My Fitness Journey
Week 3 of the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge, so 30,000m requirement this week. Monday morning skiing, 10000m (47:59.4) for the challenge, which is an automatic PB as it was the first time I have done this distance, I was determined to finish below 48 minutes, final 2K was 9:06.5, which knocked 6…
Week 2 of the Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge, so 20,000m requirement this week. Monday morning skiing, 1000m (5:06.0) warm up, 5000m for the challenge (22:42.5), another new PB, beating last Friday’s time by 43.6 seconds, then a 1126m (6:45.8) cool down. Monday evening at the gym, another treadmill interval warmup, 3 intervals of…
I have been looking to get myself back on the water for quite a while now. I have been sitting here going green with envy reading posts by some of the members discussing their shells and then more recently some others and their new learning to row On The Water (OTW) exploits, it all started…
The Concept 2 Dog Days of Summer challenge is here again, this year I have decided to do it on the SkiErg, and see how long I can also keep up with doing it on the RowErg as well. The challenge is 10,000m in week 1, 20,000m in week 2, 30,000m in week 3 and…
Monday rowing, back to my usual 2K warm up, 10K row (45:56), 2.2K cool down, watched the last part of the Children of Dune mini series. Tuesday, calisthenics pull day, mostly a rings based workout repeating the workout from 28 June. Inverse Knee Rings Row – 3 x 10 Rings Row – 3 x 5…
Monday, this was supposed to be a 10K with 2K warm up and 2K cool down, however I decided I had woken up early enough that I actually had time for another 1/2 marathon, so after walking the dog and setting up the RowErg outside again, off I went for round 3 of 5 for…
Monday, still in North Wales for another day or so, we decided to have a trip to Bala Lake, and take a ride on the Bala Lake Railway, a narrow gauge line that runs along one side of the lake from Llanuwchllyn to Bala. The engine in use on the day was the ‘Winifred’, a…
Not a huge amount of dedicated exercise this week, but then I was on holiday and taking a break from it all. I did take my rings, resistance bands and skipping rope with me, but couldn’t find a suitable location nearby for the rings and to be honest really did not feel like exercising most…
Monday, 30 minute dog walk, then set up the RowErg for a 2K (9:48) warm up, then see if I can improve on my distances for challenge A and B. Challenge B – 878m, started to fall off the pace at around 1:33, really tiring around 2:30, but held on for a total of 878m,…
Monday, took a rest day as my legs were still feeling the after effects of the 2K ski. Tuesday, Concept 2 Solstice Challenge, Row Ski or Ride 21,000m on June 21st, the longest day of the year, can be spread over multiple workouts. I chose to add 97m and turn it into my 4th half…