My next Zwift ride was on 3 January when I did the Tempus Fugit route on Fuego Flats for 11.17km and 19m of elevation in a time of 21:32.
There were a couple of challenges for January, so of course I decided to do them both.
January Revolutions involved a choice of any one of the following:
- The Stretch – row, ski or ride at least 500m for 20 days in January
- The Big Stretch – row, ski or ride at least 500m every day in January
- The Haul – row, ski or ride for 15 Hours in January
- The Long Haul – row, ski or ride for 30 Hours in January
- The Burn – row, ski or ride 10,000 calories in January
- The Long Burn – row, ski or ride 20,000 calories in January
I chose to do the Long Burn, although I also sort of decided to see if I could all of the challenges at once.
The second one was the Virtual Team Challenge, where you row as many metres as possible to contribute to your chosen team.
I set a new half marathon PB on 16 January of 1:33:59.6 which placed me in the 44th percentile.
I achieved all of the January Revolutions challenges except the row at least 500m every day as I missed the first two days and then a couple of others as well.
In total I managed 26 days of rowing, 32.27 hours rowing and 22554 calories.
I also contributed 401,096m for the Dark Horse Rowing team in the Virtual Team Challenge which placed the team 14th, I was the 6th highest contributor.
On 23 January I did a couple of laps of the Tempus Fugit route in both directions for a total of 37.23km and 58m of elevation in a time of 1:18:09.
Then on 29 January I did 10 counter clockwise laps of the Volcano Circuit, for a total of 44.69km and 221m of elevation in a time of 1:30:22, with a best time of 7:43 for a circuit.
During the month of January I managed a total of 132 hours of exercise, walked 522km climbed 230 flights of stairs, cycled 93km and rowed 401km.
By the end of the month my weight was 14 Stone 13lb (209lb/95kg), a loss of 2lb (0.9kg).