{"id":304,"date":"2022-07-17T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T11:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/?p=304"},"modified":"2023-01-07T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T17:29:10","slug":"week-28-july-10-july-17-north-wales-skiing-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/fitness\/2022\/07\/17\/week-28-july-10-july-17-north-wales-skiing-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 28 (July 10 – July 17) – North Wales, Skiing, Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, still in North Wales for another day or so, we decided to have a trip to Bala Lake<\/a>, and take a ride on the Bala Lake Railway<\/a>, a narrow gauge line that runs along one side of the lake from Llanuwchllyn to Bala.<\/p>\n

The engine in use on the day was the ‘Winifred’, a former slate mine engine.<\/p>\n

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The journey to Bala took about 20 minutes. we had chosen to simply wait the 10 minutes at Bala, ride back to Llanuwchllyn and then drive to Bala for a wander around and some lunch.<\/p>\n

Monday evening we started packing for our return home the following day.<\/p>\n

Tuesday we packed up the car and headed home with another 4 hour drive, broken up with a stop at Hilton Park service station just north of Birmingham for a comfort break.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, I started playing catchup with the latest Dark Horse challenge – a virtual row from Pisac<\/a> to Machu Pichu<\/a> in Peru which is a distance of 107,524m along the Urumbamba River<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I have chosen to do this in five sessions which makes for a half marathon plus ‘change’ each day (107,524\/5 = 21508.4, or 21097m + ‘change’), logging my cool down meters for the extra distance.<\/p>\n

I took the Erg outside to row this one as it was a bit ‘airless’ inside this morning, I am glad I did as there was a gentle cooling breeze that kept me from overheating, which would have been a much bigger issue indoors.<\/p>\n

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I am not quite sure how this picture ended up with the strange letter boxing, but it sort of gives it more of a voyeuristic look.<\/p>\n

I watched the first part of the Dune mini-series to avoid the boredom factor.<\/p>\n

My bum is feeling a little numb after not having done any rowing for over 2 weeks and then hitting it with a 1\/2 marathon, but I am sure it will recover in time for the next one.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u00a0calisthenics<\/a>, a variation on last the rings push workout from before I went to Wales.<\/p>\n