Fitness Journey

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…

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…