a long day but the motivation is there

my daughter woke early today, at 4am then 5am ... and next doors dogs where out and about at 6am so lets say we had a early start - up and fed with daughter ready for gymnastics at 11am with a quick stop for lunch and then dropped her for creche - home to potter around the house doing "standing up chores" sitting is still a pain ... literally. Then picked her up and home for tea, more "standing up jobs" and some play time then off to bed for her and a dog walk for me and the pack. Back in the house about 9.30pm .... do I want to train? Well yes I blinking do - so got the bike gear on and up to the erg shed (needs a tidy - see photos) on the bike and after a fiddle with the Garmin to get the displays I wanted I set off - about 6 min in I wanted to check the overall times and clicked the button on the Garmin to scroll the screens -nuts - forgot to start it FFS - OK start again and off I went - intention was to beat last nights average speed so got the speed up to 38 km/ph and kept it there - had a few issues with numbness in my "man areas" does anyone else feel like "it's" gonna fall off? lol Piled on the pressure gradually at the end and happy enough bearing in mind the time of day and how long I've been awake - back in work tomorrow and ironically sitting at a desk is going to be more of an issue than doing this!

30 min r85 - oh on the bike (turbo)

So today (14th September 2015) is the third day I've been on the bike on the turbo - first day 10 minutes then 20 yesterday and today 30 minutes - target today was push HR up to 80% HRR (160) and hold it until last five minutes and then gradually push the HR up - went well and maxed out with 183bpm - don't appear to have any issues from the back but still early days.

20 million lifetime meters awards

20 million lifetime meters on the concept2 bag and pin (from concept2 as a reward) thanks guys :-) hopefully I'll get at least one more meter

Long road to recovery

Well came home from hospital yesterday - feeling more tired from lack of sleep than sore. So now I'm looking at the road forward - ten days before I'm supposed to sit and three months before any exercise other than walking - still I can actually walk without any pain now :-)

I'll be back later

... I hope

Under reconstruction

I'll be back soon....

20 million lifetime meters and the CTC - time for a break before I'm broken

Well although I had 17,545m left - which a fit and firing Wulf could possibly knock of in a hour TT (my PB is 17,623m) at the moment I'm wounded and licking my wounds - well going for an MRI at least on Sunday - so bearing that in mind I managed to get a half hour row in this morning 30r20 70% HRR 8,042m which left me with 9,503m - looking at the CTC (3by9min with 3min rest - details here ) I decided with a 1k warm up I should be able to knock out three reps at 2,666m (1:41.2 pace) and along with the "rest" meters and a short cool down that would do me

So warm up done with two 200m bursts of rate 26 aiming at 1:41 pace I set the row up. Went off well and although I aimed at r26 I wasn't too concerned to let the rate come up - which it did - as did the breathing lol - man was I blowing like an old choo choo train. Still managed to keep a tight grip on it - didn't focus too much on the screen - just kept a glancing eye on the pace on the ergdata screen. All three reps where tough in there own rights - and the third I let the pace drift after about 2 minutes and then picked it up with three minutes to go and thumped the last minute. Sweaty but happy to finish and better than intended, although I'm currently at the top of the leader board I'm sure Sam Blythe, Andy Benko, Lee Bawn and a few others will sort that out shortly. I may now take a few days off to try and let my back recover a little ....

 It's funny - Facebook does those "remember .. years ago today" and I had one congratulating me on my 5 million meters 

Cecil - this ones for you buddy!