1 hour 10 last week, just checking and apparently my quickest is 1 hour 9, 4min 17 per km.
I'd hope to go quicker in a race now.
1 hour 10 last week, just checking and apparently my quickest is 1 hour 9, 4min 17 per km.
I'd hope to go quicker in a race now.
They’re all at it. Barkley and Maguire’s being the funniest.
I feel crippled today
What scenes that account isI knew the app had privacy issues given it's all open and searchable by name but I didn't think people would be such idiots, fucking hell.
Why, as Phil Neville, or indeed as a current pro footballer, do you need the validation from everyone seeing how fast you can (or claim to be able to) run 5,000 metres?
The elapsed time feature has shown a couple of people on my Strava feed up as the fraudsters that I always suspected them to be. It's a beautiful thing. They ought to just go all out and start using the pace worked out on elapsed time as the one that is attached to the run by default.
Did 18k today with 5kg extra in my bag and it felt a lot harder. I did 43k in ridiculous wind from all directions last night so my legs just might have been tired from that, though. I'm just wondering how much extra weight my backpack and back would be able to take. Anybody got any experience with specific backpacks for this kind of thing?
Managed my 16k in 1:16:45 today. 4’48”km pace. Pretty pleased with that overall.
Is there no way to post images on mobile?
Imgur or whatever
Wife got a fitbit for her birthday and is in total fitness motivation mode and I need to lose a lot of flab so ordered one my self so I can hop on the fad train.
There's a load of weights and a weight bench in the shed the old owner of the house left behind, aswell as a kettlebell. No real room for the weightbench to set up but the kettlebell could be useful, never used one though and I have a glass back so could be carnage.
5k in 19:44 this morning which is alright, but still a minute off what my track pace had been. I felt it too, had nothing left at the end and had to stop for a few minutes.
The warm weather doesn't help.
I was thinking of trying to run a fast one today but if it's 23, it's basically going to wipe me out. Maybe a slower long run.
I have been walking loads since I was furloughed, usually 5 miles a day burning 800-1000 calories.
I've got a long standing problem with my hip which rears its head when I start running. I'm hoping that the lack of stress on my body from working and the increase in fitness from the walking will help and I'll be able to start running again in a few weeks.
16.73km today in 1hr 22:56. Felt like my legs were going to fall off between 6-9km then it was easier. Need to get the foam roller out as my legs are dead.
I've been walking about five miles a day, but 800-1000 calories seems a bit high for a mooch at a normal pace. I would have thought a hundred per mile would be more than decent going.
Ya, I've gone big on walking too (shoutout to my man Erling Kagge who's book on this I'll seek as I liked his musings on Silence) as a result of this lockdown.
It all got a bit philosophical on yesterday's one as I didn't listen to music for any of it and that's what keeps the demons at bay. Three hours of birdsong is akin to some Ayahuasca shit.
The best stuff for it is Cerys Matthews' Sunday radio show which I highly recommend even if you're not walking. She's big on poetry and dropped excerpts from a Wordsworth banger (Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey) last week that had the hairs on my neck tingling (particularly good excerpt below).
Also purchased a litter picker which arrived today so I'm looking forward to utilising it on tomorrow's walk like some young offender. What is going on ffs.
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These beauteous forms,
Through a long absence, have not been to me
As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:
But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;
And passing even into my purer mind
With tranquil restoration:—feelings too
Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,
As have no slight or trivial influence
On that best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered, acts
Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,
To them I may have owed another gift,
Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,
In which the burthen of the mystery,
In which the heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world,
Is lightened:—that serene and blessed mood,
In which the affections gently lead us on,—
Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
I did a hilly 14km in 1hr4m this morning. It's good exploring different routes close to home, and much better running weather today too.
Went around the island today. Not happy with the average pace, but I did well considering I couldn't be arsed and only went for a cycle out of boredom. There were also some mammoth hills, which I was conquering impressively until about 40k in, which is when my legs started to give in and the pace came right down.
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I’ve been biking and jogging with friends every few days since I’ve been home. Just bought a garmin vivo sport so I’m going to start tracking myself, it’s the only way to motivate myself to go alone.
I've gotten so bored of cycling with other people. You can barely talk to each other if you're moving at a decent pace so there's no point. Music > people.
Took 36 seconds off this time on the same route yesterday in some killer heat. Pleased with that.Originally Posted by CJay
It's a road without cars so we can go two abreast and chit chat. Except for the steepest hills where you're wheezing.
Just going off the numbers on my Samsung watch, I'm not sure how accurate they are as it's just taking the heart rate from the wrist rather than a chest strap.
I dont adjust what I eat day to day anyway so I doesnt haven't to be bang on accurate.
I need to start doing a bit. Is one of them things like you’re ski walking better in the joints than a treadmill?
Yeah, theres less impact with a cross trainer. I would reccomend walking, with the weather at the moment it's really enjoyable.
Too many people out these days but I never liked exercising in public anyway, would rather do it privately. I have a cross trainer upstairs in the junk room that I must pull out and see if it’s all there. If I remember from before (when the wife used to use it) they’re a big awkward fucker to have anywhere.
Went around the island today. Not happy with the average pace, but I did well considering I couldn't be arsed and only went for a cycle out of boredom. There were also some mammoth hills, which I was conquering impressively until about 40k in, which is when my legs started to give in and the pace came right down.
Happy with that average speed, although I dodged the hills and green lanes this time. I'm aiming for a 30 average now, but think I might have to get a road bike for that.
Nice rides. That's not a bad pace at all, especially on a mountain (?) bike.
Yeah, on a mountain bike. Will probably get a road bike at some point as I'm tempted to start racing with the clubs over here.
I find riding on groups (the faster the better) very enjoyable, so I would definitely recommend it.
Pulled out that cross trainer today, they're a mammoth of a thing and there's no real space anywhere for it so it's going into the big red skip in work. She would have calved if we didn't get it at the time and never looked at it after the first couple of weeks.
Anything else tidier that could be bought and used?
Challenge for those inclined:
I've got some resistance bands. It's a completely different animal, but in terms of fitness products it takes up the least room.
I've got something called a fit cube, which takes up little space and does a decent enough small workout.
I'm going to look for a new walk whilst I've got no reason to venture into Durham. Some of the villages nearby look like proper, proper Northern dumps.
Any in particular?
I spent a few of my formative years in the streets of Bearpark. It's probably why I treat London estates like a funfair.
I rested up yesterday with a view of making the push for a 50 mile ride today and although I woke up in not great shape, I pushed through the initial wall at 10 miles and the rest was good stuff. Have no interest in going longer than that and not particularly bothered by speed, just wanted it ticked off so I can one day do the MK-London canal route and the London-Brighton route.
Not sure what's happened with the jaggedy signal but the let me tell you, clocking 116mph across the lake was real hairy stuff.
I bought one of these to have a kickaround in the garden:
Set it up yesterday and it's good fun, once you get a little rally going
I wouldn't be able to kick a ball these days but a chipping net would be a good shout.
In terms of the nice ones, I want to check out Brancepeth. Now that I think about it, Brandon looks rough but the actual village bit of it fits the nice stereotype of an old English village. Man, I'm starting to get sentimental about County Durham. My dad always jokes I moved out in the sticks but he's right. You don't have to go far to feel miles away.
I had a feeling you might say Brancepeth. I have distant relatives in New Brancepeth, so I know that area a little bit along with Ushaw Moor and Langley Moor.
The whole area just seems to be former mining village after another.
Yeah, not much in the way of variety. They all seem to have a front street, maybe some houses in the back and then there's a mile before the next village. Sunderland Bridge has a bridge. It leads into private land. Fuck that bridge.
Do we have a TTH Strava set up? If not someone get one going.
You do it.
And make it look cool.
Had a quick look and can't see an option to set up a club. Sorry lads.
I'm going for a (very short) run in a bit. Time to get my fat arse in shape. Currently 105kg and the heaviest I've ever been. I'm probably carrying the least muscle I've had since puberty too, so it's all blubber.
I'll join the group so you can all lol at me.
20 mins. Just shy of 2.5k
Lol
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