February Fitness Challenge

[Norse]

Thank you indeed Veronica and Blueberry! With the earlier, and much better, start I have gotten with off-season training, I feel that this may be my best/strongest year on the bike ever! Setting - very public - goals like this and committing to it has been very motivating. Even though I have another weekend away from the bike this month, I am upping my goal by one hour from January.

[jyyanks]

PM sent. Thank you both!

[Owlie]

I got in half an hour. I was going for an hour, but my body decided to make it known to me that yogurt prior to exercise really is not a good idea.

[Catrin]

I got in an hour on the bike yesterday, outside again!

This evening I've planned a fitness walk at the gym prior to an hour+ spinning class. I've learned the hard way that until my neck heals completely I cannot lift weights prior to spinning class - I wind up in agony half-way through class if I do

[Norse]

I was hoping to get outside yesterday with a forecast of sunny and 40, but it never got out of the 20's and looked gloomy all day. So, 1 hour and 45 minutes of Endurance Booster yesterday (kind of boring) preceded by the Uphill Grind on Saturday.

[Owlie]

I'm starting to realize that if I want to keep doing things the way that I do, the brunch thing doesn't work. 2 days of calorie deficit have caught up with me. I wanted an hour of trainer time and a 25 minutes of yoga. I revised that to half an hour of trainer time. I didn't even make that. On top of that, my right hamstring is whining about something. So it'll be an hour of beginner yoga tonight and 15 minutes on the trainer. If I can find time, I might add some trainer time tomorrow morning, or perhaps just a walk around campus between classes.

[tealtreak]

Thank you indeed Veronica and Blueberry! With the earlier, and much better, start I have gotten with off-season training, I feel that this may be my best/strongest year on the bike ever! Setting - very public - goals like this and committing to it has been very motivating. Even though I have another weekend away from the bike this month, I am upping my goal by one hour from January.

Echo the thank you! I did an extra half an hour because I wanted to put it on the spreadsheet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(:

[Norse]

This was a great idea to get the off-season bike fitness going - thanks again! For years I have kept a hand-written, old-fashioned bike log during the season. Time to get with the times. There are lots of options out there but for anyone else who might be interested, I am using this free training log from Bicycling mag (you can record all sorts of non-bike activities too): http://traininglog.bicycling.com/landingpage.aspx.

Happy Riding!