Mine was 55-60 all the time I was running, weight gain during the confinement and stopping running with the club in October saw it rise about 5bpm.

 

I have been following your journey to fitness which was at the same time as my journey in the opposite direction, you have made some very impressive gains.

 

I started with one run last week but instead of sticking to the 5km I wanted to start with I took an Italian renter on a longer one to show him the area, it was 12.7km of which I ran 8.5km and walked the rest, stupid on my part, heart and lungs were OK it was my quadriceps and took 5 days for the aches to subside.

 

If for whatever reason you cannot keep up yor regime you lose the gains very quickly, its happened twice to me through Sepsis and a detached retina, within a month I can lose 25% of my VMA and V02max although RHR remains unchanged, it can take up to 3 months to get back to full fitness but at my age all the measures are declining anyway so I never quite get back what I lose.

 

I have my second vaccination tomorrow and will start training with the club again, this time its going to be a very slow return to fitness as I have more than 10kg to shift.

okay, so yesterday was a tough but nice 17km route. weather was alright, and i had it in just over an hour. eagle eyed trackers will notice a small change in approach route - the first off road shortcut i have been using is getting really overgrown now, and the Jap Knotweed is encroaching on the barely 2 ft wide trail, so rather than risk bringing that crap home on my tyres, i went around to the "main" side approach.

 

I also had my chest strap on, so was able to see how thing are while on this trek. it hit a max of 198, ironically while cycling the flat section on the way to the first climb. then it dropped off to a consistent 160-170 the whole way up the ascents. it dropped down to around 150 on the road section to get home at the end.

pic taken about a min after i got home 

 

pleased with that.

 

 

oh the sheep asked me to say "mmmbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaa" to everyone for them.

 

6 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

oh the sheep asked me to say "mmmbbbbbbbaaaaaaaaaa" to everyone for them.

redcurrant jelly!

todays expedition... the forecast lied. rain and mist was to have blown off by around 7. so it shouldve been alright ish. it was just constant heavy drizzle and light rain the whole time. and its still falling. 

 

my chest strap decided it couldnt be arsed connecting to the watch today 🙄 so i left it at home. i was also a few mins later leaving (kind of hoping on the rain stopping.) so i had to shorten the route a bit to be back on time for the morning family routine. that and taking the photos in @olduns thread...

 

so it was a 1hr, 14k slog through the ****e and mud. coated in muck when i got home, sweaty and rained on. just  an ick kind of day.

 

58 minutes ago, mac11irl said:

the forecast lied. rain and mist was to have blown off by around 7

I 'ave bad nose! The front you're stuck under is stalled out by an anticyclone centred in the Netherlands, and is going pretty much nowhere today.

 

Better news is that it should break down overnight as the said anticyclone crosses the North Sea into Englandshire.

1 minute ago, KenONeill said:

I 'ave bad nose! The front you're stuck under is stalled out by an anticyclone centred in the Netherlands, and is going pretty much nowhere today.

 

Better news is that it should break down overnight as the said anticyclone crosses the North Sea into Englandshire.

 

aye, weekend forecast is looking decent and next week may actually Summery!

overslept! so late start, and shorter route. 

hit some pr and 2nd best segment  times, so at least i got that out of it. 

 

was a good blast though, no jacket needed just a base layer and hivis shirt. must test the stupid hr strap again later. its possible the new battery i put in it was already dying, have that pack of 2032 batts a few yrs...

up a bit earlier, so time to stretch the legs a bit more today. the climb felt tougher this morning, and i wasnt really sure why..  turnes out its because i was going faster!

i even managed to make it up the really loose rocky/grassy bit without needing a dismount for the first time.. made it to the cross in 27m 40 and didnt even stop ploughed on to til the top of the peak behind it, then down into the woods. i exited via a rooty trail without falling off onto a vehicle track then tagged on the backroad hillclimb. hit a new max speed coming back down that bit

 

overall a decent morning out. rest day tomorrow, and see what thursday brings

1 minute ago, mac11irl said:

the climb felt tougher this morning, and i wasnt really sure why..  turnes out its because i was going faster!

Well yes, that'll do it.  

i shouldve stayed in bed today...

after a crap night's sleep, leaving a little late, it took me 30mins to get to the first waypoint, slowest time in weeks. not helped by the rear brake pad dragging a bit after i adjusted them yesterday evening. werent rubbing then, but as soon as i pulled them once this morning i could feel it pulling back.

 

then after 4.5k of uphill pulling, i reached the peak, and dropped down the other side to the woods... felt a bit wayward at the very bottom..

 

ffffffffuuuuuuuuu........

 

queue a jog of shame to rival @olduns last week... nearly 5k of shortcuts through the woods and through the town alongside the bike..

 

first time doin a biathlon

 

on the plus side, i had no knee pain which eas what stopped the running in january 

 

edit..

strava detail.

puncture was discovered around the 90deg West->Nth turn at the bottom of the map.

 

kept an alright jogging pace from the 5k point home...

Edited 3 June, 20215 yr by mac11irl

TBH Mac as you're getting a new bike I'd have rode it and tell the OH you need the new one ASAP 😁

the old one then becomes your n+1 if she asks why you've still got the old one 😃

i did chance it for about 100yds, but i was just gonna wreck the rim. so hot footin was the only answer. 

 

pulled the tube out earlier and broke the clamp on my pump when i was inflating it to find the hole... its really being one of those days 🙄

 

anyway, will go get a tube later on and ask my local indy bike shop about the roscoe 7 in terms of getting one. not sure he does Trek, definitely does Giant though, but.. id have to spec one up i think as a custom.

well new tube in, brake pads adjusted while was at it. and i managed to bodge a screw on pump pipe onto my clamp type big pump. 

 

 

need to buy an electric pump or a small compressor...

all good this morning, no punctures or falls... though i did take a small detour/route change in the woods that started alright but then became a very very roots, stumps and jumps technical route that i had to walk the bike down some of..  no way could i tackle it full on with no suspension and never being on before. took me 2m50 to get across it. according the segment data the fastest time on it is..  0m50  i have some catching up to do

 

 

nice spin ot, and set a few new PR times too. legs are fairly hammered now though

nice ride out this morning, went the slightly shorter but extra climb road on the way home.

and....

im mot sure how this is the first time ive done segment considering its the same route ive taken for the last couple of weeks, and there are 2 shorter segment bits in it that log every time. maybe if you "stop" for too long on it it doesnt count? 

anyway, out of 16 people whove done it, im the 5th fastest

8mins slower than the leader! but considering how long im only doing this, and the state of me bike im quite happy

 

320am... wailing from up the hall. 

405am back into bed and asleep....

 

425am ..wailing from up the hall...

so much weeing done jr had overwhelmed the "12hrs of freshness" nappy and was soakin. it just hadnt got through to his outer sleep suit the firat time i went in 🤦‍♂️

everything changed, a bottle and eventually i got back to bed at 530am. 

 

i couldnt feel my face when the alarm went off at 610, so i rolled over asleep again.

 

well spud jr had the decency to have his little cry at 2330 last night.. i didnt get to sleep until about 0030 though.. so that 0610 alarm was a horrible sound. and then the more horrible sound rain on the windows....there was no rain forecast for today going to bed last night, just cloudy. 

but the radar track had it blowing off fairly soon so i went anyway. 

wish i hadnt put on the rain jacket... it was a disgusting cycle. wet, muggy, sweaty, one of those days where it feels like theres no oxygen in the air.

got to the top of the hill and the dead calm became a bloody gale blowing over the crest.

 

2 bad nights sleep had the body tired, feeling like theres no power in the legs, and the back wheel slipping on all tbe the damp cherry blossom and labernum etc petals on the road and damp stones and grass.

 

good god it was just bleeeehhhhhh.  

 

ick

 

forfot to restart when i stopped at the tippy top for some water and to put my gloves on before the descent to the woods (they be hand protectors now the weathers improved in case i hit the ground). 

 

so i know it took me 62mins in total on my new usual route of 16.5km. 

annoying more so as it means im missing about 145m of climb towards the june 7500m challenge, goddamit.

 

out tomorrow morning to balance skipping yesterday as it was an on site day.

so i went out today to make up for the missed trip during the week. 

decided to go East from the cross today, and tackle Long Hill again. 

 

nice weather, sweaty though... not used to pedalling in actual heat! and i also pedalled up a lot more of it than on previous bits, had to push up one section thats just too steep and too much loose gravel and rock. and i now have the 6th fastest time on the segment from the valley floor between the cross and long holl to the top of long hill

 

nice view from the top too.

 

i went back across the top and over to the cross and dwon home this time.. wasnt getting misplaced in sheep fields, forestry blocks and people's gardens again...

 

and i learned something else from it too.. if you look at my recent routes, through the woods and adding the back road hill climb my elevation is around 440-445m over 16/17km. up and down long hill today was also 440-445m but only 13.2km in the same (roughly) time period.

 

 

nowt done yesterday or today.

 

foot isnt sore now but still puffy and bruised.

that and im up since 515am with Jr.

 

roll on maybe tomorrow, see how the foot is looking 🙄

getting fed up now... 

 

foot is still aching if i stand on it for a long time, but the swelling is gone down, and most of the bruising is gone too. i really got lucky

 

but.. spud jr has decided he didnt think i was ready to go back cycling this morning, by waking up for a roarfest 3mins before my alarm was going off..  so that put an end to todays plan. 

 

im also now utterly fked for completing the 7500m climb challenge for June, which is annoying as i couldve just about managed it if id not been sidelined for a week.

 

 

so after another 45min spell of dozing on jr's thankfully foam playmat covered floor last night (with a spare cot mattress we put infront of the cot, in case he does manage to take a header over the top, and a plastic tray under it as a "pillow") i dont remember my alarm going off at 615am this morning, waking up instead at 740am..

 

so i c

brought the bike with me to my mechanics dropping the car off to at least get something out of the day...

 

a full 3.5km of pretty level road in 8m54sec. nice enough pace by my standard, just... 14k shorter than id have liked to do today...

As the Tesco ad says.... 'every little helps' 

guess what happened at 330am...

 

ffs its gettin withering...

 

ah lovely. finally got out!!!

 

decent enough trip. sweaty and warm, couple of still wet patches of ground and fog up the top. but by god it was good to get out after an extended enforced break!