NewYearathon - getting fitter in 2017.

Right I'm counting the hill walk then so I am
5/245

Still barking away here. The feeling of being run over by a lorry has decreased but I feel like someone is setting off a hammer in my head now with all the coughing. Considering going weight training with my friend but may just sit and walk coronation street instead 😳

Hope the rest of you are on the mend too.

Hi everyone, yes it is so motivating! Enforced rest day today as ankle a bit swollen and sore after the weekend.

Don't think I can keep ignoring it so I need to start asking around for local physio recommendations. Have been putting it off as was hoping to leave things until DD2 starts school in September and I have more free time to travel to physio.

Well done everyone here - great motivator having other people going for their own personal challenges and sharing highs and lows.

Stinking cold and lost voice but managed day 2 of 30DS this morning before breakfast. Felt so much better afterwards. Don't think I'll manage a run today unless I get a second wind after kids' bedtime.

5.5K run done, was initially disappointed as thought I'd managed further than that, but have given my head a wobble & decided not bad for my 3rd run since easing back in & am also impressed I went out at all as a very wet & windy day here.

Pretty muddy is quite sanitised - only got properly muddy because they chucked mud at us but I did fall on my arse at the pink inflatable log! I've not done any with "obstacles" - more of the "natural" type where you end up wallowing in a proper bog that smells of cows. Can't remember if the local colour obstacle thing clashes with something - am very tempted. Paint and mud are great disguises!

I am also doing yoga every day because I need to get closer to tree than steel girder for general life let alone exercise - definitely one for the pricacy of the living room!

Hi all, welcome to new joiners! This thread's very active, it's great.

RJ, your hill walk definitely counts! Sorry you're still feeling ill. It's crap when you get better just in time to go back to work, isn't it?

Body Rev workout 3 done. Thinking I'll do workout 4 tomorrow and then move on to workouts 5 and 6 on Thursday and Friday this week. I also did a couple of sessions of yoga over the weekend because I'm so inflexible it's ridiculous, and I found it helpful so I'm going to try to build in a bit more yoga to the week. But I don't think I can really count it as a workout: I'm doing the Yoga With Adriene 31-day programme on YouTube, and it's really gentle. (This is a good thing - I make a steel girder look bendy so yoga is really hard for me.)

Biking to work and back today: looking at the weather forecast I may drown on the way home...

Also RJ yes I would count any hill walk.

Thanks for the tips Random have done pretty muddy for the last 3 years & have signed up again for this year but it's obviously not on a par with the tough mudder...

Am also doing the Color Obstacle Rush again, paint-mud do you see a theme..

& yes my user name is related to the book, a firm fave for us.

I still feel rubbish. Going by friends I should feel better on Tuesday in time for work on Wednesday 😕

I have two questions for you all:

I wasn't going to count my hill walk yesterday but as I was running a bit of a fever and my chest hurts so I couldn't breathe deeply I managed to send my heart rate to a ridiculous level (to the point I thought I couldn't go on and might need a stretcher back down 😳) however I made it so I'm now wondering if I can count it as a training day, it was harder than most of my actual training!?

And second, can I be ready for a kettlebell pentathlon competition in six weeks time?

Hi to the new people lovely to see so much activity. I did tough mudder last summer, fun but possibly not something I would do again now I've done one. I'm signing up for a bubble run in April though!

Hello everyone, especially the new joiners!

I had a couple of days if eating everything that wasn't nailed down, so took today by the horns. I drafted dh and the monsters up a local hill this morning and I think I've just done 10k this evening. I need to check my app after last week's disappointing glitch, but it felt pretty quick, so if indeed it was 10k, I did it in 69:07 (I know the time is right from my podcast ).

Stressy, I too am very jealous of your spa day. I am bloody wrecked after Christmas and could do with one. I was delighted to read your swimming hack, I do the same at the pool with the kids! If I went a bit more often I'd have beautifully toned arms.

NoFuckingRoom (I agree, brilliant name!) I don't envy you the mud run. I did one 18 months ago and it completely traumatised me.

Oubliette glad to hear you're on the mend.

RJ how are you feeling?

Total : 30.8km

Nice one NoFuckingRoom!! DD loves the book I'm assuming you're referencing!

Jealous of your tough mudder - can't make the dates work this year.

If you've not done mud runs, 3 tips that massively improved my experience:

1. No cotton undies, especially not microfibre with a cotton gusset. Possibly the least pleasant bit of my first as the first obstacle was just crotch depth!

1. Coconut oil on your hair/eyebrows keeps the worst of the mank out of your eyes.

1. Hair very well restrained - smelly muddy hair dangling across into mouth but hands just as/more covered making removal perilous!

I do love mud runs - they're the reason I started running last year!

It was amazing! I went on one last year (Xmas present from DH) and basically spent a year telling him to please get me another one for Xmas this year. Total escape from reality.

Thanks Stressy
God a Spa day-V jealous, they may be hated on here but I bloody love them.

Oh welcom me NoFuckingRoom - awesome username

Went to the gym today for the first time in nearly a year (I love it but time and money prevent me so this was a one off - spa day ssshhhhhh as I know they are hated on here). Did 30 mins of proper cardio and it felt great :) . Back to reality now.

Another 45mins of Pilates done today. Really pleased that I managed an extra walk and an extra Pilates session than I had planned for this week.

Hi to newcomers!

New to thread, hi.
Just easing back into runs after a back injury has seen me out of it since July last year though have managed a fair bit on the bike.
In a moment of madness I have signed up for Tough Mudder in July-so that's my aim for this year...

Done a run today. Time beyond dire due to severe navigation fail by me. Phone conked as I was wandering around aimlessly waiting for it to lock on to work out where I should be. Route scouted for next week - will be long slow run route for a while I think, ignoring the hills. Last bit will be good for hill repeats if I start in the other direction...

Decided I'm not doing 30 day shred as have run today but will do 30 day fat burn as that is only 10 minutes and is called total body shred. Trying to limit impact and avoid over training...

Some days you just have to write off, eat chocolate, and curse the hormonal rollercoaster.

Hi Snorf, that sounds like a fairly impressive target, good luck! I am very envious of people who run, I've never had much stamina for it and the thought of running for more than a mile or so fills me with dread...

I have failed at doing anything this weekend, for which I blame the arrival of AF as I feel like complete shite and it's driven me to eat a whole Lindt chocolate bar (got to get rid of the remaining Christmas chocolate, afterall!). Hoping for a better week.

May I join? I'm a little late to the party.
This year I'm going to get my speed and distance up in running, exercise every day and see if there's anything that can be done for the world'a wobbliest bottom (even at my lightest, running 30 miles a week, it has the physical properties of a plastic bag full of angel delight).
Plan is: run to work and back 3days/week, do 30 day shred (started today) at least 5 days/week (pref mornings before kids wake -early alarm clock needed!) and one long run (min 6 miles) each weekend. That should tot up to 18 miles a week to start with, which is a big deal for this insecure ex-runner.
Once I've stuck with it a while I'm going to sign up for a half marathon, ideally for autumn, Peterborough probably, aiming for

Glad you're feeling better oubliette!

Sounds like exercise to me Too Stressy!

With various rest days appearing (yay!) today was park run plus 30ds l1 plus squats, abs and push ups.

Squats are relatively easy so far (thunder thighs obviously partially muscle), sit ups are plain evil and push ups are difficult. Coming at it with a 2 pronged approach. Push up challenge is on does going down as far as I can (not very). 30ds is on knees and all the way down. Eventually I will manage a proper push up but suspect it will be some time!

Think I've found some aims for the year and DH is on board. Super jealous as his knees aren't good enough to run but on board!

Aim one lose 8kg to get under 75 kg.

Once done start stepping up running training towards half marathon distance for very local half in May.

"Toughest" mud run in August. Probably 10 miler...

October trail half marathon in north Devon. Allegedly it's a tough one with lots of hills (over 1000m of ascent!) so better get hill training!!!

Along the way will be some 10ks and lots of park runs. Plus a tonne of upper body strength for the obstacle race as it will blatantly involve monkey bars (which sadly none of our local parks appear to have!!)