My Fitness Journey
I decided to join my local branch of The Gym Group, they were having a promotion of 50% off for the first month and no joining fee, so I thought I would give it a go. I main reasons for joining included wanting to start running, but in a controlled environment where I could easily…
On 1 March I passed 2 million metres. The main challenge for the month was Mud Season Madness – row 5,000m or 10,000m for at least 25 days in March. The International Women’s Day Challenge on 8th March was to row a 5000m time trial, I did not set a new PB, but did post…
Having spent the last month doing challenges, I decided to give one of the courses within The Crew at Dark Horse Rowing a try, I also decided to have a few days break from rowing throughout the month. I decided to give the 2K 101 a try. As with most of their courses, this is…
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…
Most of this month was dedicated to racking up metres for the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge, which involved rowing 100,000m or 200,000m between 24 November and 24 December. I managed a new PB for 2K on the 6th December of 7:45.0 which now placed me in the 62nd percentile. I passed 100,000m and claimed the…
Back in October I bought a Wahoo Kickr and Wahoo Kickr Climb secondhand from someone on Ebay for about half of their new prices. The Wahoo Kickr Climb came with a few parts missing so I contacted Wahoo customer support and arranged for them to send me some replacements. I also needed a different cassette…
Around the middle of the month I noticed a new arm was available for the RowERG that allowed a tablet to be placed below the performance meter, this was being sold as a standard part with all new RowERGs and was also available as a retrofit item for existing machines for $25.00 from the US…
Following on from the achievements of August I continued to make slow improvements and my weight had also started to drop. I started doing many of the the C2 workouts of the day (WoD) as something planned to do as a workout, varying between the short, medium and long, depending on what I best liked…
1st August 2021, The Concept 2 Row Erg finally arrived, the assembly was quick and straightforward, time to see if I could still remember how to row. It turns out I could remember how to row, but that as expected I was horrifically out of shape, had a gut that was in the way and…
This is a new blog/diary to track my sporting/fitness progress. I did not start it at the beginning of my current fitness journey as I was unsure if it would actually get anywhere at the time I started it. I will however move all of the various posts such that they appear in the month/week…