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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.
Yesterday was a 1hr ride to let my mates dogs out, would normally just pop round in the car so this is definitely working! 😁
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.
I think this week could be make or break for me. Feeling really tired today and won't be finished work until 6.30pm. But I'm going to try and get out on the gravel bike, had trouble clipping in but think that was due to ancient dirt under the cleats, so cleaned them last night, so hopefully that's done the trick.
Managed a 8.5 mile walk today.
i managed to take the bike to work today, so i can breathe easy again till Friday (wed & thurs phys sessions are 99% guaranteed)
what i wasnt prepared for is the mental shopping list im creating:
trainers - really! to differentiate between running and gym
padded shorts - ok long overdue replacements
fitness tracker -> FenixSuperSolarExtreme mkVIII - so totally needed as i forgot to hit 'start' on strava, on my phone, for the commute in
Still in the lakes, a bit more hazy today, especially this morning.
Loop from staveley round to langdale and back over the ferry.
Just got home from 30 miles after work. I realise that in another month that it will be much more difficult so making the most of what we have left of summer.
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.
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Still, good to get out and about amongst the ducks and geese.
Day 5, back to work today and overslept the alarm, so had to go for a walk at a late lunchtime, so 3.2km walk through central London in 38m.
Don’t want to overdo it this early on, am thinking now of 4 proper days exercise and the fifth will be more restful, but still active. Plus surrounded by sick, coughing, sneezing people at work and the trains, it’s only a question of when not if I get some bug, which will make this even tougher.
Edit. Slightly envious of the amazing parts of the country some of you guys seem to live in. Some great pics on this thread.
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 😳
Day five, the first day this challenge has got me doing something I wouldn’t have done anyway. Circuitous walk to the shop.
Would have happily slobbed on the sofa this evening.
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. 🙂
30 minutes youtube video today.Seated self care stretching with Pahla!She was not as dominating as Sharon.At least no achilles issues to speak of and a nice relax after yesterday's bike ride.
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!
NEARLY buckled as the hairdresser came round (not a euphemism) to cut the wifes/kids hair tonight (natch). Which is a nightmare for me as I've got to do tea, double bath hair wash and dry and bed whilst the MemSahib is coiffured. Id also done my usual half hour walk at lunch so could have weaseled out. But no, I smashed it in the big ring, spun up the techno, put the power down and pumped iron for all I was worth for 30 mins. Now crippled.
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.
Took a scenic route to meet a friend at a pub to discuss our weekend plans.
Stunning couple of minutes watching a barn owl hunting for it's tea.
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 very sore this morning, probably due to ramping up from near-nothing to every day! Mainly the legs so might try and do some stretching/weight work on the upper body today.
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!
30 something minute run walk yesterday morning, haven't run for years, feeling in my legs a bit today so glad I didn't just go all out.
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
Gym for weights and a run first thing, 5km walk with dog mid morning...now sat on my arse in never ending Teams meetings!
30 minutes walking round town. I might summon up another 30 minutes later on.
Activity Report
Day 1 - 16 flights of stairs, usually use lift.
Day 2 - Walk into town & back, usually use car.
Day 3 - 36 flights of stairs
Day 4 - Off road ride 20.1 miles, usually 14.5 miles.
Day 5 - Youtube Balance exercise, tried this for the first time.
Day 6 - Dentist later today - implant surgery, might squirm around in the chair a bit, hope that counts....!
C25k week 1, run 2 this morning. Hopefully out on the bike early tomorrow morning before work.
Couple of runs done today - first thing in the morning with the dog, then just done some intervals at lunch.
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. 🙂
but the progress ramps up a bit too steep in weeks 3 and 4
Having never run (for running's sake) before I definitely found this to be the case. I'd already completed the C25k once pre July, and was training for the GNR, but injured myself and have just got back to trying running again. I re-did several weeks and several runs over the course of my original attempt on the suggestion of another STW forumite. It was beneficial. I've started C25k from the beginning, again, to try and get back in to it, whilst not aggravating the injury which has had 2 months + full rest. Cycling doesn't bother it.
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.
Still up in the Lakes, very misty with low cloud which lifted as the ride went on.
Other half was reccying a fell run so I rode out to retrieve the car - via high street and Ullswater single-track. I definitely need an easier day tomorrow!
Good to hear what everyone else is getting up to.
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.
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Well a very mundane walk to the hospital for an OP appointment and a run home. No exotic photos but still good to get out and about as I managed to go via the fields and golf course.
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.
I've completed 30 minutes of drinking 😂
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!
Had my first 'fail' day yesterday as I was just too sore to do anything, thought I might have picked up the dreaded virus I was feeling so rough! A good night's sleep though and I feel much better so will slowly get back into it this evening.
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.
Weights and run done, will take dog out later
Gym last night- started trying out some of the hyrox events and decided I don’t really fancy it.
Yoga with Cassandra this morning with a lovely sunrise.
Extra Dad Taxi duties last night and a small crisis with my parents meant I missed yesterday and this mornings ride on my day off is also cancelled. Will aim to squeeze something in tonight.
Day 7, got up early doors to get a turbo session in before school run, getting to work etc. so this 100 days of exercise malarkey is doing the trick.
19.99 km in 45m, wahoo systm app said 20km, but strava recorded it as 19.99 km.
Short bike ride with the kids on Monday, yoga on Tuesday (still knackered from racing at the weekend)
Then started on my exercise app last night- great way of getting a quick workout in
There's a few apps from the same people
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=homeworkout.homeworkouts.noequipment
Urban meander with Bob last night.Parks and gardens to observe the wildlife.Some of the animals were interesting to.Anyway...at least a 90 minute walk.
First week completed. A mixture of mountain biking, running and walking. Just a quick 2km walk today as it's first day of chemo... Which felt better than I expected tbh 🙂
Tired legs today so just a lunchtime stroll by the reservoir.
Good luck @stanley, hope it all goes well. 🙂
Just a quick 2km walk today as it’s first day of chemo… Which felt better than I expected tbh 🙂
Good luck, hope it all goes well.
Walks of various length/distances, couple of runs, an easy sufferfest/wahoo vid, yoga everyday ..... a nice easy start into it.
Saw a thing the other day.... 100 days of pull ups.... Day 1, one pull up, day 2 two pull ups etc etc....
That will be tough come November !! So Im trying every other day, to get to 50 pull ups on last day.
Saw a thing the other day…. 100 days of pull ups…. Day 1, one pull up, day 2 two pull ups etc etc….
Have tried this with pressups starting new years day.
Jan first, 1 pushup in the morning, one befroe bed.
2 on the next day and so on.
Next christmas suprise your family by busting out 360 continuous pushups effortlessly.
I normally get bored and forget after about the second week of january so I give up. deosn't work if you skip a day 😉
Gym done at lunchtime, I'll try and get in a Systm/Sufferfest vid later.
Off road ride 32.4 miles, I did stop for Coffee and Cake. The cake had a Cherry on top which was nice....
Did you eat the cherry first?
Zwift Academy Workout #2 today. I did the short one, but I think I should have manned up and done the long one!
Half hour yoga this morning, then decided to run the dog walk. Had a walk with friends at lunch and slightly shorter dog walk tonight.
Walked another local park this evening, plan to tick off them all over the 100 days. This one had a gravel path, so much better on the feet than the tarmac of the one on Tuesday.
So, this week, 4 walks of at least 1.5 hours (over and above the regular morning/evening dog walks,a 1.5 hr off road ride, yoga, and then rowing machine today. That's the first week done and dusted 😀
Half an hour with Kassandra this evening, having done no core work for weeks/months, I think I'm gonna be sore tomorrow.
32 minutes achilles tendon exercises using YouTube .I could really done with a foam roller.Anybody think of a substitute for one?
Techno powered weights #2, Jeff Mills. Spot of Sven Vath on Saturday perhaps. Did a 45 min run last night steady but OK.
I know I should have had an easy day today but got home a really had to get out on a bike ride. Went out for an hour on the road which was just the therapy I needed.
Spent the evening watching television on my foam roller which I’m hoping will sort out my legs for tomorrow.
A 5k run this evening. Finally getting back into the rhythm of running, so this challenge is definitely positive.
@stanley - hope it goes well and you don't feel too crap
Yeh,take it steady stanley.
Fun play ride on the trails tonight.
Tomorrow is a challenge. Full day of work including site visit, then evening commitment.
Will need to force myself to do a quick run or zwift at some point.
30mins of weights this evening. First time doing weights in a long time. First week done which is longer than I managed last year!
Is this the 3rd year we’ve been doing this on STW?
4th IIRC. 3rd year I've been doing it.
Day 7 - fail*, and I've only just realised.
Hell of a busy week (for me) and completely forgot to make time for this. Bugger.
Tomorrow I'll be aiming to walking my you get to school, around 50mins round walk. I'll make up for today with some home workout, drumming, cleaning and painting (hopefully).
I've done approximately 6 days more exercise this week than I have for the last 6 months. I will class that as success!
Gym done, trained legs which meant I couldn't quite manage my 5k run (total jelly). Did a couple of miles then finished off in the static bike.
Will go for a wobbly walk with the dog later.
4th IIRC
Is it really? I thought it was the third but I think you’re right. Sandboy jnr did it the first year and as a reward got a gym membership which he still has. Just goes to show how positive this challenge has been.
Week 1 done. Ran at least 5k every day. 48.6k for the week. I started running (slowly) last year as a lockdown activity, last night I ran the 7k back to the car from the theatre. Quite the contrast. Even ran up the mall and past Buckingham palace.
First time I've run 7 days in a row and by far my biggest weekly total. I need to mix in some other activities and its going to tricky with a big holiday coming up. Let's see how it goes.
Squeezed in a quick 30min run with the dog - did mean getting to work 20min late but not a major issue. The 100 day challenge is obviously far more important 😀
Nice pedal with dogs. Picked some porcini/ceps on the way. Today's dog run will be a slow check of 10km or so
I missed yesterday's 30 minutes. I'll need to test my resolve today.
monkeycmonkeydo
Sorry for the late response, I saved the Cherry until last, it's the law in this parish...
I,m a cherry first man myself!Still it all goes down the same way.
Day 8, 3.06 km swim in 68 minutes. Longer swim and despite how sluggish it felt, somehow faster rate than normal. Go figure.
Week one done and weighed myself on Day one and Day 8 and just from this and dropping alcohol and all other rubbish foods, chips, chocolate (though some snuck through), crisps, managed a 1.8 kg weight loss in this week.
Before some smarty pants comes along and points out "you'll never make it to 100 days whilst restricting calories", I haven't been, I've trained within the lower HR zones, kept up a good calorie intake and eaten and rested vey well.
Despite having trained every day I feel quite good.
really feeling it now.
90mins Ju Jitsu on Wed eve, which felt like throw after throw after throw, most throws are pretty effortless but being thrown means getting back to your feet (over and over again)
90mins on the mtb last nightf
gym this afternoon
5k trail waddle this lunchtime. Just measured the blubber mountain lost about half an inch. Although probably within margin of error for a trapped fart or a lodged steak and kidney pudding.
Soobalias-Its a long way to
Chriatmas I hope you dont blow up early.Maybe your a youngster so it's manageable.Do you have any easy days?
I'm going to be a bit pushed for time and opportunity over the next 4 days so I thought I'd better get a good one in today. 50km gravel ride down to Glen Feshie and back.
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