My Fitness Journey
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. Tuesday morning rowing, half marathon for the C2 Fall Team Challenge, interrupted by the Tesco delivery, so take about 5 minutes off the final time. Tuesday evening archery, some longbow practice at various targets. Wednesday morning rowing, Dark Horse Mountain Challenge Week 1…
Only two of the mens masters group from my club were interested in competing at this event, so double scull it is. We managed 3 practice sessions together on Thursday evenings outside of our weekend masters outings in bigger boats. My doubles partner – Jonathan, is relatively new to rowing, having only started about a…
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. Tuesday morning rowing, half marathon for the C2 Fall Team Challenge interrupted twice by the doorbell. Tuesday evening was supposed to be archery, but I forgot all about it and didn’t go. Wednesday morning rowing, 10,000m at 18spm Kept the heart rate below…
Monday morning rest day apart from a long walk with the dog. The C2 Fall Team Challenge is now well into its first week and I have so far only banked 7,247m from my warm up sessions over the weekend – a slow start this year. Tuesday morning rowing, Half marathon, low heart rate ‘fat…
Monday morning rest day, just a long walk with the dog Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:34.7) warm up, 10,012m low heart rate ‘fat burner’ conditioning recovery workout whilst watching episodes of Andromeda. No cool down as the whole session was low heart rate, so just finished with some stretching. Wednesday morning not feeling too great,…
Monday morning rowing, The C2 WoD Week Challenge is on for this week, the requirement is to complete 5 of the 7 daily workouts on the day it is announced. I was recently discussing what was worse, 1-6 or 6-1 minutes of intervals, well today’s C2 WoD was a combination of the two: Wod Week…
Monday, rest day, only took the dog for a walk, recovery from the weekend. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:43.7) warm up, 10,015m low heart rate ‘fat burner’ recovery workout whilst watching episodes of Andromeda. No cool down as the 10K piece was slow enough already. Wednesday morning, I was in at work for some meetings,…
Week 4 of Dog Days of Summer (40,000m requirement), looking to complete this on the water and a week behind on the Erg. Monday morning, rest day, took the dog for a long walk, recovery from the weekend. Tuesday morning rowing, another bad night, really not feeling like exercise, 2,000m (9:55.3) warm up, 10 laps…
Week 3 of Dog Days of Summer (30,000m requirement), shouldn’t be an issue now that I am back home and have access to my RowErg as well as Ergs at work and the boathouse, OTW meters still count as well. Monday morning, bad night, still not recovered from the ‘jet lag’, other than taking the…
Week 4 of our holiday in the USA. Second week of Dog Days of Summer (20,000m requirement) – fortunately On Water meters count. Monday morning was another rest day to recover from the weekend’s rowing. We decided to do another kayaking session at Silver Springs, this time in double kayaks and go North from the…