Run / Walk / Cycle / Swim 1000km/miles 2021 - Keep going!

[TheLongRider]

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Might as well start a new thread. All welcome regardless of your goals, just keep moving. Everything counts towards your totals. It's amazing what you can accomplish in a year, how far you can go and all the things you see en route.

I need to sit down and work out totals. I've been managing bits of walking and swimming but having been keeping track very well, other than to know I've been reaching 10,000 steps most days. We were on holiday last week too, so been to Exmoor, Dartmoor and the coast in the last week. Great weather, I think it's been the best weather I've had all summer - sunny but nice pleasant low twenties temps.

Dog training means my normal Saturday morning swim is off the cards but does mean I might be able to attempt a park run.

A good 18.2 km today - Bossington to Porlock, then up Hawkcombe (which we had entirely to ourselves after the end of the houses) - not quite all the way to the top as DH thought it too was and sunny after we got above the tree line. Then back down and out to Hurlstone point, fabulous views. The only flaw was that the bossington tearoom was closed.

1429.9 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

I didn't turn my distance tracking app on yesterday as we were having a day off serious walking and visited some nice gardens - Hestercombe. More extensive than I'd expected, the general step counter registered 12km of which I reckon at least two thirds was more than gentle ambling (and a veritable sprint to the cafe when we got caught in a cloudburst). Similar today in Dunster and the castle gardens though not quite as far.

1442.9 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

Yesterday had an hours bike ride before the heavy rain hit today and dog walk today.

Running 484km
Swimming 47.5km
Cycling 1190km

Cracking walk today from Simonsbath to Withypool and back, 20.9km. We hadn't planned on doing that - our recollection of the path was that it was narrow and tended to be overgrown with bracken, and then the part up away from the river looked like a slog uphill through fields, so we'd only intended to do the first 6 km or so. But the path is much improved (presumably since becoming part of the Two Moors Way), and the uphill path was mostly a gentle grassy slope on pleasant moorland with stunning views. And we might have been motivated just a tad by the prospect of another lunch at the pub in Withypool.

1463.8 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

The weather has broken, but managed a pleasant 11.6km at an NT place and then back at Hestercombe gardens.

Nearly back on target at the end of Q3:

1475.4 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

The weather has broken, but managed a pleasant 11.6km at an NT place and then back at Hestercombe gardens.

Nearly back on target at the end of Q3:

1475.4 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

Wet n windy but got a 5k run in yesterday and a pool swim.

Running 489km
Swimming 49km
Cycling 1190km

I keep losing this thread!!

Well done everyone for your September totals

Swim 143km
Bike 5,016km
Run 1,155km
Total = 6,314km

Hi guys
Many name changes later I've just passed 1000 miles walked so far this year 😮😮😮

Ive also cycled 4730 miles

Im a bit stunned tbh. I've never managed anything like this before.
This time last year I was very poorly.

12km, mostly along the coast path

1487.4 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

Seaswim last night under the sunset then opposite this morning at parkrun with heavy rain and wind gusts sideways making it hard to breathe at times.

Running 496km
Swimming 49.3km
Cycling 1190km

Name change but I said at the start of the year I wanted to do 750km running and 250 km walking.

516km running so far this year and 235km walking.

The only problem is that I seem to be getting slower!! I'm now at 11 mins per mile but more miles rather than 10 mins per mile earlier this year. I though it would balance out at some point!

Home yesterday. today a brisk 5.3 km walk along the canal - mostly in a gap between the rain but caught a five minute downpour. Invigorating.

1492.7 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

My total for the holiday was 187.1

Busy morning cycled down for a seaswim then long family dog walk well it was 6m but felt long at child pace, then big stormy weather hit us!

Running 496km
Swimming 49.6km
Cycling 1197km

@PiglingBlonde I got slower when I started long run training for a HM, but I did find I got faster and a PB at parkrun the month after I completed my HM. I found some strength training 3x a week of squats, lunges, plank etc made big difference to speed plus intervals. I was listening to RunPod podcast about speed and good idea was to warm up 5mins then run counting to 20-50 as fast as you can then carry on recovery run for 1-2mins then repeat 5-7x it helped me to up pace. These days I prefer trail running and just have fun at a far slower pace

@SkiRun0077 thank you very much! I've been trying to just accept it as part of the long run pace, but this morning I saw my pace per mile higher than my pace per mile last year and found it all a bit depressing!

Pool swim this morning forgot my garmin but I swam solidly for 30mins which is normally 1.2-1.5km, I’ll add 1.2km as did some drills stuff.

Running 496km
Swimming 50.8km
Cycling 1197km

6.5km today, a bit shorter than we'd planned as the rain started a little sooner than expected.

1499.2 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

We went up to the AONB today - the air was so clear after yesterday's rain, really clear views of the surrounding hills, and the estuary at high tide glistening in the sun. 8.5 km

1507.7 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

Beautiful sunrise Seaswim yesterday morn which I cycled down in mid darkness needed bike lights for the first time.

Running 496km
Swimming 51km
Cycling 1204km

Just 4.7, the rain set in sooner than we'd expected.

1512.4 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike

Run last night then a swim/cycle this morning.

Running 501km
Swimming 51km
Cycling 1211km

Another cycle to seaswim this morning- I was supposed to be doing parkrun but didn’t fancy the people this morning

Running 501km
Swimming 51.5km
Cycling 1218km

Just 5.1 along the canal before doing some gardening.

1517.5 walked
47.5,rowed
5 bike