This is the index page for all fitness related posts. I’m attempting to complete 300 days of fitness as soon as possible to prepare me for an eventual half marathon, an ascent to multiple Nepalese mountains / base camps and to run around with my girls. Here there be dragons, sore legs, lots of ranting, moaning, cursing and perhaps some decent advice among it all. It’ll be boring but hoping for it to be regular, cheer me on over at mastodon.
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I’ve managed to complete 35 out of 300 fitness sessions this year (11.67% of the way).
Fitness Posts
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Day 35 of 300: OMAD Day Three and a Recovery Run
Day 35 of 300: 3km easy recovery on the treadmill. HR cap of 130. Day three of OMAD. The alcohol is gone until the scale says otherwise. -
Day 34 of 300: The Half Marathon Question
Day 34 of 300: 6.7km base run on the treadmill. 48 minutes. 723 calories. Then I asked my trainer whether I could run a half marathon in December. He had opinions. -
Day 33 of 300: Pickleball and a Funeral
Day 33 of 300: First pickleball session in Lalitpur. 38 minutes, 240 calories, and a training effect of 'recovery.' The Mizuno reds didn't survive. 173.7 km across 41 sessions. The sole split open on court. -
Day 32 of 300: Sunday League and the Load Ratio Bomb
Day 32 of 300: Sunday football. Won 5-4. Burned 1,210 calories, maxed the training effect at 5.0/5.0, and blew the load ratio from optimal back to 2.8x overreaching in a single session. Body battery hit 5. Worth it. -
Day 31 of 300: Squash, the Forgotten Cardio
Day 31 of 300: Nearly two hours on the squash court. 581 calories burned, a max heart rate of 155 bpm, and a training effect that leaned anaerobic. The best workout is the one you don't realise you're doing. -
Day 30 of 300: Crawling Back to Optimal
Day 30 of 300: Six days off. A week of exhaustion, bad food choices, and a body battery that forgot what charging feels like. But the load ratio hit 1.0x and the training status says Maintaining. Sometimes the best thing you can do is nothing. -
Day 29 of 300: The 7-Point Jog
Day 29 of 300: Training readiness of 21, a 130 bpm heart rate cap, and 2.8 kilometres my kids could walk faster than. For once, I mostly listened to the watch. -
Day 28 of 300: Base Run and the Bigger Picture
Day 28 of 300: A 25-minute treadmill base run. Three kilometres of honest Zone 3 work. Then I dug into the Garmin data and found out my body thinks I'm 44. -
Day 27 of 300: The Garmin Mandate: Active Recovery
Day 27 of 300: Training Readiness score of 13. The algorithm said active recovery. I listened. Mostly. -
Day 26 of 300: The Gauntlet and The Return
Day 26 of 300: Bangkok, shin splints, food poisoning, kids off school, Holi, rugby, binge drinking. Fitness took a back seat to sheer survival. But stepping back on the treadmill, the engine didn't rust.
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