fitness goals

Training Day

23 February today, and I’m on a training roll. I have bought a new myithlete HRV sensor as I find it more accurate and consistent than either my Garmin watch or Oura ring. My sleep has improved over the month and my HRV is in …

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Use It Or Lose It

Living Proof Use it or lose it. That’s a fact when it comes to muscle mass, fitness, mobility and general physical wellbeing. And the older you get – and I include you Ms/Mr Forty-Something – the bigger an issue it becomes. Today is 12 weeks …

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Pills And Plans – Rehab Diaries

Pills And Plans A month since my cycling accident this weekend. Pills and plans are the rehab highlights of the week. It feels like time has moved very quickly. I hadn’t realised a month had flown by. I have had industrial strength doses of ketamine …

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Trauma. Healing. Growth

Ride London 100 Trauma, healing, growth have occupied me for the last three weeks. Dealing with a severe injury was not something on my list of 2023 goals. But it has happened, and my plans have changed. How do I turn trauma into a growth …

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Rocacorba Renaissance

Rocacorba Renaissance. An early season major training event culminated in my own Renaissance artwork, which you see above. It’s at the finish line of the Rocacorba climb near Girona, Catalonia. This is a 6.2-mile-long ascent, scaling 2,445 feet, with an average grade of 7.4%. However, …

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Fitness Goals For 2023

Fitness goals for 2023. Yes, it’s that time. I’ve had an inconsistent time this year. As always life gets in the way. 2,500 miles cycling, and inconsistent in the gym. But as can happen with me, I’m finishing strongly. As the head goes, the body …

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My No Plan Training Plan

Simplifying My Life My no plan training plan is firmly in place now, and it seems to be my year of stripping away the micro-stresses and habits that have consumed so much of my mind space. A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I …

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Project 64 + 6,400

First Project 64 Goal My knees creak a little bit. I’ve put some lean muscle on, according to my Withings Body Cardio. I think it’s around the quads and glutes, given the fit of my shorts. I did complete my 6,400 bodyweight squats in May. …

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Project 64

Why Project 64? It’s my 64th birthday today. When I was young, I remember that was an age when people were winding down – a lot of retirement talk. My parents and their parents and broader family looked old at that age. They looked worn …

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May Challenge

6,400 I’ve set myself the May Challenge of doing 6,400 bodyweight squats. I did 200 yesterday and today the dreaded delayed onset muscle soreness is wreaking havoc with me. As I type this I have completed my first 100 for today; I want to break …

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