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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.
Hungover trundle in to town to collect the car yesterday followed by a dank and brooding walk round grizedale with the fam.
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Was lying on the bed before, seriously considrring sacking it off but made myself get up and do 45 mins on the weights. Bloody wide awake now!.
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
I'm still at it - not done as well as previous years but I'm plugging away. I've done a bit of yoga because my body seems to need it but I've ridden my bike a decent amount too.
It seems a lot wetter than previous years. It's good in a motivational sense but do we think we'll ever get frosty clear winter days again now the climate's wrecked?
Plenty of Edinburgh gravel-
Spent a weekend tearing about on our old tandem for our wedding anniversary, pedalling from social engagement to social engagement for 20 miles. Included some spicy moments with a failed cotter pin.
Some nice sun in amongst the rain clouds on the edge of Edinburgh-
7.5 mile round trip to get some Georgian food when I should have driven-
Several very, very wet days riding in the Lakes-
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 🙂
30 minutes of stretching, yoga and weights in the backyard.It seems I need 2/3 easier days a week.Mind,with my achilles issues, that's probably a good thing.
Out on the bike tomorrow.Hope @stanley is OK.
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.
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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)
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Thanks @monkeycmonkeydo,
It's been a tough few days following the chemo last Thursday. This is always the hardest week.
I have managed to do something every day though... Quite a few ebike rides and easy walks in the Peak. Going out for "picnics" has been great for my motivation!
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.
@stanley - Mrs S was going through chemo last year and also had tougher weeks. Like you, she felt it was important not to "give in" to it so tried to do a little exercise most days, even if that was just a very short walk. Just getting outside for fresh air was a huge lift for her.
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?
@walowiz - miles and miles of lovely gravel riding up here. Forest tracks, windfarms, shooting estates etc. There are some huge loops that can be ridden, especially if you are prepared to join up gravel with quieter roads. You've missed this years Graviemore event but it'll be back next year. https://www.graviemore.scot/
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.
Just a 30 minute session on Zwift following a Pace Partner today, keeps the legs spinning as I think I may have been suffering with slightly overdoing things at some point already.
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.
Just got my knee fixed, so perhaps I'll try something like this next year (it's too late now, plus it seems like it's gonna rain haha)...
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.
Day 56. 90 minutes of Zone 3 (ish) on Zwift exploring the new scenery.
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!
Day 56 - typical busy Thursday so started to do the homeworkout app, which was requiring me to do a million press ups of various types. I did not last, and I can't feel my arms. Need to wind it back a bit 🤣
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.😔
Day 57, swim 4 km swim in 96 minutes, that’s as far as I can go in one session, fairly quick for the first 2 km, but the last km was a fair bit slower trying to prevent cramp in calves and toes !
Still it’s amazing that I can swim 4 km, compare this to me this time last year and it was all I could do to stay alive or awake. Incredible, taken a year to get here and right now I’m actually starting to believe I can make the full 100 days.
I will need a double espresso every hour to stay alert all day at work, but small price to pay. Happy Friday all.
Edit - great pic k@eefezza
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
Bit of a fail yesterday, relying on my scoot to and from the work from the car (2mile each way) and my lunch time preambulation round site. Will get a run in today.
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.
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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 🙂
Scotroutes are you retired or just have a job that allows such spare time?
Day - 57. Beginning to physically see changes in my body following this near 2 months of regular exercise. Did a load of drumming this morning, an hours walk early afternoon and some bodyweight workout on the pull up bar tonight. Now settled down with rum and wotsits.
Living the retirement dream up there 😃
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.
45 minutes weights,stretching and yoga in the back yard.Beutiful day mind.
25km / a couple of hours exploring some local singletrack and piecing together new loops. No photos today.
After fixing all my various punctures etc yesterday, a quick dart out this morning before the T20 WC final. Not much to see as it's a misty one, but could someone phone Northumbria Police please? Looks like someone's stolen St. Mary's lighthouse 🤔😂
Day 58 - mostly just walking to places I would ordinarily drive to. Around 2 hours ish in total.
I wonder what percentage of over 40 year olds in the UK can actually walk for two hours solid.Not many I suspect.
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.
Certainly not you kf!I,m wondering if there are any statistics about the subject?Suspect, for over 50s like me, the results would be shocking.
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.
Day 59, overslept as I used the wrong alarm on my phone, so shorter swim than I had planned.
2.6 km in 57 minutes, that’s it for today.
Day 59 - pull-up bar out and an hour's exercise based on that and some body weight stuff.
Apparently,most people over the age of 50, struggle to walk for just 20 minutes.Can this possibly be true.It looks that way round here.
Feel like I've been a bit on the cusp of not really meeting the bruef this year. This weekend I'll have to count three hours of fly fishing and a family walk along Coniston lakeshore but been for a run this lunchtime so am at least "proper" today, will try and up the ante a bit this week so not relying on grey areas.
I did catch this little rascal on Saturday though 🙂
(Blurry pic as wanted to get him back in quick)
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Day 60 and a bit of a balls-up.
After yesterdays ride, Garmin was exhorting me to take an easy day but also that I was short of Low Aerobic activity. So, I headed onto Zwift for an hour at Z2 this morning. So far so good.
Later on, Mrs S, bored from being confined to the house with a cold, decided we were going for a walk. So, we headed up to Loch Morlich for a casual 5km. Not too bad.
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Then, one of the guys from the running club decided he needed to shake his legs out a bit having done a 50km run on Saturday. A nice, slow pace he said. That turned into a 7km/42min run round the forest from Coylumbridge. Definitely not what Dr Garmin ordered!!
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Still going pretty well here. Friday Zwift race. Saturday an hours MTB with Mrs Blitz and then Sunday morning another solo hour on the MTB with a walk around St Andrews with the family in the afternoon. This evening just done another Zwift race.
Feels like a good time to summarise my experience so far. I’ve found it generally ok to fit the exercise in. Missed 2 days overall, both through unforeseen issues that made it tricky rather than just not being arsed, so pleased with that.
I’m definitely feeling fitter. I started on Zwift racing cat D and was pretty quickly top end of that category and bumped up to C. I struggled a bit initially in C but more recently I’m starting to be able to keep pace better and the last few races I’m generally able to stay near to the lead pack and end up finishing top 25/30%. My FTP has gone up from around 220 to 270.
My main issue is I’m just perma-hungry and snacking too much! I’ve lost no weight at all. In fact I put weight on on holiday last month (all inclusive) and have not quite got all of that increase off yet so probably a pound or two heavier than at the start. I need to keep the exercise going but have more self control with food as I’m not where I need to be weight wise. Overall though things are moving slowly in the right direction.
Day 60 - walked to a mates instead of driving. Pretty inactive day but needed a bit of that.
Three days of weights last week, a couple of easy days and back on the bike over the weekend.
Last night I really didn’t feel like it but forced myself out the door for an hour on the road bike. Definitely worth the effort and definitely wouldn’t have done if not for this challenge.
Weather forecast for this week is going to be a challenge in itself!
80 minutes at the outdoor gym and a two hour walk.I feel surprisingly strong today.I guess the challenge is working. Everybody's input has been invaluable in keeping me going.Thanks.
Day 61 - back in the water.
Loch Garten was a bit wild and windy this morning.
Usual tentative entrance
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Bouncing in the waves
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Ready to get warmed up now.
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Another calming yoga session this evening.
Day 61 - swimming (indoor heating pool because I'm not a hero/lunatic). Did 22 lengths, as an incompetent swimmer I've never really bothered to do any over the years but Mrs Fezza has learned to swim in recent years and I'm enjoying these sessions with her. Today the 22 lengths were done 2 at a time instead of the usual 1 at a time, trying to push my endurance.
Next week I go for 30 lengths.
Still plugging away here, although Friday was a semi-fail. We've been redoing the kitchen, and I spent Friday afternoon moving stuff around. Not exactly exercise, but I certainly wasn't sitting on the sofa. Saturday was a shortish run, Sunday a shortish bike ride, Monday gym (for the first time in about 6 weeks), and today was 10x400m at the track.
And a couple of photos from Saturday:
Well, I'm half way through a 'full' week of commuting on the bike. If I manage it, it will be the first time since pre-covid office days back in 2020. Not that I have an exciting commute, but it gets me on the pedal-machine so not all bad 😂
I'm falling a long way short, but still... 🙂 Still aiming for 30 minutes a day, joined Slimming World at the start of November, finding it pretty easy to stick to and have lost 10 pounds so far. 🙂 Exercise-wise, as I mostly WFH I'd started going for a fat-burny low intensity walk before work, building up to six miles, then doing something at lunch (short run/bodyweight strength/hit the heavy bag type things) - all was going swimmingly until Friday when I had a bit of discomfort in my lower right leg finishing the walk, which evolved into "pretty bloody painful" on running at lunch. It's the muscle on the front of my shin, that lifts the front of the foot up - is that shin splints? Been pretty painful and put the kybosh on my over-enthusiastic campaign, started going swimming instead and I cycled to work yesterday, which was great - felt so easy compared to my last non-e-bike assisted ride, don't know if that's weightloss, improved fitness, or just that, after walking, cycling feels so quick! A bit of all three, maybe. 🙂
Really annoyed with the shin-ouch but que sera, and all that - not easy to rest it completely but doing my best, and looking forward to (gently!) starting walking and running again. 🙂
50 minutes of "Seniors Chair exercises with Sharon"😀.Excellent stuff, for old timers like @scotroutes and I.Could feel my damaged achilles once or twice mind.Keep going everybody.
Still plodding on.
Lots of ebike rides, although today I enjoyed a ride on my non-ebike, old-faithful, Salsa Vaya.
Great stuff 🙂
Zwift tonight. Handful of gravel ride. Awful course with 3 laps of a boring loop with one big climb and one decent. Still, 50 mins ticked off.
No armchair exercises for me!!
Rode up to Ryvoan to play around with the drone. It was a bit too windy really and I eventually had to abort as the wee machine was struggling. I got a couple of photos and some short video though.
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I rode back past Loch Morlich just after the sun had set too.
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Bloody chilly on the way home mind. Garmin says 4C but it felt colder than that due to the self-induced windchill.
I rode back past Loch Morlich just after the sun had set too.
There's always one who has to show off
😜😜😜 (I'm just jealous really but when that lottery win comes in... 😂)
I wonder if next year you'll be taking photos from space.It seems to be your direction of travel!
Day 62 - a little extra walking compared to normal. Busy evening tonight and again tomorrow but I will endeavour to get something useful done
Had today off work so went to Afan for a proper ride. Sadly most of Y Wal is closed and they've completely forgotten to put any notices up at the centre! So two laps of Blue Scar it was as I was running out of time to do a lap of Penhydd.
Day 62 - and I have a confession to make! I've missed about 17 days so far but back on track now. Work knackered things up for me through October. Mostly Zwift still, but managed a 100km ride in the real world on Saturday and 50 on Sunday. I will, in no way claim I've even got close to the 100 days but going to try and stay in the rhythm of this. Well done to all that have stuck to it better than I have!
Gym yesterday, I've been for a damp run with the dog this morning and have another run planned for this evening. But I can see it all going horribly wrong this weekend as I'm off to Amsterdam with wife, and we're meeting our daughters there... and the forecast is very grim. I suppose I'll probably be walking a fair amount, that might have to do.
Did some body- and light weights stuff yesterday, then drove myself into the ground using the heavy bag for twenty minutes. 30 minute swim this morning - arms and shoulders are not happy. 🙁
Well, I’m half way through a ‘full’ week of commuting on the bike. If I manage it, it will be the first time since pre-covid office days back in 2020.
I failed in my bid. I lost my nerve completely when I saw the rain this morning and the forecast for later. Given the weather and the state of some drivers driving, having been nearly wiped out by 2 cars in the rain last night going home, I decided it wasn't worth the risk. Still a bit shaken by it tbh. Then driving in this morning, in the rain, had a driver sat on my back bumper nearly all the way. What is wrong with people?
Walk the dogs 30mins per day. Sometimes twice a day so i normally tick the box for this. Been doing a weights for the last 3 months 3 days per week too. Up until recently i lost 11kg in weight but it stalled which i was a bit gutted about.
Well this week i changed my weights to a 3 on 1 off cycle of PPL and wow, its hard but really fun. Bonus, my weight has started to reduce again.
Legs last night so i am walking funny today.
An hour and a half on Zwift - mostly Zone 2.
Did a Tour of Makuri on Zwift, Neon Flats course so 20 mins of flat-out pedalling followed by a cool-down. Think I chose the time slot with all the fast riders as I was at max HR for a lot of it just keeping up with the 'slow' riders!
5x1km intervals at the track tonight. Negative splits, all very pro 🙂
Day 63 - legs focused bodyweight workout last night. Planning some drumming and a prance around on the pull-up bar this morning.
Hoping for a skatepark trip and bike ride over the weekend!
Got a couple of runs in this week and weights session last night, tuesday was just bike commute and lunch walk so a bit light but did an hours walk with the wife yesterday lunchtime so double bubble. Was nice just having an hour with the missus without dragging the kids along too. Not sure about today, WFH so should be a run but fancy a change, need to use lunch to get out in daylight but to do what?...hmmmmm
Getting out to do anything is good for the soul, what did you do?
Day 64 - 45 mins ish workout via an app using the pull-up bar. Also spent about 3 hours painting the kitchen today so productive too!
Half hour yoga session with Kassandra this evening. Gotta keep those old joints from stiffening up.
Couple of hours jaunt along the Tees.Bit cool but no wind,so quiet enjoyable.Could have done with my batteries not packing up.Good thing I ate plenty of carrots as a child.
Mrs S was heading off to Lewis this morning, therefore necessitating a very early dip so we were in Loch Vaa at 6:30 🙂
It was beautifully calm and almost impossible to actually see the water surface until you made a ripple in it.
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It was markedly brighter as we left, though we still needed torches to find our way back to the cars.
Followed that up with some Zwift this afternoon, exploring more of the new Makuri extension.
So jealous, don't get views like that early on in the city!
Just a longish walk with my mum's dog today, was going to go out for a ride this morning but the sounds of scrapers on windscreens when I woke up meant I stayed under the duvet for a few more hours.
Friday ended up with a walk up the fell behind the house, its a stiff pull so definitely counts! Today bombed out completely. Just busy. Kid ferrying, hen house building, turf laying, theatre going busy. Bike ride tomorrow though fo' shizzle.
Day 65 - managed to get to rampworx with my boys for a few hours Saturday afternoon. Need to get out more often, very slow to loosen up but managing to get some old stuff back every time I'm out.
Not sure what today will entail, probably going to be a focus on house decorating/cleaning so we can flog it.
After 3 days of crap weather, work, inactivity (thanks Dr Depression 😡) I actually got out this morning. It was cold. Felt like hard work. Didn't go far, but it felt really good. At this rate, I'll be completing my 100 days next summer 😳😂
Day 65. Some snow on the mountains overnight so I thought I'd best dust off the fatbike in preparation for "proper" Winter.
35km round Rothiemurchus and Glenmore again. A bit wet on the trails and the air definitely feeling a bit fresher than of late.
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Heading towards Lurchers Crag and the Lairig Ghru
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Lochan nan Geadas (geadas = pike). A view that only recently opened up as they've been harvesting the timber.
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Crossing the Allt Mor
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And who can resist a couple of shots of Loch Morlich?
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