. I really struggled on a run Thursday night so just had a walk last night, and going biking today instead of doing park run.
D22 could/should have started better, a nice lazy saturday morning, veggie brekkie and coffee..... now turns out the kids are over this afternoon for a BBQ!<br /><br />2hrs 34mins to procrastinate, cut the lawn, prep the BBQ and decide on an exercise session - wish me luck.<br /><br />I thought i pulled it out the bag yesterday, staying on at work to use the gym after a rubbish week
D22
Bit of a stretch and running round getting gig ready - bit of a cop out today
Day 22 in the Big Brother house and...
OK. Not really. But I did manage a mud-avoiding 29 miles on the bicycle today. 😁 One of those days when everything was lush and I had a stupid grin on my chops the whole way.
Lovely flapjack in The Cycle Hub cafe too.
Not checked in for a while. Day 15 was a fail. Really annoyed with myself but just couldn’t get past a mental block. Was really down, got through a tough day at work and just couldn’t haul my ass off the sofa. Picked it back up and been going solidly since but I know I’m out for this year. <br /><br />
Been mixing up circuits, jogging, turbo sessions, etc but annoyingly it seems like I can run and ride but can’t walk because of a dodgy knee so gentle days are hard. Managed another 5km run and was another 30s faster than last time. <br /><br />
This morning managed an 8km run in just over 50mins which is the furthest I have run since 2007!!
Can’t get over the amount of sweating I am doing with all this😳 I’m constantly drinking water to try and catch up. Also dropped about 1kg so far. Getting a lot closer to my pre operation weight but also much fitter all round. <br /><br />
I am liking what this is doing to me
I know I’m out for this year
Just go for a walk on Xmas day and call it even 😁
Out this morning in the lashing rain to support Mrs S in her dip-a-day challenge. Well, I guess it wouldn't be a challenge if it didn't involve some hardship!
It must be love. Right?
And then an hour on Zwift to remind myself what spinning a crank is like.
Another hour of weights yesterday and a very enjoyable ride this morning. The weather has been very unseasonal, it was a pleasure to be out so made the most of it and was out for three hours.
After being away in Spain last Fri - Mon, drinking *way* too much and only walking blew the cobwebs off with a decent ride up to Lady Cannings, just under 40 miles. Lovely weather, although the coffee van wasn't at Curbar Gap which was disappointing. Curbar Edge was super busy.
Easily the hardest part of doing this is avoiding getting sick.. last year it was flu- was flattened for 3 weeks. This year it's the 'vid. Managed 15 days and have just had to rest this week. Looking forward to picking back up when the chest allows.
Easily the hardest part of doing this is avoiding getting sick.
Absolutely this.
It’s a lottery and illness or injury is hard to avoid. Last year I was struck down with flu the week before Christmas. All we can do is give it our best shot.
Best of health to everyone!
Most of this week has been Zwift based, so good to get out for a wander up Conic Hill last night after work. Have been struggling with a lack of fitness and motivation since having shoulder problems at the start of the year, so the 100 day challenge is proving a good motivation to build some consistency back into my exercise habits.
Day #21 - eMtb ride 33 km in 1 hour 42 minutes. Brilliant fun. Later a 3km walk with Wombat in 48 minutes.
Day #22 - swim 2.64 km in 54 minutes. Not a great session, was bloody tired. Am still knackered now !
but still in the challenge and well done everyone still doing this. It’s not always that easy to keep going at this.
some great pics and stuff being done by you guys.
22. Off colour this morning, so cycling postponed until tomorrow. I went for a short walk (30-40 mins) to enjoy the balmy weather. Finally did some stretching and pseudo-yoga moves for about 30 mins after the rugby Not great but FoD tomorrow.
Haven't posted in here until now but I've been following this and have managed to succeed so far with a mixture of MTB, turbo, bouldering, walks and weight training. I must admit it's quite satisfying seeing a big block of activities on my Strava training log!
If I don't get ill before Xmas I'm quietly confident I can get this done. Back on the MTB this morning after a big 43km 1200m day yesterday.
Had a therapeutic/ cathartic few days in Chesterfield looking after my mum post spinal op. Thursday and Friday were dog walks in Stone Edge quarry, where we spent a lot of teenage time "sessioning" one particular trail and rocky chutes. Yesterday was a run along Curbar and Baslow edges - bit shorter than planned but didn't feel great so no bad thing. Then walked around Holymoorside rediscovering more trails of my youth and visiting Dad & Dog's ash scattering spot. Lovely part of the world. Yoga this morning to stretch it all off.
Two hours scarifying the lawn with a rake will have to do for today. Quite a workout!
23. FoD with son 2. Lovely weather but Cannop was packed! Now off to mow the lawn.
Went for a run up to Levers water, well, a run back down from Levers water.
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7k walk Friday evening, MTB Saturday and just been for a run/walk with my wife. Only 4.3k but she's not been well this week and I'm still sweating like mad and knackered!
D23
Dancing around at rehearsals then a good wander round town for the photos.
Too wired today
Had to exercise indoors today. Flood warning was at RED - Danger to Life level and bit of the town are submerged.
Coincidentally, Zwift sent me a "we've not seen you for a while" email with a promo code for a free month so I'll count that as a win!
skateboard on Friday
then 2 days on cub camp, that's definitely a workout!
Really couldn't be bothered today but managed some more interval runs + some upper body stuff. Hopefully get out on MTB tomorrow.
A few hours down the local beach with the RC club and our crawlers this afternoon followed by a Zwift session. Honing in on 25 days without a missed day, really happy with that!
Had to exercise indoors today. Flood warning was at RED – Danger to Life level and bit of the town are submerged.
Perfect for your wife's "dip a day", though?
Not doing the challenge this year - I've got a couple of races coming up, so knew I'd be tapering/recovering and it wasn't going to happen. But I'm enjoying following along with all your activities, and it's great to see a few of you are starting to notice real gains from doing it!
And the photos, obviously 🙂
Went for a walk to see the waterfalls at Blaen Y Glyn Isaf in the Brecon Beacons today, not a huge distance but a tough walk so plenty of calories burned. Took the little truck with me too.
One day I might actually go for a walk somewhere without it 🤣
Day 24: lunchtime walk - I was going to walk to/from work but had a crap night's sleep so opted to wfh but dragged myself out for a walk.
Road ride after work. The weather is beautiful, better than July and August, really warm and a most noticeably light breeze. Perfect cycling conditions and I’d say the best I can remember for some time.