Cycling Longest: 72,64km ride around Lac du Bourget, France Most elevation gain: 1419m up Relais du Mont du Chat Total distance: 2859km / Total elevation: 30,253m Running Longest: 14,93km run through the Haard nature reserve Most elevation gain: 1233m from Chamonix almost to Col du Brévent via KMV route Total distance: 554km / Total elevation:…
Week in review 5/2021
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: 55min on the treadmill with 12% incline. 30min run, 25min…
Week in review 4/2021
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 the week and those days I didn’t manage to get…
Week in review 3/2021
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….
Week in review 2/2021
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 my body that may have gotten out of the habit…
Week in review: 1/2021
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 efforts), no race reports (because there have been no races),…
2020 in numbers
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.
September 2020
Running: 131.6km / 2382m elev / 13:33:32 total time Walking: 93.79km / 1841m elev / 19:39:53 total time Cycling: 323.50km / 2812m elev / 11:31:43 total time Total time outside: 44h45 Average weight: 82.1kg / Average Body Fat: 15.6% September was a marked improvement over August, at least as far as running and walking/hiking was…
August 2020
Running: 28.37km / 444m elev / 2:47:40 total time Walking: 22.60km / 309m elev / 3:44:14 total time Cycling: 416.19km / 4120m elev / 18:54:07 total time Total time outside: 25h26 Average weight: 82.8kg / Average Body Fat: 16.3% Well, those are the cold hard numbers. My fitness has gone down a lot in 2020,…
2019 in numbers
Some numbers for 2019. I walked/hiked 559km with 12300Hm of vertical elevation (of which 3800Hm were on the treadmill). (2018: 460km/7300Hm) I ran 588km with 14000Hm of elevation. (2018: 1698km/50200Hm) I cycled 4431km with 36700Hm of elevation (2018: 2331km/16900Hm)