Rest day for me today.
Although I’ve still walked 12km, which is below average for my daily walk and run total.
14,816 steps.
(Bored on the train home)
All I hear is middle aged women talking about getting 10,000 steps in.
Easy innit
The 10,000 steps thing is a load of bollocks. It was a marketing game for one of the first pedometers. Has just become the standard now.
Hear all these people talking about hitting their step target like it’s the paragon of fitness.
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7.2km @ 4:13 fasted
15km to office fasted
15km home from office fasted
Had to buy some food whilst waiting for kid’s Parkour - packet of hula hoops and half a bounty eaten (or is it a whole bounty?) Then a big a dinner, finally did more than 40 minutes exercise in a day and then just eat loads!
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Tiring day for me.
Hour club swim of 2.5k this morning.
40min S&C session at lunchtime.
Hour ten solo swim of 2.5k this evening (largely kick)
Plus 30mins of riding each way to work.
Factor in the sprints on the turbo last night, and my legs are pretty drained!
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That’s a pretty big day though!
Couldn’t get out Mon and Tues due to work, but got out for 13km on the coast path this evening. Resisted the urge to go mileage chasing though. Trying to be sensible and careful as I build my fitness back up. Trying to be a hero at this point is only going to end one way!
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Are you using fasted to mean no energy during exercise? As I read that as 30km of running and a day at work with nothing eaten all day?!
7km running, 30km cycling, and yeah, but that’s completely not unusual, when fit I used to do way more, and almost never eat before. Oh and it was only like 3 hours at work (the run was while I was at home working)
Oh, I thought it was all running!
Oh, is it not 
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HIIT workout at the gym followed by 3000m row. Mixing it up a bit as weights on their own get a bit boring.
I struggle to get 5/6 hours training in a week, it’s annoying.
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But like “5-a-day” it’s a really simple message that nudges people in the right direction. It amazes me how few steps I do some days - granted I probably did a bike ride - but it shows how easy it is to barely move these days. Just telling people to move more, and it doesn’t have to be in a gym or with special kit, has to be a good thing.
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C’mon, positive vibes man.
Good, thought you’d have brought on the wrath of @Poet calling everything “fasted” 
. Like most I do my morning training before breakfast or very light snack, but have breakfast at work. Must have been over 6 hours of being awake for you before food?
In the words of Wolfgang Diettrich “it doesn’t matta”. Fasted or not, just being out there doing it, is what counts 
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If it’s a work day and i haven’t had the time for a run, i can be down as low as 4k some days. Especially if i’ve not had any meetings, so haven’t been walking across campus. It’s bad really.
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The fasted was deliberately chosen to hopefully bug someone yes, but got up at 7:30am, had the hula hoops at about 7pm, the bounty at 7:50 and dinner at 8:30, so more like 12 hours, certainly a bit long for actual exercise for me in my current fitness, but 6 hours would be the bear minimum for me unless hungover.
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That’s why you’re not hench like us triathletes Jim; all ribs and no shoulders 
8km treadmill 2%av, 5.35 pace. Legs are on fire after all that paper stripping yesterday.
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Helping some students out at the Human Performance Lab of the local uni who wanted a guinea pig to test out their bicarb buffering studies.
This was the 2nd of two sessions, one with a bicarb drink, one with a placebo. Did a bit of pedalling on a stationary bike while grudgingly giving them some wee blood samples…I suspect today I was given the good stuff.
Followed up with an hours trail running in my new Salomon Sense Ride 2. Club swim this evening
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Yesterday morning i was scraping thick ice off the windscreen of my car. I’ve just been for a runch in 13-15 degrees! This weather is mental!
13km night trails last night, with just under 400m elevation. Nice and easy.
21.1km today on the flat tarmac in 1.36.15 - Easy effort, top of zone 2 most of ther way (tickled into z3 on the rises) and then did a faster prog 3km to finish.
Effort was low, but legs were feeling it from half way onwards. Massive lack of leg strength and conditioning, but that’s to be expected. It’s weird as i honestly don’t think i could go much faster than that today, but running this 1.36 whilst super unfit was well within easy effort range. It’s like my natural cruise speed (on the flat) comes back really quick, but it takes a lot longer for the speed endurance to start filtering back into the legs.
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