Weekend Workouts - Dec. 13

[sadlebred]

What did everyone do this weekend?

[sadlebred]

I had some vacation to use or lose.

Thursday: 2 hour road ride
Friday: 23.5 mile gravel ride
Saturday: 2 hour road ride
Sunday: 30+ mile road ride, 16 mph--my longest and fastest since my heart surgery (yep, on the Ebike but with minimal assist. My HR was higher than I've let it get, and I was working hard.)

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Friday-weather induced rest day. My home gym is outside and it was cold and rainy.

Saturday-day 4 of my current lifting program

Sunday-a very cold (38F) and windy (10mph) 15 mile skate.

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Dec 13, 2020 17:41:34 GMT -5 sadlebred said:

I had some vacation to use or lose.

Thursday: 2 hour road ride
Friday: 23.5 mile gravel ride
Saturday: 2 hour road ride
Sunday: 30+ mile road ride, 16 mph--my longest and fastest since my heart surgery (yep, on the Ebike but with minimal assist. My HR was higher than I've let it get, and I was working hard.)

Congratulations on your longest and fastest ride since surgery. That is a big milestone, and had to feel amazing!

[breezy8407]

Uggh I am set to lose a lot of vacation here in a few weeks. Usually my manager will let me take it next year even though it technically expires. I wish companies would go away from that policy.

Friday: 20 min run + strength circuit
Saturday: 65 minutes of Peloton cycle + 45 min family walk
Sunday: 60 minutes of Peloton cycle

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Dec 14, 2020 17:11:20 GMT -5 breezy8407 said:

Uggh I am set to lose a lot of vacation here in a few weeks. Usually my manager will let me take it next year even though it technically expires. I wish companies would go away from that policy.

Friday: 20 min run + strength circuit
Saturday: 65 minutes of Peloton cycle + 45 min family walk
Sunday: 60 minutes of Peloton cycle

My employers inexplicably decided this was the year to enforce the policy for the first time ever.  In a pandemic, when everyone had to cancel their vacations this year!  They waited until October to announce it, resulting in me having to cram 60+ hours of vacation in at a very bad time of year for me to be off.  I'm pretty salty about it.  I freely admit that I've scheduled the 60+ hours of forced leave to induce maximum pain.  They are shitting themselves.  It's actually going to make my life more difficult early in thew New Year, but oh well.  Petty, party of one...No regrets!

[breezy8407]

Dec 14, 2020 18:06:50 GMT -5 @peep said:

Dec 14, 2020 17:11:20 GMT -5 breezy8407 said:

Uggh I am set to lose a lot of vacation here in a few weeks. Usually my manager will let me take it next year even though it technically expires. I wish companies would go away from that policy.

Friday: 20 min run + strength circuit
Saturday: 65 minutes of Peloton cycle + 45 min family walk
Sunday: 60 minutes of Peloton cycle

My employers inexplicably decided this was the year to enforce the policy for the first time ever.  In a pandemic, when everyone had to cancel their vacations this year!  They waited until October to announce it, resulting in me having to cram 60+ hours of vacation in at a very bad time of year for me to be off.  I'm pretty salty about it.  I freely admit that I've scheduled the 60+ hours of forced leave to induce maximum pain.  They are shitting themselves.  It's actually going to make my life more difficult early in thew New Year, but oh well.  Petty, party of one...No regrets!

wow that's just cruel of them! Good for you. I am terrible about taking my time off, but at the start of the year I had good intentions. What happens each year is everyone takes time off in November/December and we also end up with a lot of year end deadlines, so it makes it super stressful. I want people to take their time though! 

[sadlebred]

Our company kept reminding us to take it. I was good about it. I had 2 weeks off in December anyway--last week and the holidays. I was supposed to be at a big bike race last week, but that was cancelled (of course) a few months ago. Lots of people are scrambling to not lose vacation.