Fitness Journey

This post is not directly related to my fitness journey, but it does relate to showing some of it on YouTube. A while back I purchased a secondhand GoPro Fusion 360 camera from someone on Facebook Marketplace for £118.00 including postage, I used this to take some footage of my first solo outing in my…

Final week of the Concept 2 Fall Team Challenge, meters are definitely down on the first half of the challenge. Monday morning rowing was another 2K warm up (10:33.5), a slower 10K steady state than usual (49:54.9) and then 2243m of cool down (12:05.2) whilst continuing to watch episodes of Battlestar Galactica. I think I…

With the Dark Horse Great Wall Challenge out of the way I can now concentrate on the Concept 2 Fall Team Challenge, although I will almost certainly put in fewer meters this half than in the first half as I will only be doing around 14Km as opposed to 21Km on each session. Monday morning…

This outing happened during the leisure session mentioned in the last post, however I decided it warranted its own entry. I finally felt brave enough to ask if I could take my fine single out in the leisure session, having recently done multiple outings in explorer doubles and one outing recent outing in a fine…

Monday rowing, this is the final leg of our Great Wall tour with Lo Stro Krate and Ro Wing Adventure Tours. This week we are setting off to Huanghuacheng (65,000m). We set off for the last time from the Forbidden City in Beijing to a glorious sunrise. After about 7000m we reach the China Agricultural…

Having decided to turn the September Dark Horse challenge into a tour, This week, courtesy of Lo Stroke Rate of Ro Wing Adventure Tours we are continuing on our journey starting at Badaling and heading back towards the Forbidden City. We set off bright and early from The Great Wall at Badaling A short 1000m…

The Dark Horse Rowing challenge for September is to do a virtual row from Beijing to one of the 8 main destinations on the Great Wall of China, with distances ranging from 65km to 130km. The challenge is to do it in 9 sessions with no more than 3 minutes rest between any section in…

This week is the Concept 2 WoD Week Challenge, where you need to do 5 of the 7 Workouts of the Day (WoDs) to qualify for the certificate. Monday morning walk with the dog, half way round he started limping again, so I slowed down, looks like I may have to go back to doing…