š„ Health Exercise thread - Fitness, Recreational, etc
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I am hoping to get on the bicycle tomorrow. Spent all day working on the g/fās car.
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Windy, again.
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I would offer to ride with you. But Iām going to need to use my ATV to keep up.
If any of you use Strava in the prairie path area itās a huge ego check. One guy rode 186 miles yesterday training for unbound 200 in Kansas next month at an average of 16.6 mph, and another guy rode 92 miles at an average speed of 19.6 mph. Thatās nuts.
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Do you have the route? Thatās cooking.
Average power is a little suspect. I averaged 216w and rode 64 miles in 4 hours at 15.6. Iām guessing he doesnāt have a power meter maybe and the calculated power is wonky. I donāt have a meter yet either but something is odd there with the power.
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Keep forgetting to start the workout. Iāll get the hang of it.
Just did The Walk
Been lifting weights fur an hour already ( still goin, back n biceps day)
Back on the 7 day core challenge - > wow what a difference
So much easier to suck it in
Not sure if I care to get back to 230+lbs as attached
Kinda liking being down around 210
Been lifting weights fur an hour already ( still goin, back n biceps day)
Back on the 7 day core challenge - > wow what a difference
So much easier to suck it in
Not sure if I care to get back to 230+lbs as attached
Kinda liking being down around 210
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Took out the road bike to battle the streets for a change of scenery.
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Morning ride. Need to bring some snacks and more water bottles. Didnāt think I was going to go this far and kind of ran out of gasā¦.planned on turning around at the casino and just said screw it.
Got a Garmin Varia yesterday. Theyāre on sale for $150 down from $200. Itās a radar unit that alerts you on your phone or bike computer when cars are approaching from behind. I was a little skeptical but it works very well. Detects them way out and shows on the screen how close theyāre getting, and alerts more frantically based on how much faster than you they are going. Even detect multiple cars. I donāt ride on the road a lot besides to link different trails for the most part but I was impressed with it.
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Got roped into running a 5k in a few weeks. I tried running for the first time in YEARS today and felt like I was going to die. Managed two miles in just over 18 minutes 
My goal with the amount of time I have to train was originally 25 minutes for the 5k. I feel like thatās relatively achievable for going from zero training.
My goal with the amount of time I have to train was originally 25 minutes for the 5k. I feel like thatās relatively achievable for going from zero training.
How did ya sneak that past the wife for lifeee
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Short after dinner ride today and yesterdayās longer ride
How did ya sneak that past the wife for lifeee
I think she just wanted me out of the house
Running one of these. About 1200 lumens but I like the beam pattern. Company is based in Chicago and I think they actually employ people who worked on car headlights. Iām talking about out running it at 17-18mph. I still need to find a flat wall to properly aim it.
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Came up on a group of girls on the path in the dark and luckily I was looking out for them from the pungent skunky smell or else I probably would have ran into them.
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So I did a 50 mile gravel race up north of Hayward, WI on Sunday. Most of these I do are 63 miles so I thought this would be pretty easy. I was sorely mistaken. 50 miles of ATV trails, logging roads and some of the roughest gravel roads Iāve ever been on. I ran 43c knobby tires and wish I had more. Going 30mph downhill into sandy loose washed out gravel makes your butthole pucker real quick. Iāve done events with bigger climbs than this one but they have pavement sections or flats where you could recover. This was 50 miles of downhill into uphills. Went in with the strategy of not blowing my legs up and I thought I went heavy enough on my electrolyte mix but I did not. At exactly mile 49 there was one final hill and my legs both locked up solid. Thighs, calves everything cramped solid. It was wild. I straight leg waddled to the top of the hill and then managed to take more drinks and punch and shake the cramps out. Only lost one position to that so it worked out. Iāve only been ācyclingā a year so Iām not too hard on myself. I finish at the top of the bottom 1/3 fairly consistently so I mostly set goals for myself and try to beat them. I wanted to finish in less than 4 hours and finished in 3:42. This was 50 miles of getting my ass kicked. It was so rough I lost a water bottle somewhere and didnāt even realize it. Hereās 2 still from the worlds worst videos my parents took because theyāll start recording then think itās not me so they cut them off.
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