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Thorp Perrow is a very nice parkrun just off the A1 by Bedales in N Yorkshire. I did it for the first time today and was impressed. Very little...

But how many pint's?

A ride to the south-east today, via Swithland and through the middle of Leicester, then out to the east of the city. Up a 1-in-7 hill that I had...

Really well done. I'm psyching my self up to have a bash at them! Just back from a long horsey day at the Northumberland County Show, helping with...

EMOM - sets of 11 press-ups, back to doing floor to lock to floor. Time in secs remaining for each min. 43 - 43 - 44 - 43 - 43 - 41 - 40 - 37 - 29...

EMOM for 30 minutes, all singles with 5 kg extra weight, the first 3 were pull-ups, all the rest chin-ups. So 30 efforts. Weighted pull-ups are...

14.22 miles, 3,920 feet, 4 hours 20 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe anti-clockwise from/to Ambleside. Sunshine and high clouds, no significant wind, no...

6 chest to floor press-ups with thumbs touching - progress!

10.09 miles, 3,148 feet, 3 hours 24 minutes: Wansfell Pike, including up the race route from the kissing gate. Overcast - I was in cloud/mist above...

I was running on Raasay a few years ago..... in front of me an entire family of Deer ran across the skyline, including a huge Stag with massive...

On last nights RATRun we were running up a grassy field with a convex slope and into the wind when we could see just lots of pairs of ears ahead. As...

Last nights RATRun was from The Grouse Inn at Froggatt. It was cool, windy and drizzly as the four of us set off up to and along White Edge to the...

Well done. That chap in the video is pretty fit - his pull-ups are very impressive. Re the Spanish press-ups - it looks like the down position...

Yeap! Much, much harder! Well done. I'm planning to try your weighted pull-ups soon, now that I can churn out 5 plus. Re ypur press up, the hands...

8 x 3 minute treadmill hill reps. Had a decent rest period of 4 minutes.... was more interested in getting good quality reps than totally...

Hmm - got a bit lost timing/counting today. I roughly alternated 10 normal chest to floor press-ups with 6 hands-close-together chest to floor...

10.75 miles, 3,101 feet, 3 hours 30 minutes: Loughrigg trails, including down from the top to Grasmere shore and back up again. Overcast, with the...

Looks like Stolly can breath a sigh of relief. Farage not going to stand :(

Thanks Mossdog. Encouragement is so helpful. As long as failure is approached, it must be doing some good. As today was a day off - I have been...

8.36 miles, 2,667 feet, 2 hours 58 minutes: Wansfell Pike, ascending via the race route from the kissing gate. Overcast, with the cloud base at about...

I am reminded of the trail race that I did at Staunton Harold last year, where three young lads were running together, most of the time a little...

Well shocked by you remembering I was born in Flitwick I leapt off the sofa, leapt on to my sturdy steed and pedalled towards Pateley Bridge so as...

Club night tonight, and i think my best ever session. 3 x 1 mile. Fastest i've ever done any single mile rep is 5:19, and i was expecting to be...

:D:D:D Brilliant On a similar note, i know a fellrunner (in fact a lapsed member on here), was a v50 at the time, who was told similar by his...

Good effort Mike. I find that when attempting these I'm torn between having a go at trying one more rep, or realising that a failed extra rep will...

EMOM press-ups routine. 12 reps (floor to lock to floor) press-ups, every minute, for 10 minutes. Secs remaining for each of the 10X 1 min sets. ...

EMWM for 24 minutes, alternating single pull-ups with double chin-ups. 36 "efforts" in total.

12.32 miles, 3,182 feet, 3 hours 49 minutes: Fairfield Horseshoe clockwise from/to Ambleside. Mainly overcast, with a variety of high clouds. A few...

End of Week Two. I don't think we've lost any more team members. Points total as of Sunday evening. Witton 5433 PeteS 4560 Llani 3106 ...