My Fitness Journey
USA holiday week 3. Week 1 of Dog Days of Summer (10,000m requirement) fortunately On Water meters count as I have no hope of finding a rowing machine. Monday and Tuesday I did not do any exercise of note, I decided to have a couple of rest days from exercise, pretty sure I woke up…
Second week of holiday in the USA. Monday morning running, 2:00 intervals as follows: 4mph flat 4mph 15 incline 4mph flat 6mph flat 4mph flat 8mph flat Tuesday morning running 1 lap at 4mph 13 laps at 6.4mph (29:10 for 5K) 1 lap at 4mph Wednesday morning running, repeat of Monday’s workout, 2:00 Intervals as…
Monday morning, we are flying off on holiday to the USA later today on an afternoon flight so I decided to just do a long walk with the dog, rather than doing any rowing or skiing. Our flight was an evening one that arrived in the USA at around 20:00 local time, we arrived at…
Monday rest day. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:12.0) warm up then 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop, another ‘fat burner’. 2,239m (12:10.3) cool down and stretching. Wednesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:26.4) warm up, then another 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop. 2,240m (11:43.0) cool down and stretching. Thursday morning at work…
On Sunday 9th July, my masters crew were assigned a quad, however we are somewhat overweight for the usual one we are assigned, it notionally has an 85Kg average crew weight (more like 75Kg) and most of us are over 90Kg, so it tends to behave more like a ‘submarine’ (water level is usually around…
Monday rest day. Tuesday morning rowing, 2,000m (10:15.3) warm up, then 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop as a low heart rate ‘fat burner’ 2,235m (11:16.3) cool down and some stretching. Tuesday evening archery, it was raining, so we were indoors, I shot a Portsmouth round with my longbow, scoring 278 which was…
Monday rest day. Tuesday morning, in at work, as there is a ‘leaving do’ this evening and I will also be out on the water with the masters men 2,000m (9:50.7) warm up, then the C2 WoD which is 6,5,4,3,2,1 minute max effort drop set, with 1 minute rest. Probably went out too aggressively on…
Monday morning rowing, I decided to do the C2 Juneteenth Challenge today. The required distance is only 1,900m which is less than my normal warm up, so I decided to add on some extra meters just for the hell of it. 2,000m (9:40.0) warm up (actually completed the challenge here), then 10 laps of the C2…
Monday, rest day Tuesday morning rowing, took the Erg outside this morning, for a low HR ‘Fat Burner’ recovery workout, as the light breeze was cooler than sitting in the house, 2,000m (10:01.9) warm up. then 10 laps of the C2 Real Time Loop 2,238m (11:41.1) cool down and stretching. Tuesday evening archery, attempt number…
Monday, rest day after the weekend, took the dog for a nice long 1 hour walk, but gave my body a rest after the weekend’s activities. Tuesday morning, another rest day, not even a long walk this morning as I was initially going to row, then had a change of heart. Tuesday evening archery, I…