Fitness 2014

[Brazen]

I've won two weeks' training at this new concept gym. Could be interesting.
http://speedflex.com/

[mongers]

Not doing a great deal at the mo, did my 14 miles in 50 minutes 'mini-workout' when I got home yesterday evening, first time in a while. 

[mongers]

Did 50 km on bike yesterday,which was dead easy (hint mainly former railwaylines), even beat a lot of the traffic on the wayback.

But that was nearly the furthest I went all month, probably did no more than 250 miles in August, what with having to go to hospital visiting so much. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

New running shoes. Helped out.

[Liep]

Did 23 km on the mountain bike yesterday. First time I managed to do a full circle on the single track route. Today I'm feeling it though, every part of my body is aching.

[mongers]

Did 23 km on the mountain bike yesterday. First time I managed to do a full circle on the single track route. Today I'm feeling it though, every part of my body is aching.

Which is good, isn't it.

[Liep]

Did 23 km on the mountain bike yesterday. First time I managed to do a full circle on the single track route. Today I'm feeling it though, every part of my body is aching.

Which is good, isn't it.

Sure, I just wasn't expecting everything to hurt. Shoulders, hands, back are in pain but my legs are actually okay.

[Maladict]

Right, since my Ventoux plan collapsed I signed up for something insane closer to home.

It's a 4 km lap containing a fairly vicious 1 km climb (average 10%, max 13%).
The challenge is to do up to 40 laps. 

Just four weeks to go. Had a 120 km training session in the hills on Friday, it wasn't very pleasant.
The hill I'm supposed to climb 40 times I saved for last, and I had to drop to ~10 km/h to make it to the top.

Tomorrow around this time it will be over at least. If I wasn't being sponsored to do this for charity I probably wouldn't show up.

Packing my stuff, food is always tricky. I've got a bowl of pasta, four pancakes, six bananas, ten energy bars.
Should be enough, I hope.

[Liep]

Good luck! Just look angrily at that climb and tell it to suck a dick.

[mongers]

Right, since my Ventoux plan collapsed I signed up for something insane closer to home.

It's a 4 km lap containing a fairly vicious 1 km climb (average 10%, max 13%).
The challenge is to do up to 40 laps. 

Just four weeks to go. Had a 120 km training session in the hills on Friday, it wasn't very pleasant.
The hill I'm supposed to climb 40 times I saved for last, and I had to drop to ~10 km/h to make it to the top.

Tomorrow around this time it will be over at least. If I wasn't being sponsored to do this for charity I probably wouldn't show up.

Packing my stuff, food is always tricky. I've got a bowl of pasta, four pancakes, six bananas, ten energy bars.
Should be enough, I hope.

Good luck Mal, it'll be a cool achievement once it's over.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Stair Master is brutal.

[mongers]

The reason I haven't done a lot the last month, is because I've been dealing with an elderly relative in hospital.

Which by my estimation has involved 45 miles walking, 92 miles cycling, 69 bus journeys, 545 miles by said vehicles and one ambulance trip, throw in visiting times and waiting for buses, and that's eaten a sizable chunk of the last 37 days. 


The upside? the necessary hospital care would have bankrupted her in the USA.

[fhdz]

Today is shoulder press day. I love this lift, so underrated.

The shoulder press is insane. Valuable, yes, but insane.

[Ideologue]

I feel that I don't produce enough myostatin and any attempt to gain muscle is futile.  I've been at like basically the same number of push-ups for like two months.

[mongers]

I feel that I don't produce enough myostatin and any attempt to gain muscle is futile.  I've been at like basically the same number of push-ups for like two months.

This sounds like an excuse wrapped up in some random jargon, to possibly explain away a lack of motivation towards a target you've not that happy with?