After a slower week, I felt that I needed to increase both the quantity and quality of my training efforts. Other commitments and bad weather meant that 2 of my workouts were on the treadmill, but I appreciated the challenge of that. Monday, January 25: …
I knew going into this week that scheduling training efforts would be more challenging. I had a training course I’d need to follow every work day from 9am to 5pm, which pretty much coincides with daylight hours during winter. I didn’t sleep well most of …
Week 3 was going to be my first “office” week for the year. This meant I was a little bit more time-constrained since obviously I was leaving 1 to 1.5 hours every day to commuting. I still managed to perfectly execute my plan of moving outside for at least an hour a day, every day.
Monday, January 11th: 10.2km trail run in 1h02
Tuesday, January 12th: 6.4km walk in 1h01
Wednesday, January 13th: 10.4km trail run in 1h02
Thursday, January 14th: 6.4km lunch walk in 1h03
Friday, January 15th: 10.4km snowy trail run in 1h06
Saturday, January 16th: 8.4km walk in deep snow in 1h37
Sunday, January 17th: 10.4km trail run in a mix of snow, ice and slush in 1h10
Overall, running every other day and going for walks in between worked quite well. I didn’t feel overly fatigued.
Week 2 has been one of the better starts into a new year. I got out for at least an hour every day, and I tried to be smart enough to alternate running and hiking days so as to not overload the various systems in …
How many times do I need to say “I want to revive this blog”? Actions do speak louder than words, and if I look back at the archives there are a lot of gaps. No monthly updates (because I haven’t been proud of my monthly …
Some numbers for 2020.
I walked/hiked 309km with 9300Hm of vertical elevation (of which 4900Hm were on the treadmill). (2019: 559km/12300Hm)
I ran 974km with 21800Hm of elevation. (2018: 588km/14000Hm)
I cycled 3452km with 34000Hm of elevation (2018: 4431km/36700Hm). I cycled to work (and back) on 33 days.
